FATBMX Your Online BMX News Resource Since 1998

-Upcoming events:
2010/04/18 - Helm Jam
2010/04/24 - Freestyle BMX & MTB Polish Championships
2010/04/24 - Dorchester Skatepark Jam
2010/04/24 - All American Nationals
2010/04/25 - T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds
2010/05/02 - Flame Trails jam
2010/05/07 - UCI BMX SX Copenhagen, DK
2010/05/08 - The 4130 Subway Series Ride!! Hollywood to Downtown LA!!
2010/05/08 - BMX Jump and Flatland Contest at Bike Days
2010/05/08 - Freedom Nationals
2010/05/09 - Tour Dur Laarbeek
2010/05/12 - fise
2010/05/15 - 20inch Trophy - Park Contest
2010/05/28 - Spring Nationals
2010/05/28 - adidas eyewear - Austrian King of Dirt 2010
2010/05/29 - Saint AvoldSchool BMX French Reunion
2010/06/04 - IBMXFF Freestyle World's
2010/06/04 - Summer Nationals
2010/06/05 - Com'In Lyon
2010/06/13 - Helm "Summer" Jam

-Sponsor changes this week:
Jourdan Barba on The Take
Pim van den Bos on/works for Monster
Jake Seeley on Drop Dead clothing
Cody Bowers on Solid
Mark Potoczny on Deluxe
Grant Castelluzzo on Mutiny
Nick Corsiglia off The Take

-FAT FAVs this week came from:
-Shawn Swain
-Blak Rob
-Ryan Wert
-Craig Passero
-Andre Postell
-Chris Silva
-Jake Seeley.
Interviews this week were done with BMXFU's Charlie Crumlish, and a duo interview with ARF's Aaron Cooke and Josh Perry who went into a four hour brain surgery today to remove a tumor. Thoughts are with him. If you're riding today, do a trick for him. All these interviews can be found in the PROFILER section on the FATBMX site.

-The big Money Race in Korea is taking place on Sunday. People took it easy on the sketchy track during time trials but this is how it turned out:
1. Maris Stromberg
2. Raymon van der Biezen
3. Rob van den Wildenberg
4. Alex Cameron
5. Edzus Treimanis
6. Jelle van Gorkom
7. Kevin Sprengers
8. Tyler Brown.
All 32 riders qualified for the main program. Timing was done with a stopwatch and a mobile phone. The average time was the final score. Sweet.

-Good Stuff (lists) this week came from:
-Tyler Faoro
-Vincent Pelluard
-Nicole Callisto
-Matt Pohlkamp
-Kris Fox
Look 'em up in the BMX Racing section in the left column. That's where all the race news is being stored.

-Torker fans should check out Paul de Jong's latest build. The 1983 280X. He's got one more coming so be prepared.

-We've booked our flight to Copenhagen for the second round of the UCI Supercross BMX World Cup. Hope the air clears up before that so we can actually step on board.

-FATBMX is rolling strong with the Workshop Wednesdays. Michael van der Lee found someone to help with his English to get the answers right. You can find them here.

-A bike check on a Hyper on FATBMX. Who would have ever thought. Spin to win.

-We posted 60 videos this week. Enough for you? Enough for me for sure. Going to call it quits. Friday has 36 minutes left. Need to hurry to send this out before midnight. Thanks for checking in. Keep in touch.

BdJ