The inspirational Bede Durbidge mercilessly cut!
Oh the damned surf industry apocalypse! Is there no force great enough to stand up to its mercilessness? No star bright enough to zap it with light and force its evil henchmen to retreat? To train their green eyes upon another pursuit like mountain biking?
Of course you’ve followed along as Volcom gutted their team. The talented and funny Parker Coffin whom Kai “Borg” Garcia once told me was the ideal, the model, allegedly cut down in his prime. Quincy Davis disappeared. Alex Grey lopped it two.
Volcom! You Establishment bastards!
The ripples flowed into each and every brand. Who’s next? Who the hell is next?
And the question was answered days ago.
Fox!
The motorcycle brand was always a strange fit in surfing but, let’s be honest, so welcomed! They built one of the greatest teams ever stocked with hard-working yet still stylish surfers. Salts of the earth. Surfers that the kids could actually look up to.
Surfers like Bede Durbidge.
Oh the White Fijian absolutely sparkled with gritty blue collar charm. Who could ever forget how he was bounced off Pipeline’s reef last winter. How his pelvis was shattered. How he was forced into months of grueling rehabilitation.
But he was a man and men don’t give up and Bede didn’t give up. He did his job from the confines of a wheelchair! But Fox, bent by the surf industry apocalypse, lopped off his head anyhow.
Heartless! Absolutely heartless! Is anyone safe?
(Hint: NO! Not even surfing’s Rudy!)
“They were never coming back” – Fox Team Management waiting for team rider contracts to expire.
Hurley is next!!
Have we had official confirmation of the mass bloodletting? Any news sources out here publishing this (not that we don’t love your overuse of exclamation points, Chas)?
Strange how Bede is so high profiled but hasn’t had a decent sponsor for the last 8 years or so. He looked marketable to me. I hope Fox paid him some coin.
How is he marketable when he looks like a dropped sandwich.
Bede is a man’s man; unlike the effeminate surfers you get horny over. The make-up girls did a lot at Rip Curl to spruce up Mick Fanning; putting a roughie like Mick into a tuxedo. Bede is handsome. The same could have been done to Bede by a shrewd marketer to sandpaper the rough edges; like when Nat Young Senior used to model for Ralph Lauren.
Nows finally the chance for Rivers menswear to get into the surf game and sponsor the big fella. Would be a perfect match!
“Sorry Bede, we’re a business, not a charity.”