It was the 11th edition of the Vibrations Urbaines and we had not even been there before. For some reason I had this impression that the BMX contest was part of a giant festival but on arrival I did not see much else than a giant white tent which had the ramps inside. It was dark and it rained so I did not see everything but the next day all I noticed were the dirt jumps next to the giant white tent. No sight of flatland, breakdancers, music concerts, graffiti artists, skateboarders or a giant festival crowd. What was left were BMX-ers and there were a lot of them. Because of the rain a lot of things did not work out as planned. Flatland was moved inside a sports hall 2 kilometers down the road which I never saw a sign of unfortunately. Dirt was cut short because of the rain. The 60 minutes that it was dry on Saturday were used for the pro class first, followed by the AM class after that. Because of the bad weather forecast the riders were told that this might as well be the straight final.
Patrick Guimez was in unique form and has added loads of flip variations to his long list of tricks. It was not a surprise for everyone that he won the