The Battle for the Midwest BMX Contest Series has expanded this year to include 4 parks this year. The first round was held at Ray's last Saturday but there are three more rounds coming up.
Battle for the Midwest Info: Here are the preliminary dates for each contest. Keep your eyes peeled for more information coming soon!
-February 14, 2015 - The Fort Wayne, Indoor, Fort Wayne IN - AM classes Only - Park Opens at 10:30am - Contest Starts at 1pm
-March 21/22, 2015 - The Kitchen BMX & Skatepark - Pro/AM South Bend, Indiana - AM , GIRLS, PRO/OPEN -Times TBA
-April 18, 2015 - Ohio Dreams Action Sport Camp - Butler, Ohio - Amateur Classes and Final Points Round Up. -Time TBA
More Information Comings Soon! SAVE THE DATES!
For 2015 Team GT picked up a new rider in the name of Brian Kachinsky. The street rider is stoked on the new sponsorship: “I’m proud to announce today that I am now riding for GT Bikes. It’s an honor to join with a brand that’s been making BMX bikes for longer than I’ve been alive. I’ll never forget the moment that I walked into my local bike shop as a 12 year-old and walked out with a chrome GT Vertigo which solidified my love for BMX. In 2015 things have come full circle and I’ll be riding the same brand of bike that got me hooked for life in beginning. I look
The Biggest Extreme Sport Championship in Indonesia. To be held in Bandung, 2-4 October 2015.
Indonesia Open X-Sports Championship (IOXC) is an International scale extreme sports event held once a year supported by The Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs of Republic of Indonesia and its been known as the BIGGEST extreme sport event in South East Asia. This event which began in 2008. IOXC 2015 (IOXC VII) will be held in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia on 2-3-4 October 2015. Bandung known as PARIS VAN JAVA is a popular place for culinary Priyangan and beautiful landscapes. Some of the sports category BMX is Street / Park and Flatland will be contested back this year.
Approximately 100 million Rupiah will be contested by the 5 winners categorized Street and 5 winners categorized Flatland.
DON’T FORGET TO COME AND JOIN US on OCTOBER 2015 @ BANDUNG.
This our website : www.asosiasibmx.com
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Mark Losey has launched a new ranking system that combines Pro contests results from around the world into a single year-end rank. “Two years ago I put all of the different contest results I could find into a single spreadsheet. Seeing them all together seemed like they could be combined— somehow,” Losey said.
After getting suggestions and criticism from various organizers and riders, Losey settled on a system. “Each event’s points are determined by how many top pros were in the finals at that event.
The 15th edition of the Simple Session is going to be a big one. The second batch of riders has just been announced. Looks like Vans rebeljam winner Alex Donnachie is looking for more as he has signed up to ride his first Simple Session event in Tallinn. Germany's Janek Wentzky is also on the list and we're looking forward to a big 360-no-hander over the box. Tech street will come from Simone Barraco and also Joris Coulomb from France will bring some street moves along with AK, Dan Paley and Paul Ryan from the UK.
The Simple Session is an event where street riders and park riders share the same platforms. Aiming for the transitions will be Jack Clark, Ryan Taylor, Michael Beran and also Kriss Kyle can hit up some trannies. As this wasn't enough for the second heat group, add Felix Prangenberg, Daniel Tuente, Moritz NuSbaumer and Adrian Malmberg to the list.
Stay tuned for more names, to be announced in the upcoming weeks. The event will take place on 18-19 April 2015.
GoPro, Inc. announced the official launch of its GoPro Channel app for LG Smart TVs. The alliance between GoPro and LG Electronics USA capitalizes on LG’s award-winning webOS Smart TV technology available on 2015 and 2014 4K ULTRA HD, OLED and FULL HD TVs to deliver the immersive imagery that is a hallmark of the GoPro video experience. LG Smart TV owners can stream more than 400 hours of compelling GoPro high-definition videos on-demand beginning
It's the bmX-mas season and cards will show up soon. The holidays are coming up and people are getting in a good mood again to catch up with family and to get some new bike parts under the Christmas tree. Once again we're collecting the BMX related cards and will post them up here on FATBMX. We're expecting some good ones in the upcoming weeks. If you've got one you want to share, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. although there's nothing to be won.
Soulcycle BMX shop starts the year with the coolest Dutch BMX event in years. During the Soulcycle F.T.O. Serie, park and street BMXers can compete in a serie of BMX contests for AM and pro BMXers. The concept: In the Next few months park and street BMXers can both compete in 3 events. The riders can visit each event apart from each other. During every event the riders have a one minute run to impress the judges. The ten best riders compete in a finale run during the dayfinal. They compete for Soulcycle vouchers and brand new parts from the sponsors Etnies, Stranger, Cult, Odysey, Animal en primo. Next to that, the scores of the riders count in the overall tournament. Every edition the Soulcycle staff save the scores of the participants. After all contest the scores will be counted and the riders with the highest overall score will make some big prize money.
AM & Pro
For both street and park there will be an Am and Pro discipline, so
All good things come to an end. Haro's parting ways with Jack Clark. Jack's been part of the HARO Bikes program for the last two years and got to travel to events in Asia, Germany, The Netherlands, many in France and the UK, next to a visit to California. If you follow Jack on facebook you know that he's traveling all over the place on a daily basis riding as many parks as possible in his own style. He's the first to drop in, and the last rider to leave the ramp plus he gets more rides in than anyone on the platform. The technically skilled rider will be scooped up by an other company soon.
The 2015 Haro Pro team continues as follows. Dennis Enarson, Ryan Nyquist, Tyler Fernengel, Mike Gray, Matthias Dandois, Dennis McCoy, Jason Watts, Simon Tabron, Matt Cordova, with Jadin Covert and Colton Walker on flow along with many distributor sponsored riders from all over the world.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.