Monster Energy’s Jamie Bestwick Claims Silver in BMX Vert at X Games Minneapolis 2019
The legend keeps growing! Monster Energy congratulates Jamie Bestwick on his silver medal in BMX Vert at X Games Minneapolis 2019 on Thursday night. In front of a stoked crowd at the Armory venue in Downtown Minneapolis, the 48-year-old BMX icon from Nottingham, United Kingdom, faced the world’s best BMX riders to bring home the 20th X Games medal of his storied career. After struggling with constant rain interruptions during last year’s BMX Vert event, officials in Minneapolis decided to host the competition in an indoor setting this time around. The Armory music venue, where musical performances by the likes of Diplo and Wu-Tang Clan will unfold this weekend, provided the perfect backdrop for the competitive six-rider final session.
Each rider only had two 30-second runs to post a top score on the massive 14-foot vert ramp, so the pressure meter was in the red zone in Minneapolis on Thursday night. No stranger to heated showdowns, Bestwick came in as a veteran of the sport – actually the oldest athlete across all disciplines at X Games Minneapolis 2019 – and hungry for gold after settling for silver in Minneapolis over the past two years.
Fully healed from last year’s spinal fusion surgery, the most dominant BMX rider in X Games history came in guns blazing with a perfect run on his first attempt: Building speed across the entire length of the deck, Bestwick rolled into a high-flying no-hander, huge alley-oop grizzly air, tall lookback air, Superman down whip, turndown flair traveling across the whole ramp, massive alley-oop 540, extended
Paterico setup some front brakes last week and immediately came through with some crazy and clean moves.
"I CAN SEE THE RAYS" ft. Steve, Andy, Booty, Eric, Thomas, Waylon & Gaspar by STRANGER
BMX biking at the hot ass Sk8 perk with Steve Churchill, Stephan August, Andy Garcia, Eric Lichtenberger, Thomas Macie, Waylon Burroughs & special guest Gaspar Guendulain (Eighties).
The riders at the No Mercy Jam showed no mercy to the Mercyland in Zwickau, Germany. Check it out!
Wenn man einen Sponsor an Land zieht, gehört es sich, als Dank für die Unterstützung einen Welcome-Edit zu filmen. Das weiß auch Til Urban, der neulich zwei Nachmittage lang losgezogen ist, um im Norden Münchens ein Video für den 360 Grad Sportshop zu filmen, von dem er seit einiger Zeit gesponsert wird. Til hat Spaß am Radfahren, ist ein großer Freund des Half Cabs (darf man die so noch nennen?) und sein 360 Pop ist ziemlich beachtlich, also schaut in seine Clipausbeute aus den Parks in Lohhof, Dachau und Markt Indersdorf doch einfach mal rein.
The dudes get a ton of practice, so today was pretty mellow in the sense that not everyone was riding (Garrett showed up at the end, Chad is nursing his ankle, and Bruno gets here tonight) and no one was really stressing much of anything. Check the highlights and shouts to Andrew Knight.
X Games is a wild event. Always interesting to see it from the riders view, so I hooked a GoPro Hero 7 Black to a few willing dudes and let them give you a first hand look at what it's like to drop in on Big Air, Park, and Dirt. Thanks to Mykel Larrin, Logan Martin, Anthony Napolitan, and Brian Fox for being down.
RADQUARTIER | Pumptrack Litzendorf by Ben Straessle (in German)
Ein riesen Andrang bei der Eröffnung des Pumptrackanlage in Litzendorf bei Bamberg! Nach einigen Wochen der Vorbereitung und den Bau durch das Radquartier, durften die Kinder und Jugendlichen endlich auf die fertiggestellte Anlage und losbiken. Ein großartiger Erfolg und eine einzigartige Anlage, die sogar mit Induktionsschleifen versehen ist und ein Rundenzähler in Echtzeit die gefahrenen Runden wieder gibt.
The Legendary Dream Boys went to BCN and needless to say shut it the fuck down and probably made the best BMX video ever. Standard behaviour. Not even loosing a bike in the sea can stop us "let's go shop get some goggles".
The Kellogg's BMX Championship was a hugely popular TV Series hosted by Mick Brown and Andy Ruffell. The show was broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in 1984 and 1985. The worlds biggest BMX racing & Freestyle stars from the USA and Europe took part and it ran over six weeks at tracks all over the UK, with a record Pro purse for the time. Old School stars like Stu Thomsen, Gary Ellis, Eddy King, Neil Ruffell, Andy Ruffell, Tim March, Geth Shooter, Andy Patterson, Brian Patterson, Nelson Chanady, Eric Rupe, Harry Leary, Tommy Brackens, Mike Miranda, Clint Miller, Greg Hill, Eddie Fiola, Mike Dominguez and may more took part over the two series.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.