Bart de Jong
Name shop: Signature BMX
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Years in business: 13 years on January
Employees: 2, Mikko Suni full-time, Antti Huotari part-time.
Did you ever go to school to learn how to run a (BMX) business or did you just 'send it'?
Signature BMX: We just sent it and still are sending it. We first thought of having a clothing brand and started selling some bmx bike parts to cover the cost of clothing side. Sales started to pick up before we even had much of a clothing available. Just some shirts under the name of Signature. That’s pretty much what ever happened on that side. We focused on selling bike stuff. It was just a mail order/webshop at first. We pretty much ran it from our home. Our real warehouse/shop/distro came to life after a couple of years. So I guess we’re still learning day by day something new.
Were your BMX industry contacts already made before you started your shop, or did you meet more people along the way?
Signature BMX: I knew Niels Thanild and Joe Rich and a few others before the business came along. I went to Interbike the next year as we started and made a lot of contacts there.
Nach fast vierjähriger Schaffenspause ist Christopher Bauer wieder am Start und fährt, als wäre er nie weg gewesen. Für dieses Video hat er sich einen Tag lang Deutschlands größten Betonpark vorgeknöpft, den Skatepark Eller in Düsseldorf. Willkommen zurück, Christopher!
Nils Jacob ist stets gut gelaunt, nie um einen frechen Spruch verlegen und hat mehr Energie als das Duracell-Häschen. Darüber hinaus fährt der junge Mann auch noch ziemlich gut Fahrrad, es gibt also ein paar gute Gründe, warum ihn die Homies vom 360 Grad Sportshop auf dem Lohhof Revival Jam im Mai 2017 ins Team geholt haben. Nach einigen Anlaufschwierigkeiten ist nun auch sein Welcome-Edit endlich fertig, für den Nils in und um München so manches Gap erlegt, am Lenker gedreht und seine Schuhsohlen zum Schmelzen gebracht hat. Check it out!
Flatland progression at 52 years old - new 2018 trick ideas, including some of my Master of Creativity entries and extras. Mixed this year with some trips back into the archives for some of my riding from 1984 to 2005.
Filmed over a period of two years in Zagreb, Osijek and Graz, this mixtape features riding from all ten of our crew riders and some guest clips. The song was made by our team members Marko Virovac and Filip Grbavac specifically for this video.
After putting in work over the last year we're proud to present our latest mixtape titled "Fake News". The video features riding from Bruno Hoffmann, Slayer Tom, Eddie Baum, Dima Prykhodko, Jan Hollinger, Felix Reinhart, Fernando Laczko & many more.
We are proud to announced the new pink Disco Stew color way on Broc's signature Vessel V3 Frame...
Kink Pro Dan Coller brings more heat from the streets in his riding promo for his signature Contender Frame, available now!
The gorilla that is Jordan O'kane put some serious work into this! Teaming up with the homie Oscar Daeche, they set off to take on the British weather and put some spots to rest to show off his new signature bars the "Air Jordans" which are available for you to buy now!
Between the 30th November and the 2nd of December, the Malta BMX Association hosted the 5th BMX Fest - Xmas Edition International Event at the BMX warehouse 086 in Pembroke. Over 30 foreigners traveled to Malta for this event, where 22 international BMX Athletes competed over the weekend. The main competition took place on Sunday during the Open competition where 18 BMX athletes competed, 4 being local riders. It was 14 year old Dutch rider Jari Roggeveen who took 3rd place, followed by UK rider Jack Mould in 2nd and Defending Champion Tom van den Bogaard from the Netherlands who took the win for the second consecutive year.
A best trick competition was also held during the open competition which was won by UK Rider Jack
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.