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- There will be no BMX riding at this year's FREESTYLE.CH event in Zurich. The HSA-crew have been running a vert program at this event for years but this year the organization is doing a combination of snowboarding, street skating and FMX. That means a weekend off on 24-26 September, unless something else comes up. - Ben Townley's website shows pics of Tyla Rattray, Josh Coppins and BT himself riding BMX bikes at Joel Smets' BMX track. 2-stroke-Tyla is aboard a HARO, Josh Stole a bike because the decals say it was stolen and Ben Townley rides a Dragonfly. All three riders are in the top 3 of the MX GP world championship standings but still find time to have fun riding their BMX bikes. www.bentownleymx.com - 2300 BMX racers have registered for the upcoming UCI BMX race World Championships in Valkenswaard (23-25 July). If you're into BMX racing, this is the place to be that weekend. - Mark Fox is the unofficial Bunny Hop king in the Netherlands with 1,00 meter, he did it at a dirtcomp at Bergschenhoek same weekend as the Worlds in Cologne. Vladdie de Koning got second with 95 cm, Paul de Jong's winning Bunny Hop at the Dutch Championships in 1985 was 75 cm so he has to return at the FAT JAM Bunny Hop contest this year in August. - Domtown jam in Utrecht was a big succes, finally for the first time no rain and lots of people rode the pool and flatland course. The Contest was not so organised but funny as hell, Barry Kohne won with Daniel Wiz in second and Dennis Keunen in Third. - At Donnington Festival in England the Ex-Coach of the HDT was singing the Bro Hymn song with Pennywise and Steve Cabalero again and after the show he was seen putting an empty beercan in Steve-O's ass, believe it or not.... - Riding the new Sjappi Trails in Maarssenbroek (Fazantenkamp) was nice after a day in the concrete pool, but riding dirt will hurt too, Paul slipped of the pedals and Dennis ripped his arm open. Going home we dropped Mike at the hospital cause he crashed his shoulder on the Concrete pool and Dennis with bloody arm and Paul with a limping leg helped him out of the Van and got him to first aid, how funny is that! - FAT JAM 2004 will be awesome, date is set on August 21st and 22nd. Party is on Saturdaynight at OJA and more details will follow, we will keep the surprises till the end so be there this time! - Paul and Bart de Jong designed a new bag for EASTPAK called: The Fridgebag! It will be a rollerbag with build in fridge to keep your drinks cold, don't expect it on the market soon but the guys at EASTPAK are working hard to get it done. New EASTPAK belts will have a build in beeropener! - Philip de Jong will be riding his CRF 50 motorcycle soon? Uncle Paul bought one for him and is tuning the bike to ride it himself and Philip can watch how it is done wrong so after a couple of years he can easily beat his Uncle. - John Deurholts son is into BMX, John used to own the skatepark "Third Floor" in Amsterdam and is having his own skatepark now that will be a bikepark from now on, his son is riding a 2004 GT Zone. - Roadtrips are finally planned by some Dutch riders, expect stories after the summer, so be carefull and have a save trip, make photo's and sent them with your stories to FATBMX. - Peter's Passion was a good time. The Bike Devil had invited his hometown and friends for a get together in his backyard to celebrate the fact that his huge vert ramp was finished. Breakdance, fire, BMX and beer. Report on FATBMX soon. - The Twenty Velo Cross site has been updated with some video stuff. - Annti Huortari and friends are having the traditional rippin`corpse bmx jam here in Helsinki, Finland (24th July). The jam includes street/park contest and flatland demos by the best flatlanders in finland. For more info check the FATBMX event calendar. - Ryan Nyquist has been nominated for an ESPy award for the Action Sport Athlete of the Year. Ryan says: "I would like to ask you all to cast your (BMX) vote for me by clicking on this link and clicking on my name and submitting your vote. I feel like I'm doing some kind of class election campaign... crazy. Anyways hopefully you can help me out with this. Here's the link: http://espn.go.com/espy2004/s/ 04maleactionsportsnominees.html Check it out and please take the time to vote and pass it along to anybody and everybody you know. It kind of sucks in the way that the person who wins isn't the most deserving but the one who gets the most people to go online and vote. Kind of a popularity vote. But I can play the game, but I need your help. Please vote for me. Thanks a lot." Ryan Nyquist - The Cobra 77 crew went racing at Rockford. More on the trip in the FATBMX racing section. - Vert riders Anthony Pill, Jerry Galley, Zach Shaw and Tim Eichert survived the Deconstruction tour. The music and halfpipe sk8/BMX tour is a rough one to survive as the athletes sleep in tour buses and do shows in different countries all over Europe. This combined with the rock and roll lifestyle has resulted in at least one person going to the mental hospital every year. Fortunately, it wasn't any of the BMX guys. - Simon Tabron needs people to ride with: "The ramp park in Newquay has been a bit quiet recently - weird when Mt. Hawke (possibly the worst park in the UK) is always busy just 10 miles away. I'm trying to spark some interest in the park and need a little help - Right now, the sun is shining and the park has a little of something for everyone. If any of you want to put on any bike events, stop here on tours/ roadtrips, amateur jams or just venture down for a weekend in Newquay, it would help. The real problem is that Newquay only has a permanent population of 20,000 and it's hard to sustain the costs of the park with so few people. We used to complain that we had no facilities and now that we do, it seems like no one can be bothered to use them. We have a really big and varied street/park course, a 40' wide vert ramp (that's not too big!) and a hipped mini set up." Look out for a "Spot Check" on the park on FATBMX next month. - Matt Miller over at DK sent in the following news: "I just got back from a filming trip for a System Cycle video. We took 10 DK and Flybikes riders on the road for 10 days. It was a blast. We hit Illinois and Michigan. Pic 058 shows Kevin Porter, Sergio Layos, Steve Quest, and Quinn Semling playing C-Lo (a dice game). I don’t know if BMX kids are playing that in Europe or not but it’s an epidemic here. I think that I’m going on a 3 month adventure with the DK team to do stunt shows at malls all over the US. I’m pretty psyched about that. The tour starts in 3 weeks. 3 months without stepping into my cubicle. I can’t wait." - The Braun Front Brake Revolution is a new BMX event tailored for the tech riders, organized by Ben Foakes. The focus of the event is pushing technical riding to new heights within a jam style, best trick contest format. 2004 will see the launch of the event,which we feel has been a long time coming. The event itself is being centered on media coverage rather than huge public crowds. DATES: 10/11/12th September 2004 LOCATIONS: “The Frontâ€? skatepark, Weymouth, UK. “The Trick Factoryâ€? a.k.a: “The Ridge Caveâ€?, Bridport, UK. - Check www.bmxzone.ru if you're interested in helping out Russian BMX Freestyle. Andrew writes: "This is young developing project about bmx culture in Russia and we need some materials. We can't take interviews from world stars of bmx. Bmx - it is new sport for Russia, but we have our own stars. Our project help to Russian bmx-riders know more about bmx sport over the world." Send in your contributions today. - Pro winners of the different disciplines at the BMX Freestyle World's are: Vert: Simon Tabron Flat: Akira Okamura Dirt: Chris Doyle Street: Gary Young Mini: Patrick Gross There was also a best trick contest and here are the results: Best Trick Street: Tobias Wicke Best Trick miniramp: Benno Hankowitz Highest Air: Jay Eggleston Flatland Braun Style Combo: Michael Sommer. In the girl contests Karin Bleile from Switzerland is the new Flatland champion while Cory Coffrey from USA is the Street World Champion. - Congratulations to Denis Labigang and his wife on their newborn. Telio arrived on 9 June. Both baby and wife are doing well. MBK will have a new kids BMX program soon. - Ron Wilkerson showed up at the BMX Freestyle world's and had to bail out some of his team riders on the night of arrival. Ron's here to do some filming for the next 2-HIP video but prefers bike riding over police action. - The NBL Stars/Stripes National took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA . The turnout was big and pro points are starting to count towards the year end title. Found out who did well: Saturday results: Elite Men - 1 Randy Stumpfhauser 2 Warwick Stevenson 3 Matt Pohlkamp 4 John Purse 5 Kyle Bennett 6 Jason Richardson 7 Jonathan Suarez 8 Robert de Wilde Elite Women - 1 Kim Hayashi 2 Alice Jung 3 Stephanie Barragan 4 Arielle Martin 5 Natarsha Williams 6 Michelle Cairns 7 Jamie Lilly 8 Kelly Hutto Elite Open - 1 Cristian Becerine 2 Mike Day 3 Robert de Wilde 4 Greg Romero 5 Derek Betcher 6 Jonathan Suarez 7 Nate Berkheimer 8 Bob Rowley Sunday results: Elite Men - 1 Warwick Stevenson 2 Randy Stumpfhauser 3 Kyle Bennett 4 Greg Romero 5 Matt Pohlkamp 6 Robert de Wilde 7 Brandon Meadows 8 Mike Day Elite Women - 1 Kim Hayashi 2 Alice Jung 3 Stephanie Barragan 5 Arielle Martin 6 Natarsha Williams 7 Michelle Cairns 8 Jamie Lilly Elite Open - 1 Warwick Stevenson 2 Greg Romero 3 Cristian Becerine 4 Robert de Wilde 5 Jonathan Suarez 6 Matt Pohlkamp 7 Brandon Meadows 8 Jason Richardson - The Hoffman crew have been on the road in Europe to film for their next video. Seth Kimbrough, Jon Taylor, Ryan Barrett, Bruce Crisman, Mark Owen, Bryan Baxter and Baz Keep made the trip from the UK to Paris to Cologne and back to the '70-s warehouse. - If you like the S&M ads that have been appearing in the magazines we can tell you that it does not stop just yet. McGoo and his crew at Revolution Advertising have many more ideas to work out. It was time for some excitement in the magazines. - Kris Bennett, owner and designer of Square One Clothing, has moved from Trans Am Distribution's headquarters in Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kris is now working on designs, ads and clothes from his home office but other than that nothing has changed. Trans Am are still taking care of distribution and ordering the product but Bennett is working from 5 hours away. - Here's what Scotty Cranmer is about to get himself into....: ABC Family Reality TV - On Thursday he gets on a plane and switches lives with someone somewhere. He has no idea where until he gets to the airport. The person he switches with gets picked up at the airport by Scotty's parents and spends the next 3 days hanging out with Scotty's family and friends. He will be who knows where spending 3 days doing what this other person does on a normal day. All of this being followed around by a TV crew. Let's hope he is not milking a cow in Montana. Scotty normal life revolves around his bike riding. Going to his skate park, going to the local BMX track with his 6 year old brother or just wandering the streets looking for something to ride. Could be good or could be bad. - Scott Wirch, former pro BMX rider for Giant, GT and Redline, has signed a deal to ride for HARO Bikes. Scott will still be doing some BMX events but his main focus is to ride HARO's MTB bikes and that's the freeride/jumping/street kind of riding that has caught on. - The English football team should have replaced Beckham with these dudes. Sven had the chance to get the Forte's out on the field but made the wrong decision. - Vinnie Guedz is going to be spending loads of time in the USA as he is the official Little Devil/TransAm photographer. Vincent also has a new website out at the following URL: www.duvaldotcom.net - Warwick Stevenson (Australia) has signed on to enter the UCI BMX World Championships in Valkenswaard, Holland from 23-25 July. The current ABA # 1 pro will take it on with former world champions like Robert de Wilde (The Netherlands) and Dale Holmes (England). The event has already drawn 2300 entries and will be one of the biggest races ever. Now that the sport is an Olympic discipline, the general media is showing interest too. - According to Big Ed issue # 39 of DIG is out shortly. Dig's on a monthly schedule for the summer so you should find your copy in the mail when you return from your next road trip. - Eastern Bikes out of North Carolina are now also producing Fitness machines. According to former vert pro Jon Byers, the Poweride Cycle that they designed is selling well and by the end of the year a full line of fitness equipment will be available. BMX-ers don't need to worry. Eastern Bikes will remain producing BMX bikes and components, the fitness department is run under a separate company. - Tip Plus, one of the main BMX distributors in the USA, have signed a deal with Lotek shoes to become their sole distributor. Lotek founder Rich Hirsch is still responsible for all the design, ads and team management but Tip will take care of distribution and sales. It can only add to the success of the BMX shoe company. - Here's a little news from France. The 3 days contest in Marseille was awesome (the riding level, spectators , weather.......). Eastern's Pascal Guerard finished 3rd at the bowl pro contest just behind Gary Young (1st) and Jay Miron (2nd). Pascal did a perfect and very high 720° on the concrete spine. That kid is no joke but Gary Young grabbed the win away from his boss at MacNeil (Jay Miron) who can be considered a local at the Marseille park by now as he visits it every year. I'm sure they celebrated with a steak sandwich down the road. - Riders are taking control over the BMX sport more often. Next contest promoters are the KGB-clan of Viki Gomez and Martti Kuoppa. Their first BMX flatland jam is called: Flat Styles and will take place at "Red" in Helsinki, Finland. Everyone is welcome to ride and the KGB pros including Kimmo Haakana are on hand to do demos during the day. - Jamie Bestwick has been organizing a few contests left and right. His most recent "Good times" contest took place last weekend at the Flow skatepark in Columbus, Ohio. Looks like lots of girls were on hand to have a good-time, riding that is. Over 20 showed up. Here's the top 10 in both women's class and pro finals. Good times Women's Final 1. Corey Coffey 2. Nina Buitrago 3. Stacey Mulligan 4. Jill Toller 5. Marianne Delfino 6. Kari Bennett 7. Christine Lisnock 8. Heather Roller 9. Anita Hodgin 10. Sam Lyons Good times PRO Final 1. Steve McCann 2. Morgan Wade 3. Alistair Whitton 4. Shanton Wilson 5. Brian Kachinsky 6. Dave Dilleward 7. Allan Cooke 8. Mike (Hollywood) Brancato 9. Dan Sieg 10. Quinn Semling - The Core Tour has started off. First location for the King Of Dirt series was Venice Beach. With lots of sunshine and ladies around the riders were in a good mood. Ryan Nyquist tried three 1080-s but couldn't stick one of them. He finished 10th. It was the Aussies who ruled at round one with Guetller in first with 848 points, 2 more than Bohan's 846. KOD Pro: 1. Ryan Guettler 2. Corey Bohan 3. Rob Darden 4. Joey Marks 5. Mark Kehl 6. Cameron White 7. Allan Cooke 8. Dave Dillewaard 9. Scott Wirch 10. Ryan Nyquist KOD Big Air Challenge: Loren LaVerne KOD Amateur : 1. Sergio Munoz 2. Michael Clark 3. Arrash Saidi 4. Brandon Bains 5. Alex Rubio 6. Ben Snowden 7. Erik Faucette 8. Fernando Sabat 9. Andy Hall 10. Mauricio Ospina - Round one of the King Of Ground flatland series in Japan took place in Nagoya. The foreign visitors grabbed the top three spots in a country that is rumoured to have over 5000 flatlanders. 1 Viki Gomez (Spain) 2 Terry Adams (USA) 3 Matti Kuoppa (Finland) 4 Yoshihiro Shinde 5 Ryoji Yamamoto 6 Shinichiro Hara 7 Kotaro Tanaka 8 Tomoaki Nakatuzi 9 Yutaka Tamaki 10 Fumiaki Okayama - BMX Team related news. * Mat Hoffman is off Duffs and so is Ron Kimler. * Butcher Kowalski is off FBM and on Volume Bikes * Shea Nyquist is getting support from Blacken Clothing * Stacey Mulligan is on FOX racing * Alejandro Caro is on Standard * Tom Haugen is on the Osiris pro team * Koji Kraft still has no bike sponsor - The FlyBikes team have started filming for their first video. The team recently took the Titanic team camper to the Canary Island to do some filming. - The Eastpak Transition Tour sets off in August from the 12 to the 17 and an extra date the following week so they can hit Guernsey! Prototype fridge bags will be tested on this tour. - The Snickers Bowl Game On contest in Donnington park brought a group of 20 vert riders to England. Jamie Bestwick flew in from the USA to his hometown area of Derby to grab first place in front of 50.000 hardrock fans that attended the festival. Next to Metallica, Slayer and Pennywise, the BMX riding was great too. Check the results here: Results: 1 Jamie Bestwick 2 Kevin Robinson 3 Simon Tabron 4 Koji Kraft 5 Jimmy Walker 6 Tom Stober 7 Jay Eggleston 8 Baz Keep 9 Matt Fairbairn 10 Achim Kujawski High Air: Koji Kraft 13 feet (lowest point of the bike, his seat in this case on his one-footed invert). - Freestyle BMX in the Czech Republic. It does exist. When the contest organizers put up a decent pro purse, it even attracts riders from all over the place. 3500 USDollars for first in pro street sounds pretty good. Tech wizard Tobias Wicke (WeThePeople) from Germany picked up that fat check in Czech. Simon Tabron flowed to pick up 1800 bucks in pro vert. For other results, check here: PRO - FINAL STREET 1 Wicke Tobias $3.500,00 2 Wilke Markus $1.800,00 3 Ziegler Christian $1.300,00 4 Grosic Senad $1.000,00 5 Valenta Honza $800,00 6 Tetzner Ben $600,00 7 Schiefer Ralf $200,00 8 Nefzger Jacob $100,00 PRO - FINAL HALF PIPE 1 Tabron Simon $1.800,00 2 Terreros Eduardo $1.200,00 3 Eichert Tim $800,00 4 Koop Benny $600,00 5 Geis Peter $500,00 6 Kujawski Achim $400,00 7 Valenta Honza $300,00 8 Fath Romanic $200,00 - The National Bicycle League announced a strategic partnership with Woodward Camp to create the UCI/NBL BMX Training Center at Woodward. The facility, located at Woodward West in Stallion Springs, California will create a highly visible destination for BMX athletes to train for the 2008 Olympics and beyond. To create this facility, Woodward and the NBL are working together to combine the expertise of each organization. NBL and Woodward will select the BMX coaches who would become members of the Woodward staff. In addition, the partners will work together to promote BMX racing. The partnership between the NBL and Woodward was fostered by Axis Media Group -- the official sponsorship and marketing agency of the National Bicycle League. - The SubDivision BMX trade show, put on by the FBM crew, took place in Binghamton, NY. The idea is to give the (rider owned) BMX companies a change to display their product to dealers, the BMX magazines and the end consumer in one weekend without paying top dollar at the Interbike trade show in Las Vegas. With a La Revolution freestyle contest happening upstairs at the same weekend it makes double sense to be present. The number of dealer visitors has gone up from last years SubDivision premiere trade show which is a good sign. - Target Stores announced that it dedicated the 2003 Summer X Games vert ramp during the facility's skate park Grand Reopening and Media Day on Sunday, June 13, 2004. Target acquired and donated the ramp to the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA during its recent remodeling in order to preserve vert riding for future generations. The day's festivities were hosted by Target-sponsored action sports athlete Mat Hoffman. - The ABA racing season in the USA is in full swing. It's a long time before the number one plates get handed out at the Grands in November but now is the time to score points. This is what happened at the ABA Spring Nationals in Bakersfield, California. Saturday AA Pro: 1 Bubba Harris 2 Randy Stumpfhauser 3 Greg Romero 4 Robert de Wilde 5 Warwick Stevenson 6 Mike Day 7 John Purse 8 Jason Richardson Girl Pro: 1 Kim Hayashi 2 Alice Jung 3 Jamie Lilly Pro Open: 1 Paul Lange 2 Greg Romero 3 Warwick Stevenson A Pro: 1 Shane Vincent 2 Javier Columbo 3 Augusto Castro Vet Pro: 1 Jason Carnes 2 Darrin Mitchell 3 Todd Lyons Pro Cruiser: 1 Randy Stumpfhauser 2 Jarrett Kolich 3 Kenth Fallen Sunday AA Pro: 1 Bubba Harris 2 Randy Stumpfhauser 3 Cristian Becerine 4 Greg Romero 5 Taylor Wells 6 Jason Richardson 7 Mike Day 8 Warwick Stevenson Girl Pro: 1 Kim Hayashi 2 Jamie Lilly 3 Arielle Martin Pro Open: 1 Cristian Becerine 2 Jason Richardson 3 Augusto Castro Vet Pro: 1 Jason Carnes 2 Darrin Mitchell 3 Todd Lyons Pro Cruiser: 1 Randy Stumpfhauser 2 Jarrett Kolich 3 Kenth Fallen