Travis GQ Spread: America, Meet Jackass Knievel

Who said Travis Pastrana isn't fashionable? Josh Dean of GQ Magazine would tell you different.

?Looking for Travis Pastrana? Keep an eye out for ambulances. Here are three clustered outside a gigantic empty hangar that looks like the top of an oversize golf ball half buried along the waterfront of Long Beach, California. It might be the only structure in California vast enough to contain the peculiar ambitions of America's most fearless daredevil, an action-sports polymath who is equal parts world-class athlete and modern-day Evel Knievel.

I'm not allowed to tell you exactly what he's doing in there?some of Pastrana's tricks are closely guarded secrets until the moment they're unveiled?but I can report that it involved some bizarre preparation. While set builders, engineers, and film-production people work busily in the background, Pastrana steps into a harness fitted with two bungee cords, which are attached to a five-story metal scaffold.?

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Photographs by Peggy Sirota

04.27.2011