FAT Friday 43. The latest BMX news, right here.

Oct 23, 2009

Written by Bart de Jong

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We're calling it the latest BMX news but when we talk about Bicycle Motocross from the 1950-s it's not quite hot. Or is it? This week we've been trying to get our point across that there was Bicycle Motocross in The Netherlands in 1958. Not only did we back that up with pictures, but this week we posted a video clip of people actually racing their bicycles on a motocross style track in Amersfoort, NL. If you still think that Bicycle Motocross racing started in the USA than we've got a different opinion. For Americans this one is hard to swallow but unless a Bicycle Motocross clip shows up from before

1958 from the USA, they have to live with it. It ain't much if it ain't Dutch is what we like to say.

-Next to the old school stuff, we've got young rippers in the FAT FAVS department this week:

-Colton Satterfield
-Tian Moses
-Tom Kuiper
-Thomas Ruissen
-Aaron Zwaal
-Anton Arnarson
-Zellwood

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Talking about Zellwood, he's doing loads of collabs with bike companies for the tay Strong brand. New in the line of products is a Free Agent race frame. By buying one, you not only get yourself a great product, but you are helping Stephen Murray at the same time. Can't go wrong. Here's a photo of the Stay Strong Free Agent frame.

-Dave Mirra finished an amazing 2nd overall in the 2009 Dew Tour series. But now he's putting on his own event at his own warehouse with the help of no other than McGoo. You know it will be fun when you put those two together. The rider line up for the invitational jam is starting to look amazing. Mike Laird, Rob Darden, Morgan Wade, Ryan Guettler, Daniel Dhers and we've hear a few more names that will be released soon. With 8thousand dollars to give out in a cash session on Friday and a Monster Breitling watch (3rd), DC wrapped 250f dirt bike (2nd) and Subaru WRX (1st) up for grabs in the main event on Saturday, it is going to be a serious event. Serious in like "trick serious", that's what we mean. Event date: 11-12 December. Invite only. Animal Warehouse in Greenville, NC. More info at the King Of The Animal House invitational web page.

-Olivier Morineau over in France is getting a strong rider crew together for the 2009 Urban Vibrations contest in Pessac. On the list are:

STREET and DIRT: - Ben Hennon (UK) - Marcus Hampl (ALL) - Daniel Wedemeijer (Netherlands) - Alejandro Caro (Columbia)
EASTERN BIKE US team: - Josh Perry (US) - Karl Poynter (US) - Eric Holley (US) - Leigh Ramsdell (US)
NIKE 6.0 EURO team: (names TBC) - Max Charveron - Georgy Doremus - Thomas Py - Mangoose
FLAT: - Mathias Dandois (FR) winner nora cup Las Vegas 2009 - Alex Jumelin (FR) - Raphael Chiquet (FR) world champion 2009 - Chris bohm (All) - Waldemar Fatkin (All) - Phil Dolan (UK) - Jason Forde (UK) - Adam Kun (Hungary) - Mika Machard - Charles Paty - Jean Bulhon, - Romain Georges, - Arnaud Gravey, - Jeremy Brosset, - Thomas Noyer

-Now that we're announcing riders for events, we might as well tell you who are going to be in Berlin for the Park and Vert T-mobile Extreme Playground contest on 6 December:

Park:
Harry Main
Alessandro Barbero

JB
Christian Anton
Michael Beran
Mark Webb
Ondra Slez
Rob Darden
Ben Hennon
Gary de Jong
Bommel
Bruno Hoffmann

Vert:
Chad Kagy
Simon Tabron
Zach Shaw
Vince Byron
Coco Zurita
Zack Warden
Jan Valenta

And you thought the 2009 season was over? Here's the FATBMX event list. Feel free to submit your event as well.

2009/10/24 - BMX Pepsi Pro-Am
2009/10/24 - The Great Pumpkin Jam

2009/10/24 - Rock Ride 2
2009/10/30 - Halloween Allnighter
2009/10/31 - 5th Annual Biketoberfest
2009/10/31 - Escondido BMX Contest
2009/10/31 - Vibrations Urbaines Pessac 2009
2009/10/31 - FreestyleFestival
2009/10/31 - Timo(halloween)JAM
2009/11/01 - FreestyleFestival
2009/11/06 - Meatfly Freestyle Meeting
2009/11/06 - the downunderground - Australian national flatland contest series
2009/11/07 - FLATLAND FANATICS
2009/11/07 - 040 Revival Jam, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2009/11/14 - Zupermarket Flatland Jam
2009/11/28 - REVOLCON BMX ROUND 5
2009/12/06 - Extreme Playgrounds Street Session
2009/12/11 - King of the Animal House

-United sent over a few pictures of Nathan Williams' Mothership frame that you can see by going to the United Bike Co. website. Dean also sent over a photo of the new Nathan poster (shot by Andrew White) so make sure to contact United for one of those.

-Now that we're at it, we'd like to say thanks to all our sponsors. Your support is and has been appreciated. It allows us to do what we do and give you something to read about

BMX on a daily basis. At the same time we put the sponsors in touch with the BMX community so hit up those banners on your right and show them some love. Because ot them we can run this site, simple as that.

-Is Alistair Whitton good at basketball? You decide.

-Derelict has a new site out.

-Did you see the Vander San Fran report we posted this week?

-It's only been a week but it already seems so old. Overall Dew Tour standings after the last round in Orlando, Florida.

BMX PARK:

1 Garrett Reynolds 344
2 Dave Mirra 334
3 Daniel Dhers 328
4 Mark Webb 298
5 Ryan Nyquist 296
6 Dennis Enarson 220
7 Brandon Dosch 217
8 Marcus Tooker 207
9 Rob Darden 204
10 Craig Mast 180
11 Brett Banasiewicz 172
12 Steven McCann 167
13 Drew Bezanson 165
14 Ryan Guettler 132
15 Allan Cooke 131
16 Austin Coleman 123
17 Jeremiah Smith 120
18 Alessandro Barbero 116
19 Morgan Wade 113
20 Brian Hunt 101

21 Dave Dillewaard 98
22 Scotty Cranmer 95
23 Alistair Whitton 90
24 Jaie Toohey 74
25 Joshua Perry 70
26 Andrew Buckworth 69
27 Gary Young 66
28 Kevin Kiraly 52
29 Diogo Canina 48
30 Josh Harrington 46
31 Mike Spinner 44
32 Seth Klinger 35
33 Harry Main 31
33 Anthony Napolitan 31
35 Patrick Laughlin 30
36 William Thompson 20
37 Glenn Salyers 15

BMX DIRT 2009 Overall standings:

1 Ryan Nyquist 354
2 Brandon Dosch 348
3 TJ Ellis 277
4 Dennis Enarson 270
5 Rob Darden 241
6 Josh Hult 100 209
7 Cameron White 206
8 Luke Parslow 205
9 Scotty Cranmer 202
10 Chris Gerber 187
11 Chris Doyle 184

11 Ryan Guettler 184
13 Corey Bohan 182
14 Anthony Napolitan 166
15 Colton Satterfield 158
16 Diogo Canina 148
17 Jaie Toohey 131
18 Josh Stead 124
19 Cory Nastazio 119
20 James Foster 118
20 Scott Wirch 118
22 Zakary Earley 90
23 Ricky Moseley 86
24 Ronnie Napolitan 75
25 Morgan Wade 74
26 Ben Voyles 72
27 Nate Berkheimer 59
28 Colin Mackay 40
29 Dane Searls 38
30 Tim Hall 34

31 TJ Lavin 33
32 Charlie Bowers 27
33 Joey Cordova 23
34 Dave Dillewaard 17
35 Ronnie Faisst 11
36 Steven McCann 7

2009 BMX Vert Overall standings
1 Jamie Bestwick 300
2 Steven McCann 246
3 Chad Kagy 236
4 Simon Tabron 214
5 Jimmy Walker 208
6 Kevin Robinson 196
7 Vince Byron 184
8 Francisco Zurita 172
9 Dennis McCoy 161
10 Jay Eggleston 151
11 Zack Warden 145

12 Koji Kraft 144
13 Austin Coleman 130
14 Tim Wood 120
15 Danny Williams 103
16 Jorge Jovel 99
17 Jason Branham 91
17 Rob Nolli 91
19 Mike Mancuso 87
20 Jan Valenta 68
21 Tom Stober 33

-From The Beard: "My band Dandelion Death got nomintated for a CEA award for best live act in Cincinnati. Please go to link below and there is a place where you can click and cast your vote. Tell all your friends to vote for Dandelion Death!"

- We had a little interview with Pim van den Bos regarding the upcoming Revival Jam, 7 Nov 2009 in Eindhoven.

-Here's a few new FATBMX ads that will pop up in some of the print BMX magazines in the next couple of weeks.

-Did you all see this video of Mark Vos and Boy Janssen? It's not even meant to play in the cinema or on TV. Guerilla marketing it what it was for and through BMX they're doing a good job at that. Many hits, good clip. And Boy said that the crash was real indeed!

-Is BMX hitting the big time? Are our boys big enough to show up in glossy tabloids? Mind the paparazzi, they managed to shoot Ricardo Laguna and Corey Bohan...