After almost 4 years with FIT as a Brand Manager, Team Wrangler and the Product Designer for S&M, FIT and Revenge, Ben Ward has parted ways with the company. "Due to the lack of continued work, and a change in business climate my position was eliminated. It's been simply incredible working to build teams and develop products for new brands while revamping and improving the extensive product lines between S&M, FIT, Credence, Intrikat and Revenge. I look forward to the next 
This day was bound to come eventually. As of mid-May I will be leaving Sunday Bikes. This was obviously a difficult decision for me since I co-founded Sunday with Odyssey back in 2005 and I’ve been working on it every day for the last 9 years. It’s truly been an amazing experience learning the bike industry, traveling with the team and most important of all, meeting so many BMXers from around the world.My main goal with Sunday was to do interesting things with every aspect of the company and if you’ve been paying attention since we’ve started then you know that we’ve done that many times over. Sunday has always been in great hands with everyone at Odyssey/Full Factory standing behind it, and that’s where it is going to continue to grow, with lots of exciting projects already in development for 2015.
So, now I’m off to new creative adventures. I just want to say that I’m truly honored by all the people that supported and rode a Sunday during my time with the company. Even after all these years,
HOOKIT ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY HOOKIT SCORE™ AND NEW PLATFORM OF TOOLS TO SUPPORT ATHLETES, BRANDS & SPORTS
May 06, 2014
San Diego-based Hookit unveils an all-new brand identity and platform of tools and services surrounding the introduction of its revolutionary Hookit Score. The Hookit Score is a ground-breaking evolution of the Hookit Index™, which was the first ever tool to track, quantify and rank athletes’ exposure and activity in the complex world of social media. The new Hookit Score is a 1-10,000 score and the new standard to effectively measure any athletes’ commitment, performance and reach in their respective sport.Hookit’s proprietary scoring engine tracks 15M pieces of data every day from hundreds of verified sources to track and compare athletes based on their fan base and exposure in social media, how often they do their sport, how much they travel, and their competition results at events.
For the first time ever, athletes at any level from the pros to local competitors and enthusiasts have a way to track their progression, see where they stack up against other athletes, friends and pros,
Just like Russell Merry getting back at CSG after a break, also Mark Noble is back in the BMX business as BMX Brand manager over at CSG. The former publisher of RIDE UK and producer of the Deluxe products is now in charge of brands such as GT, Mongoose and wethepeople over in the UK.Noble said; “I’m extremely excited to be able to work on truly iconic and market-leading BMX brands at CSG – few companies can boast more history and roots than GT and Mongoose, while the likes of Wethepeople and Eclat have truly cutting-edge products, riders and brand direction. To be able to work across the board on
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.