Wow, what a crew of people this week. Riders, legends, industry people, young ones, media people.....happy B-day!19 January 1970 - Sébastien Woody Bonnot
19 January 19 - Karl Poynter
20 January 1966 - Dave Wootten (GCD)
21 January 1962 - Harold McGruther
22 January 1972 - Robbie Morales
23 January 1971 - Xavier Robleda
24 January 19.. - Paul Buchanan
25 January 2007 - Boyd de Jong
25 January 1979 - Mike Collins
Simpel Session 09 will be held on 17 and 18 January at the Saku Arena, Tallinn, Estonia. Simpel Session is the biggest winter BMX and skateboarding festival in Europe and also one of the most international extreme sport events in the world. This year, approximately 140 contestants from 26 countries will take part in Session. The large number of highly skilled participants in both sports guarantees excitement for the audience from the very beginning of qualifying rounds. In addition to the main events, the festival will feature the best trick competition in both BMX and skateboarding. Contestants include skater Adam Dyet and BMX-riders Garrett Reynolds, Brian Kachinsky The festival has done much to promote Estonia among BMX riders and skateboarders all over the world and in 2007, the portal Fatbmx selected Simpel Session as one of the 10 best BMX events. This year the festival is held for the 9th time and the festival is organized by Elamussport. Simpel Session will be hosted by Dave Duncan
Here's one for all the lightweight maniacs. A protoTtype KHE TI-frame with a flatland geometry. The geometry was kept as simple as possible to provide the maximum strength and a minimum of weight. The frame weighs only 980g. KHE: "We´ll build up a bike with all the lightweight parts we´ll find in our warehouse to see how far we 
Hey all…. As always I’ve been mega slack with helping Bart with fat Fridays but he emailed me a few days back asking for a bit of help this week so I put my superman suit on my texting thumb & fired off a text asking for help… here’s the text I sent & the following are some of the replies… “Roll up Roll up! What with me not having the funds to go to Estonia this weekend I’ve been handed the task of collecting as much BMX based news as possible to help make Bart’s life easier while he’s getting wasted with the rest of the European Circle. So, if you got ANYTHING no matter how trivial it may seem fire it over to me asap….” Here’s what I got back:
-Harry Main pulled flair to footjam on Jan 7th…. FLAIR TO FOOTJAM! Check it out online somewhere cause it's NUTS!
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.