Name: Pahau Milner
Age: 26
Hometown: Brisbane, Aus
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Anything that doesn't suck
-BMX video: Endsearch
Name: Jaime González
Age: 26
Hometown: Madrid, Spain
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Urbankat, Actionwheels, Cult and New Era Europe.
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Some wallride
-BMX video: This is united
Name: Aborigino Sandino Guerrero Stuart
Age: 33
Hometown: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Yeah hook me up with a sponsor Shout out to Big Jerry for hooking me up with his racetrackshirts for summertime!
The favorite list:
Name: Mike Kleissler
Age: 23
Hometown: Kenilworth, NJ
Sponsors: Dailygrind, lookingforspots and dxvdbrxvd
The FAT FAVOURITES list:
-Spot to ride: Perth, Amboy high school
Name: Danny van Uden
Age: 17
Hometown: Gemert, Netherlands
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: 040bmxpark
-BMX video: BSD living for the city
-Website: https://www.
Name: Michael Gray
Age: 24
Hometown: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Sponsors: Haro bikes, Premium products, Vans, Demolition, The Space Brace, Sensus grips
You've lived in San Diego for a few years now, how is that treating you?
Mike: It's a dream come true. California is a truly amazing place, and an absolute Mecca for bmx and pretty much everything. Next level food. Nice to stay warm all year too and be able to work with all the best media dudes daily. I really enjoy living there.
Still you manage to organise events back in Canada. What's the main reason you're doing that?
Mike: I started an event called Canadian BMX Day a few years back, and the main purpose for our event is to give the local Toronto scene an amazing opportunity to win some prizes and have the most fun day
Ryan Mills is one of the most talented street riders from Vegas. He's been through the ringer due to a lot of bad decisions but he's pulling himself out. Watch and listen and learn... Honored to have this guy in the chair!
Name: Ethan Schmitt
Age: 21
Hometown: St. Cloud, Mn. USA.
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Radio bikes, QBP bmx, Eclat parts
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Anything you can grind
-BMX video: Deadline
Name: Ryan Mills
Age: 23 but in reverse order... so 32 I guess.
Hometown: Boulder City/ Las Vegas, NV
Hook-ups: Pete Demos and Scott Papiro sent me a very nice Premium complete called La Vida, when I got out of jail. Kevin Conners at Fiend is going to be sending me some things in the near future, and my good friends George Bugbee and James Tracy aka Big Fetus have been keeping me afloat in the mean time. Nathan Grill hooked me up with a full time job recently and has been working with my counseling and drug court schedule which has been super gracious of him for giving me the opportunity to support myself in an honest way again.
Go to Australia they said, it’s always warm and sunny they said... Warm indeed, riders were on fire for the qualification but rain stopped the event before the end. Even if we don’t know all the qualifiers, Alex Hiam, local from Australia, thanks to his temporary 3rd place is sure to make it to the final. We took advantage of this time off to ask him a couple of questions about this very first edition of the Vans BMX pro cup.
So tell me Alex, you are Australian, one of the guests of the first international BMX event in Australia, and no matter what, you are qualified for the final. How does it feel?
Alex Hiam: Unbelievable. I used to fly to attend this kind of event. Plus I’m riding with other riders I used to watch, like Sergio Layos, Ryan Nyquist…
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.