It has been along time since I have been to a contest in Europe. The one thing that I remember is that they are some of the most fun events that I have been to. The Urbaines-Vibrations contest in Pessac, France was indeed a great time. What makes these events so awesome? The formula is simple; great riding + an awesome course + a loud crowd + good organizing + random naked dudes running around + beer + a fantastic vibe = one hell of a good time. That’s exactly what we got at this event. The first thing to go on was dirt, which was rained out the second day so qualifying was counted as the finals. The jumps consisted of a step down style roll-in and then three sets. Simple, yet fun. It looked like everyone got comfortable with the jumps right away. The top three guys went like this; Josh Perry got third with a tailwhip drop at the start into some smooth combos like a barspin to tuck no-hander and a barspin to tailwhip.

Last Saturday the 040 Revival jam was held in Eindhoven. It was the first time that the ramps at The Building on Strijp-S were open to ride. Invitations had been sent out to the riders and the turnout was massive. It rained all day and it gets dark around 5pm so if it's possible to ride somewhere indoors, you better take that opportunity. Over 100 riders showed up from all areas and they gladly paid their 5 Euro entry fee to Pim van den Bos who was out himself because of his broken ankle. Pim and his dad have been

The flatland jam in Minden, Germany was visited by an international bunch of riders. Here are the top three results for Pro and AM:

Pro:
1st Michael Steingräber
2nd Markus Reich
3rd Peter Hofman

Master:
1st Benny Hill
2nd Navid Saleki
3rd Rayk Hahn

Nicholai Rogatkin went to the Czech Republic and the Meatfly Freestyle Meeting he attended just ended. Nicholi: It was an amazing event. The course was great, and the riding was high quality. The people here are cool, the prices for everything are SUPER LOW, and the food is great. It's TOTALLY AWESOME. Too bad I'm only here for 5 days. I love Checkoslavakia. Well I love Czech, but I haven't been

Street/Park Pro results Vibrations Urbaines 2009:
1 BERAN    MICKAEL
2 SLEZ    ONDRA
3 CHARVERON    MAXIME
4 PEYTAVIT    JB
5 POYNTER    KARL
6 DOREMUS    GEORGY
7 CUESON    DEAN
8 PERRY    JOSH
9 PHELAN    JASON
10 WEDEMEIJER    DANIEL
11 SOULAS    FLORENT
12 MASSE    JULIEN
13 VALENTINO    ALEXANDRE
14 KOHN    BARRY
15 PY    THOMAS
16 MASSON    GREG

BMX never seems to stop, or maybe the internet gets us in touch with events that take place week in and week out. For instance the 4th Revolcon contest of this year that took place in Guadelajara, Mexico last weekend. Already on FATBMX today. And with riders like Tobias Wicke, Senad Grosic, Rooftop and Daniel Dhers present it became an international round. 10.000 loud Mexicans in the stands saw the riders shred the park course. If you missed the results on Monday, here they are again: 1.DANIEL DHERS.....VENEZUELA 2. TOBIAS WICKE.....GERMANY 3. HECTOR GARCIA...MEXICO 4. RUBEN TORRES....USA 5. KEVIN PERAZA ....USA.           Check the pics:

The last stage of BMX Series by Eastpak - BMX Freestyle National Championship, happened in the 24 and 25 days of October in Santarém - Festival Bike. 70 Signed riders gave their best to raise the last points in game. Beside of the best national riders, some international riders showed up, increasing level and the show! Saturday was eliminator day, beginners and amateurs. There were no time for pro eliminatory, but we had a little peak of what we would expect in the next day! 

STREET:
1 - Michael Beran
2 - Ondra Slez
3 - Maxime Charveron
4 - Jb Peytavit
5 - Georgy Doremus and Karl Poynter,

DIRT:
1 - Patrick Guimez
2 - Ben Hennon
3 - Josh Perry

FLAT:
1 - Matthias Dandois
2 - Adam Kun
3 - Raphael Chiquet
4 - Alexandre Jumelin

Guadaljara Mexico. Copa International BMX contest.
1st Daniel Dhers
2st Tobias Wicke
3rd Hector Garcia
Pic by Catfish

The Timo jam officially started because Timo van Lierop and the Aarle-Rixtel were missing a jam around the month of October. Especially during the one week school holiday at this time of the year there was nothing going on. Timo changed that with the "Timo Jam" and this year was already the 3rd edition. It isn't safe to say that BMX is booming in Aarle-Rixtel but it sure is alive. It showed at the Timo Jam where mostly locals showed up for a session on the ramp. Even the mayor showed up who must have been surprised seeing spooks, Santa Claus, skeletons and punks riding the green ramp. Prizes were gathered from several sponsors to give out to whoever did something good, or good enough to pick up a prize. It looked like everyone who even hit the ramp went home with a BMX magazine, a Snafu part, Vans hat, shoes or buttons or whatever was available. Paul's old ghetto blaster took care of the sounds and the megaphone was the microphone. Aarle-Rixtel style. It seems like bad weather forecasts don't count for Ale Blie, it was dry and even sunny most of the day. Another fun day on the BMX. That's what mattered. 

Results BMX Pro
1 Peytavit JB
2 Doremus Georgi
3 Bonfil Maxime
4 Leconte Adrien
5 Augris Mathias
6 Kohne Barry
6 Peyre Louis
8 Delpeyrou Romain
9 Gay Cyril
10 Faraj Kamal
11 Dymarski Mathias
12 Calcagno Thomas

Results BMX Amateur
1 CAILLET Iswan
2 BORIE Frank 

For an afternoon in mid-October an intersection in Golden Gate Park was transferred back in time to the 1980's. The scene developed slowly like a lazy Sunday does; first a few bikes, then a few more and before you know it you've got 50 people with bikes and an impromptu jam circle just like back in the day when BMX freestyle was brand new. To think this used to happen every Sunday is almost unbelievable but it did. And, I'll venture to say that until this last weekend's 2nd annual Dave Vanderspek Memorial Ride,

Alessandro Civera sent in some good pics from the latest street jam in Italy. To be exact in Milano city during the Bicycle Film Festival. Good day, good weather conditions, good tricks, good ambient and good jam with more than 45 riders from differents cities. Enjoy the photographs...

More than 80 Pro and Am riders participated in the T-Mobile Local Support Street Challenge on October 17th and showed amazing BMX riding to a large audience at the Tretlager Halle in Emmering near Munich.

The pro class riding was at the highest stage: With real bangers like superman flips, flipwhips, 360 bars to whip as well as some techy tricks the riders raised the riding level and atmosphere at the indoor bike park with every single run. In the end Czech Agang team Ondra Slez and Zdenda Pesck took the win by a narrow margin in front of the Czech-Austrian Red Bull duo Michael Beran and Senad Grosic. The reason for their victory was a top-notch team performance including a flair tailwhip by Ondra Slez whilst his team buddy Zendra Pesck did a perfectly timed wallride under him. With their prize, spot support worth € 4.000, team Agang has now the ability to strengthen the BMX infrastructure in their home country. Sven „Sprosse“ Lehmann and Tino Schnecke from Berlin took the 3rd place. 

1 Garrett Reynolds 344
2 Dave Mirra 334
3 Daniel Dhers 328
4 Mark Webb 298
5 Ryan Nyquist 296
6 Dennis Enarson 220
7 Brandon Dosch 217
8 Marcus Tooker 207
9 Rob Darden 204
10 Craig Mast 180
11 Brett Banasiewicz 172
12 Steven McCann 167
13 Drew Bezanson 165
14 Ryan Guettler 132
15 Allan Cooke 131
16 Austin Coleman 123
17 Jeremiah Smith 120 

The bleachers in the Amway Arena were filled to the brim tonight during BMX park Finals. With Dennis Enarson out after a hard crash in yesterday's Dirt Finals, 11 riders remained in tonight’s event. Everyone rode amazingly well, with placements flip-flopping constantly as each run drastically changed today's standings. In the end, it was Ryan Nyquist who came out on top of the podium. But, the big story of today, is that after three years in a row of Daniel Dhers reigning supreme, BMX Park has a new Dew Cup winner: Garrett 

BMX PARK FINALS RESULTS, ORLANDO, Florida.
1 Ryan Nyquist 94.38
2 Daniel Dhers 93.75
3 Mark Webb 92.38
4 Dave Mirra 91.75
5 Drew Bezanson 91.25
6 Rob Darden 90.38
7 Garrett Reynolds 89.75 

Dirt prelims on Friday were plagued with heat and humidity. Tonight, however, mother nature threw us a bone, kicked in a cold front and dropped the temperature down to 62 degrees. Fall has finally hit Florida—a perfect atmosphere for Dew Tour Dirt Finals and the fight for the overall Dew Cup. What a Finals it was – every past winner of the Dew Cup was in tonight's event (Guettler, Napolitan, Nyquist, and White), and the field of twelve put on a great show for the Orlando crowd. And the overall winner is…Ryan Nyquist. The pressure was eased up a little bit for this Dew Tour veteran (and living BMX legend) considering that as long as he didn't dip below sixth place in tonight’s event, he would be leaving Orlando with a Dew Cup. Ending up in fifth tonight did the trick, and Nyquist won another Dew Cup to go with the one he took home in 2007.

Tonight’s Finals hosted a pretty interesting chain of events. Firstly, Brandon Dosch kept bouncing back and forth in the top two slots. With ridiculously consistent runs, he held things together with

1 Ryan Nyquist 354
2 Brandon Dosch 348
3 TJ Ellis  277
4 Dennis Enarson  270
5 Rob Darden  241
6 Josh Hult 100  209
7 Cameron White 206
8 Luke Parslow 205 

Out of the 31 riders competing in today's BMX Park prelims, choosing the top nine who will advance to Sunday's Finals has got to be a brutally hard decision for the judges. Everyone that rode went high and pulled a dozen tricks out of their bags. But the really difficult part was the fact that each rider had to pedal as fast as possible to make use of the whole course. Stamina was key. And each of these facets is taken into consideration when placing riders into the finals. Prelims were phenomenal.

Tonight’s final event was bmx best trick brought to you by Ride Bmx and Dan’s Competition. 10 riders were hand picked by the sponsors to attend and…
Here’s the scene—a plywood runway down a double set of stairs projecting riders almost immediately into a 6ft clay lip and over a 15ft gap. The time frame—half an hour jam style format. The prize--$1,000 in cash split up throughout the event for innovative moves. And $5,000 for best trick overall. Here is what went down…

2009 Orlando Dew Tour - Dirt Final Results
1. Brandon Dosch - 92.87
2. TJ Ellis - 92.00
3. Rob Darden - 90.69
4. Cameron White - 90.19
5. Ryan Nyquist - 88.44
6. Chris Doyle - 88.19
7. Chris Gerber - 88.19
8. Luke Parslow - 88.12
9. Colton Satterfield - 87.00
10. Anthony Napolitan - 85.69
11. Ryan Guettler - 85.56

2009 Orlando Dew Tour - Park Qualifying Results
1. Ryan Nyquist - 93.50
2. Mark Webb - 90.88
3. Rob Darden - 90.88
4. Dennis Enarson - 90.00
5. Drew Bezanson - 90.00
6. Scotty Cranmer - 89.75
7. Ryan Guettler - 89.75

It’s yet another day in Florida when Mother Nature ushered in the rain. But lucky for the Dew Tour BMX Vert Finals, the Amway arena is indoor, nice and spacious with really high ceilings. That's a good thing, because you need high ceilings for Vert, especially when Jamie Bestwick is riding. How high he airs is unreal–plain and simple. But enough about Florida, let's cut to the chase: Jamie Bestwick took first. In doing so, he won the Dew Cup in Vert for the fifth year in a row, and became the first person to sweep all

2009 Orlando Dew Tour - Vert Final Results
1. Jamie Bestwick - 93.25
2. Chad Kagy - 92.50
3. Kevin Robinson - 90.63
4. Steven McCann - 89.13
5. Francisco “Coco” Zurita - 89.13
6. Jimmy Walker - 89.00
7. Austin Coleman - 89.00