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Bowl contest: 1. Ben Hennon 2. Kevin Kalkoff 3. Geoff Slattery 4. Stefan Lantschner 5. Dylan Smith 6. Sebastien Keep 7. Markus Braumann 8. Alex Valentino 9. Hannu Cools 10. Tobias Wicke Pool Shark: Geoff Slattery
Fiat Qubo: Stefan Lantschner
Photo Award: Rutger Pauw – Team Europe
Favourite Film: Alex Barret – Team France
-DJ has a new Tattoo. He wanted a BMX tattoo and he wanted something with a microphone. He talked to Mark Webb's tattoo guy who came up with the chain coming out of the tattoo. You should also ask DJ for a business card next time you see him. Too funny. 
-After the Kortrijk comp Sean Burns and Geoff Slattery joined Stew Johnson to go film for the Anthem 2 video. They're trying to stay in Europe for 6 weeks traveling from couch to couch. They'll try to make it to the World's too next month so catch up with them there.-Talking about the world's, have you registered yet? If you want to ride, you have to register online. Do it now to avoid stressing about it when you show up because you won't be able to ride. It's not too hard to send an e-mail, is it? Hit this link for the right form. Holy smokes, just noticed that registration is already closed, but you can send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to see if there is a spot left. The world's take place in three days and cannot handle 150 competitors in each class in dirt, park, vert, mini and flatland.
-Mike Vincent has arrived in China and is undergoing treatments and surgery. Leave a message for him HERE to show that the BMX community is behind him. 
-"Big" Dave Harrison is still alive and waiting for people to send in their custom frame sizes over at FBM. Andy Zeiss did so and won't be riding a different frame for a long time. Get the top tube length you want, pick your drop out, your BB height, head tube angle, brake lugs (or no brake lugs) and dave will weld it up in the USA with 4130 CrMo. That is what we call "CUSTOM". The way it's set up is amazing. Go check it out for yourself. Not sure if he got some sort of special treatment but Andy's frame was done in less than a week.-Mankind has a new website.
-Ben Hennon is off King Kong and receives support from Seventies now. Latest frame we saw him ride was a Federal.
-Among those Europeans who are going to Chicago to ride the Dew Tour (qualifier) are Alessandro Barbero (already in), Mark Webb, Maxime Charveron and Harry Main. It's going to be one heck of a qualifying event with so much talent in one place.-The weekend after the IBMXFF World's in Cologne, Germany the BMX Playtime contest is taking place in Hasselt, Belgium. FATBMX will be there and like I said, I love Belgium so I'm looking forward to another good weekend there.
-We've been giving riders some coverage through the daily FAT Favourite posts. If you feel like you're being left out, answer the questions and add 3-4 pics and we'll get you on the site at some point. A few hundred days to go this year so it will be your turn too even if it's in December.
FAT Favourites this week came from:-Jason Enns
-Neil Keddie
-James Smith
-Tommy Lauque
-Jukka Maennena
-Chris Boehm
-Anthony Napolitan
Coming up are Jared Eberwein, Timo van Lierop, Josh Hult, Markus Reuss and we've got a few open spots for next week so get to work.
- Mark Vos is going to Denmark next month to ride the concrete park at the Roskilde Festival. You can also see Mark on a few pages in the latest RIDE UK mag. If you like to party, find Mark's new place on 27 June. It's his housewarming fiesta. -You have to respect the people who work hard on getting a skatepark going in their own town. It's tougher than you think. It's lots easier to show up when it's done. But if you don't support it now, there might be nothing to ride. James Hamilton-Martin has asked for your support. Go HERE to sign the petition.
-Don't believe the Hype. In other FIT Bike Co news, the Stay FIT video is on schedule and will premier in Las Vegas around Interbike time. There will be two showings. One at 7pm for those who are not allowed to drink (the under 21-s in the USA), and one showing at 9pm for everyone who wants to get wasted. The House Of Blues is the venue and the night is sponsored by FIT, Lotek, Odyssey and RIDEBMX. 24 September 2009. Mark that date.-Upcoming BMX events. If we are not there, can you make a report for us? That also goes for the Dew Tour events. We can probably score you a press pass if you can make us some sort of report. We love to cover it all but we cannot be at all places at the same time.
2009/06/13 - VansBmxChess
2009/06/14 - Tour Dur Laarbeek 5
2009/06/20 - Hellentrailsjam 2009
2009/06/20 - REVOLCON BMX ROUND 2
2009/06/20 - Hot Summer Jam
2009/06/26 - Dew Tour event 1, Chicago
2009/06/27 - City voice
2009/06/27 - Bob's Backyard Jam
2009/07/10 - IBMXFF World Championships
2009/07/10 - Nass 2009
2009/07/18 - BMX Playtime Hasselt
2009/07/23 - Nike 6.0 HB BMX Pro
2009/07/24 - HARBORSHRED
2009/07/24 - BIG in BAVARIA
2009/07/25 - Rushden Bmx Jam 09, Rushden, Northants, UK
2009/07/30 - X Games 15
2009/08/01 - Rushden Bmx Jam 09, Rushden, Northants, UK
2009/08/07 - DK Dirt Circuit
2009/08/09 - Sweettrails Jam 2009
2009/08/13 - Dew Tour round 3, Portland, Oregon
You can submit your event to this list by going to the FATBMX event schedule (hit submit event). The Gatorade Freeflow people have not done so yet but sent the folloing info:-The Gatorade Free Flow Tour will be having BMX park and vert contests on Sunday, June 14 in Florence, Ky. Here are the details of the contest. When: Sunday, June 14, 2009 1pm. - BMX park and vert. Where: Ollies Skatepark, 8171 Dixie Highway, Florence, KY 41042. Ph 859.525.9505. Now if you're going to that one or if you plan on going to any of the other FreeFlow events, hit us up if you feel like being a reporter.
-FISE Experience MONT DE MARSAN PRO RESULTS:
1 Alessandro BARBERO 500 points
2 Jean-Baptiste PEYTAVIT 450 points
3 Georgy DOREMUS 400 points
4 Simone BARRACO 350 points
5 Fabien FRANCOIS 300 points
-Pro flatland results Movistar Extreme festival Barcelona, Spain:
1st Matthias Dandois
2nd Viki Gomez
3rd Kotaro Tanaka
4th Martti Kuoppa
5th Nathan Penonzek
6th Guelo
7th Alex Jumelin
8th Raphael Chiquet
-Results Barcelona Extreme 5-6 June 2009:
1. Daniel "Naran" Peñafiel, 52,5 points
2. Michael Beran, 52 points
3. Sergio Layos, 47 points
4. Bjorn "Bommel" Mager, 46,5 points
5. Mike Saavedra, 46,5 points
6. Nicholi Rogatkin, 41 points
7. "Pitu", 40,75 points
8. Nil Soler, 40,5 points
9. Sergei Geier, 36,25 points
10. Senad Grosic, 35,5 points
-Old School lovers have loads of bikes to drool over in Mike de Wit's report on the Old School BMX Reunion and Show that was held in Arcadia last weekend. Gotta check it out lads.-We got our hands on the Vans book which has been a good read. Not done yet, maybe this weekend.
-Still waiting for that FATBMX piece. I thought I saw one on the way to Kortrijk, seriously. It was a crap piece but while passing it at 130 km/h I think I saw FAT in red. In the meantime we have some graffiti for you HERE and HERE.
-Elite BMX Standings Top Competition Series, The Netherlands1 ROY van den BERG 259 - 53
2 RAYMON van der BIEZEN 121 - 48
3 MARTIJN SCHERPEN 15 - 45
4 ROB van den WILDENBERG 72 - 45
5 MARTIJN JASPERS 92 - 40
-Sunday results ELITE MEN NBL Midwest National:
1 Jeff Upshaw
2 Tyler Faoro
3 Jared Becker
4 Josh Smith
5 Diego Carvallo
Calling it quits here. Have a good weekend. MX tomorrow, TDL on Sunday.
BdJ
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.