The second edition of the Antwerp City Drops event is taking place from 23-24 September 2017. Good times were had in 2016 at the inaugural event with lots of sunshine, high level dirt riding and plenty of partying. In short, a killer weekend in Belgium. The following riders have confirmed their presence and if you think you've got what it takes and your name is not on this list yet, make sure to enter the Open Qualifier event on Saturday morning and claim a spot. In any case, the Dirt contest is going to be a good one with these guys on the list already. A high air contest will take place on Saturday. A Best Trick contest will be held on Sunday. Other events during the ACD festival are BMX Flatland, a Pump track contest, trials, skateboarding, slackline, partying, graffiti, freerunning.
ACD 2017 Dirt contest:
Joe Baddeley (GBR)
Konrad Szabo (HUN)
Paul Thoelen (GER)
Maxime Charveron (FRA)
Kenneth Tancré (BEL)
Simon Moratz (GER)
The wood, metal, and dirt just landed in William Hawrelak Park and the building is well underway for the third stop of the FISE World Series 2017, in Edmonton, Canada. As soon as the containers arrived from Budapest, the FISE Area builders started the process of putting everything together to recreate once more our famous riding areas. These will be the grounds for some incredible action on September 15-17. To get an idea of what is coming, take a look at the competition schedule below.
Thursday, September 14th
10.30am – 5.30pm Training BMX Freestyle Park
5.30pm – 7.40pm Training BMX Freestyle Park Women
We'll be rolling out nominees all week long leading up to the 2017 NORA Cup this Sunday in Hastings, England. Here are your 2017 Transition Rider of The Year Nominees (in alphabetical order):
Chase Hawk
Dennis Enarson
Kevin Peraza
Larry Edgar
Logan Martin
We'll be rolling out nominees all week long leading up to the 2017 NORA Cup this Sunday in Hastings, England. Here are your 2017 Flatlander of The Year Nominees (in alphabetical order): Alex Jumelin Jean William Prevost John Yull Matthias Dandois Moto Sasaki WHO DO YOU THINK WON? Find out when the NORA Cup 2017 winners are announced this Sunday, 9/10 @ 1PM PST.
Last Friday AUTUM had their first store opening in Berlin and it was a BLAST. Loads of people showed up and the Autum crew would like to give an extra special thanks to all the helping hands who made it possible. At the store you will find all the AUTUM hardware and softgoods plus some selected products of other brands. Actually the whole new AUTUM® LIFE Apparel collection is in stock - be fast as some pieces are only available in limited amounts.
You can visit the store from now on at the following times at:
AUTUM STORE
100% introduces the all-new 2018 collection of BMX/MTB products featured on a brand new, easier to use website. A complete new range of Helmets, Riding Gear, and Eyewear is now available from 100% at dealers worldwide and on the new 100% website. The lineup includes new designs of the popular Aircraft Carbon DH helmet featuring MIPS technology. Complementing the helmet is a new collection of technical riding apparel for men, women, and youth riders. From the R-Core Downhill/Enduro series comes an all-new premium line of riding gear with 4-way stretch materials called R-Core X.
Adding to the range is a new line of Celium and Airmatic gear along with a fully redesigned selection of riding gloves. With several designs spanning across six different models, every rider is sure to find the perfect glove.
In addition to the new gear, an expanded range of goggles, casual and athletic wear, along with several
Source BMX is proud to announce Dennis Enarson’s Team (Team #7) for this year's Battle Of Hastings to be held at The Source Park :
Dennis Enarson (USA)
Chad Kerley (USA)
Garrett Reynolds (USA)
Alex Hiam (AUS)
Yet another heavy team! We can’t wait to see what Dennis and his crew bring to the contest.
Warmed up by the first stop of the FISE World Series in Montpellier, the riders are eager to participate in the second event in Budapest, from the 18th to the 20th of August in BudaPart - Kopaszi gát park. This tour is a World Action Sports Festival, which organizes amateurs and professional competitions in the following disciplines: BMX Freestyle Park, BMX Freestyle Flatland, Skateboard, Mountain Bike, Roller Freestyle. Each stops is the occasion for riders to performing for an overall ranking, which is rewarding at the end of each year the winner of the tour. According to the core soul of the festival, FISE events are also the occasion for spectators to discover action sports by many initiations and demos organized, as well as having a great time with friends or family by cruising the exhibitor's area and enjoying the spot.
Sosh Urban Motion 6 is on! This year we will have some killers pro riders & filmers: Tyler Fernengel & Rich Forne, Bruno Hoffmann & Markus Wilke, Joris Coulomb & Romain Fel and Julian Molina comes to Paris with Fernando Marmolejo to film him.
Also there is big news regarding the Wild Card Contest:
There will be 3 cards; one for France, one for Europe & one for the rest of the world, meaning anyone from anywhere in the world has his chance!
All they have to do is make a team & post on instagram a one minute video before september 30th.
More infos on the website: soshurbanmotion.com/en
-Had Picard
The Vans BMX Pro Cup Series, the world’s definitive platform for BMX park terrain competition, gears up for the ultimate grand finale event in Surf City USA on August 4 & 6. Held in partnership with the largest action sports festival in the world, the Vans US Open, the highly anticipated championships showdown will bring the top-ranking contenders to Huntington Beach, CA for one final gauntlet to crown the first-ever Vans BMX Pro Cup World Champion of BMX park terrain. Following an exciting series around the globe in Australia, Spain, Mexico, and now to the U.S., the following tour pros and regional qualifiers will compete in the World Championships.
Comprised of 24 tour pros, 13 advancing regional qualifiers, three wildcards in the Men’s division, and
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.