The SPY Optic gang loaded-up the SPY van and headed to Huntington Beach for the brand’s 3rd Annual Pier Bull: a mechanical bull-riding competition with a few of our favorite O.C. retailers.

We made our way to Black Bull Chophouse, bringing a bucket load of beach to the honky-tonk restaurant’s country groove. Huntington Surf & Sport, Jack’s Surfboards, Surfside Sports and Kanvas by Katin all showed up ready to get buck wild and busy, in a good ol’ fashioned mechanical bull-riding contest that left them battered, bruised and bloody.

This year it was the ladies who brought their best, posting some very impressive times while hanging on for dear life.

In the end, H.S.S. claimed victory and bragging rights for the next 12 months.  (They would have taken home the Bull Horns, too, had some other shop not already stolen them.) We stuck around for an epic ‘80s cover band and flash danced till the lights came on and we got booted.  We are all a little worse for the wear, still, but SOMEBODY has to bring the party, right?

Special thanks to the Black Bull Chophouse, Kanvas by Katin, Jack’s, Surfside Sports, and H.S.S. for suiting-up, showing-up and proving that surfing, steak, fake animal riding and the cowboy way are alive and well in H.B.