File this under pure craze. Legitimate longboarders have enough to contend with without having to explain why post-apocalyptic aluminum decks for ravers and S&M autoerotic asphyxiation freaks are now hitting the market. Yet someone still had to go and do it. If you see anyone on one of these boards, especially the two chicks above: RUN! More scary shit after the jump or peep total craze here.
In case you missed Travis Pastrana’s record breaking huck on New Year’s Eve, here it is in all it’s HD glory. Not only did the dude not die, he beat the old record by over 100 feet. The bar is now set at 269 feet – its going to take a real lunatic to top that.
There’s one thing about Red Bull, they always go big. No how many times you see the commercial for Robbie Maddison’s ridiculously huge jump in Vegas last year you can’t help but bug out a little. This New Year’s, Motocross maniac slash MTV star Travis Pastrana is gonna try to take it up a notch by jumping a car off a pier onto a floating target to complete the world’s farthest jump in a rally car. Take that Ken Block. We caught up with Travis at the DC store in New York to hear a little bit about why the hell he signed up for New Year No Limits.
Ken Block is totally insane – in the best of ways. After pretty much inventing the sport of Gymkhana to satisfy his need for speed, he’s taken it to another level with his next adrenaline project, the TRAX STI. A Subaru WRX STI with snow cat tracks, and a 2.5 liter, 4-cylinder, 400-hp turbocharged and intercooled STI engine tuned with a MOTEC M800 ECU, the TRAX STI may be the fastest vehicle to travel on snow ever. Of course it’s also hooked up with a sleigh trailer big enough for four shredders and all of their shit, meaning the DC team is gonna get to some spots that no one else does this year. Peep the video above and hit 0-60 Magazine for the real gearhead details. More on this to come.