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Dump Road Outlaw 2012

50 mph in a straight line down a chip sealed road. This is how they used to race in the 90′s. 2012 is a new day an age and skateboarding has come a long way since the 90′s. Downhill skateboard races nowadays aren’t considered exciting unless there are turns and what not.

Not dump road though. The race has been running for quite some time and is part of the infamous Cali Outlaw Series. No sponsors, no permits, just a group of friends both old and new meeting up to race a road nestled in the Badlands of California.

The race is exciting and each finish is a photo finish. The packs are so tight and it actually takes some strategy to win.

Some try to push out to the front of the pack and stay there while others try to get into that persons draft in an attempt to pass them somewhere along the way down the almost 1 mile stretch of road.

Riders pay their entry fees, run a few practice runs followed by the race runs. Heats are run, riders are eliminated and finally it becomes time for the finals. Everyone cheers on their friends and a champion is crowned.

 

Open Class

1st- Tim Del Rosario

2nd- Daniel Luna

3rd- Key Dougherty

 

 

 

Groms

1st- Ethan Vinograd

2nd- Chance Gaul

3rd- Roger Jones

 

 

 

 

Luge

1st- Mike Mc Intyre

2nd- Key Dougherty

3rd- John Rogers

 

 

 

 

The Bake and Destroy Skateboard Riot of 2012

THRASH! Let me just start off this post by saying that the Bake and Destroy skateboard “riot” was both rad and bad.

Having an event that gets this many skateboarders in the community together is rad no matter what. This video premiere didn’t have skateboarding included in the schedule of events. Nor did it have a riot planned, but that doesn’t mean an adrenaline rush wasn’t about to be experienced by all 500 eager skateboarders waiting in line to see the Bake and Destroy video. The excited skaters lined the streets to see Baker Skateboard’s first video in 5 years.

I’m sure that being among the crowd of 500 skateboarders with 100 cops in riot gear and 3 helicopters hovering above, that had to have been a pretty rad time.

Now with that being said the whole thing kinda makes the whole skateboard world look pretty bad. As far as riots go this was extremely tame. Cops showed up and people for the most part didn’t know what to do.

Usually when you see a riot on TV cars are being flipped, burned and cops are forcing people off the streets with their riot shields. This DID NOT happen here.

Unfortunately people will not look at it that way. They will see the videos of everyone chanting “fuck the police, fuck the police” and just think we are all punk kids. There were also kids running over cars, shop windows were broken and bottles and rocks were being thrown.

Here’s how the day went…

Saturday October, 13 2012 The Bake and Destroy video was premiering on Hollywood Blvd. A crowd of around 500 skateboarders waited outside lining the Hollywood Blvd, some of them there all day. “I got here at 7:30 a.m. If you get here 2 hours before your fucking up,” said the guy in the front of the line.

With 2 showings planned, the first was an industry premiere for all the pros and company owners. As the first showing was underway kids in the back of the line and people who had been waiting all day started to get bored. Unfortunately bored, skateboarders and kids don’t all go together too well.

Laser pointers were being flashed into apartment windows. Someone in an apartment started shining a laser pointer right back. There were then kids throwing rocks and beer cans at cars and buses.

It wasn’t long until police were dispersed. 2 police helicopters arrived to spotlight the happenings and 100 officers in full tactical swat gear arrived making a perimeter and shutting down Hollywood Blvd.

People threw rocks and bottles at police officers and it took officers around 3 hrs to disperse the crowd of 500 skateboarders. No injuries were reported and 2 cars were reported damaged during the incident.

As all this was happening outside the premiere, inside the industry viewing was underway. “This is a fucking skateboard video! You live and die for skateboarding! You want some? Get some! Bake and fucking destroy!!!!” and with that being said the “play that shit” button was pressed and the video was under way.

In the middle of the industry viewing the people inside the theater started to hear about the riots outside the theater. At the end of the video security started to let everyone out the back doors of the theater.

As people filed out the back doors a police helicopter spotlight lit up the back exit. “That’s when we knew it was going down out front.” Police officers in riot gear quickly shut down that exit figuring that letting these people out would only add to the chaos.

After all was said and done this was just another night in the skateboard world. Bake and Destroy will be sent out with the next issue of Thrasher Magazine and it will be available on the internet in a couple months for free. Skateboarding rules! – Leecifer

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Double Rainbow Outlaw 2011

(This video has nothing to do with the race other than the name, but we thought it was hilarious)

So we rolled out to the Double Rainbow Outlaw armed with skate and camera gear ready for a fun race. The first hill was extremely rad with riders bombing into a left hairpin that dropped probably around 15 ft through the turn.

Everyone took one run down as soon as we had a clear time with no cars. Waiting for a time where no cars were on our race course took awhile and an old man in a mini van informed us that he was calling the cops and that he had our picture and pictures of our license plate. He was literally sitting in his car winding up his little throw away camera and taking pics and yelling at us.We killed him with kindness and told him we were leaving.

After heading back to the cafe to rendezvous before heading to the next spot the police came to talk to us. He nicely told us to leave and hinted to the fact that he might not be called if me moved up into the hills more. Out of sight out of mind.

I didn’t make it to the second hill but supposedly it was another very fun hill. Everyone caravaned there and we had a race. It ended with Tim Del Rosario taking home the win.

 

Results

Open Division

1st- Tim Del Rosario

2nd- Key Dougherty

3rd- Ryan Ricker

Groms

1st- Ethan Vinograd

2nd- Jesse French

3rd- Elijah Vinograd