We know they'll start to coming in soon, the X-mas cards. Make sure to add us to your list as we will post them up in this special place leading up to the new year. 2024 was again special, with many events that we visited. Here's only a few of them: Simple Session - Tartu, Estonia. Olympic Qualifier Series - Budapest, Hungary and - Shanghai, China. Hammer and Nails - Cologne, Germany. Mini FAT-JAM and Summer FATJAM - Aarle-Rixtel. Dutch BMX Park Championships - Eindhoven. UCI BMX Freestyle World Cups Japan, France, China, C1 Aigle, Switzerland, Olympic Games BMX Freestyle and BMX Racing in Paris, and the European Flatland Championships in Luxembourg. Coming up this year still: Zonder Pardon Jam at Area51 and the World Champs in Abu Dhabi.
With 120 BMX events on the FATBMX calendar for 2025 already, it looks like we won't have to worry about the future. From the smallest sessions and jams all the way up to the Olympic Games, we love it all as long as there's BMX involved. For now Merry bmX-Mas to all of you and thanks for the support. We'll add another year of FATBMX to the online world, simply because we care.
2020 was a strange one. It started off okay with many events on the program. In early January Mr. Zeiss and I escaped to the Penken for a few days of fresh powder in the Austrian mountains. We managed a day and a half and were beat after that. On January 24th my first trip to Australia was on the program. Let me tell you, it's a hell of a trip before you get there. But once there that was soon forgotten. The Sydney trip by Matt Holmes was great, including checking out Bondi Beach. Then the quick in and out to Brisbaine was amazing too, especially Australia day was one that I'll remember. Thanks Wade Bootes for that one. The bush fires almost killed this Australian trip and I'm glad it didn't. It was off to Shepparton (1600km road trip) for the first UCI BMX SX World Cup of 2020 followed by a few days in Melbourne checking the scene and then straight to Bathurst for Rounds 3 & 4 of the UCI BMXSX World Cup. To make things "easier" I flew back home to take off to Tokyo 3 days later. After a short week working on Tokyo 2020 it was back home to leave for the Austrian mountains the next day, a family trip this time. During the snow trip the first news about the virus did its rounds but we managed to enjoy the
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.