The total purse for all of the events is $65,000 Canadian. The Canadian dollar is pretty much on par with the American dollar these days. $35,000 goes to freestylers and $30,000 goes to racers. The break down per event is below. We’ve really got our shit together with the parties this year. We’re working with Kingston night club owners to make sure that everyone has a good time. Kingston is home to Queens University. It’s one of the biggest in Canada. There will be lots of girls for everyone to meet. Riders are reminded to take a shower before going out, and don’t complain about having no money. Girls don’t like complainers with no money who stink like they’ve been riding all day.
Aug 30 – 31 Metro Metrobmxjam.com $20,000 purse.
Metro will go down in the brand new five thousand-seat K-Rock Center. This year’s pro event will be invite only. That sounds shitty and we never, ever wanted to do an invite contest, but we feel as though we were forced to do this. Qualifying used to take six full hours because half of the guys entered weren’t actual pros. They were amateur riders who didn’t get into the amateur contest. Not only was it unfair to ask the spectators who paid for their seats to watch the amateur riders, it was super dangerous to ask the pro riders to ride practice beside a bunch of riders who had no business being on the course and often got in the way. 
We’re going to be doing a number of amateur events in several Canadian cities. Out of those contests we’re going to qualify twelve riders who go straight into a Metro final held on Saturday night, right after pro qualifying. This should make for a banger night of riding. We’ll have all the qualifying cities locked down and we’ll announce them in a few days. Sept. 3 Flatland $5000 purse
For the first time in years Metro will be holding a flatland contest. It’s going to be on Wednesday night at a really cool spot in the city center. It’s going to rock. Stay tuned to the Metro site for details.
Sept 5 – 6 ERA BMX Race and Jumping Contest Erabmx.com
ERA Kingston Cup Race $30,000 purse
ERA Jumping contest $10,000 purse
The ERA (Elite Race Association) race will be Elite riders only.
The Kingston track will be totally rebuilt bigger and better. It will be amazing and the riders must race on flat pedals. No one is allowed to race in tap dancing shoes. The dirt contest will be on three sets that run down between the second and third straight with the last set flying over the second corner. It starts Friday night with time trials for the racers and qualifying for the dirt jumpers. Then on Saturday night the race goes down and the jumping final happens. Like I said earlier. Watch the websites for more details. Even though there’s not a lot of info up on them yet, there will be soon.
Since I haven’t been around racing for several years, I’ll be traveling to Pittsburgh for the NBL National on June 28-29. If you have questions please come up and talk to me. That’s why I’m going.
Jay Miron
Kingston Bike Festival
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.