The Wild Night Contest - a professional BMX contest - will take place on the 28th of March in la Halle de Glisse of Lille. It is the 3rd biggest BMX contest in France, where 10 of the best international riders compete to win a Prize Money of 10 000€. A concert of local rappers is organized before the competition. At 7pm, the contest begins! Riders like Jack Clark (the winner of the WNC14), Daniel Dhers, or even Daniel Wedemeijer will be there. This year, 2 amateur riders will take part in the contest : they will have the opportunity to compete with the best international riders!
An after show at the Magazine Club of Lille will allow everyone - staff, audience & riders - to finish the day in the best way possible!
If you wanna be sure to attend the #WNC15, take your ticket here
More info: Facebook page Wild Night Contest
Designed by Nate Wessel, built by our own Session Ramps crew with some international added talents – this sure will be a treat for all the riders!
To celebrate the anniversary and salute 15 years of history of the series, Simple Session will be moving to the brand new and awesome Tondiraba Hall in Tallinn, Estonia.
Get in on the action and don’t miss Simple Session’s unforgettable
How would you feel if you were in a contest with the best park and street riders in the world? Who would you snake in practice? Who would you follow whenever he drops in? So many big time names on the list here for Simple Session number 15. Don't forget to follow the action live online if you cannot make it to Estonia yourself. But let's be honest, who doesn't want to go when so many good riders get together in party town number one? Try to make it out there. It'll be worth it. Here's the latest riders list:
Grant Germain USA
Talis Viirpalu EST
Rain Randväli EST
Ed Zunda LAT
Kostya Andreev RUS
Lahsaan Kobza USA
Alex Coleborn GBR
Tom van den Bogaard NED
Dillon Lloyd CAN
Simple Session is stoked to present Subrosa as a proud partner for it’s 15 year anniversary contest! A likely surprise, as this time around will already count as fith year in a row of brotherhood in BMX between the event and the brand. The world of BMX ows Subrosa a lot of respect for its love for the bikes, support of the BMX scenes and for pushing the sport in the right direction. It has been an absolute delight working with Subrosa since 2010 and each year proves even better than the year before, thanks to their support. Together we make Simple
Simple Session is stoked to present The Shadow Conspiracy as a proud partner for it’s 15 year anniversary contest! For the fifth year in a row, Shadow will be supporting and sponsoring the Simple Session series and the amazing sport of BMX. Big props to Shadow for making some of the best BMX products out there and for their support in making the Simple Session happen!
The Shadow Conspiracy sponsor many great riders in the Simple Session line-up this year, bringing in some incredible talents such
Hookit and Monster Energy are pleased to announce the 2015 Monster Army Recon Tour dates and venues as well as a new partnership with Mongoose Bikes. Hookit and Monster Energy created the Recon Tour in 2012 as a regional BMX contest series in Southern California. The mission was simple: discover, support and progress the best up-and-coming athletes in their sport. The past two years the tour has grown into a nationwide event that added structure and a vision to progress and truly identify the next unknown talent, while also supporting the professional athletes.
The first draft of the invited athletes for the 2015 X Games has been announced. This includes the top three in each category if it was an X-Games discipline in 2014.
Vert:
Jamie Bestwick GBR
Vince Byron AUS
Chad Kagy USA
Dennis McCoy USA
Simon Tabron GBR
Coco Zurita CHI
Big Air:
Vince Byron AUS
James Foster USA
Chad Kagy USA
Colton Satterfield USA
Morgan Wade USA
Zack Warden USA
Riders will be getting into town shortly for the 2nd annual Braaab contest in Eindhoven. Kostya Andreev is here from Russia, Spencer Bass and Daniel Dhers flew in from the States. The Brits arrived with the Ryanair plane to Eindhoven and Senad Grosic from Austria is making the trip as well. 50 Pro riders have signed up and over 60 Am riders, it's going to be a big weekend at 040BMXPARK. Friday will be a busy day at the park with people trying to get some more riding done before the Am comp starts on Saturday. Sunday is Pro day.
It's only €2 Euros to spectate. If you want to see some awesome riding, you know where to go this weekend.
Timetable:
Amateur Contest (Saturday 07.03.2015)
10:00 Park open + registration open.
12:00 Registration closed.
Last week we heard about the sad news that Mr. Rabbit -BMX Wolfgang Fritscher had passed away. Wolfgang was battling Leukemia and lost the tough fight. If you were a part of the BMX scene in Germany in the '80-s and '90-s you will remember Wolfgang. He was the first person to show up at the 1982 Open European BMX championships in Beek en Donk with his son Thomas. He was racing a Centurion bike at the time if I remember right. Later on Wolfgang started Rabbit BMX in Bremen and took his trailer with parts and tool box to all the fun BMX events in Germany and abroad. He later became the Redline distributor and put the brand on the map on the German racing scene. Mr. Fritscher had a big BMX heart and had a helping hand for many of us when in need.
Here is an update to this article we posted up recently about BMX companies donating to a very good cause. We've got some photos of how the bike came out and Nick Ziegler filled us in on who made things possible:
Robbie Chapman now has his S&M with him in Cali. Word got out out we were short on shipping funds and my buddy Scott Day with American door and supply in Appleton WI said ship it on my dime, so we rushed him the bike to get Robbie back on the track ASAP!
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.