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The first round of the Fise Experience tour took place in Gregam over the weekend. We posted that Maxime Charveron won the first stop. Now we have the full results and a few  more photos to show you. If you ride all rounds of the FISE Experience you have a chance of winning that FIAT Panda 4X4 Cross SUV (hey, that's what the license plate says, we didn't make that up).

BMX Pro:
1 Maxime Charveron
2 Gregory Mason
3 Louis Peyre
4 Christophe Olivier
5 Romain Coderc
6 Erwan Alaphillipe
7 Adrien Dacquay

BMX Amateur:

Carhartt came up with the idea to have one of their team riders invite three to five fellow team riders for a couple of days to show them his local spots. Perico was the first rider to invite some friends to Malaga and he showed them around. Arthur Dietrich, Stefan Lantschner and Paddy Gross were the riders that made it to the Spanish sunshine for Carhartt's VISIT MY TOWN stop number one. Paddy wrote a little story about it and the crisp photos come from Kay Clauberg. Expect a video soon.

Since the idea was born of „Visit my town“ I've been really excited about what's to come. Well, on February 1st Stefan Lantschner, Arthur Dietrich, Kay Clauberg and myself packed our bags to go and visit Perico in beautiful Malaga, Spain. The most of you may know that Malaga is the home of some dudes like Ruben Alcantara or Javier Ortega. So we've been even more excited to hang out with those guys and ride with them. 

Name: Maxime Charveron
Age: 17
Hometown: Brignais near Lyon, France
Sponsors: Mirraco, Nike6.0, Teamloc

You just won the first round of the FISE Experience contest series. How was the contest?
Maxime: The contest was good with good guys (riders and staff).

Athletes: Corey Bohan (Aus), Corey Martinez (USA).
Location: Fiji

Corey Bohan, the most decorated BMX dirt rider ever embarked on Red Bull Tabua, a unique journey to Fiji in search of never before ridden terrain to capture historic riding moments. Why BMX in Fiji? Because it’s never been done before….

While Corey’s competitive history and acclaim are unprecedented

The third Beat City Jam went down in Münster on February 16th 2008. Unfortunately, not as many riders as in the past two years showed up, but the turnout was still pretty good, with cars from all over Germany parked outside the skatepark. The jam was held at Skater’s Palace indoor park and like always the organizers Jochen, Roland and Alex took care of a Bmx event like it should be. This jam is all about chill riding with friends, but there were also a couple of little „contests“ to keep the visitors satisfied. The first contest was held in Münster's rather wide miniramp and had kids and pros riding the ramp together. The comp was nice to watch and had plenty of bangers as well as smooth riding. The 10 meter wide miniramp has been overhauled since last years jam and a roll in channel and a small subbox were added. Daniel Tünte, competed in the kids’ class, but has moves like a pro. A nice 360 to Fakie across the channel, clean Whips and Barspins to Tailtaps were his ticket to the winner’s lounge.

Michael Beran won the RIDE IT Winterjam in Riga last weekend. The Czech put his box  jumping skills to work and finished ahead of Italian Alessandro Barbero who is still recovering from a shoulder injury and was riding at 80%. That was good enough to show 3-whips on the box (both directions), a windshield wiper and a 3-double whip. England's Harry Main finished up the top three in Riga. 

Man what a good trip we just did to Cuba, that is an amazing country, so much history, a total different point of view. The show got cancelled because of the rain which is natural now. We hope to do it again soon. Red Bull will invite us again in the middle of the year. BMX is a new sport in Cuba and all the riders are very pumped on learning, you should see the bikes they have since it is not allowed to import goods from other countries, there are some crazy laws that I just can't understand. I like to think that if I want to buy a bike part, I just go to the store and buy it. But that is not the way it is Cuba. It seems that the government wants to separate their people from the outside world. We all helped as much as we could, Nathan Penonzek got so much sfuff from Vans and some used parts from his friends from Chile, Redbull Venezuela got some parts and I managed to give away wethepeople parts. Next time we should get donations of bike parts to take to Cuba, I guess with time ahead we can get a bunch of stuff together. I'm sure Redbull can manage to send it there.

In nineteen-seventy when I was five years old my father would drive my brother Devin and myself on Friday nights to begin competing on a new kind of race course at a neighborhood city park. Ron Mackler was putting on the twenty inch BMX bicycle races at Palms Park on Overland Avenue in West Los Angeles. The course was a combination dirt and cement race track that had six burm turns that were built around tall Douglas Fir trees and a small jump at the bottom of a hill. At the start of the race you had to be the racer in front first into the turn if you wanted to win. 

BMX GAMES 2008, Australia.

Results pro flatland:
1st Terry adams (USA)
2nd Simon O'brien (Australia)
3rd York Uno (Japan)

The Snickers 180 contest at the Simpel Session was a short little intermezzo. The comp was held right before the Park/Street finals and riders did have the chance to warm up before sending themselves over the 50 centimeter high kicker. There was plenty of space to get speed but the rollback needed to be pulled. That was a problem for a few riders. It actually took a while before the first 180 was pulled. In the competition were a.o. Rob Darden, Chase Hawk, Scotty Cranmer, Karl Poynter, Ty Morrow,  Brad Simms , Garrett