Bart de Jong
The 2015 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series, owned and operated by the Atlantic Bike Stunt Alliance, will celebrate its sixth year of providing a platform of competition for amateur and professional freestyle BMX athletes. Onlookers at the events will experience many of the same stunts performed at largely televised competitions similar to those seen at the X Games. The series will kickoff in Athens, GA on Saturday, April 25 at the widely attended Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight in downtown. The first stop of the tour will feature Park and Flatland freestyle BMX competitions and welcomes competitors of all skill levels, culminating with the Pro classes as they perform gravity-defying stunts similar to those seen at the Dew Action Sports Tour and X Games.
Following the Athens stop, the series will continue on to Raleigh, NC for a multi-day event, beginning on Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17. The Raleigh stop will again host the tour’s only
For the third year in a row the Westside BMX club will play host to one of the biggest events on the domestic BMX calendar, as it gets set to host rounds five and six of the BMX Australia National Series over two days on February 28 and March 1. The series has offered up some thrilling racing so far, most recently in Shepparton for rounds three and four, where Bodi Turner claimed a pair of victories in the elite men’s category, while Melinda McLeod stopped Caroline Buchanan’s run of three straight victories when she secured round four in the elite women.
Confirmed starters for the upcoming rounds include 2014 National Series elite champions Turner and world number one Buchanan, American star Barry Nobles and Bunbury’s 2012 Olympian and 2013 World Championships runner up Lauren Reynolds.
Western Australian Reynolds is currently ranked second overall in the series behind Buchanan, and will be hoping to grab her first win of the campaign to help close the gap.
FTO Street series. Pro Results skatepark Sweatshop, The Hague, Netherlands. 14 February 2015.
FTO street round 1 Pro results:
1) Jack Nieraeth 89
2) Nicholas Tangerine 86,6
3) Kadeem Eiland 84
4) Daan van Wezel 81,3
5) Janos Baars 78
6) Pim Scheers 77
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.