Results of the Battle of Granville st. Vancouver, Canada.
1st Brandon Van Dulken (unsponsored) 2nd Ben Kaufmann (Norco bikes) 3rd Anthony Messere (Fox) 4th Wade Lajlar (Verde, etnies, LRG) 5th James Van de Kamp (Norco bikes)
On 20th of August, tens of thousands of passing spectators on Helsinki main square witnessed the second Stadi Summer Session, summertime edition of Simpel Session, going down to the history books as the biggest BMX contest ever thrown in Finland. The open-air contest brought together 67 top riders from 20 countries, with Gary Young (USA) stealing the show, Alex Coleborn (UK) coming second and Daniel Tünte (GER) taking the third place."The event was a big success - the line-up was better than ever before at the Simpel Session's summer contests, the weather was great despite the worrisome forecasts, and the course was constantly surrounded by a cheering crowd. With BMX legends Darryl Nau and Andy Zeiss as announcers, the whole Helsinki main square was filled with energy, firing up one of the most amazing and inspiring Simpel Session contests so far," said Risto Kalmre, founder and main organizer of Simpel Session.
A total of 67 riders competed in the contest, with close to half
It's 1994 and Chris Moeller wrote down some happenings on the people who lived at the POW house. Lots has changed since then but it's fun to look back in time to see how things were done back then. Alex Leech from the UK had been sitting on his POW photos for over 14 years and he's stoked that they're finally getting used. Chris Moeller wrote the captions. Here's part two of the Live to Ride, Ride to live story by the Maddog.
Friday, 4/8/94 It’s about 7:00 pm. The house is empty except for Big Island and Jay. Everybody is working for the moving company today. Moving is a sketchy deal. Crazy ex-cons on speed moving FBI