Highlights included: - Riding a drained 120 year old reservoir. - What could well be the strangest skatepark in the world in the ghettos of Manchester? - Sleeping in hedge when we couldn’t find a hotel. - A mini ramp in a pub beer garden. - The whole crew taking to the track for some BMX racing action.
Here is a list of the cast and crew:
1 Björn Mager 30
2 Sergej Geier 29
3 Derrick Girard 28
4 Thorsten Kurth 27
5 Mark König 26
6 Björn Heyer 25
7 Barry Kohne 24
8 Timm Wiegmann 23
9 Max Herbolzheimer 22
10 Daniel Wedemeier 21
11 Sprosse 20
12 Rene Kade 19
13 Mark Vos 18
14 Bas Brouwer 17
15 Marcus Wallborn 16
16 Lucky Wolter 15
1. Mat Olsen 95.25
2. Kyle Braswell 92.50
3. Joe Nelson 91.25
4. Garrett Reeves 90.50
5. Doug Coffey 90.00
6. Steven Mueller 88.75
7. Keith Schmidt 86.25
8. Cory Berglar 85.75
9. Nikko Gatarz 84.50
10. Pedro Hurtado 83.0
17 & Older Dirt Finals
1. Mat Olson - 94.75
2. Garrett Reeves - 91.00
3. Doug Coffey - 89.75
4. James Hawkins - 89.25
Viki Gomez (Spain), Alex Jumelin (France), Justin Miller (USA), Martti Kuoppa (FIN), Michael Steingraeber (Germany), Hiroya Morizaki (Japan), Matt Wilhelm (USA), York Uno (Japan), Keelan Phillips (UK), Nathan Penonzek (Earth), Frank Lukas (Germany),
-Day 1: Money spent: Euro 28.11
First day of our short tour was a cheap and easy one, we had a BBQ at Paul's Boutique's shop with some Hamburgers and Frikandellen, filled the cooler with Bavaria beer, filled the Ford Courier and Hyundai Tuscon, made some team pictures and took off with help of our friend TomTom to Trier, Germany.
The Pro/AM contest was held on the Braun Spine Ramp and the competing riders gave the public what they wanted to see – incredible runs with massive tricks. Amongst the tricks on view were barspin to fufanu on the subbox (Ben Wallace), backflip tailwhip (Bommel), fufanu on the backrail (Phil Aller), x-up flair (Mark Webb), 360 tiretap to downside whip in (Ben Wallace), toothpick footjam double tailwhip (Mark König) and backflip to manual (Barry Köhne) – to name but a few...
Results Pro:
The Helm Jam was pushed forward by Mike van de Kerkhof who got enough people inspired to have a good day of riding together. The poor solo speaker was abused all day long by Mr. D, it was possible to buy some drinks and some food. The local kids had two pimped bikes for sale (10 Euros each) and two big trophies were waiting for the winners of the high jump and best trick contests.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.
