Straight from the doormat under the scanner. Issue 7 of 2024BMX arrived today. It's one of the few, BMX race only magazines out there so if you're into racing and don't care too much about a stylish lay-out and hi-quality pics, you should pick one up. For 5 Euros it's yours. It's just harder to make everything look good when it's not sunny out every day. This being the winter issue, or at least winter being the period that things were collected, makes it tough. Especially in the UK. Add to that a limited budget to hire all pro photographers and you can see the reason why. But the mag is made with love and it's all about racing, printed on quality paper with a glossy cover. It's got a poster (David Herman) and plenty of race reports (o.a. Manchester Open, Velofollies, Caen, Oldsmar Nationals). Dale Holmes and Marcus Bloomfield have got their columns, Jelle van Gorkom gets an interview as does Benji Armitage showing that you don't need to be an elite rider to get some coverage in 2024. Rider rep Roger Rinderknecht and John Ssawyer also get some attention in the March/April issue.
I’m not too happy about the way I was racing last weekend, but I did what I needed to do to get my Olympic Nomination… During my stay in California last week, my body felt recovered from all the training/ traveling activities the last few months and my wrist was okay, so I was looking forward to race the first UCI BMX Supercross of the season in Chula Vista, USA.
Our first practice on the SX track was Thursday. To be honest, I felt kind a slow on the track and wasn’t a big fan of the side wind that was pretty strong that day. Practice on Friday went way better, because most things went very smooth. Unfortunately I missed some track speed and that’s very important during time trial.
No big mistakes during time-trial, but because of the track speed that I’m missing I got the 24th fastest time out of 160 guys. I was not happy at all about that, because this time-trial was way slower than last year when I got 3rd place. It’s not weird that my time was slower, but I expected to be faster.
Well, the guys did pretty well also. But it was Magalie Pottier of France and Alise Post of the US who stood atop the winner’s podium for Redline and their respective countries following Saturday and Sunday’s main events. Saturdays Supercross event saw nearly 50 of the top women riders from around the world line up for the season opener. Magalie won all of her opening rounds and Alise led most of her early heats as well. But in the final, it was Magalie who fought off multiple charges from the competition to win her first World Cup victory. Alise finished fourth in the final as the second highest placed US rider.
Sunday’s racing stayed on the big track for the USA Cycling National Championships. Featuring only the best US riders, it was each Olympic Team prospect’s chance to show their stuff in true head to head competition. Like Saturday, reigning 2011
Early last week the Australian BMX team flew to America for the first round of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup of the year. The first stop we dropped into visit my sponsors at VSI Imports and picked up my new Speedco frame. I was a little worried on whether I would feel uncomfortable with only a few days on a new bike but It felt very similar to my old Intense frame just slightly stiffer... I love it :) Second stop in the states was Chipotle for the best burritos
Fields and Post earn elite titles as USA Cycling’s BMX Nationals conclude in California
Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) and Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline) took home elite national titles as the USA Cycling BMX National Championships wrapped up on Sunday. Nick Koehler (Tustin, Calif.) and Danielle George (Palmdale, Calif./Supercross BMX) also earned junior elite national titles on the supercross track on the final day of an action-packed week of BMX action in southern California. The event offered important USA Cycling BMX Power Ranking points, which will help determine the athletes who will represent the United States at the Olympic Games this summer in London. The sixth-annual national championship event began on Saturday with over 400 amateur BMX racers vying for the right to earn the Stars-and-Stripes on the traditional BMX track.
Elite and Junior Elite
The opening round of the 2012 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series in Chula Vista, CA. saw the best elite BMX riders in the world battle it in the birthplace of BMX during this Olympic season. Connor Fields (USA) was on fire all weekend and claimed victory in the elite men’s main with Sam Willoughby (AUS) claiming second. David Herman (USA) brought home the bronze for the U.S. Magalie Pottier (FRA) outperformed all other elite women to
Time Trials superfinal Men:1 FIELDS Connor USA 33.648
2 STROMBERGS Maris LAT 34.413
3 SHARRAH Corben USA 34.682
4 NYHAUG Tory CAN 34.814
5 PELLUARD Vincent FRA 34.828
6 WILLOUGHBY Sam AUS 34.856
7 PHILLIPS Liam GBR 34.906
8 LONG Nicholas USA 35.107
9 DAUDET Joris FRA 35.194
10 HERMAN David USA 35.309
11 NOBLES Barry USA 35.383
12 VAN GENDT Twan NED 35.462
13 FAORO Tyler USA 35.522
14 DAY Mike USA 43.174
no Rank DUCHENE Simon FRA no time DNF
no Rank WILLERS Marc NZL no time DNF
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