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The 2015 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series, owned and operated by the Atlantic Bike Stunt Alliance, will celebrate its fourth year of providing a platform of competition for amateur and professional freestyle BMX athletes. Onlookers at the events will experience many of the same stunts performed at largely televised competitions similar to those seen at the X Games. The contest series finished its first stop in Athens, GA on April 25 and the tour continues on to Raleigh this weekend.

The Raleigh stop will host the tour’s only Dirt BMX competition on Friday, May 15 at Lake Crabtree County Park. The following two days of this event will be held inside the Dorton Arena at the widely attended Got to Be NC Festival and feature Park (ramps), Flatland, Street, and Jump (rhythm) competitions. The Dorton Arena weekend activities will also include vendors, such as Lairdframe and Airtype Designs, and additional entertainment,

With 27’500 visitors the Bike Days 2015 have set a new record. This crowd got attracted by nice weather and a long list of product premiers as the 275 exhibitors at the bicycle expo had 20 entirely new products on display. The MTB dirtjump contest was won by newcomer Nicholi Rogatkin while Viki Gomez was the best rider in the BMX flatland competition.

It has been an extraordinarily successful weekend without any incidents for the organizers of the Bike Days. The seventh edition