by The Editors on November 6, 2008
Former world champion snowboarder Chris Karol is bringing the Quantya electric motorcycle to America via his new website Shredelectric.
I have a long history in the action sports industry and I have worked with many cutting edged products throughout the years, but I have yet to be as excited as I am now about the electric motorcycles we are bringing into the U.S.,” said Chris Karol, CEO of Shredelectric.
The bikes cost more than $10k so go ahead and shred the rad, but don’t pat the dog.
[Link: Market Watch]
by The Editors on November 6, 2008
Don’t really know how to take this one. On the one hand the skateboard is obviously not a “toy,” yet, it seems if the Strong National Museum of Play is handing out honors for stuff kids use, the skateboard should have been inducted years ago. This year it’s in with the “baby doll” and “the stick.” The stick? Wow.
The three toys beat out the board games Clue, Yahtzee and the Game of Life, the dollhouse, the Flexible Flyer sled, Hot Wheels, Magic 8 Ball, Rubik’s Cube, Thomas the Tank Engine and the whiffle ball.
Guess that makes it all okay.
[Link: Democrat and Chronicle]
by The Editors on November 6, 2008
While PacSun same-store sales were down 11 percent and Zumiez was down 13 percent, Urban Outfitters was reportedly up 17 percent, according to Forbes.
Same-store sales for its Urban Outfitters brand climbed 17 percent, while Anthropologie same-store sales edged up 2 percent and Free People same-store sales increased 4 percent.
Are action brands beginning to slip?
[Link: Forbes]
by The Editors on November 6, 2008
A misguided inventor from Valencia, California has just solved a problem that no one really has. He’s designed a skateboard that breaks down into five smaller pieces for transport. Apparently a 32-inch skateboard is just too much for some kids.
Almost four years ago, company CEO, Brett Gregory, set out to solve a problem: “Many kids can’t bring their skateboards to school, the mall or while traveling due to space restrictions”. “How do you fit a full sized skateboard in a very small compartment in a kids backpack?” The answer is the Port-A-Board. It’s currently available in nine eye catching colors, allows kids to bring their boards anywhere, and has a “cool factor” that is simply off the charts.
Off the charts? The question Gregory apparently missed asking: why would a kid carry around a board in pieces that they’d be embarrassed to ride assembled? That’s right. They won’t.
[Link: Port-a-Board]
by The Editors on November 6, 2008
Matthew Polianites, the 19-year-old owner of the Boardwalk Skate Shop in Boston’s Burlington Mall has a optimistic take on the current economic downturn, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
“The recession isn’t stopping people from skateboarding,” Polianites, a sophomore at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, said.
Polianites, who opened the shop after the skateboard mall kiosk he worked in closed, decided he didn’t want to be poor college student. He wanted to “graduate with a store franchise, not a heap of credit-card debt.”
“You try a trick, you fall, you get back up,” Polianites said. “With skateboarding, everything you do is a risk. Same as in the business world.”
[Link: Boston.com]
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
The street is not so happy with Zumiez after the company released a same-store sales drop of 13.1 percent in October. Not that it was surprising. It was just lower than expected.
That compares with a same-store sales gain 5.1 percent for the comparable period last year. . . . Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected same-store sales to fall 6.5 percent for the four weeks ended Nov. 1.
Net sales were up 1 percent, but with the economy and a “highly promotion retail atmosphere” we really can’t fault them. The stoked closed down 76 cents at $8.59.
[Link: Forbes]
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is hosting the first ever Dream Team Poker Tournament starting Saturday, November 8 and guess who’s playing?
Sal Masekela, who hosts the “Daily 10” on television network E!, will take the field on the same team as “The Hills” personality Holly Montag, sister of main character Heidi.
We don’t even know if our favorite entertainment host can even play poker? By the way he rolls we’re going to have to say, yeah. But on a team with Holly Montag? Sounds more like a nightmare team to us.
[Link: Poker News Daily]
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
Tony Hawk and DJ Jason Bentley go over some of Tony’s favorite songs while Tony gives the background behind why he likes them so much. We swear we’ve heard this show before, but maybe it’s just because we have the same taste in music. Sad, we know.
1.) Devo- Gut Feeling
2.) Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
3.) Frank Black – If it Takes All Night
4.) The Clash – Safe European Home
5.) Nine Inch Nails – 1,000,000
[Link: KCRW Quest DJ]
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
Volume two in Surfline.com’s World Wide Waves book series The Pipeline will be rolled out at Billabong Headquarters in Irvine (click for map) on Saturday, November 8, 2008 with a special guest appearance by Gerry Lopez (and other Pipe Legends featured in the book).
Through 200 pages of captivating and timeless images from over 50 of the world’s best photographers, combined with words from surfing’s most renowned writers, “The Pipeline: The World’s Most Respected Wave” tells the stories from almost five decades of heart-stopping action: the first rides, the first contests, triumphs, deaths, localism, foreign invasion, performance revolution, with a special chapter by Surfline’s Sean Collins on how and why Pipeline is the wave that it is.
The only downside is that it’s a pretty spendy evening. It costs $35 just to get in, $100 includes a book, and $200 includes a limited edition of the book and some 2008 Pipeline Masters gear. Click the link to buy a ticket.
[Link: Surfline.com]
Former world champion snowboarder Chris Karol is bringing the Quantya electric motorcycle to America via his new website Shredelectric.
