FATBMX Your Online BMX News Resource Since 1998

The contest season has started and so we can witness our riders at different pro comps all over the planet.
-Tobias Wicke has been to Asia twice this month, competed there at Metro Jam, PIG and Asian X-Games. Straight after he won his local Highway to Hill contest in Berlin.

-As you know Alessandro Barbero injured his foot while the Eastpak USA trip in March. After some short recovering he went back to Camp Woodward to get some serious practice sessions to get ready for 07. Well, on the way back to Italy he got really sick incl. 40 fever and stayd in bed for two weeks.

Damn, we almost forgot about the pin-up section this week. That is until Ronnie Surridge reminded us about the pic we took last weekend in France. Here it is.

Name: BEN HENNON
Age: 21
Hometown: COOK Co.DURHAM, ENGLAND

Where did you usually ride when you had just discovered BMX?
Ben: JUST ON THE STREETS AND WE HAD SOME DIRT JUMPS

Did you have other people to ride with?
Ben: YEH A LOT OF MY SCHOOL FRIENDS RODE BACK THEN

What motivated you to get better and learn new tricks?
Ben: JUST BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LIKE DOING SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER, AND IT’S STILL THE SAME NOW. AND MY DAD

Being from that area and so young, was it hard to get around to where the contests were?

Yo dudes another Update cause I love 2 work & I think more people should.......sheeattt......well I went 2 tha Aisan X-Games N Shang-Hi 2 do sum hostin'.........rode tha biggest skatepark N tha world....... take care!
Respect,
THorne Biker-N-Black

The Federal team went to Paris to shoot a video. It will be out next month but you can check the trailer right here, right now on FATBMX. Edd Allen has not been sleeping enough lately. Ahhh the stress of finishing a BMX video......

Mankind is very happy to announce that long time friend and all around great guy Senad Grosic from Vienna, Austria is from now on riding for Mankind Bike Co.. Senad is that guy you heard about doing bike flips and double whip tailtaps as one of the first riders and who likes to tell real funny stories, which usually end with an austrian slang saying nobody understands, like: Joa, bisst Du deppert!!!!  You will see Senad at all the summer contest around Europe and some in the states this year. 

Sometimes you realize why people go to sports events when they can see it live on tv or see the recap of the game only a few moments later including replays. You can grab a beer from the fridge that only costs 20% of what you would have paid at the game, the temperature is good, there's a roof over your head and you don't have anything to worry about. And still people go to the stadium. And for a reason. Live events are the best. You experience the moment firsthand, hear the noise and live the moment. The miniramp contest at the FISE was one to remember. It will go in the history books of some tricks pulled for the first time, some riders riding the ramp for the first time in their life and a crowd so big it made you feel you were watching a football game.

Chris Mahoney went off in the finals. He was doing tricks back to back and didn't hold back. Ben Hennon's first boost over the spine (no-handed) scared people as they hoped he would land back on planet earth in one piece. So high.

Dude, I don't know exactly how many people were watching the Pro Dirt contest at the Fise but there were many. It's so much better when the crowd gets into it. It pushes the riders to go for those tricks that they either have been working on or trick they haven't tried on big sets yet. And big sets they had. From the top the jumps didn't look all too crazy but when you were standing next to the you realized how massive they were. 

The Metropolitan frame prototype has been in the works for some time now. It has been tested and put to the test daily by Ed Nussbaum and he has given his stamp of approval. The frame is now in production and will be available at the end of May. 

Stephen Murray and Ryan Brennan have teamed up together to throw the Bmx Dirt event of the summer!!! The SOIL Jam will be located at Stephen Murray's freshly rebuilt Front yard including 17ft full loop. The event will thrown on the same weekend as the Xgames and will be the final Jam at Murray's frontyard. It will be a test for many poachers on which animal to shoot. Riverside or Los Angeles, Corporation, or Underground roots. Flip a coin and head for the hills cause we are going to fill the void of Bmx Dirt jumping on the date of August 4th 2007 Representing the Sport of Bmx dirt jumping taking it back to the roots!

Expect Good Times, Mud wrestling chicks, big tricks, amateur comp, BBQ, Tom from Myspace, followed by a nighttime pro jam with live music. Sponsors already include Oakley , Vans , S&M Bikes, and myspace.com

For more information and sponsorship opportunities email: