The end of an era has come. After more than 15 years the Bensink BMX Gates compound will be taken down. To celebrate the history, work hours, jams, sessions and all the other memories it was time for one last jam. Over the years the yard has grown to be a BMX and mountainbike heaven with multiple riding options for everyone. The day was all about fun with friends with good music by a RedBull DJ, a BBQ, many drinks and a bonfire. Luckily the weather was on our sides too with sunshine all day. All-in-all made for good times, some crashes and plenty of laughs that went on till late in the night.
Source BMX / FIEND / Battle of the Brands / Challenges Edit 2020
Source BMX / FIEND / Battle of the Brands / Challenges Edit 2020: 1st place!
Get a closer look at Broc Raiford's current Matte Dusk Fade Darkwave setup.
Name: Bevan Cowan
Age: 29
Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand
Hook-ups/Sponsors: S&M Bikes, ANZ Bank
---The FAT favorite list---
-Spot to ride: So many options! Best lately would be anything in Lyon, France with the boys or Charmonix & Evian in the Alps
-BMX video: Mutiny Let's Get Mystical
-Website: pornhub.com
-Web video: S&M Wins purely for Kareem’s wild tyre ride at the end!
-Food: Beer
-Twitter to follow: N/A
-Person on Instagram: Right now, @fastandloosebmx
-Travel destination: Lyon and the Alps in France and Portland Oregon USA. In saying that, my home town, Auckland NZ is massively underrated.
Come along for the session as Alex builds up a fresh new SD frame and takes it out to break it in.
"This video was filmed over the last 2 years on and off with plenty of setbacks. We had a blast learning how to film each other and just getting out and having fun on our bikes like always." —Logan Penberg
Meet The Teams - BMX AVENUE, Montpellier France - Vans 'The Circle'
Meet The Teams - BMX AVENUE, Montpellier France - Vans 'The Circle'
What happens when you take three Wethepeople AM’s who have never met and send them to one of Europe’s most historical BMX cities for a week? Meet the PERFECT STRANGERS, featuring Tom Weikert, Dan Banks and Wiktor Skibinski. We'll be rolling out the main video this Friday, 10/9 featuring Tom, Dan and Wiktor as well WTP pros Jordan Godwin, Felix Prangenberg and WTP family riders Max Gaertig, Nico Van Loon and Giano Vacca.
Finally I have been at the ZooPark! I've travelled with VFL towards Priero to attend the C1 that Alessandro and the Italian federation organized in the park which he built near his house. I expected to have an epic day with Daniel Dhers, Daniel Wedemeijer, Nikita Ducarroz and all the athletes from our national team.
We crossed all of northern Italy, passing through Voghera to retrieve Patrick (@patriziodeturana), the best speaker in the game, up and down the hills of Barolo without even being able to taste at least a glass, pushing to start our working weekend. Unfortunately we also drove through villages severely affected by the previous day's flooding, a torment to see.
Arrived for dinner we joined the national team for a quick pizza in front of their hotel. In the team there were two newcomers, the guys who participated in the Italian championship a few weeks ago, Lucas Vega and Christian Ceresato. Unfortunately a lot of the other guys are missing due to ongoing injury.
We not stayed up late, just a couple of extra beers at the end of the dinner and straight to our rooms, Ale booked us two rooms in the hotel next to his house, so we were close by. We woke up fresh and rested
Things Seen Along the Way: BMX Freestyle 1994-2014 — Hardcover Book
We've got hundreds, if not thousands of pictures hidden on the attick. From the start of BMX in The Netherlands to shoe boxes full of photos from the first trips to San Diego as well as all the European events we went to back in the day. Most pics are of poor quality, taken by the pocket-camera that seemed to fit in the fanny pack together with the passport, the wallet and some keys. Keep in mind that this was during the pre-cell-phone era and taking pics at parties wasn't common. Although a lot of the photos ended up in FAT-'Zine issues 0 - 34, it would be interesting to dive into the photo pile one day to make a book. But that probably won't happen.
Jared Souney on the other hand managed to scan thousands of his photos and filed them around to form the 'Things Seen Along the Way' book and it's amazing. 360 photos printed in a book with over 400 pages. The book weighs 5 pounds and all 250 copies were sold in no-time. Albert Moonen and Paul de Jong are now the owners of the photo book and we flipped through the pages trying to put a name with each rider. The names are listed at the end of the book and we had to peek a few times in order to
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.