UCI BMX Supercross of the season in Madrid. More on that when it's over but first things first, and that's the news that happened in week 9, 2010:
-Here's the BMX calendar for the upcoming weeks. Dig in.
2010/03/05 - Winter Nationals
2010/03/06 - Streets OF Madness #5
2010/03/13 - Verre oosten jam part 2
2010/03/20 - ASA Big Air BMX Triples
2010/03/27 - Rookie Jam
2010/03/27 - T-Mobile Local Support Dirt Challenge, Mainz/Germany
2010/04/03 - Paul's Boutique 15th Anniversary
2010/04/03 - Easter Classic
2010/04/03 - Mini FATJAM 2010
2010/04/11 - UKBFA Reunion
2010/04/18 - Helm Jam
2010/04/24 - Dorchester Skatepark Jam
2010/04/24 - All American Nationals
2010/04/25 - T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds
2010/05/02 - Flame Trails jam
2010/05/08 - Freedom Nationals
2010/05/09 - Tour Dur Laarbeek
2010/05/12 - fise
2010/05/15 - 20inch Trophy - Park Contest
2010/05/28 - Spring Nationals
-We're stoked to announce that Monster Energy is supporting the local events we're putting on this year. That goes from the Mini-FAT-JAM on 3 April to the Helm Trails jam on the 18th of April, the Flame Trails jam on 2 May to the actual killer FAT-JAM on 21 August. If you haven't turned green by then we will send the monsters after you.
-Team/sponsorship changes. Some of them we mentioned weeks ago but since the official press releases went out this week we'll bring it up again:
-Sig Cools on Premium Products (Benelux)
-Brandon Dosch on Metal Mulisha
-Scott Summerhayes on Verde (UK)
-Brian Kachinski on Arnette
-Colton Satterfield on Mutante
-Tony Cherry on Giant Pro
-Tony Hamlin on Coalition
-Will Herrmann on Verde (UK)
-Ty Morrow on Arnette
-Adrien Ducrot on DUBbmx
-Troy Merkle on Giant
-Jeff Wescott on Felt Flow
-Oba Stanley on animal pro
-Rooftop on United Bike Co
That's quite the list. Good to see people are getting hooked up.
-This week we had some bike checks for you with the following riders:
-Jan Valenta
-Simon Moratz
-Dan Lacey
You can find the articles stored in the REVIEWS section on the site. In fact, people who think that blogs on the internet is temporary, we have loads of articles stored on the site. Even going back a few years. If you want to know what happened at the 2005 World Championships in Prague, use the SEARCH button on the site and it will take you there. You might have to try find the right words a few times but everything is there. Not sure where my RIDE issue of 2005 is....
-What else, oh yes, the Good Stuff lists have kicked off and the BMX race scene has been cooperating like we've been their brother all this time. Thanks for that. 5 this week and they came from:
-Jelle van Gorkom
-Khalen Young
-Cristian Becerine
-Barry Nobles
-Martijn Scherpen
Most of the Pro racers will be at the ABA Winternationals in Phoenix this weekend. Curious to see who's going to take it.
-Clip of the week? Let's give it to the folks from Memphis. At least Philip watched it three times in a row as he liked the BMX bikes blasting through the "bobsled" waves . At least these guys are not afraid to go down on a bobsled track...
-It was a last minute deal again but we came through with another episode of the Workshop Wednesday. Thanks to Jim Sibley who answered the questions on his B-day to make sure we had something fresh to read on Wednesday. Jim is the guy who welded up the DirtBros frames so if you think HotRods have nothing to do with BMX, Jim sure does. Read the piece, it's a good one.
-Ronnie Remo and Zak Shaw are off to do vert demo's out in Bahrain at this years opening F1 race in Bahrain next week with teamextreme.co.uk.. If this only could be a gig for the rest of the F1 season...
-The folks from SEKT hit us up and we instantly had an interview going. More on SEKT clothing and their plans you can find by hitting up this link.
-Last weekend we went to Belgium for the 900 jam. Forgot the CF card but Kemo came through with some good shots. You can find a report by clicking here. Good times as always with the Geys family.
-FAT FAVs this week came from:
-Michael Faliszewski (Canada)
-Jason Minor (USA)
-Matt Whyatt (Australia)
-Jeremy Pavia (USA)
-Eduardo Terreros (Spain)
-Cory Muth (USA)
-Ed Pollio (USA)
7 more coming up this week. Getting coverage is fun.
-Let's make it a Trick of the week. Alex Coleborn's barrel roll tailwhip. Filmed by Ronnie Remo on his mobile phone and spread around the internet in no-time. Watch it, again and again. So smooth. He's got one more coming next week. What's it going to be?
-Ben Hennon fans will be happy to read one more interview on FATBMX. Bas Keep fans are not forgotten either. Busy week here at FATBMX, I told you.
Thanks for your continues support of sending pics, stories, videos and news. Without you this wouldn't be possible. Enjoy the weekend.
BdJ
www.fatbmx.com