Liverpool’s well-established HUB Festival brings its carnival of delights again for another year. Events took place over the weekend in Wellington Dock on May 23rd and 24th, with pro and amateur riders equally pulling out all the stops for the crowd. -- With more than 25,000 people turning up for the free event, HUB is certainly one of the United Kingdom’s biggest extreme sport/youth festivals. With live performances from musical acts, graffiti walls, break dancing, shopping areas and various workshops, BMX/skate/inline riders had their work cut out for them in drawing the crowd – but draw them in they did. 
Today we received the 3D drawings from the people at the Dew Tour to puplsih on FATBMX. When they sent the Park, Dirt and Vert drawings we were missing the info on the street course. 10 seconds later we got that too, and three views of it. Street is not part of the Dew Tour but more of a Nike 6.0 gig, or maybe a trial event for next year? Go find your lines how you would ride it. 
Here is a quick run down of the Hub Festival that went down in Liverpool same weekend as Fise, there were about 25000 spectators over the weekend so the event is getting bigger and bigger + the street course was really good and well thought out and well built too. The Hub Festival had vert there, I [Zach Shaw] won Jerry Galley rode and got 2nd with style that never gets old and the craziest 540 I have seen in a long time!! Ben Manual 3rd (he is on a Vert mission & just ordered a new Full Face Helmet) Mark Atkins rode really well but KO'd himself on blunt, Dennis Wingham rode and stayed on. Ronnie Remo rode and Ko'd himself on a whip. When I got down to see if he was ok he was really dazed, I asked him if he 
And we have a winner! Not that there was a competition going on but doing updates from the road can be difficult. Kang sent another update in the middle of the night from their life on the road. Everyone must be exhausted by now and that is before the actual Vans "Let It Ride" event which is coming up on Saturday. Make it to Kortrijk's bowl at around 14h00. That's when the prelims will start. The comp will go into the night, followed with one last party at the local youth center LET IT RIDE Vans Tour. Last update from team France. By Kang.
Jun 04, 2009
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The FISE comp seems a while ago but it was actually the kick-off for 4 Vans teams to hit the road and meet back up this weekend in Kortrijk, Belgium for the "Let It Ride" Bowl contest. Over the last 8 days we've received multiple updates from the German, European and French teams. The UK Vans team has not contributed once and we'll hear the reason for this on Saturday when we will hear all the wild stories from team captain Mad Jon Taylor himself. Here's the last tour update from Kang, the French TM who did come through with good pics and updates:"Day 7 is over. Today was street session in Nancy. Nice weather, cool spot, heavy legs were the main words to explain one of our last day before the Jam. Special thanks to Thiebaut to drive us on the spots today. It was perfect man!"
Vans team Deutschland update. Day 5-6; Copenhagen- we love you!
Jun 04, 2009
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On the fifth and the sixth day we had the pleasure to visit our dear neighbours in Denmark. Another time we got welcomed by a lot of sunshine and were about to expect a crazy long weekend in the young and attractive BMX- and Hippie city. On the arrival day after the FlensBMX weekend we needed to take the rest of the afternoon pretty easy and Woozy, X, Ty, Bruno, Timur, Markus and Paddy got familiar with potential street spots. But actually Niels Thanhild, the Danish Vans BMX team manager, was our spot guide and about to 
Results Pro Flatland competition in Lyon, France 30-31 May 2009:1st Matthias Dandois
2nd Alex Jumelin
3rd Alexis Desolneux
4th Joris Bretagnolles
5th Raphael Chiquet
After two days without ww interweb here are some more nice impressions of the actions we did. On Sunday we cruized arround town and took it easy for a while. Tobias Wicke decided to torcher this rail and as a result he actually was the one getting torchered! Man balls right there! We left Barcelona on Monday towards south France again to ride some trails for a bit and then stayed the night in Montpellier to make it to Dijon to some awesome ditch spot. Crazy what the guys did there - AIRTIME! Now we just arrived north again 
On Friday morning team Germany-Switzerland-USA started north towards our beautiful city Bremen to catch some sun on the street spots. Plans worked out pretty good and the day got packed with good street sessions by Timur, Ty, Bruno, Markus and Paddy. After this long day we had another BBQ invitation in mind: Marc Von Varel and the rest of the La Finca/Parano Garage crew expected us in their holy halls close to Bremen. Super! Since we do like BBQs a little and like to integrate them once in a while in tour schedules… lol! 
Up until today there is no sign from Team UK. Just like that plane falling off the radar yesterday it looks like they have just disappeared. If they will make it to Belgium in time for the Let It Ride Bowl contest this weekend we will have to see. But there is 10.000 Euros on the line so chances are they will make it. You can always rely on the Germans to come over. Team Europe will probably be late and Team France is on its way to Kortrijk already. Here's the latest update with some photos from Kang: 
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.