Preparations are well underway and the summer edition of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds has confirmed more competing top riders from all over the globe. Throwing themselves into the miniramp for honours and a decent amount of cash are BMXers Ben Hennon (UK), Mark Webb (UK) and Tobias Wicke (GER). In order to get the audience equally wet and sweaty, ska-punkers Mad Caddies have been confirmed, along with headlining legends Rise Against! Fans and visitors of this year’s Summer Session should come prepared, because the 2009 Summer Session will once again deliver „extremely“ superb actions!
Morphine Industries signs Addison Sasso to Street/Park/Dirt Crew. Addison got our attention through Morphine Industries’ Guru and Crew T.M., Marlowe Buelvas. “I have been riding with Addison for a while and have watched him shred everything in site. He needed to get hooked up with a company that would get behind his riding and help him blow-up”, tells Buelvas. “Addison has always been riding busted up bikes/parts due to his “go-for” it approach, like his 17 step bar-spin bomb drop, so I though he would be a great fit with Morphine Industries.”
Nike 6.0 has teamed up with Beat Gasoline to encourage youth to use the power of sport to beat gasoline. Gasoline itself isn’t the enemy. The enemy is its use. The Nike 6.0 BMX team is fighting global gasoline consumption by doing what they love: riding bikes. Not only does riding a bike reduce impact on the environment, the world is more interesting behind bars. Watch the 6.0 athletes story and share your own Beat Gasoline story by uploading a video to beatgasoline.com, illustrating how you use sport to power your life,
Bikes, beer and some bitches. That was the spirit of Vladdie's Birthdayjam! In the middle of nowhere ''Vlissingen polder'' on an old trailerpark the locals built some nice dirtlines. The weather was pretty nice and so as the riding locals and gast rider of al places from the country jamming for fun.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.