Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
What’s the highest you can jump a motorcycle out of a quarter pipe?
Ronnie Renner and the Red Bull Experiment decided to find out, and on July 11, in front of thousands of fans on the Santa Monica pier, he sailed some 59’2” trough the air and upside down to set a new world record:
Kobe Bryant is on a roll!
After jumping over an Aston Martin in his new Nike Hyperdunks:
He then joined the Jackass cast, and dunked over a pool full of black mambas:
What will they think of next?
After nearly a year, The Fancy Pants Adventure continues with an almost complete World 2.
There’s no music, and “the game’s missing a few things”, but the gist is there, and so is the fun.
Run and jump your way through a whole new world, and you’ll see why the FPA is one of the best Flash games yet.
Who can “out-run you, out-swim you, shut you down in a game of full-court b-ball, ski faster and jump higher than you ever will”, and look sexy doing it?
CO-ED’s list of the Top 25 Sexiest Female Athletes of 2007, that’s who.
Looks like athleticism translates into sexy quite nicely.
Normally, mixing a Suzuki Sidekick, beer, and a really big jump results in a lot of pain and broken Sidekick parts.
This jump, however, didn’t go according to that plan.
It’s NSFW due to language, so mute the sound and click play, because you don’t want to miss this:
[Via: Jalopnik]
The world lost a legend on Friday, as Robert Craig “Evil” Knievel died at age 69.
Always a self-promoter, Evil’s Caesars Palace jump is a great example of the type of man he was:
Knievel used his own money to have actor/director John Derek produce a film of the Caesars’ jump. To keep costs low, Derek used his then-wife, Linda Evans, as one of the camera operators. It was Evans who filmed Knievel’s famous landing. On the morning of the jump, Knievel stopped in the casino and placed a single $100 dollar bet on the blackjack table (which he lost), stopped by the bar and got a shot of Wild Turkey and then headed outside where he was joined by several members of the Caesars staff, as well as two scantily clad showgirls. After doing his normal pre-jump show and a few warm up approaches, Knievel began his real approach. When he hit the takeoff ramp, he felt the motorcycle unexpectedly decelerate. The sudden loss of power on the takeoff caused Knievel to come up short and land on the safety ramp which was supported by a van. This caused the handlebars to be ripped out of his hands as he tumbled over them onto the pavement where he skidded into the Dunes parking lot. As a result of the crash, Knievel suffered a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist and both ankles and a concussion that kept him in a coma for 29 days.
RIP Evil; you will be missed.
[Wikipedia - Robert Craig “Evil” Knievel]
[Via: CO-ED Magazine]
I am now officially jealous of Ken Block.
After getting to jump his rally prepped Subaru WRX 171 feet for a new world record, he got to jump it over 70 feet in the snow for the cover of Snowboarder magazine.
The stunt was performed at New Zealand’s Snow Park Record, and used a specially prepared 55-foot ramp to put him alongside some very brave snowboarders during the jump.
I just hope Space Jam’s “I Believe I can Fly” played over his stereo the entire time.
Because jumping motorcycles and rally racing isn’t enough, Travis Pastrana tries to find new ways to die in his latest video, called Thrillbillies.
In the photo above, you can see him 12,500 feet above the ground without a parachute. Instead, Travis jumped with sunglasses, board shorts, and a can of Red Bull.
What more could you need, right?
Oh yeah…A parachute.
During the dive, Travis’ three jumping partners attached their parachute to the harness that he was wearing underneath his shorts, and parachuted everyone safely to the ground.
[Via: Spluch]
Fans of rally racing (myself included) usually watch the sport for two things: the jumps, and the gnarly crashes. Sure, the racing is all fine and dandy, but it’s the jumps and the crashes that keep people coming back. Ken Block, deciding to go big rather than going home, took the former to a new level for an upcoming episode of Discovery Channel’s Stunt Junkies, jumping his Monster Energy Subaru over 100 feet (probably much more, but he can’t divulge actual footage until after the episode airs, so take your best guess). Though it’s hard to imagine just how far that really is without actually being there, judging by the pictures, I’d say the man must be insane! Thankfully, Ken managed to keep it wheel side down while setting this new record, and is hopefully working on some way of back flipping the car for his next performance. Dukes, eat your hearts out. Rally car big-air at next year’s X Games anyone?
[0-60 Mag - Ken Block Interview]
[Via: Jalopnik]
