Bart de Jong
Name: Jack Clark
Hometown: Benfleet Essex, England
Sponsors: tall.order, Vocalbmx, Vans shoes.
Instagram: @Jackclarkbmx
What's your best Simple Session memory?
Jack Clark: My first year I came to Simple Session in 2012 it was crazy, the biggest ramps I had ever ridden at that time, an I did a new trick for me haha 360 quad barspin.
Biggest crash you've ever seen on a BMX?
Jack Clark: Em I hate to try an think back to bad crashes I've seen, but one would definitely be Scott Hamlin's years ago at Nass 09 or 10 I believe. He fell on a superman flip to his head on the jump box! Scott was okay as always haha!
Have you ever eaten fastfood for a month straight?
If there's a will, there's a way. We got sent this photo which is perfect for today's pin up section but when we were searching for the shot on Instagram, it was gone. Statigram, nothing, Instagram, no luck. So we had to screen-grab it to make it work. Back from the phone to the e-mail making a screen shot, cropping it, re-naming the shot making it a .jpg, all for you to see while we should be packing the bag to go to Tallinn. That plane won't wait. Gotta go but enjoy that pin-up shot.
Today is the kick off of the Soulcycle BMX Championships with 4 events in 3 days! Free entrance at all events!
Program & locations:
Friday April 29 from 13h till 17h
Soulcycle BMX Championships Park
Location: Marnixbowl, in front of Marnixstraat 103, 1015 VH Amsterdam
Friday April 29 from 14h till 17h Qualifier & 20.30h till 22h Finals
Soulcycle BMX Championships Flatland.
Location: Westerunie. Klönneplein 4-6, 1014 DD Amsterdam
Saturday April 30 from 12h till 21h
Soulcycle BMX Championships Dirt.
Location: Roest: Jacob Bontiusplaats 1, 1018 PL Amsterdam
Mongoose Bikes, a brand of Dorel Industries, Inc. (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) announced today an all-new format for the fifth annual Mongoose Jam. Rather than a live, three discipline event, five teams captained by Mongoose BMX pros will compete in a video edit contest featuring Street, Dirt, and Park riding. Each team will have five days during Woodward West’s ninth week of camp to create the best video edit.
From July 31st through August 5th fifteen pros, five amateurs, and five videographers will shoot and produce five team edits. The teams’ video edits will be screened for all Week Nine campers at Woodward West’s theater on Friday, August 5th and judged by BMX industry veterans. Winning edits will be selected based on originality and style, the variety and difficulty of tricks used and the video production quality.
Mongoose BMX riders Pat Casey, Greg Illingworth, Kevin Peraza, Paul Ryan and Ben Wallace will each captain one of the
Name: Andres Lainevool
Hometown: Tartu, Estonia
Sponsors: Mutantbikes, Vans
Instagram: andreaslainevool
What's your best Simple Session memory?
Andres Lainevool: Probably it's something at the Partys. But, it's always awesome to ride the course with the best riders at the game..
Biggest crash you've ever seen on a BMX?
Andres Lainevool: Hmmm, I've seen few really bad ones..but the worst one was in Latvia. Ride in peace buddy!
Name: Niels Bensink
Age: 19
Hometown: Voorst, the Netherlands
Sponsors: Bensink BMX Gates, Schijf BMX Tracks, Sportbrillenshop.com, HT-Components, Aannemersbedrijf Tessemaker, Meybo Bikes, Box Components, Troy Lee Designs, Tioga Tires
Instagram: @NielsBensink
Bike check:
-Frame: Meybo Pro XXXL
-Forks: BOX X-series
-Headset: BOX/Promax
-Stem: BOX Delta 60mm
-Bars: BOX Maximus 8.0’’
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.