Wheelbase is a magazine born from the idea that the stories of skateboarding are best told by the skateboarders themselves—be it through photography, film, video, fine art, the written word, or otherwise—To put it simply, we have dedicated our lives to skateboarding and we love telling the tales of our skateboarding tribe. Wheelbase became a …
The UNKLE events team is proud to announce “The 2012 Britannia Classic” proudly supported by Switchback Longboards. This 3 days event is happening just 40 mins north of Vancouver and 3 hours north of Seattle in the sleepy historic town of Britannia Beach on May 25-27th. One part Freeride and One part Racing the 5th Annual …
Bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp! You’re a snake slithering your way down a hill and ya just pulled the most cholesterol-filled, fatty, meaty, beastly, gigantor slide of your life—hoping someone laid witness to your steezery. You’re riding along on a cloud of stoke now, feeling like you’re in bullet-time: a fourth-dimension of slow motion. Every time you go for …
Our friends over at Comet Skateboards have just released their new 2012 line of boards and graphics. Looking pretty sexy-sexy. In other news, keep your eyes peeled for some soon-to-be released collaborations and radical occurrences. Get it. For more details on the new line peep this: Click Here
Brian Bishop of Original Skateboards hit us up the other day and asked if we’d like to do a Wheelbase Product Review on their Apex 40. We threw caution to the wind—agreed to do the review—and the board arrived a few days later. We just set-up our new Apex 40 last night, and are working on …
Timeship Racing’s “Kody Noble“ slide glove is a performance glove constructed with a rasta-colored leather with fireproof Kevlar thumb patches; it has a two-piece, flexible knuckle protection, as well as a medium cuff, which includes a stretch panel over the wrist area. These gloves also come with two streamline pucks.
“When Dillon Stephens isn’t mowing down on questionable roach-coach street-meat or punishing his digestive system with homemade, deep-fried concoctions; he’s out there on the hills leaving his mark—grinding a set of wheels to dust on the most high-speed, technical roads that he can get his feet on. Dillon can be low-key most times and you …
We were footbraking when it was still underground—when the cool-guy, slider-dudes used to punch us in the gut for even thinking about putting a foot on the ground. Well, times are a changin’, and it’s great to see the Loaded community finally embracing what we’ve always know as the most epic part of skateboarding. …
Introducing Sector 9’s Puerto Rico Trip, 2012: Part 2. It starts off with some autograph signing and then quickly shifts gears into some rad clips of the Guajataka downhill race as well as clips from the most crowded slide jam we have ever seen. Definitely a good watch—let’s all go to Puerto Rico, yo!
It’s official. The 2012 Catalina Island Classic downhill skateboard race and mini-ramp demo, presented by Riviera Skateboards, is scheduled for May 5 & 6, 2012. It will be a two-day event held on Southern California’s beautiful Catalina Island. Wheelbase will be there to cover all the action, and hopefully ride some wild bison too—we also heard there’s some …
Ripping shredder and Wheelbase home-skillet, Amanda Powell, has parted ways with Loaded & Orangatang and is now riding for Sector 9. We are currently working with her on an awesome new Wheelbase Interview, so stay tuned for more discussion on this topic in the coming weeks. We wish our best to all involved in this move, and we are …
The Ask McLovin’ column is written by the legendary, rad-man Canadian, Matt “McLovin’” Livingston. It is the longest running longboarding advice column in the world—known for its uncommon sensibility and youthful lack of foresight. Need help with skate-related problems? Ask McLovin’ provides poorly thought-out and humorously lame advice for all such issues. McLovin’ provides “new” …
This is hands-down one of the sickest longboard skateboarding videos out right now. Bustin Boards‘ riders, Will Royce, Bruno Sirera, and Steve Sanchez shred NYC in a diverse and radical way that both pays homage to those that come before them, as well as interprets skating in a fresh and energetic manner. Kudos, bros. Spanish filmer, Perropro (you may …
In true Cloak & Dagger fashion, Dubes Eldorf, of Divine Urethane Co., Paris Trucks, and Riviera Skateboards has just posted the above picture to his Facebook page. The image is of what seems to be a 1.2 mile downhill race which will include a $5,000. plus cash purse. All else has been undisclosed and left to …
Scoot is a ripping downhill shredder and has been skateboarding steep and winding roads for many, many moons. He was born in Mission, BC, Canada back in 1987 and now resides in East Vancouver. Scoot has won races all over the world, including Maryhill ’07, as well as others in Germany, Puerto Rico, Canada, and …
Bay Area downhill shredder and videographer, Josh Torres, has been pumpin’ out videos under the name of Bay Sessions for a minute now. This is number 14 and features Fernando Yuppie & Jesse Breiman doing their thing: ‘a rippin’ and a tearin’. You may or may not approve of the way these dudes roll, but …
Don’t sleep on Divine Wheel Co.’s latest video release. Rad music (Black Angles represent!), awesome skaters, Washington slays! Get some!
If you like skateboards and skateboard building as much as we do, then you are sure to enjoy this beautifully-crafted and stunning visual documentary featuring master skateboard builder, Scott Moore, and his Subsonic Skateboards. “Scott Moore makes quality Subsonic Skateboards in his basement wood shop underneath Rip City Skate here in Portland, Oregon. He has every board building …
Blowing up spots is an ever-present issue these days—or better put: Danger. Whether you are skating rails, hairpins, driveways, or stair-sets you can see it happening all over the place. I feel like more than ever, a new, younger, and generally more eager group of skaters is beginning to emerge. Not to name names, but …
Our Canadian homie, Griffin Hopkins, of Switchback Longboards just turned us on to this new edit he and the roomies put together of some ‘thane shredding on a few of their local runs—definitely some nice accompanying tunes, as well as some saucy sliders. We just subscribed to the Switchback’s Vimeo Channel—you should too. Enjoy!
Check out the Sector 9 crew as they bring the heat with this inspirational edit featuring some downhill action as well as some pool shredding, and all of it happening in beautiful Puerto Rico. Ya ya! Who wouldn’t want to shred these spot!? We are jelly.
Hot off the YouTubers! Here’s some Awesome! Skateboarding! “Afternoon folks! Blake here from the Comet, Caliber, and Volante family where we’re stoked to announce our newest video ‘jen-SON’! Over the last two weeks here in California, we were lucky enough to host both good weather, and the Ontario-shredder, Eric Jensen! He came down on a …
The Orangatang Balut is a performance slide wheel that is 72 1/2mm tall, 44mm in width, with a 35mm contact patch. It weighs in a 4.7 oz, and has a centerset bearing-seat. The wheel’s symmetrically designed hub is hollow & spoked, and is covered with Orangatang’s new slide-formula urethane: ‘Euphorethane’. The Balut comes in the brand’s …