FAT Friday at 30 degrees heat! Nobody is inside, right?

Jul 03, 2009

Written by Bart de Jong

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We're only a week away from the 2009 IBMXFF World Championships in Cologne. It's time to show some national pride. Barbero will let his pants sag a little extra to show his Italian underwear and so will the Brits. The Aussies have a big posse of kangaroos coming over and the French will bring some wine and bread. The Dutch of course will turn the grandstands orange and will bring the noise with their custom made wooden clogs. People will be camping out and fun is about to be had. Results are secondary but then in the end, it's "The WORLD's". Who knows where BMX Freestyle will go in the future and claiming a "Pro World Title" always looks good on your resume when you looking for sponsors. We will probably not pull off a FAT Friday from Cologne, but a few updates from Germany you can expect. We're glad to announce that you can view it live here on FATBMX too so if you can't make it, you will be able to see the comp online .

But first the news from this week, the week that the Dew Tour kicked off, and Dave Mirra won the Park comp.

-Dew Tour 2009 results NIKE 6.0 stop 1:

BMX DIRT FINALS
1 Josh Hult 92.50
2 Brandon Dosch 92.31
3 Ryan Nyquist 91.38
4 Corey Bohan 91.31
5 Dennis Enarson 91.31
6 Rob Darden 90.37
7 Cory Nastazio 89.12
8 TJ Ellis 88.94
9 Chris Doyle 88.94
10 Jaie Toohey 88.37
11 Cameron White 87.81
12 Luke Parslow 87.19

BMX PARK FINALS
1 Dave Mirra 93.38
2 Garrett Reynolds 92.63
3 Marcus Tooker 92.38
4 Steven McCann 91.88
5 Brandon Dosch 91.50
6 Mark Webb 90.88
7 Craig Mast 90.88
8 Ryan Nyquist 90.50
9 Daniel Dhers 88.00
10 Dennis Enarson 86.88
11 Morgan Wade 83.50
12 Mike Spinner 81.38

BMX VERT FINALS, 27 June 2009
1 Jamie Bestwick 92.88
2 Simon Tabron 91.50
3 Steven McCann 91.25
4 Kevin Robinson 90.38
5 Jimmy Walker 89.75
6 Dennis McCoy 89.38

7 Jay Eggleston 87.13
8 Francisco Zurita 86.63
9 Chad Kagy 84.00
10 Koji Kraft 83.00

-OK, I promised I'd try & help Bart do more with this fat friday thing so here goes....

Raleigh Bikes in the UK have appointed KHE to manufacture Diamond Backs "top end" models. These rides will be debuted at next weekends NASS event in Shepton Mallet, UK with the top set up being around £600gbp!

There's a new concrete park being built in Bestwood, Nottingham... Looks pretty good, check out the website for more info but it looks worth a visit when completed.

Like old school? Did you watch Joe Kid on a Stingray? or the UK version, Barry on a Grifter? Well, Ross "Cheeky Monkey" Milne is busy putting together a sequel to it right now, hopefully some preview footage soon...?

Looks like there's going to be a new UK BMX Magazine soon. CASE is going to be run by Southampton local Mike Netley & be available on a quarterly basis, no overkill. Nice. More news on this soon.

As you will have heard both Mark Webb & Harry Main qualified to ride the rest of this years Dew Tour, unfortunately Ben Wallace missed the cut by just a few spots. Out of the 3 UK guys only Webby made finals & ended up a very repectable 6th place with what looked like minimal effort. Not bad for a guy who's flight to Greenville was the wrong Greenville, bags didn't turn up & was somewhat pissed off in the build up to the event! Ah well, Carpe Diem & all that huh Mark?

Registration for next weekends IBMXFF Worlds in Cologne, Germany is CLOSED. There are no more pre register spots for either Pro or Am. The best you can do is check out the official website bmxworlds.de & see what they have to say... Please, stop emailing & texting me too, theres nothing I can do!! Over 220 Pro riders in this years event, it's going to be hard work but well worth it no doubt. If you aren't there next weekend then well, LOSER!

Remo will be at the Worlds of course, not only riding but also showing his & Webbies new frames off... Be sure to go & see them at the totalBMX stand... After which go & see the deepbmx stand too, love that lowcash!

Steve Wilson mailed me a couple of weeks back about his new venture & I've totally forgot to put it in so here's his mail to me:

I've been working in television for the last 10 years, and am still a freelance presenter working for ITV, but it's only know that I'm doing what I've always hoped I could do - running a BMX business. I've ridden BMX since 1983, without a single day passing by that I've not been a BMXer.I'm a LIFER. Hence the name. BMX is completely and utterly my life.

We are also sponsoring the new West Devon Warriors race club and their efforts to have a track built, as well as amssing a small team of Lifer BMX park/street/dirt riders, including Jay Openshaw, Ross Hayward, and others TBC. liferbmx.com is the website, please come and take a look, I aim to offer good quality customer service, friendly advice,and signed pictures of Holly Wolloughby. [last bit may be a bit difficult!]

Im still also organising the Old FOols BMX Roadtrip - we are on trip number 7 this September! With about 70 odd riders regularly making the trips, its a total blast - and you dont actualkly have to be old to come on the trip. Just a fool. Thanks DJ, -Steve.

I probaly won't be contributing anything next week due to being at the Worlds but thf following it's on, tales of decadence & debauchery no doubt!

Thanks DJ! More results/standings from this week:

Top Ten Overall Standings After Round 14 of the European UCI BMX Series:

Elite Men
1 Martijn Scherpen/NED
2 Arnaud Dubois/BEL
3 Raymon van der Biezen/NED
4 Roy van den Berg/NED
5 Ivo van der Putten/NED
6 Edzus Tremanis/LAT
7 Sifiso Nhalapo/RSA
8 Thomas Hamon/FRA
9 Jordy van der Heijden/NED
10 Rob van den Wildenberg/NED

Elite Women
1 Eva Ailloud/FRA
2 Manon Valentino/FRA
3 Laëtitia Le Corguille/FRA
4 Jana Horakova/CZE
5 Aneta Hladikova/CZE
6 Magalie Pottier/FRA
7 Lieke Klaus/NED
8 Willy Kanis/NED
9 Amelie Despeaux/FRA
10 Sarah Walker/NZL

Junior Men
1 Jelle Van Gorkum/NED
2 Andre Aguiluz/NOR
3 Renaud Blanc/SUI
4 Sylvain Andre/FRA
5 Twan Van Gendt/NED
6 Glenn Van De Wetering/NED
7 Lorin Martinez/FRA
8 Aleksander Birkeland/NOR
9 Giacomo Fantoni/ITL
10 Luis Brethauer/GER

Junior Women
1 Maartje Hereijgers/NED
2 Merle Van Benthem/NED
3 Elke Vanhoof/BEL
4 Sandra Aleksejeva/LAT
5 Camilla Meyran/FRA
6 Cassandre Brousse/FRA
7 Mette Jepsen/DEN
8 Tessa Meerholz/NED
9 Shannie Camilla Hee/DEN
10 Olga Andrianova/RUS

-The FAT FAVs is going strong. This week on FATBMX:
-Stefan Lantschner
-Mark Atkins
-Perico
-Axel Juergens
-Ruben Alcantara
-Kris Marcum
-Kevin Porter
and
-Michael Beran
Coming up this week are non other than: Daniel Fuhrmann, Andy Shohara, Brian Foster, Boy Janssen, Luke Marchant and Billy Purcell. One a day, going strong.

-IMG over in Pagham are now the official UK distributor of Mirra Bike Co. Read the full press release by going HERE. Paul Lonsdale made the move to IMG as well to secure a smooth transition.

-Gatorade FreeFlow park results, Texas:
1. Spencer Bass, Euless, Texas.
2. Chris Hernandez, Grand Prairie, Texas.
3. Anthony Jakab, Grand Prairie, Texas.
4. Kyle Curran, Grand Prairie, Texas.
5. Michael Herczeg, Arlington, Texas.

-I gave up spell checking after the first sentence, but that makes this report so good. We appreciate all contributions.

-Southpark Sunday Elite Men Results
1 Randy Stumpfhauser
2 Cristian Becerine
3 Matt Pohlkamp
4 Augusto Castro
5 Andres Jiminez
6 Phil Delizia
7 Javier Colombo
8 Jeff Upshaw

-NBL National Southpark, Saturday Elite Men results:
1 Randy Stumpfhauser
2 Matt Pohlkamp
3 Augusto Castro
4 Josh Callan
5 Ramiro Marino
6 Jeff Upshaw
7 Javier Colombo
8 Cristian Becerine

-Not sure if you're getting bored of this but now JUNE is the best month ever over here at FATBMX. More visitors, hits, unique visits, bandwidth than ever before. And by ever we mean over 10 years on the net. Thanks for checking in and keep on sending your movies, press releases, FAT FAVs, news, pictures and contest reports. Much appreciated.

-Did an interview with Rick Moliterno this week to see how Standard Byke Industries is doing. Check it out HERE.

-Pro Results City Voice Flatland contest, grenoble, France:
1 Matthias Dandois
2 Jean Buhlon
3 John Leblond
4 Kevin Jacobs
5 Jeremy Brosset

-2009 ABA National Title standings AA Pro:
1 KYLE BENNETT 1234
2 MIKE DAY 1197
3 MARIS STROMBERGS 1083
4 DONNY ROBINSON 1023
5 RANDY STUMPFHAUSER 937
6 DAVID HERMAN 829
7 JASON ROGERS 753
8 JOEY BRADFORD 731
9 KHALEN YOUNG 717
10 DENZEL STEIN 699

FATBMX event schedule. Loads to choose from in July and August:
2009/07/03 - Mosqueda Bike Park Grand Opening Jam & Contest
2009/07/05 - Trails Session, Asten-Heusden, NL
2009/07/10 - IBMXFF World Championships
2009/07/10 - Nass 2009
2009/07/13 - fise experience-stop 5