The weekend is about to start and for the first time in a while there's no BMX on the program for me. Not officially, meaning there's no event to go to. Time to choose myself what to go ride, that is if the weather cooperates. It hasn't for the last few days but there's always the indoor 040BMX park in Eindhoven which is good fun.

Last week, after visiting the 040BMX park contest I made it over to the Helm Trails for a little session. Had the camera with me so took some pics of the locals riding the rollercoaster line. Having good places to ride close to your home is awesome. Short travel time, much fun. I'm staying close to Helmond this weekend to enjoy what we have here. More contests coming up this summer.

Road trips usually look like this: 4 bikes, 4 people, 1 car and a road map. All cramped up but having no problem with it because you're having fun. Believe me, I've been on plenty of trips like these. Once I was on the back of Chris Moeller's pick up truck on the way to a race in Phoenix. Timmy Ball was co-driving and Lawan, myself and one more POW were sitting in the back with the bikes and all the bags. We left from California to Phoenix so we did not expect the strong rain that we encountered. As soon as it started dripping we were okay in the back as long as Chris kept the speed up. We stopped at BK and asked for trash bags. We made rain coats out of them and put our bags in the trash bags that we were given. We made it to Phoenix and had one more story to add to our book.

Not sure what I'd rather be doing, riding motocross or riding BMX. Motocross was just no option when we were young so riding BMX it was for us. Sure it has shaped my life as well as Paul's and it's been great but when the Supercross season kicks off in the USA I'm all about it. This year the championship is open with multiple people who can win it. The tracks have been great and the races have been exciting. What's also great is that we get to see the races on the internet and Motors TV only a short time after they've taken place. And I've got to say that a lot of it looks like riding BMX, racing, or riding trails. Or more likely, what we do, is imitating what they are doing. MX whips, MX tables, high-lows, T-bones, drifting, staying low, showing off, it's all part of it.

This week I got my old roach ready for the next MX session whenever time allows. The Supercross Series got me pumped to go ride and it 

I often get asked what I do all day and I answer that it differs from day to day but most likely I'm stuck behind the computer, either the desktop, the laptop or the mobile phone which basically is a computer too. You see, I've got some sites to manage on a daily basis. Next to bringing the news on the www.fatbmx.com website, I also make sure check in with the FATBMX Twitter page, the FATBMX myspace site and the FATBMX Facebook profile. Next to that there's a FATBMX fanpage on Facebook too. We recently expanded the social media with a Hyves page and it's my daily task to make sure that doesn't get stale either. The media partners need the FATBMX advertisements on time so I throw that in there usually on deadline day. Phew, that's a whole bunch of (social) media to keep up with, but there's more. We're nearing 3000 friends on the Helm Trails Facebook site. That means I've almost received 3000 friend confirmations in the inbox. I try to upload a dirt video to this profile on a daily basis. We're having the Open Dutch

Friday news. Not that we have much shocking gossip to report today, but rather see this as a collection of all the news that happened recently all in one. You should be checking out the site on a daily basis, or a few times per day to keep up with everything. If you do, this is not the post you're looking for. But hey, maybe you've missed something this week and are reminded on it by the FAT Friday. It goes out by e-mail too.

The Social Media.

We skipped FAT Friday last week but we're back again with another news update. Lots of things have been going on. We did "Girls Week" earlier this month and if you're a FATBMX visitor on a regular basis, you did not have a chance to miss it. Now that girls week is over that doesn't mean that we're forgetting about the girls, we just let the boys back in. Where do we start this time? Team changes, always a good one.

-Bruno Hoffmann off wethepeople, on Federal
-Markus Reuss on Vans
-Mike Mastroni on Volume
-Josh Boothby on SE
-Shawn McIntosh off Stranger on FIT Bike Co
-Fuzzy Hall off Redline, on Red Bull
-Sam Cools on Ssquared bicycles
-Frank Lukas left DEEPBMX

It's time to play indoors. Hope you have a local park that you can go to. It's hard to get sessions in outside but there are moments you still can and then those sessions are great. Riding with the die-hards, who don't complain about the cold, but talk positive about the session they're having. And before we know it, the new year is here and the sun starts coming out again.

Seriously, time flies. New dates are being picked for the 2011 events already so keep an eye out for that FATBMX event calendar for all the info. Riders are changing sponsors, and getting ready for 2011. BMX is always moving, there are no slow times, and that's why we like it. Most likely you didn't have to complain about the lack of updates this week. Riders are dropping edits every single day. New products make it on the market. New BMX tracks are being built. Jams are happening, even in the wintertime, but maybe indoors. Keep up, go ride. Here's the news of the last week.

Life's been great. Loads going on. Lots of time on the road and plenty of time behind this computer to keep you guys informed on what's happening in BMX land. Lately it's been crazy busy, but all good. I remember we used to send out the BMX news once a month. Now it's about 10 updates every single day. But we've noticed that people not only go to the FATBMX.com site to find out what the latest news is. Through the RSS feed lots of other websites are gathering our information. Twitter and Facebook users see the update headlines fly by without having to go to the FATBMX site.

I'm one of those dudes that likes to save important e-mails. Just in case, when you need to prove someone that you already took care or something, or for reference. Right now there are 7786 messages in my FATBMX inbox. If they wouldn't be somehow important, they'd be in the trash. Most likely your e-mail is in there somewhere. These weekly FAT Friday updates give me time to scroll through the news that didn't make it on the site for a full post, but still is important and needs to be seen. But scrolling down these messages takes time, time that I usually don't have. To make it work I need to get up early 

It's Friday. That means two things; the FATBMX Pin Up will go online and also the FAT Friday. We've set our priorities by making sure you had a Pin Up photo to look at each Friday but we've lacked on consistency on the FAT Friday. Being on the road doesn't help and it's been a while since we were behind the desk top. And if I don't do one now, it's not going to happen any time soon as we've got the Telekom event coming up this weekend, followed by the Eurobike trade show where we'll take pics and show you all the new 2011 products. The first weekend of September we'll be at the Motocross GP 10 minutes down the road for some braap braap followed by the Rebel Jam weekend in Portimao and then the USA trip (UCI BMX SX and Interbike).

Busy? yes, but we wouldn't want it any other way. Make sure you got the site bookmarked because we'll be bringing you the latest and the greatest in the BMX world starting off with this weekend's comp in Hamburg that you can follow live on FATBMX thanks to Freecaster.tv.

Dude, I'm sweating my ass off behind this computer. The hot air is going to the roof and it's next to unbearable but I'm staying put, getting you the FAT Friday. After that I'll dive into the rubber swimming pool, or I better step into it as 10 inches of water won't be enough to catch me. I don't want to end up in the hospital like so many riders this week. Bas Keep broke his pelvis and his collarbone doing a bio air in Barcelona that landed on flat after the sun had blinded him. Bjorn "Bommel" Mager had an open leg break after trying a 360-double whip over the BCN spine. Over in England on the Dirt trip, Greg van Tulder landed on his head and was taken to the hospital with a helicopter. They don't call these things in if it's not serious. Matt Beringer fell on his head as well and I'm sure there's more riders dealing with some down time right now. To all of you, good luck, get well and try to make the best of this BMX high season.

-The KHE crew will be going on tour next week and will end up at the BMX Masters in Cologne. Dainel Dhers and James Foster are on the

Sorry for missing out on the FAT Friday for a few weeks but they're just a lot of work to get together and the time just wasn't there. New attempt this week. Some of the news might be a little old because we did make attempts to get one out in the last few weeks. Anyway, thanks for hanging in there. If you're on the FATBMX mailing list to receive these, you still are and nothing went wrong on accident. We're off to Barcelona today for a weekend of BMX at the Nike 6.0 BMX Pro event. There's flatland as well so we'll get you an update from the flatland area too. 

It's tough to do these FAT FAVs from the road but we gave it a try and came up with the following BMX news. It's only a section of what happened in BMX land but it's been tough staying on top of things with the Asian X Games going on at the same time. On top of that there is no access to Facebook, Youtube, Blogger, Vimeo, Twitter or any of those communication sites over here in China. Add to that that I hear the beats pumping from the hotel bar and you know how hard it is to get this one out. But here's the attempt. Back next week.

-This week we got the chance to see the G&P factory which made perfect sense to make it a Workshop Wednesday episode. If you've ever wondered how a Chinese bicycle factory looks, go to the Workshop Wednesday section on FATBMX and find out.

-DJ over in the UK sent over some BMX news. Here's his contribution for this week. Thanks to DJ and if you have anything for next week's FAT Friday, just make sure we have the news by Thursday.

You know what? This is the last post I'm going to do today. I'm taking the weekend off as well. Will be back on Monday. This gives you time to go through the updates from week number 16 and there are a lot of them. I'm pretty sure you haven't watched all 50 movies we put up this week and read all the FAT FAVs, Good Stuff lists and Josh Perry injury updates. Just scroll through the site and enjoy what we came up with in between running events. Last weekend was the Helm Jam and the Flame Trails jam is next week. This weekend

We're jumping right in this if that's okay with you. Today I watched a clip of "the biggest jumps ever" and I expected Mat Hoffman in there with his crazy big air he did years ago. With, or without the engine on the bike. It wasn't. But please do not fear. The Birth Of Big Air has been documented by no less than Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze. The piece has been directed by other Jackass Jeff Tremaine, all good friends of Mat so this is going to be good. Can't wait to see it.

-Just yesterday I saw this McDonald's commercial on TV and looked it up on Youtube. I was surprised to see a tailwhip in a McDonald's commercial and it can only help the BMX awareness. This is national TV we're talking about.

-Local TV came and filmed at the little pump track we built by my house and made this edit out of it. It was filmed on a normal Friday afternoon at 3pm. Look at all the kids! If you feel like riding this place, don't come on 2 May, we've got a jam planned and it will be busy.