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The Drive 2012 – Radio Skateboards’ Lust For (Skate-) Life

Jan — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:20:40 +0000

“In the end it doesn’t fucking matter; there was one team that was outstanding…”, Kingpin’s own, Alex Irvine declared at The Drive’s final stop in Helsinki when all the trick books were charted. “So, 2000 € in 50 € notes go to: Radio Skateboards!”

And yes, these guys did earn it by doing what they do best: partying hard, skating their asses off and having a ball!

So here is to all tomorrow’s (and tonight’s) parties… Radio skateboards’ never ending lust for skate life!

The Drive 2012 – Sweet Textbook Destruction

Jan — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:14:53 +0000

The Drive 2011 champions, Sweet not dissapointing again, killing it on the skating and trick book front, missing defending the title by a couple of motorboats and dicks out.

The Drive 2012 – Perus Crew Bump And Grind

Jan — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:26:07 +0000

Perus Crew are murdering the bump in front of their hotel, and are not showing mercy towards other spots on their way from and to Helsinki. Roundtrippin’ mate!

The Drive 2012 – Carving The New World Order

Jan — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:47:05 +0000

CRV-WKD carving their way to Helsinki wicked as fuck in this epic clip of chaos and annihilation as their share of The Drive 2012. New World Order.

The Drive 2012 – Superdead

Jan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:43:20 +0000

Britain’s Superdead are making the start on clips for The Drive 2012 – Kingpin’s quest to rip and ridicule yourself for points. This is what Eddie Belvedere, Andi Scott, Chris Oliver, Harry Lintell and Nick Remon came up with on their seven day journey to the final meeting point in Helsinki, Finland.
Have a look at all the madness in the current issue of Kingpin and stay tuned for more clips to drop here throughout the following days…

The Drive Teaser

Alex — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:53:44 +0000

The full team edits (Sweet, Perus, Radio, Crv Wkd and Superdead) will be live in a week. For now enjoy a small sample of what is to come.

Sweet Win The Drive!!!

Alex — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:23:34 +0000

Well the voting for the winning edit of The Drive has now closed and it’s clear from the results that Sweet skateboards smashed it. A well deserved win.

Not only did they make the winning edit, as voted for by you, the public, but they also won the challenges we set for the teams whilst they hit the road – so Sweet took the money, and now they take the glory. Congratulations.

Thanks to all the teams for taking part, see you next year.

Check out Sweet’s video contributions below. Yeah boyeees!

Ten Tricks – Jonas Skröder

The Drive Edits Are Now Live

Alex — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:19:28 +0000

Click the party shot above to check out the edits from The Drive. Blueprint, Sweet, Antiz, Jart and Element’s videos are now live & online.

You can now vote for your favourite team’s edit and then leave a comment under the videos to enter our competition, where one lucky bastard gets 1 board from each company each day; that’s 5 boards, every day, for 14 days…

The Drive: Jart Day 8

Alex — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:00:56 +0000

Endless wait in the motel parking lot. Seems someone forgot to arrange a way back for Nick and Ricky to get back to Spain and get their flights to US two days later. Oops.

I decided to shoot some evidence for the smallest/biggest bags of the trip. This was the smallest, which might not seem too small but I tell you he didn’t even use ¾ of its space.

Ricky, on the other hand, got the biggest one – but still not as big as Antiz rider Julian Dykmans’ one though.

I think we waited there for 3 and half hours.

After finally leaving the motel, we stopped half an hour later to eat in a gas station. After eating, the TM decided it was the perfect time to start a fire the old school way. Obviously, the strong wind blocked his intentions. But hey, on those 3 hour gas station stop we saw some Ferraris coming from a race or event, or whatever. How nice.

Jan, in a random stop to wait the van to catch up.

And we made it to Cologne. Die Fantastisch Dom.

Rain was present again, so it was time to call it the end of trip. One last photo before the end.

The Drive: Antiz Day 8

Alex — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:00:30 +0000

Sleeping in skateparks sounds like such a great idea – if you’re a kid maybe. The get up and go attitude of the 9 am morning skater in South Germany does definitely not gel with the get drunk enough so you can fall asleep in a bowl attitude of a team of reprobates on tour. Them’s the breaks..

A familiar site, Pete with his arm over his eyes after being woken early by the sun – or a ‘morning skater’.

Remy getting some in the early hours.

Eventually found our way to this thing, where i managed to slam on my cock.

It’s like a fucking Madonna video round here.

Or maybe a mid 90s boy-band video.

Or maybe a Pee Wee Herman film.

Murl shut the spot down so we bounced. It was hot so we searched for a place to jump off a bridge. A dead end turned up a window full of mannequin heads.

Found a place eventually. It was pretty grimy though.

You think it’s deep enough to jump from the bridge?

Hirschi had better hope so.

That wraps up our blog from The Drive but keep an eye out for issue 96 of Kingpin for the full report from all the teams, some pictures of people being stupid and a DVD containing each team’s edit.

Can’t wait for next year.