St-Martin, BMX Groupment's flatand brand, is proud to announce the following news. French team rider Alex Jumelin has found a new challenge beside riding flatland : he is about to open AJ BMX Cave webstore. Alex lives in New Orleans, LA, USA, his wife teaching in a french school there. It means AJ BMX Cave is an american company. Beside selling online, AJ BMX Cave will become the new USA distributor for St-Martin and Superstar (BMX Groupment's street/park brand). The first goods will reach AJ BMX Cave warehouse in the coming week. Riders and dealers interested in working with AJ BMX Cave should contact Alex here : ajbmxcave@gmail.com

Bonus message : BMX Groupment would like to thank Sidewall Distribution for the work they have done for the last 5 years, in the USA.

Alex has a strong background in business already. For sure

Name: Pete Brandt
Age: 43
Hometown: San Mateo
Sponsors: Quamen, LMB, Sequence, Fenix, ISLT, and San Francisco Art Apparel

The FAT FAVs list:

Spot to ride: Clocktower San Francisco
BMX Video: Shawn Burns anthem 2
Website: Flatmattersonline.com
Wed edit: really love the intrikat videos
Food: Mexican food
Travel destiny: anywhere it's warm and has ride spots and cool people

Monster Energy congratulates its world-class team of athletes on an amazing weekend at X Games Barcelona 2013. The crew bagged a total of ten medals across skateboarding, BMX, and moto disciplines, and all the highlights from the weekend’s action can be seen now at monsterenergy.com. Leading the BMX charge was Jamie Bestwick, who further solidified his legacy by taking a record eighth gold medal in BMX Vert. He began his dominant winning streak in 2007, winning every event since then. He’s won more

The third stop of the 2013 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series was held in Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend. On Saturday, the contest debuted their first dirt competition, featuring 29 competitors at Lake Crabtree County Park dirt jumps. Then, on Sunday, the series produced a park, flatland, and street contest inside the JS Dorton Arena at the highly attended Got To Be NC Festival.

Trans Jam: Stop 3 saw 109 competitors, featured vendors, the

London Olympic silver medal BMX rider Sarah Walker will proudly carry a brand synonymous with New Zealand cycling at July’s UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland with news that Avanti is once again set to make its mark in the world of BMX. Sheppard Cycles is the New Zealand Company that engineers and distributes the Avanti brand of bikes throughout New Zealand and Australia and has in recent years supported World Champion pursuit rider Alison Shanks and the Pure Black Racing Team and in 2013 the Huon Salmon Genesys Pro Cycling Team.

Now the brand is set to feature once again in the world of BMX bikes with the race bikes carrying the iconic New Zealand Avanti brand from August 2013, with Walker, Tahlia Hansen, Kurt James, Max Macready and Richard McLachlan amongst the first to enjoy the best in Kiwi engineering.

Walker rode the 2014 Avanti branded prototype for the first time today and will take the bike with her to the USA as she prepares for the July 24 - 28 UCI World Championships at Vector Arena (bmxworldsnz.com)