Tickets for the world’s most progressive BMX contest, Red Bull Empire of Dirt, will today go on sale at redbull.co.uk/empireofdirt. Priced at just £5 per day, this is a fantastic opportunity to see the world’s best BMX riders taking on the huge course that will be built at London’s Alexandra Palace for the competition. 36 riders will compete on Saturday 19th May to win one of 16 places in the final rounds which will take place on Sunday 20th May.
Unique connection of bmx dirt jump event and rock’n'roll music festival will be held in Jicin, Czech Republic. You can expect amazing course of 7 jumps designed by Tomas Kudrnac, Dusan Antalik and Martin Capek, more in trails style than dirt jump, check the pics. The music part will include about 8 concerts going from hardcore to alternative, guitars on all the time for sure. That all for free, count also cheap and excellent Czech beer, beautiful and hot chicks, good time and party all the time. I mean anything a guy can want.
The fine folks at DC Europe hosted an online competition on FATBMX. They had five pairs of DC Shoes to give away. The correct answer to the question was: Kye Forte and Patrick Guimez. Those two riders are a member of the European BMX DC team.
The competition is now closed. The five winners are:
-Stijn Leijzer (NED)
-Sebastian Banaszczuk (POL)
-Wesley Ilegems (BEL)
-Clemens Kartmann (AUS)
Shannon Gillette April 10
Sig Cools April 10 27 years old
Penny Westman April 10
Sean Sexton April 11 26 years old
Max Cleuren April 11 19 years old
Marvin G Church Jr April 12 52 years old
Ricardo Laguna April 13 30 years old
Desmond Tessemaker April 13
Tom Justice April 14 23 years old
Sabine Bont April 14 24 years old
Eric Rothenbusch April 15 38 years old
Boy Janssen April 15 25 years old
Joey Garcia April 16 34 years old
Bas de Bever April 16
Tory Nyhaug April 17 20 years old
Our friends at DC Europe have agreed to give out 5 pairs of shoes in the following FATBMX X DC Shoe Co. online competition. The shoes that are up for grabs are the Anvil for the boys, and the Bristol kicks for the girls. Product descriptions can be viewed below, but first let's cut to the chase. Here's the deal. You answer the following question:
Name two riders that are on the European DC BMX pro team?
Send your answer to: win @ fatbmx.com together with your shoe size, address and phone number. We will pick 5 winners on April 1st. This is not an April fools joke by the way.
Bob Haro, known as the “Father of Freestyle”, is paying tribute to the sport he pioneered with his new IKONIX limited edition 30th Anniversary BMX Freestyle bike. Drawing on a legacy of design and performance, these bikes will be the ultimate tribute to thirty years of BMX freestyle innovation and style with only 540 premium-crafted bikes being produced for release in summer 2012.
“2012 marks three decades since I created the first bike for freestyle riding. I’m still a BMXer at heart, so I am proud and amazed by where other riders have taken it over the years,” said Bob Haro.
Simple Session 12 LIVE webcast made history again, becoming the most popular action sports webcast out there with nearly one million unique views during the two days of the event! In 2011, 148,758 unique viewers tuned in to watch Simple Session LIVE, adding up to over 500,000 with replays and additional clips. In 2012, the event attracted a massive 147% more viewers, reaching out to 367,996 unique viewers. With replays and additional clips, Simple Session 12 reached 944,008 unique viewers within two days of the event on all sites that use the Freecaster player.
According to Freecaster.tv founder Raymond Dulieu, Simple Session is now not only the most watched webcast on Freecaster.tv, but "hands down the most popular online webcast for action sports worldwide".
"I consider a unique viewer to be as valuable as a person attending an event on-site as the internet viewer is not a passive spectator. How many action sports can claim to reach almost 400 thousand fans? To my experience none.
In 2012, the Fise gets a makeover! New logo, new website... this year is the year of change for the International Festival of extreme sports. In one month and a half, the Montpellier Fise arrives on the "Berges du Lez".Meet us during the Ascension week end from the 16th to the 20th of May for a 16th edition with as always more riders, more shows, more vibes but also heaps of new things, free initiations for all and of course BMX, Roller, Mountain Bike, Skateboard and Wakeboard contests...
Nico Does April 2 42 years old Jay Eggleston April 2
Mark Lee-sing April 2 50 years old
Chris Potts April 3 42 years old
Colin Stiles April 3
Matthew Beringer April 4 35 years old
Matt Bischoff April 4 38 years old
Alex Bourguignon April 4 23 years old
Dave Mirra April 4 38 years old
Joel Alamo April 5
Chris Day April 6
Michel Carmona April 6 38 years old
Brian Tunney April 6 38 years old
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.