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FAT Friday : 2009 Week One: FAT FRIDAY BMX news.

Posted by Bart on 2009/1/2 23:30:00 (6259 reads)

Happy New Year, blah blah blah,....Good times, bad times, expect FATBMX to stick in there. We've been doing this for a long time. "We've seen it all" is the wrong thing to say because every week new tricks are invented and team changes are made that were unexpected.
-For instance: Current Dew Tour Champion and X-Games winner Daniel Dhers has officially signed on to ride for Germany's KHE Bikes. They must be hella stoked on that one over there in Karlsruhe. Did you expect Corey "Nasty" Nastazio to sign with HARO Bikes? Maybe you didn't see that one coming but it's true. Things like that keeps us into it. Let's see what else happened this week.

-The AMA Supercross season is about to start (tomorrow) and if you make it to the Anaheim Stadium tomorrow you'd be surprised how many BMX riders you will run into. But the SX stars like BMX too! Not sure if Rob-O sent this FIT Bike Co T-shirt to factory Suzuki's Mike Alessi, but he was rocking it in a photo we received in the weekly Alessi update. We already hear Robbie say: "Hell yeah!"

-Want to play Chicken with BMX riders?

-Sunday Bikes have a new website out. Jim C. asked us to mention that. No problem dude. SUNDAY BIKES

-The NBL Christmas Classic race was missing some top pro riders this year. And only four girls are listed int he Elite women results. What's going on here? Nobody likes the NBL races anymore? Here are the results so don't blame these racers for not showing up:

President's Cup - December 27, 2008
Elite Open - 1 CJ McGuire 2 Harrison Britt 3 Allen Currier 4 Dan Smith 5 Tim Sullivan 6 Leroy Moses 7 Louis Taylor 8 Tyler Faoro

Christmas Classic Day One - December 28, 2008
Elite Open - 1 Sergio Salazar 2 Tyler Faoro 3 Matt Kelty 4 Tim Dinger 5 Will Greathouse 6 CJ McGuire 7 Dan Smith 8 Phil Delizia
Elite Women - 1 Kayla Gaddis 2 Liz Passwaters 3 Donna Snow 4 Kyla Reed

Christmas Classic Day Two - December 29, 2008
Elite Open - 1 Sergio Salazar 2 Matt Kelty 3 Jason Sherrill 4 Harrison Britt 5 Steven Weimar 6 Will Greathouse 7 Gavin Lubbe 8 Joey Albright
Elite Women - 1 Liz Passwaters 2 Donna Snow 3 Kyle Reed 4 Kayla Gaddis

-The Bitches are coming to Estonia again and they're bringing some friends. BMX parties can use more groupies, that's for sure and if they're crazy that's even better. What, you haven't booked your ticket for Estonia yet?

-Did I mention that it has been freezin' over here and we can ice skate on the canals? It didn't hold back Stijn Staal to go on a mission to film a clip.

-Vans are going to do a Rock 'n Roll tour in France in May. Riders who will be shredding with the bands at the skateparks are Ryan Guettler, Gary Young, Colin MacKay, Kevin Kalkoff and Alex Bourguignon. You can join the sessions or enjoy watching them. More info on: Vans Wheels Of Rock where I found another stolen photo of mine. (Stop it!! Kop is coming...)

-Jaie Toohey wins the DK KOD in Australia.

-For a good cause , remember.

-Matthias Dandois wins the Last Battle Of The Year comp in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We've got some photos up from that event here.

Pro Results:
1 Matthias Dandois FR
2 Alex Jumelin FR
3 Raphael Chiquet FR
4 Gilles van der Somple BEL
5 Dez Maarsen NL
6 Miquel Guelo Sangareau SPA
7 Sietse van Berkel NL
8 Pascal Nanko DE

-Into The Void has been premiering all over the world. Here are some pics from the first showing at Hardcore Sportz, Karl Poynter's shop. We got a copy in the mail and will review it shortly.

-Van Homan received an award himself. He got inducted in the Sports Hall Of Fame in New Jersey. Recognition for BMX, it does exist (apparently).

-Snafu's got some new pedals out called the Anorexia. Check 'em out by going here. They are receiving the "Best updated site of the week award" from the folks over at FATBMX.

-Sean Burns bike check on Eclat

-Alise Post is on Redline

-Rooftop's got a video clip competition on his site. If you think you've got what it takes, go to the Rooftop show and win some cash.

-You like BMX video games? Read this review and leave a message. No need for more Mark Webb's to post comments though.

-For a 30 minute Cru Jones radio interview visit the Natsukashi site. RAD!

-Received an e-mail from the WhiteBear this week. He hung out with Keith Treanor earlier this week and has been posting more blogs from the Freestylin' days on his Blogspot. More info on this HERE.

-Chances are you have clicked away from this FAT Friday before even making it to the end of it. It hasn't been a slow week by any means even if most of you had some sort of Holidays for X-mas and New Years.

-Ex-BMX World Champ Willy Kanis has been raking in some National Titles on the Velodrome this week. Even the Dutch Olympic BMX racing squad had a go at it. Roy van den Berg and Ivo van der Putten made it to the race and Roy did really well actually. Not bad for being on those fixed gear nerd bikes for only 6 weeks. I've said it before and I will say it again; Fuck the Fixies! Get back on that BMX now.

-Matt Pingel sent me THIS CLIP. Although the dude rides some sort of direct drive it was worth posting. Bouncing on a trampoline with a bike and then flipping it is hard, doesn't matter if you're on a damn fixie or not.

-Bike Check of the week.

Enjoy 2009.

BdJ