- Bang Pictures- working on Kid Joe on Stingray- History of BMX Documentary. This is gonna be crazy when finished- INSANE!!!
- Byronsbike.com
- Mobile Bicycle repair service.
- Bmxclub.com- Byron's BMX grass roots marketing program. Negotiations are under way with NBL and ABA for sponsorship/support. Final Results of the 2004 Derby Backyard Jam came in right after last month's FAT News flash got distributed. Look at that name in third and then look if it actually was a street contest and not vert. Nice one Jamie! Pro Street Finals 1 Van Homan 94.40 2 Mike Escamilla 92.70 3 Jamie Bestwick 92.30 4 John Heaton 91.00 5 Corey Martinez 90.40 6 Sergio Layos 90.20 7 Taj Mihelich 89.80 8 Chris Doyle 89.40 9 Bruce Chrisman 88.40 10 Owain Clegg 86.20 11 Will Jackson 84.20 12 Luke Marchant 84.00 13 John Rogers 83.60 14 Kevin Porter 82.20 15 Ben Hennon 81.80 16 Matthew Roe 80.60 17 Steven Lilly 80.40 18 Ruben Alcantara 78.60 19 Dan Bogard 78.40 20 Brian Vowell 74.20 Woozy is organizing a T1 "You get what you get" VDO premier in Cologne on 18 December. I doubt that it will be turned off 5 times during the first showing because some band needs some attention. (Read OJA FAT-JAM party report to get that one). Jerry Bagley called it quits in California and moved back to Boston. He wasn't happy with the slacker rider scene in So. Cal. He wants to be back out East where kids appreciate riding more. The legendary dirt jump spot at Hidden Valley is back up. It got plowed last winter but it's hard to fight the Huntington Beach shovel crew. Damn right! Keep the place clean and leave the ghetto blasters at home. We've added a bunch of 2005 events to our event calendar. If you're already planning your trips, go take a look and book those cheap flights. If you're putting on events yourself, make sure you don't clash with another one close by. Send us your details. That way we have all contests with necessary info in one place. Make sure to check with the actual organization on any changes. We're not responsible for your booked flights or anything. Also, if we've placed incorrect info, let us know a.s.a.p. German Christophe Huber has built up a distribution company called Unity BMX. In the short time that he has been in business the Hamburg local picked up some great brands such as FATBMX sponsor SNAFU, – RNC – KNIGHT – AUTOMATIC – STANDARD – SIMPLE – BACO – FATBMX media partner SOUL - and BMX UNITED. For more info check out the website at: http://www.unitybmx.com/ The people at Failure have been off the radar a bit. That is until Matt Bishop sent in the following news: This is the Beard. Failure update. Brad Blanchard has just signed a 25 year contract with Failure. Welcome to the team. Look for a Failure video in 2005. The Gonz aka Pepe Santiago, Pete Augustin, Brad Blanchard, Jon Greer, The Beard, George Hoernig, Shaindown, and Brandon Casquilho will be busy filming for this DVD. Also, look for the all new 2005 shirts on www.failurebikes.com real soon. love beard The Dew Action Sports Tour Announces Founding Sponsors. The five founding event title sponsors are Panasonic, Right Guard Xtreme, Vans, Toyota and PlayStationR. The Dew Action Sports Tour schedule and founding sponsors' respective entitled events are as follows: Event One June 9-12, 2005 - Panasonic Event Two July 7-10, 2005 - Right Guard Xtreme Event Three August 17-21, 2005 - Vans Event Four September 7-11, 2005 - Toyota Event Five October 12-16, 2005 - PlayStation The Bike Devil will be visiting Woodward East from 17-31 January 2005. Getting ready for the next vert season on his '05 Mirra Pro. Flatland is big in Japan. 5000 riders or something crazy. Here is a schedule of the 2005 King Of Ground Flatland contest series where all those riders meet. Round 1 April 24th, National arthritic meeting memorial gymnastic hall, Fukushima, Fukusima pref Round 2 July 30th,31st, Harbor circus, Kobe, Hyogo pref Final Oct 22nd, 23rd ROX3 multi court, Asakusa, Tokyo Greasy Comb Distribution is proud to announce that beginning in the early Spring of 2005 it will become the exclusive INOPIA Footwear distributor for the bicycle industry. Our primary goal for adding INOPIA is to expand on what we can offer to our dealers and help develop INOPIA as a brand. GCD will be carrying all of the brand NEW and IMPROVED 2005 INOPIA products. Things are happening in Spain. A new project called Slabonbmx was started by Carlos and friends. Slabonbmx is dedicated to the ones that understand bmx and feel like it's an important part of their lives, no matter what level you're at or what place you are from. Slabon wants you to have a place where you can check news, read articles and interviews, watch some photos and above all to let them know your ideas and feelings. The website is in Spanish and English. Leave a message in the guestbook at www.slabonbmx.com and tell them that FATBMX sent you. Jimmy Levan is the new TM over at DUFFS. Steve Bartholomew has come up with yet a new idea. Read on: Menu is a new videomagazine where we invite well known worldwide editors to contribute articles. The Editors have complete control over their articles so in the end the DVD will consist of many people, places, design and editing styles. Menu will be distributed worldwide and feature video adverts. More news on the content and editors for the first MENU DVD in a few weeks. We are aiming for a March 2005 release. Please E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for any info. Fasten your seatbelts, here comes the Rider in Black: Yo dudes what up? I wanted 2 show u what Monster Energy came up with 4 me, these r table menu's that will be in every restaurant & bar that serve Monster Energy, on tha back it has tha drink menu, pretty cool uh? Keep rockin' & thanks again 4 everythang. Peace out, Thorne - Biker-N-Black Oldschool is hip, also in France. Dimitri Coste and Dr Old School of Cream BMX magazine were in California a few weeks ago working on a top secret project. Check this writing style, gotta be from the Biker in Black promoting the action sports: "Yo check this out, 2day I was invited 2 b on tha TV Show, "Screen Savers" on tha G4 Network, it was a live tapin', tha show goes into 55 million homes, it's target or viewer is tha average age of 22, mostly guys, it's a real successful show on G4, they asked me back once tha TV Show, "BOOM!", airs on Spike TV in Jan. Anyhow it was cool, I came out & did a few rockwalks, wheelies, etcccc.........& talked a lot about ridin' & injuries & tourin', etc..........next time I think we will get some sort of ramp." "Next 4 me is filmin' the rest of the 6 episodes, 3 dayz left, 4 "BOOM!" & ridin', & I have hired a ramp crew 2 rebuild our backyard set-up, time 2 blast homie." Take care, Thorne - Biker-N-Black MOTOmag, the BMX race magazine, semi-folded a few months ago. But out of the blue came the MOTOmag newsletter. It's not dead yet! Support Carl Lein in his effort to cover BMX racing. It's great to receive 'zines. Peter Fastenroth makes one of the favorites out there called Beware. If you want a copy, you're too late. The 130 copies were sold in no-time. Support the man like FATBMX did. We're looking forward to the next issue Peter! Michael Sommer is riding for adidas. Ashley Charles rides with Lotek kicks from now on. gOrk over at Redline is one busy man. After moving on from his job at the ABA and running the American BMX-er magazine, gOrk still makes a full on magazine full of Redline news. Issue # 72 of the Redline newsletter was so big that you're better off getting a copy of the newsletter yourself. gOrk wouldn't mind sending it to you. With Jason Carnes (Redline) winning the ABA Vet pro title and Redline's prodigy Bubba Harris winning the ABA AA Pro title, I'm sure issue #73 will be huge with all the ABA Grands stuff in it. Try to contact gOrk through www.redlinebikes.com . A LOT of things are going on for 2-HIp BIKES: 1) 2-HIp is releasing a reissue DVD of the 1990 released video, RIDE LIKE A MAN, including an editor-commentary option by the likes of Eddie Roman and RonW. GOOD STUFF! 2) The release of the forthcoming 2-HIp video has been delayed until early spring... expect some BOMBS from our amazing team traveling Europe, brazil, Colombia, and all across USA, and expect the controversial editing by ronw., in his second produced and edited video... 2-HIp videography: 2-HIp HOME VIDEO 1988 -EDDIE ROMAN / KING OF VERT SERIES 1988 -EDDIE ROMAN / RIDE LIKE A MAN 1990 -EDDIE ROMAN / LIFE ON THE EDGE 1992 -DAVE Parrick / NON-STOP TO SAN FRANCISCO 1994 -SEAN MEYER / ROCK AND ROLL 1996 -MARK EATON / DEGENERATES 2000 -STEW JOHNSON / OBSESSION 2002 -ronw. / THE YET-T0-BE-NAMED VIDEO 2005 -ronw. 3) 2-HIp BIKES has added the GONZ from Arizona to the 'flow-list', STREET! 4) the 2-HIp team will be going on the PROPS MEGATOUR January 18-26 in Florida, complete with the COMPOUND BMX 40' motorhome, and the riders: benno hankowetz- Austria (best trick-worlds '04) mauricio ospina- Colombia (flip-whips, 25'+ doubles) jarrod allen- s.c. (street, trails- STYLE) cory jarman- Colorado (hi-tech street, can tailwhip yo momma) Jon demers- mass (park, street, Southbridge LOCAL) lino Gonzalez- mass (rail king+) Jesse Williams- mass (streetstyle, Southbridge stylie) ronw.- uh, s.c. (vert, street, keepin' it real) WAKEY.com- uk, tentative (a LOOSE GOOSE) then AFTER megatour, the team will be taking the SLOW route back to Cali, riding riding riding, and filming mooore... 5) The '2-HIp MEET THE REAL STREET' jam... also postponed 'til early spring- DATE: APRIL 2 / ANOTHER FIRST read carefully - it is NOT a video-contest... BASIC DETAILS: - 6-7 teams - 4-10 riders per team (chosen in advance by the MTS COMMITTEE- teams need to send a rider list, and/or video, and/or fotos to 2-HIp to be chosen) - 3 hour time period, 15 minutes at each spot - 5-6 spots - a judge will be at each spot looking for: best team, runner up, best slam - after 3 hours there will be an AWARDS PARTY with ramps and bands at a S.F. warehouse - there will be video editing going on during the party, with footy from each of the spots for the awards ceremony - AND FINALLY, there will be prizes and CASH MONEY for each spot! (ie. best team: $400-$1000-possibly more per spot; runner up: keg; another runner up: a tap for the keg) DON'T MISS IT... DATE: APRIL 2 / check 2hip.com for all the up-to-the-minute-details 6) ronw. has just finished edit #20 of his book........ Marti Kuoppa was in Holland to teach the Dutch Flatlanders how to ride at the "Flatacademy" and had his DVD premier in Amsterdam called MK Moments. The Old Man in jail. Yes Scott Breithaupt is in jail for drug related and evading arrest. Stu Thompsen provided a Sheriff's report on the incident. Scott lead the authorities/police on a two hour low speed pursuit I.E. he ran form the police for two hours in his vehicle. He is scheduled for release at the end of 2004. FREE SCOTT BREITHAUPT! Philip de Jong just had his first birthday party, 2 more years to go and he will be riding a BMX bike for his sponsors Paul's Boutique, Vans, UGP, Eastpak and EBC. Burnside Deventer had its 16th birthday party so they can ride a scooter from now on if they are able to get a scooter-certificate.... MINI FAT JAM 2005 will be held the first weekend of April, Friday is the 10th anniversary party of Paul's Boutique and Saturday and Sunday will be dirty at the newly build SUGARHILLS, as always the SUGARHILLS will be totally destroyed in wintertime so we need builders in the whole month of March, Call Paul's Boutique for more details. FLATtv DVD's are running like crazy, sold in many countries in Europe, if you are a Flatlander you have to buy this one and support our local Ninja. The next Props Mega-tour will take place in January with the following teams: Last Call Distribution Bulldog Bikes DC Shoes We The People Bike Company Manmade Clothing 2-Hip Premium Products The trip is heading for Sunny Florida with Stops at Chad DeGroot's Mission skatepark on January 19th and the last stop at the Spot in Tampa on January 25. Paul's Boutique and Vans will be supporting a new formed BMX Race team: SX Europe in 2005, Martin v/d Velden is running this team with lots of talents, more details later with interviews and pictures in FAT BMX. If you're looking for a website to steal BMX race pictures from, go to www.bmxpix.org. They don't even mind that you're ripping the photo's to use for your own site or print them out. It's actually made for that. 3 races are up now including the pre-world's in Valkenswaard. Headlock Maarssenbroek will be closing its doors in 2005, Ester did a great job to run the shop but its time to move on and start a new life after the loss of Jeroen. The shop was a nice hangout for all the new BMX kids in Maarssenbroek but they can be seen at the Fazantenkamp "Sjappi trails" from now on. We had a girl! Sophie Moriah Bartoldus. Born 11/21/04 7lb 11oz 20" long and CUTE! E-team represent, congratulations Big E. Todd Lyons over at SE is looking to put together a five-rider FACTORY TEAM for 2005. This team will be lead by the Wildman himself, Todd Lyons. If you think you have what it takes to be on the team, e-mail your bio and a little resume to Todd at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. It will be an American team and you've got a better chance to get on board if you do flips during the race. Maybe Bart Bazelmans can still give it a try. Here's the results of the ABA Grands held on Thanksgiving weekend in Oklahoma: AA Pro 1 JOHN PURSE.COM, HYUNDAI/MONGOOSE, SPRING, TX 2 BUBBA HARRIS, REDLINE, LANCASTER, CA 3 DONNY ROBINSON, FAC AVENT/BOMBSHELL/FLY, NAPA, CA 4 WARWICK STEVENSON, HARO-ADIDAS, PHOENIX, AZ 5 JARRETT KOLICH, ANSWER FACTORY/STAATS, SANTA BARBARA, CA 6 KYLE BENNETT, FREE AGENT, MONTGOMERY, TX 7 CHRISTOPHE LEVEQUE, HYUNDAI/GT, HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 8 GREG ROMERO, FACTORY REVTEC/VANS, SAPULPA, OK PRO CRUISER 1 LUKE MADILL, Hyundai/GT/RED BULL, CRANEBRPPL, AU NSW 2 RANDY STUMPFHAUSER, HYUNDAI/GT, SANGER, CA 3 PAUL LANGE, FELT BMX / FLY, SACRAMENTO, CA 4 TYLER BROWN, ACTION BIKES, SAN CLEMENTE, CA 5 JARRETT KOLICH, ANSWER FACTORY/STAATS, SANTA BARBARA, CA 6 TREVOR FAY, CHALLENGE-INTENSE, LIVERMORE, CA 7 SHANE"SNEAKY PETE"VINCENT, FACTORY REVTEC, SAPULPA, OK 8 DONNY ROBINSON, FAC AVENT/BOMBSHELL/FLY, NAPA, CA PRO OPEN Total Riders = 27 1 LUKE MADILL, GT/RED BULL, CRANEBRPPL, AU NSW 2 BUBBA HARRIS, REDLINE, LANCASTER, CA 3 DONNY ROBINSON, FAC AVENT/BOMBSHELL/FLY, NAPA, CA 4 JOHN PURSE.COM, HYUNDAI/MONGOOSE, SPRING, TX 5 CRISTIAN BECERINE, CRUPI, COSTA MESA, CA 6 CLINT LAMBERT, FACTORY ANSWER/STAATS, RIVERSIDE, CA 7 MIKE DAY, STAATS, CANYON COUNTRY, CA 8 WARWICK STEVENSON, HARO-ADIDAS, PHOENIX, AZ ABA National Team Champions Factory Teams 1 Answer Factory 2 Redman/Yamaha Waverunner 3 Factory Avent/Bombshell 4 Challenge Racing/Pro Bike Parts/Fly/ATi 5 Phantom/On Trac 6 Extreme Sports 7 SharpBMX.com 8 Redline 9 Yamaha of Troy 10 Motomag/TCI AA Pro Results (Race Of Champions - Friday night) 1 Kyle Bennett 2 Paul Lange 3 Donny Robinson 4 Bubba Harris 5 Luke Madill 6 Jarret Kolich 7 Robert De Wilde 8 Mike Day This means that Redline's Bubba Harris wins ABA Title in AA pro. Samatha Cools wins the Girls Title Jason Carnes wins Vet Title and Randy Stumpfhauser wins the Pro cruiser title. Chris Polack over in Australia has finished an Australian 2005 bmx calendar. The calendar features 12 riders like Ryan Guettler, Luke Parslow, Luke Fink, Simon O'Brien, Clint Millar, Zack Musarsa, Nick Richardson, Kenny Raggett, Dan Montoya, Lindsay Brown, Mick Bayzand and Kym Grosser. It's laid out showing a little about each riders personal life, featuring lifestyle pics and a portrait along wit the large action pic. Chris would like to sell the thing overseas as at the moment it's only been sold Australia and new Zealand wide. If you want Chris' e-mail address, contact us. There's a Bob HARO drawing up in our art and comic section. If you're oldschool, you should go there now and try to name all the riders in the illustration. TGI Friday filled us in with the riders' names: -Fab Five- Friday -Dynamite- Dave -Stompin! -I could play an Italian Spy in movies- Hadley. -Shimano's #1 Rider - The flying Burrito- I mean Encinas. -My Dad wrote the first BMX book Craig Scagnetti. Fly Bikes goes gypsy style! Here's some news from head honcho David Quesada: " >From this week, an other company is distributing Flybikes in Spain for us. It´s being a while since we wanted to do this to concentrate on pure developing of the brand. This way, we don´t need a warehouse to stay and we can travel and live anywhere. We´ve already left the warehouse and we´ll have a p.o. box soon in case you want to send us anything. This is a whole new style of bike company that we are already enjoying. We are now in the middle of our 2nd. tour this year around the Mediterranean Spanish coast. Working, riding and developing new parts with the team. In the past, I was not able to join the team on those trips but I can now. This is always good for the company and for my riding. This change is definitely for the better. You still can reach me, Guiri and Gonzalo by e-mail and you can call me on my cellular phone when you need anything from me." Ricky Adam has added a few new gig photos and a few new BMX photos on his website. Also, if you happen to be in Belfast Northern Ireland over the next few weeks check out a photo exhibition "Shot By Both Sides" (pun intended) in the old museum art gallery. It's a group exhibition about the history of punk/rock in Ireland, some of my photos are included in the exhibit. www.rickyadamphoto.com More Thorne news? Yes Sir! "Yo dudes what up, here's the results 4 me in Korea, I placed n 9th, whatever, judgin' is strange, I rode really good, stayed on & pulled my tricks, I did get knocked out tha day before in practice, however tha contest is goin' to air into 40 million homes, it was filmed on tha local TV network called, get this, MBC, not NBC but MBC, so the amount of coverage is awesome, we were tha 1st ever to do a contest n Korea @ this level, pretty cool, spreadin' tha BMX everywhere, mission accomplished, take care homies, next 4 me is the Sema car show in Vegas tha day after I get home, workin' 4 Kicker & KMC, stay up." For all the latest in HARO land, visit their new website at www.harobikes.com Ben Shenker has had a season with ups and downs. Here's the latest: "Once again I'm back on the roller coaster of my life: Yesterday morning my laptop froze and I wasn't happy. After a few calls I learnt that there's no service for this type in Hungary. Great, so I spent all of last night trying to recover files and stuff, and by 5 am everything was working. I felt like my brain became a hard drive too, but at least the machine works. Slept for a couple hours, went to RedBull to pick up some juice and talk about next year. After that I was off to Uni, stashed in my car was 3 crates of RB, sweaty pads, shoes and my bike. Parked right in front of school, and after 3 hours of class I noticed some fuckheads have messed with the locks and took everything but my bike." It's off to the USA at the end of January for Ben and also Senad Grosic. Good weather is calling. OBG has already left for some serious vert riding at Woodward west, followed by good sessions at WwEast. The HARO boys are staying busy. Niels Thanild sent out a press release telling everyone that his website was finished but forgot to post the URL. We forgive him because he's a good drunk. Well, here is the web-address for SimpleBikeCo. www.simplebmx.com The Pop!Session will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from 7-9 January. 4000 Euros pro purse for street and 4000 Euros pro purse for vert. Worth a trip, even if you won't be able to catch some of that prize money. Hit up the FATBMX event calendar for all the info. HUFFY has filed for chapter 11. The BMX-ers got out in time. Check www.FATBMX.com for regular updates. Click here for more pictures on this article.
We announced earlier that Ronnie Chalk is no longer the BMX TM over at DC. Then we got the following press release: Vista, CA…DC Shoes, Inc. announced today it has hired Dwayne Taylor as DC’s new BMX Team Manager. In his new role, Dwayne is responsible for maintaining strong relationships with the 11 riders on DC’s BMX roster, including Dave Mirra, Robbie Miranda and newcomer Corey Bohan. He will also be providing current information on DC riders in all DC communications and will be help in directing the BMX team’s marketing efforts. In DC related news, Kim Boyle has left the company. Byron Friday has started his own company/agency called www.bmxnetwork.com. The website is in the works and should be finished by the end of 2004. Some of the projects that are keeping him busy are:
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