Jerry Landrum farewell tour. BMX Mania calls it quits. By BdJ

Mar 14, 2018

Written by Bart de Jong

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The internet is a crazy place. News gets spread quickly and when BMX Mania's Jerry Landrum announced his retirement it spread like wildfire. Almost to the fact where it felt someone had died and people were writing good things about him. For sure it's nice that Jerry got to read all of the positive messages himself. I'm not sure where I met Jerry first. It was probably at Interbike where he, just like me, was looking at new bike parts, taking pics for his site and checking if someone would be into supporting his BMX Mania website which for the longest time was the 'go-to' website for the racing community, way before social media came alive. After 21 years of covering the sport of BMX racing it's time for Jerry to shift down a couple of gears and spend some time with his grandkids and he's got a

car project on his mind that he wants to make happen. For 2018 he's got a UCI Media Rainbow pass coming and most likely we'll get to see Jerry at the first UCI BMX SX World Cup in France at the end of this month. He's not completely done just yet which is a good thing because a BMX race without Jerry won't be the same.

Jerry's humour, BMX knowledge, stories, and positiveness will definitely be missed. Countless hours Craig Dutton, Jerry and myself spent behind the computer post-race in the press office working on pictures that the rest of the world wanted to see. Here and there we cracked a beer to get through the editing and to keep the BMX talk going. Jerry is a BMX fan, and maybe the biggest BMX fan on this planet. With support from a few companies, riders, event organizers and federations he managed to get to the next big race, and if the support wasn't there, he would still show up.

I'm actually looking forward to the World Cup race in St. Quentin en Yvelines at the end of this month because I know Jerry will be there. He'll show up with his plastic bag of snacks and a bottle of Coca Cola and possibly a folding chair for the track because standing up all day ain't easy for the old man. I'll bring the stroopwafels Jerry and we'll find some after hour brewski's for some extra BMX bench racing.

Much respect.

BdJ