Bart de Jong
2023 UCI World Cup R3+4, Papendal, The Netherlands by Niek Kimmann
Name: Diego Galdames
Age: 28
Hometown: Buin, Chile
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Extremezone, FastHouse, ride4fun , ridetsg, gym.fitsb
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: My backyard
-BMX video: Boyd Hilder welcome to federal
-Food: Lasagna
-Travel destination: Brasil
-Riders to ride with: Kenneth, Ivan Galdames, Emerson, Alex.
-Car: bike? Yamaha GSXR 750
-Movie: Inception
-Colour: Black
-Shoes: Fiveteen
-Bike company: Colony
-BMX contest: Fise
-Bike shop: Extremezone
It was a short week given the Fourth of July fallin’ on Tuesday but we got after it anyway! In the works this week are 24” ATFs, lots of bars heading off and coming back from paint… a fresh batch of raw material plus a new MOD color alert: Husky Boy – a homage to Nutter’s dirtbike.
Tyler Veatch for The Secret BMX Shop! Tyler has been crushing it for years but this one hits real good. Sit back and soak it up.
Results UEC BMX Racing European Continental Championships. Besancon, France 07 - 09 July 2023.
Elite Men:
1 Niek KIMMANN 27 NED 1 300.00 UCI ranking points
2 Jérémy RENCUREL 28 FRA 2 258.00
3 Romain RACINE 26 FRA 3 222.00
4 Leo GAROYAN 23 FRA 4 191.00
It's no secret that Justin Spriet's got that special sauce... so it's especially enticing to see how one of SoCal's cleanest works his way around the kitchen!
Les riders MANUAL se sont associés à FREEGUN pour partir en roadtrip ! Un départ de Montpellier pour finir à Strasbourg, tout en passant par Marseille et Lyon, Lilian Vallon, Louis Suillot et Vianney Sabre se sont régalés sur les différents skatepark et spots!
It's time to let 'em have it! Courtesy of Animal Bikes, we'll be uploading sections from their latest full-length video, 'LET EM HAVE IT' every Saturday and Sunday this Summer. Next up, the boss man - Ralph Sinisi.
2023 UCI BMX FREESTYLE WORLD CUP (PARK); Anthony JEANJEAN & Huimin ZHOU take the win in Brussels
It was in sunny Brussels on Sunday that the top international riders competed in the finals the third round of the 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup (Park). The athletes set the ramps on fire for explosive Men's & Women's finals, and it is the Frenchman Anthony JEANJEAN, already crowned last year in Brussels, and the Chinese Huimin ZHOU, first at FISE Montpellier, who won.
With 2 stratospheric runs full of amplitude, Anthony JEANJEAN confirmed his number 1 ranking in Brussels and delighted the audience with his tricks such as a 720 bar, a triple whip backflip and a double back flip. His final score was 92.56 pts, ahead of Japan's Rimu NAKAMURA (91.56 pts) and Australia's Logan MARTIN (89.41 pts).
USA BMX Blackjack Nationals Reno, Nevada, United States 09 July 2023
Elite Men:
1 Kamren LARSEN 24 USA 1 100.00 UCI ranking points
2 Federico VILLEGAS 29 ARG 2 86.00
3 Makieva HOPSON 26 USA 3 74.00
4 Joseph LETO 23 USA 4 64.00
5 Jack DAVIS 21 AUS 7 55.00
6 Izaac KENNEDY 23 AUS 8 47.00
7 Jesse WELCH 23 USA 40.00
Elite Women:
1 Alise WILLOUGHBY 32 USA 1 100.00 UCI ranking points
2 Daleny VAUGHN 22 USA 2 86.00
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.