This isn’t something you see everyday. Dirt bikers from the 2013 Red Bull Hare Scramble event have ended up providing a bit more entertainment than they intended. The track proved a little difficult when the dirt bikes crashed into a pit one after each other, resulting in a massive pile up. Watch how no matter how […]
Scottish trials cyclist Danny MacAskill has finally released his new riding film and my, is it a winner. Click through to check it out.
Gee Atherton, a professional racing cyclist, has been put to the ultimate test. The talented downhill athlete battles it out with a peregrine falcon. Click through to check it out.
Yes, he BASE jumped off Mount Everest. This crazy Russian Valery Rozov has successfully completed the world’s highest BASE jump. Rozov juumped off the north face of Mount Everest.
Click through to see the video of how Erik Roner, drove his fellow adrenaline junkie’s snowmobile off a cliff in honour of his death.
This “back flip bikeflip late tailwhip” trick performed by BMX professional rider Zack Warden had everyone going crazy at the X Games in Barcelona. The “Iron Lotus” tirck secured Warden his second gold win at the GoPro BMX Big Air.
Not to be outdone by Cape Town local, Dec’io Lourenc’o in the huge balls department, Sverre Liliequist backflipped on to an avalanche while skiing down the face of a mountain. Just because, you know. Street cred. Or something, I don’t know what would compell someone to do that. Don’t ask me. Competing in the Big Mountain […]
Downhill skater, Dec’io Lourenc’o, will not be prosecuted according to Cape Town traffic enforcement. This is a far cry from the words of JP Smith, Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, and his response to Lourenc’o’s “reckless and negligent” behaviour captured in YouTube videos filmed on Kloof Road and the Glen to Clifton. Why? The videos […]
Cape Town’s Downhill Skater, Dec’io Lourenc’o is facing some serious charges for reckless endangerment. And JP Smith, Cape Town City Councilor and Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, is behind it all. Dec’io joins us in studio for the debate, along with Andrew Wheeldon, Founder and MD at the bicycle empowerment network. We’ll then follow the […]
Last week “Red Bull King of the Air” and “Robby Naish” were buzz words around Cape Town. Seth Rotherham and Marcus Brain were able to squeeze in a short chat with Naish, legendary American kitesurfer, about his brand, the excitement around last week’s event as well as his love for fast cars. Most importantly, they […]
Round one of Lourenc’o versus Smith. This story is spicing up. As of yesterday Dec’io Lourenc’o is facing some serious charges for reckless endangerment, and JP Smith, Cape Town City Councilor and Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, is behind it all. Smith announced yesterday that the City of Cape Town would be laying […]
“The bigger the hill the better.” At the tender age of 16, an impressionable Dec’io Lourenc’o saw a group of kids skating down Glen Road. The boys were the SPUs, a skateboarding crew from Sea Point, and like any teenager, Dec’io wanted a piece of the action. That’s when he got his first set of […]
Your mind would have been blown by that fearless maniac skateboarder setting off the speed camera on Kloof Nek Road. Now try this video, of him going down Kloof Road to Clifton – Past Roundhouse Restaurant. Click to watch..
This video is completely off the chain! The camera on Kooof Nek is set for 60-70 km/h so you can work out how fast this guy was going. The speed-wobbles will make you freak! Watch..
For once the famous Cape Town wind was appreciated when as many as 5 000 spectators gathered in Big Bay yesterday, along the West Coast, to watch the world’s 16 best kiteboarders and eight wildcards take to the sea and of course, the air. The extreme competition – returning after a seven year hiatus – wowed the crowds […]
They are calling it 100 foot – could Garrett McNamara just have improved upon his Guinness World Record he set last year for the biggest wave ever ridden?
Tommy Carrol has been skating since he was ten, but has been blind since the age of two. The guy has an incredible amount of talent. Most of us can hardly go down a straight road on a board, with both eyes open.
If there’s one thing Gauteng has taught us, it’s that its people seemingly have no problem squashing into tight, confined spaces. After all, it’s the most populous province and it’s roughly the same size as a Mini-convertible. So when a crowd of friends at UJ decided they could break the Bioplus World Champ Record by […]
“I’m not crying…these are…just…tears… of joy”, exclaims Marco Mogable, as the explosion of cinnamaldehyde rockets through his sinuses.
Look, In this crazy cluttered world, where anyone can be famous, it’s simply not enough to have your fifteen minutes; you need to showcase your skills at the same time. Even if you decide to become the World Champion 100 Metre Swim Fin Hurdler.
Next Sunday, December 9, Derek Van Dam and team Wonderpillar will be competing in the inaugural Red Bull Flugtag event taking place at the Waterfront in Cape Town.
Many of you will remember one of Cape Town’s most famous surfing events – the Red Bull Big Wave Africa – well, Red Bull have stepped it up yet again and announced Red Bull Jaws.
After shattering the Three Peaks Challenge record earlier this month, expert trail runner AJ Calitz has become the inaugural winner of Red Bull LionHeart after an intensive two-day event on Cape Town’s Lion’s Head.
Red Bull’s marketing strategy seems to be, “I see what you did there. Hold on while we do something 1 000 times more awesome and post it on YouTube.” Well, they’ve nailed it again with the craziest Rube Golberg machine ever. Bigger and more intense than ‘ol Rube could ever have imagined.
Austrian sky diver Felix Baumgartner has been convicted of punching a lorry driver during a road-rage incident in 2010. Baumgartner was driving in Salzburg when he overtook a queue of four cars waiting at a roundabout, only for his car to become wedged in front of the other drivers.
South Africa’s Julian Boulle was announced as the first winner of the World Wingsuit League (WWL) Grand Prix late last week.
Last night, at about 8pm local time, an Austrian by the name of Felix Baumgartner rose 128 000 feet into the air and jumped, free-falling 128 000 feet from the stratosphere. Part of the Red Bull Stratos project, this is the highest skydive ever attempted. He even landed on his feet. We’ve got the video.
At approximately 14h30 South African time, skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history – 37 kilometres above Earth.
Jason Paul from Germany is a total boss when it comes to freerunning (also known as parkour). He was recently invited by Red Bull to take part in an incredibly awesome human-powered Rube Goldberg parkour machine. Their goal? To switch on a television.
That’s not a misprint folks, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams recently ran, swam and cycled in space the same distance as her earthbound counterparts would have done in the Nautica Malibu Triahtlon, which was held in Southern California.