LIFESTYLE
Why sledding beats Hockey
Frontier Films has released a new great snowmobile movie - 2 Stroke Cold Smoke 12. This is an epic adventure around the world through the mountains of Canada, Alaska, Washington, Sweden and Andorra in south of Europe. This film has amazing professional snowmobilers such as Geoff Kyle, Rob Alford, Ross Mercer, Randy Sherman, Dan Phillips, Dan Treadway, Paul Thacker and more. Some of the sequences shot by the great film photographer Mikael Berntsson are the most epic ones ever shot in snowmobile history. RedSherpa.com and the photographer Hans Wärdell joined the film crew last winter, to capture the riders Rob Alford, Geoff Kyle and Thomas Wärdell on still photos. We have sponsored with photos for the DVD-cover and at frontierfilms.com. On the cover you see the amazing rider Geoff Kyle starting an avalanche while dropping a huge cliff, shot by Hans. See the preview below...
The central Swedish city of Östersund is famous for two things. They lost the vote for hosting the Olympic Games three times and they house, Storsjöodjuret, the famous cousin of “Nessie” from Loch Ness. 
Each time, era, and place has it its own rituals for becoming a man. In my little village, the tradition started in the early 60’s when a few youngsters challenged each other to jump the biggest cliff around with their parents Skidoo’s, Evinrude’s, and Polaris’s. Every year it all took place when the first snow arrived on the 30th of October. The boys, not yet men, gathered together in the full moonlight to wait for the village’s elderly man to give the signal. When the moon’s first beams broke through the clouds and the shadows showed them the way, he would wave a clutch belt in the air so that the humming sound called for their attention.
BEING JOE DIRT
So being a snowmobile reporter and traveling the world in 1st class is a dream of yours? Do you honestly think I always get to hang out with cool people and see the places others just dream of? I bet you even think I'm getting laid every night and get free crap from companies that want me to write nice things about them.
Well, your gosh-dang right! My life rocks and I wouldn’t trade with YOU for all the two-stroke oil in the world. In fact, I wouldn’t trade you even if you offered Jenna Jameson and a Hemi covered in whipped cream with red cherries waiting for me at a NASCAR race, which would of course be included together with Neverland, Bubbles the monkey, and season tickets to the Def Leopard reunion tour.
Kidnapped, eaten and spit out by multinational media companies, hip-hop is not what it used to be.
Today, the standard money-hungry rappers who sing female-degrading texts to ready-made beats top the charts. Meanwhile the underground movement has become stronger. As a reaction against mainstream hip-hop, a new generation of American rappers who are strongly critical of the society they have grown up in are suspected to exist.
I was about to have a chat with Larzon and Mathias from the Swedish punk-rock export Millencolin in their hometown of Örebro, just west of Stockholm. I arrived in a Volvo. They arrived in a god damn 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 and as one might expect, guitarist Mathias is very proud of his car since American Muscle is hard to come by in Sweden. After every stop he makes, he gives it a little extra gas and leaves big black rubber markings on the ground. The roar from the engine even makes me, the mighty Car Incompetence Man, crack a smile. Given my complete lack of car knowledge, I ask him what the top speed might be...?
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