Bike Days – Switzerland’s national bicycle festival held in Solothurn from May 5th to 7th 2017

May 08, 2017

Written by Bart de Jong

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BMX flatland riders enthuse the crowds. The Bike Days 2017 are done and dusted. Throughout three days the national bicycle festival attracted 20’000 visitors. As a triple winner of the prestigious Worldtour Matthias Dandois (FRA) lived up to hisreputation, dominating the BMX flatland contest and performing his signature video trick live for the first time. Despite the rainy weather things heated up in the Rythalle as ten athletes from seven countries faced off for the BMX flatland finale, performing incredibly complex tricks. As a triple winner of the prestigious Worldtour Mathias Dandois (FRA) lived up to his role as a favourite, dominating both the qualification and the finale.

The Frenchman convinced the five judges with a wide variety of tricks, a flawless run and particularly with the high degree of difficulty of the tricks he performed. The decisive trick for the win was the «Suicide Bodyvarial to Halfpacker». So far Dandois had only performed this hard and technical trick in video clips – now he managed to pull it off in a contest for the first time.

Dandois also won the ollie and the spin contest, making it a clean sweep. Second place went to Jean William Prévost (CAN) with Alex Jumelin (FRA) in 3rd. The youngest flatlandrider of the weekend was Sato Minato (JAP). While the 11 year-old failed to qualify for Sunday’s finale, he managed to win the coveted challenge cup as part of the Pacific Crew in Saturday’s Battle of Nations.

The next edition of the Bike Days will be held from May 4th to 6th 2018.

BIKEDAYS 2017 - RESULT BMX FLATLAND FINAL