Just wanted to send out a last minute reminder about the Flatland Contest during the Toronto International Bicycle Show in Toronto this weekend. The CFO is presenting the "Flatland's Unlimited" contest series the entire weekend of March 2, 3 and 4th. Chase Gouin will be on site providing flatland demos and Pro Riders will be trying to de-throne Terry Adams and take their share of the 4K pro purse!
The successful Simpel Session BMX freestyle contest that took place in Estonia last month is airing on Fuel TV this week. Catfish did interviews with Mike Spinner, Dave Mirra and others in the Tallinn report so check out the "Weekly Update with Boost Mobile" that started on 24 February and will go on all week airing four times per day. The show is 30 minutes long and edited by Dave Mavro out of five 90-minute tapes.
Air times: 11:30 pm; 2:30 pm; 5:30 pm; 8:30 pm - all times eastern (USA) Check it!
We know you like movies so here are two more for you to check out. Team Pimpske in effect. Canadian Winter and Indian Summer. Watch 'em both. Courtesy of Special Projects Producer Michael McQueen. Clip one Clip two
-Colony BMX are gracing Nick Richardson with his own siganture frame to go along with his Bloody Oath Bars that are available now. Nick's frame will feature the special tubing that Colony have access to dubbed, Colonized tubing. This special tubing affords all our frames a really light weight ride, yet still very strong. The Bloody Oath will come in two sizes, 20.85 & 21.25 TT. Prototypes are being made now & are expected to weigh in at around 4.1lbs !! Yes, 4.1 lbs. Nick's frame along with the MVP, Dave Freimuth's signature, will come in 20.25 (4.65lbs) & 20.75 TT (4.7lbs) & will be available in July this year.
Los Angeles based clothing company Lavar proudly presents its first series of customized t-shirts in collaboration with pro rider/artist Jim Bauer. During the course of the last 6 months Jim first designed the Lavar print and then treated each shirt with a combination of dye, bleach, LA sunlight, paint, needle and thread, and whatever else he could think of.
The Mutiny x The Shadow Conspiracy frame kit Collaboration project is about to hit the streets. All fine retailers world wide should have these limited edition of only 200 kits by March 15th. They are also releasing a limited edition Shadow x Mutiny t-shirt that will be dropping the same time as the frames. Click on the picture to get a better view on the frame.
The new day has started and we just had some breakfast. We got this flyer of a German jam and realized it's happening today. Good thing we're 9 hours ahead over here in Japan. So if you're close enough to Rollrausch in Wermelskirchen you can still get there today and don't forget to bring your sleeping bag as it's an open end jam so you can sleep in the office or in the park when you're ready to pass out. Doors open at 3pm.
Today the brackets were drawn for the Red Bull Circle Of Balance flatland contest in Japan. 6 riders were automatically seeded according to their previous COB results. There was a full day of practice and some rehearsals took place for the sold out show tomorrow. The battle system will leave one rider as the winner. After the draw today, the 6 groups are looking like this:
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.
