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14th. As mentioned before, Anthony Napolitan was riding hurt. It did hurt his riding too but it was incredible to see he still pulled a tabled front flip over the box.

13th. Corey Bohan equals style, and how can you judge style against double backflips and tailwhip to icepicks on a fence? The tricks Corey threw in were his barspin to tailwhip transfer from the spine to the transitioned landing of the big box, huge 360-s over the box and the spine, a wallride to turndown and a 360 tech move on the steep wedge near the judging table. Add 500 grams of style to this recipe and you have 13th place.

12th. Rob Darden had sobered up and survived hanging out on his flat balcony just in time to go full throttle in the finals. Rob is a powerful rider and isn’t afraid of speed or height. He started off with a full speed wallride to tuck straight to a no-hander over the box. He nose-bonked the spine to fakie, did a flair and also hit the rail (hop over to 50/50 grind). The great Singapore crowd also loved his running man tailwhip on the wall.

11th. UK’s Alistair Whitton knows how to put runs together. He’s all over the place and has a full bag of tricks that he can pull with his eyes closed. His riding is solid to say the least. His opposite tables are better than most people’s regular ones. He pulled a rock on the top of the fence that looked impossible to do but he did it and went straight to a huge 360 lookback on the box. Nice one.

10th. Kym Grosser. The Australian brakeless Macneil rider did tricks that no one else did. What about a front wheel grab to handrail grind? Or a nose wheelie to toe-jam to tire grab on a quarterpipe? Or a barspin to wall tap (remember – brakeless)? You want more? What about a nollie to 50-50 grind on the long rail? Or whips on the spine and superman whips? It was different, it was fresh, it was good for 10th place.

You probably think why these riders mentioned didn’t end up any higher on the ranks. Well, just because the riding kept getting better and better. The level was at an all-time high and at this point it was only one o’-clock in the afternoon.

9th place went to Gary Young, a favorite going into the contest. Gary didn’t pull the last trick he had in mind (a 50-50 grind on the flat rail to fakie on the wall) which didn’t end his run with a high but a low this time. To get 9th he still pulled a 360 nosebonk over the spine, a 270, a lookdown over the box, bharspin to table, lookback, wall to 270, wallride to whip, an over peg to back in on the flat rail, 360-x-up, stylish no-footed cancan, 270 tailwhip on the hip, 540 wallride and a 270 X-up over the hip. Finishing high at a Metro comp ain’t easy.

8th. Dave Dillewaard. Easily one of the best overall riders out there. Dilly’s full list of tricks would fill the next 10 sentences but we’ll leave it to his highlights:
- Icepick on the top of the fence to X-up
- 270 tailwhip to fakie
- wallride to tailwhip
- 450 to fakie
- barspin toboggan to fakie over the spine
- opposite 360 over the spine
- opposite wallride to barspin
- opposite 360 transfer
Sorry to keep his list of trick short. Check Rush HD whenever it’s done.

7th. Tobias Wicke. The German was on his game in qualifying with pulled tailwhips to fakie as well fakie to tailwhips. Although he had put back on his front brake, his killer tricks were a no-handed front flip (for girlfriend Claudia who was sitting in the stands), a flipwhip over the hip, double tailwhip, 450 truckdriver over the hip, a tailwhip 180 disaster to 180 out, a smith fakie stall on the wedge in the corner, 3-whip, downside tailwhip over the hip but also tech moves like a tailwhip nosepick over the hip. If Tobias would actually put a run together he could have placed even higher than 7th but he doesn’t really care and it’s good like that. He’s keeping the freestyle spirit alive.

6th. In practice Ryan Guettler finds his lines. When it matters he throws in the tricks. He saved some good ones for the finals. He started off with a huge 720 followed by the no-footed cancan flair like we’ve only seen Ryan do. He continued with a 630, a wallride to turndown, tailwhip, flair, and dabbed down on a wallride to flair. He also did a tailwhip transfer, lookback, a sick double tailwhip over the box and one tech move up and down the platform that included three 360-s. When it was time for last trick Ryan had his mind set on the big box. He got the most speed he possibly could and did a double backflip! Doing it over this set up was insane. Ryan finished 6th in Singapore, 0.2 points away from 5th.

5th. Dave Osato. The boy has bike control. You can never count him out. No matter how tough the night before was or how early he had to get up or how fatigued he looks. Dave tells his bike what to do and his wethepeople bike listens (I would too). Tricks: 540 nosepick on the flat rail, flip, 270-pegs to fakie, tailwhip to (Canadian) nosepick, underside toothpick. It worked out for Dave in Singapore. Stoked to see that.

4th. As Paul Roberts mentioned on the microphone, Chris Doyle is about to take over the best overall bike rider title from Brian Foster. The Kink rider is picking up the street tricks fast and his dirt skills help with his truckdriver to turndowns and 360 inverts over the long box. Add a fufanu on the fence out of a 5 ft vertical quarter (way above the ground) and you have a shredding rider. Style included.

3rd. The difference between first place and 3rd place was 0.4 of a point. Ryan Nyquist was close to his first Metro Jam victory. The tricks he does are easy for the eye but when you really think of the tricks he does it’s amazing. He makes tricks look easy (720-s included) but they aren’t. Ryan was sweating his ass off in the Singapore heat but the crowd was firing him on like there was no tomorrow.

2nd. It was Daniel Dhers’ first Metro Jam but he’ll remember this one. The Venezuelan only was 0.2 points away from a victory. After a couple of hard crashes in practice and some limping shopping in China Town, Daniel came back with a vengeance. He brought awesome tricks to the table like table top flairs, barspin to 3-whip transfers, fronties over the spine, alley-oop flairs, tailwhip to wall tap on the wall, a stylish one-handed one-footer (Fiola) over the hip, Indian seatgrab over the box, a double whip over the hip, seatgrab whip transfer and a whopper. His riding was clean and the victory was close but Daniel was happy with 2nd.

1st. A Metro favorite from the start Morgan Wade pulled it together for his first Metro Jam victory. His superman double whips are nuts and so was his 450 flip over the hip. Morgan loves doing high tables (who doesn’t) and he reached heights over the big fence. The Mutiny rider used the rails (over to rail) but his trick highlight was the tailwhip to icepick on the fence that he pulled first try. It was unfinished business that he took care of in Singapore. The place erupted. It was 2pm and right after the prize ceremony was over it started to rain. Perfect timing.

BdJ

Results Finals Metro BMX Jam Singapore April 2007:

1 Morgan Wade 95.2
2 Daniel Dhers 95.0
3 Ryan Nyquist 94.8
4 Chris Doyle 93.6
5 Dave Osato 92.6
6 Ryan Guettler 92.4
7 Tobias Wicke 91.2
8 Dave Dillewaard 91.0
9 Gary Young 91.0
10 Kym Grosser 90.4
11 Alistair Whitton 87.6
12 Rob Darden 87.2
13 Corey Bohan 87.0
14 Anthony Napolitan 84.2
15 Clint Millar 82.8
16 Rob Wise 74.8

Best trick during finals:
Morgan Wade - Whip to ice on fence

Best trick contest on rail:
Rob Wise - over ice Back over fakie barspin