Last night Ronnie Renner set the world record for the highest motorcycle jump ever: 59 feet, 2 inches. Ronnie’s goal was to reach a height of 50 feet, which he exceeded on his third attempt, but he decided to go for broke with a sixth and final jump to please the huge crowd at Santa Monica pier. Speaking of that last jump, Ronnie said, “I knew what I needed to do on the last one, all for the crowd. Way past my goal of 50 feet. I’m just pumped on this. Never jump when they say, ‘One more time.’ But I’m glad I did it — five feet higher and I rode away to talk about it.” An 18-foot quarterpipe was used for take off, while a huge landing ramp measuring 25 feet high by 64 feet wide was used for the landing. Ronnie’s jump carried him through a 180-degree arc that brought him down facing the way he’d come.
Adding to the category of things I can’t afford, is the Dodge Challenger Racing Package. Over the weekend Dodge unveiled these straight away monsters near Denver, CO, where they made their inaugural runs down the track at the Mopar Mile-High Nationals. The car will essentially be based on the SRT8 but stripped to the bone to eliminate any unnecessary weight. Pricing will start in the low $30k’s when Dodge starts taking orders this August or September.
Read the official press release and see more pics after the jump.
Everyone has their reasons for ditching the gym, but what is the most popular excuse? The Onion was good enough to survey millions and millions of gym non-goers to see what their logic was.
This is just one of those videos where you see what is coming instantly. What I don’t understand is what the big deal is. When I was a kid my sister swung a metal snow shovel at my head and cut my eye open. I was rushed to the hospital on Christmas Eve to have stiches sewn into my eyebrow to cease the blood that was gushing down over my eyeball. Suck it up!
I don’t know much about soccer, futbol or whatever you want to call it. Either way I have no interest in watching it. My main problem with soccer on TV (besides that is sucks - don’t go getting your leopard print man hammock in a bunch), is that every time there is some kind of match going on, it means a bunch of smelly, bad tipping Europeans are infiltrating my bar and interrupting my quiet reflection time (it’s like yoga, but drunker). I will say, if soccer was more like this clip of Remi Gaillard messing with the MAN, I might like watching it a little more.
Element is known for pushing the boundaries of skateboard decks to new levels, and this year is no exception with the introduction of the PUSH deck. Lighter than any other board out there, yet some how more durable, a lot of people are calling the PUSH indestructible. I don’t know about that, but by merging carbon fiber and featherlight helium (aka air in the board - picture the sole of your Nike Air’s) construction the board is promising some serious pop.
On the green side, Element only uses wood in the board produced from responsible foresting.
