a positive sign. We're off to the Vans Let It Ride Bowl comp this weekend. Let's have a drink there. Here comes the news:
-Vans just released a full on hardcover book about the company with loads of photos and stories. Of course this needed to be celebrated. At the release party Mike de Wit hooked up with old school BMX flatland rider Martin Aparijo who did do shows in Slagharen in the eighties. It was time for Mike to do another Choq bong and get his magazines autographed.
-Made another week of daily FAT FAVORITES on the site. This week we had:
+ Chase DeHart
+ Matthias Dandois
+ Stuart Gibson
+ Eki Vainikka
+ Alfredo Mancuso
+ Dave Mirra
+ Daniel Juchatz
We're open for contributions so if you've got some killer pics of a rider that deserves some coverage, put the answers and the pics in a mail and send it this way. Coming up are Anthony Napolitan (USA), Chris Boehm (GER), Jason Enns (CAN) and Jukka from Finland.
-Do not forget to pre-register for the IBMXFF World Championships in Cologne, Germany next month. If you want to ride, sign up online. If you have not signed up beforehand, you cannot ride. It just speeds up the process and it's easy to do. This goes for all pros too. Go HERE if you want to participate. If you want to party we will see you under the bridge in Camp Holland or at one of the official parties, probably Saturday when Craig Campbell is DJ-ing. Sign up TODAY!
-European BMX racing championships round 9 and 10, Dessel, Belgium.
Elite Men results race 10:
1 Edzus Treimanis/LAT
2 Ivo V D Putten/NED
3 Martijn Scherpen/NED
4 Pablo Guitierrez/FRA
5 Stepan Tumpach/CZE
6 Axel Keller/SUI
7 Roy V D Berg/NED
8 Arnaud Dubois/BEL
Elite Men Results round 9, Dessel, Belgium:
1. VAN DEN BERG Roy (NED)
2. VAN DEN WILDENBERG Rob (NED)
3. LAPRAZ Yvan (SUI)
4. VAN DER BIEZEN Raymon (NED)
5. SCHERPEN Martijn (NED)
6. TREIMANIS Edzus (LAT)
7. BLOOMFIELD Marcus (ENG)
8. HEIJNE Frank (NED)
-This week the Vans crews were on the road. 4 of them in total. Team UK, France, Europe and Germany/Switzerland. Hit up the BMX FREESTYLE section on FATBMX for plenty of updates. Spots they visited, riders getting hurt, the tourist stuff they saw, the food they ate, all of it.
-If someone feels like doing a report for FATBMX on one of the upcoming Free Flow Tours, or even any of the 2009 Dew Tour Stops (we're going to Salt Lake so we've got that one covered), please get in touch with us. We can get you the right pass you need which will get you closer to the action. Serious reporters only please (not for groupies with a phone camera...).
-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
-Craig Campbell will be spinning records (or shuffling his ipod) at a party during the BMX freestyle World Championships in Cologne next month. How rad is that?
-Warriors Of Wood Final Results:
1. TJ Ellis
2. Anthony Napolitan
3. Mike “Hucker” Clark
4. Allan Cooke
5. Cameron White
6. Ryan Nyquist
7. Alistair Whitton
8. Rob Darden
9. Pat Casey
10. Ben Voyles
Best Trick Winner:
Anthony Napolitan
360 Triple Tailwhip
-Also some of the Mirraco team spent a few days in Paris to take pics. We were there and reported in two updates. Tuesday HERE, and Wednesday HERE. Check what Maxime Charveron, Ryan Guettler, Dave Rytell and Andrew Buckworth came up with rolling around in France.
-Upcoming events:
-2009/06/05 - adidas eyewear - Austrian King of Dirt
2009/06/06 - Nasty Jam 09
2009/06/06 - Vans Let It Ride
2009/06/06 - Barcelona Extreme
2009/06/13 - VansBmxChess
2009/06/14 - Tour Dur Laarbeek 5
2009/06/20 - Hellentrailsjam 2009
2009/06/20 - REVOLCON BMX ROUND 2
2009/06/26 - Dew Tour event 1, Chicago
2009/07/10 - IBMXFF World Championships
2009/07/10 - Nass 2009
2009/07/18 - BMX Playtime Hasselt
2009/07/24 - HARBORSHRED
2009/07/24 - BIG in BAVARIA
2009/07/25 - Rushden Bmx Jam 09, Rushden, Northants, UK
2009/07/30 - X Games 15
2009/08/01 - Rushden Bmx Jam 09, Rushden, Northants, UK
2009/08/07 - DK Dirt Circuit
2009/08/09 - Sweettrails Jam 2009
2009/08/13 - Dew Tour round 3, Portland, Oregon
We're going to call it a day. Thanks for checking in. Stay in touch.
BdJ