On Saturday, the 25th of June, the “Up North, Down Hills” van charged up from off the cliffs and clangers of the redwooded rad-zone of Big Sur to find good times and beautiful women in the beach-side town of Santa Cruz. Soon after popping out of Big Sur the crew found it’s way to the …
Yo rippers, Our homie Andrew Mercado is throwing a miniramp jam/contest at this year’s Maryhill race. Looks like it’s going to be Texas death-match style with four riders shredding at once. Gnar! It will be held at the skatepark near the rider’s camp site and should def be radical. Also, this flier is epic. Ha …
Howdy folks, you like cheese pizza? Want an organic pop tart? Anyway, Yesterday feels like it was at least three days ago and it’s just the beginning of the Up North Down Hills Skatecation-Expedition—our compass set to North. By God, we saw a weasel! So far it’s been phantasmically epic-critical on our drive up the …
I recently went on a 10-day skate adventure to the province of British Columbia. In those 10 days I had some pretty interesting experiences. Here’s a Top 10 list of dopest things about the trip:
It’s official, the Skate[Slate] website was temporarily hijacked by some hackers that seem to like shitty gansta rap? WTF!?! These hackers pasted a static page donning a Republic of Algeria flag and the words “Peace and Harmony” over all that was Skate[Slate]. And as we alluded to above, the hackers page was additionally looped with …
Today, Wheelbase is three months old. Crazy! So much has happened since we launched the mag that it’s hard to believe that so little time has actually past since we went live. Shit, so far we’ve flown around in helicopters shooting pictures of downhill races, we’ve seen a helicopter crash the very next month, we’ve …
It is on! The 2011 Maryhill Festival of Speed, June 29 through July 3, is the premier U.S. downhill skateboard race and a serious 5-day shred-festival. We are excited to be a part of this event again this year and look forward to the reintroduction of last year’s wheel-spinning contest. This new wheel will be …
Check out this new Original video featuring an inside look at their team’s “Mega Ramp” inspired launch-ramp sessions. It’s pretty rad to see these Jersey boys channeling skateboarding’s launch-ramp craze of the 1980s, as well as reinterpreting what vert-skaters like Danny Way, Bob Burnquist, and Jake Brown accomplished with the original Mega Ramp. All and …
Hoody hoo!—that’s it—the Wheelbase Photog Challenge is a rap, and what fun it was getting here. Over the past two months we received well over a hundred photo submissions from all over the globe, and one of the happy results of doing this challenge was getting to see first-hand just how vast and how thriving …
Yo baby yo baby yo! Let the stoke be invoked! Wheelbase has teamed up with a few of the raddest skaters and brands in order to bring you this summertime Skate-Expedition: Up North, Down Hills. Our van, filled with skaters, and photographers; will leave Southern California at the crack-of-breakfast on June 24 and work its …
At Wheelbase, we are always hunting for fresh and inspirational skateboarding; we’re on a mission to bring you the content that makes you want to get up, grab your shredsled, and go a rippin’. One of the ways we try and share this freshness and inspiration is through the medium of photography. From the moment …
We are really feelin’ the vibe of this OG Beastie Boys track; we also love us some smooth pack skating. No doubt, this new Arbor video is a double-whammy of Radnasty! Check it.
Vicious makes some killer, rough-ass griptape. We know first-hand because we jacked some from the back of the Sector 9 truck while at Buffalo Bill (Sorry guys! He he!). Anyway, we are in full support of both rad griptape and community challenges, so check out this Viciousness. Details below. ITS BACK AGAIN! The Vicious Grip …
Red Alert from China! Check out these images Pete Eubank just found at AutoGuide.com. They are of, arguably, the gnariest road in the entire world/universe. Dude! The Tianmen Mountain Winding Road is just under 7 miles in length and has a total of 99 turns. We are working on a race and slide event on …
When I first heard about the ditches of Albuquerque, New Mexico and about the Ditch Slap event I knew that someday I would go shred there myself one day. I’m not sure how I knew? I just knew it. I remember in 2008 or ’09 somebody showing me some pictures and a low-quality video from …