Bart de Jong
Profile's Launch Box is a series of Profile team mixers, launched on your lunch break, during each season of every year. They are a collaborative effort of randomness: All footage is submitted to my inbox where I puzzle them together using whatever music I happen to be listening to that day.
Sugar Land, Texas, turned up the heat this weekend at the second consecutive Velosolutions UCI Pump Track World Championships Qualifier — and the action didn’t disappoint! With the Crown Festival Park track dialed and around 600 spectators packing the venue, it was clear from the first timed runs that this one was going to be fast.
The weekend was packed with Youth Challenge energy on Saturday, but it was the Elite battles on Sunday that stole the show — and the storylines were huge. Three former UCI World Champions lined up, all hungry for a ticket back to the Final.
In the Elite Men’s division, it was a clash of titans between Tommy Zula and local hero Alec Bob.
Name: Dan Romeo
Age: 40
Hometown: Pittsburg, Ca., USA
Hook-Ups/Sponsors: Vans Bicycle Center/Blue Collar BMX/STF Brand:
The FAT Favourites list:
-Spot to ride: Anything where I can use my brakes and get tricky
-BMX video: Etnies Forward
-Website: BMX Museum
-Web video: S&M -Dirt Rules!
-Food: Anything I can eat (I’m celiac)
-Person on Instagram: Everyone I follow
Sietse van Berkel (NL) - Thread. 2025 04 - Budapest, Hungary
The Pro results: Urban Rural ride Flatland comp.
Pro Men:
1. Kio Hayakawa
2. Alex Jumelin
3. Julien Baran
4. Joris Bretagnolles
5. Anatole Rahain
6. Alberto Moya
7. Dustyn Alt
8. Martin Drazil
9. Daniel Henning
Tough weekend in Bakersfield. Struggled with the track and couldn’t put it together. Back to work.
The best thing you've got | Tobias Elias
We really enjoyed this freshie from Poland's Oleksandr Kucherenko. Great vibes, really solid riding, and even a little bit of macba spice at the end. Not your average video submission!
The official 2025 BMX Freestyle South African Championships are set to take place at the Park Lines BMX Tournament on Saturday 24 May. Presented by LW Mag and Dragon Energy in association with Garmin, Balwin Properties, Fox and Mongoose. BMX Freestyle riders from all over the country will gather to compete for the title of South African BMX Freestyle champion. The action-packed event will showcase creativity and skill as riders perform tricks and stunts in their battle to win their share of the prize money and to see who will be crowned event champions.
Park Lines will take place at the newly built SkyLab Skatepark at the Jozi-X Adventure Park in Bryanston, Johannesburg. Invited riders from around South Africa will compete in the Pro Division, and the event will afford up-and-coming riders the opportunity to compete in the Amateur Division.
The park will offer a range of obstacles for riders to make use of during their runs. Competitors will go head-to-head in qualifying heats where judges will take use-of-park, variation, style, tricks and amplitude into account when making their selection of riders advancing into the Finals. Pro riders will be competing for their share of the Cash Prize Purse, a Garmin Instinct 3 Smartwatch, along with other prizes from the official event partners.
Name: Magro Steve
Age: 43
Hometown: Marseille, France
The FAT Favourites list:
-Spot to ride: Anything new with my friends
-BMX video: All the Roadfools episodes, etnies Forward, Anthem 2
-Web video: MATRIXÉ by my boy Poiss Barbier and all the Nofate crew
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.