Bart de Jong
After 10 years of riding park and street, Steve Kolb dedicates a whole year to flatlanding where picked up a whole arsenal of combos in a short amount of time. This action packed edit includes Hop Decades (Steve's signature Decadopper) to boomerangs, linked with turbine steamrollers, his signature Hiro Spin (named after his best friend Hiro Tsuchida), megaspin truck driver to opposite truck drivers and his one-handed miami wedge superman.
Vans, the original action sports brand began supporting BMX in 1979 becoming the first brand to support the sport. To celebrate this milestone and the unsung impact BMX has had on youth culture ever since, Vans presents an Anniversary Collection for men and women. Featuring a unique assortment of footwear and apparel inspired by the heyday of parking lot ramp demonstrations, neon clad kids and a longstanding form of creative expression.
Vans sticky waffle soles proved to give great pedal grip and became the choice for BMX riders of the late ‘70s. For this honorary collection, a unisex offering of the Sk8-Hi Reissue and Era serve as the foundation for a full head to toe assortment of footwear and apparel. Footwear is constructed with Vans’ classic canvas and suede combination, and each style showcases a graphic Checkerboard printed quarter-panel that is available in three colorways including a share green, white and true navy. Each footwear silhouette is finished with a reissued thumbs up heritage print on the sidewall.
Inspired by classic BMX lifestyle silhouettes and Vans heritage graphics the assortment includes eight new apparel and accessory styles for men and women. The women’s key styles include a BMX Jacket that uses a poly flight satin shell and includes a range of Vans logo executions to give the jacket a period correct look. The relaxed fit BMX Muscle Tank is made with a heavy cotton jersey and is adorned
Zeal BMX Distribution will close its doors on 1st September 2019. Its UK dealers are invited to check its B2B website now for a closing down trade sale. “As a rider-owned company, this was a gut-wrenching decision to make,” said a statement. “However, as a business, we cannot ignore the downturn the BMX industry has taken in the last few years. After seeing many brands, dealers and companies come and go over our last 12 years (nearly 17 years if you include our predecessor ‘Padded Cell Ltd’ which we started this company off the back of in 2007 when its parent company folded). That downturn, along with a major change in the traditional brand-distributor-retailer supply chain framework to a more
Great contest day went down at Haapsalu new skatepark. BMX TOP 3 1. Roomet Säälik 2. Kristen Põder 3. Martti Lainevool
Young gun award: Timur Abzibarov
This is James Foster. A guy that prefers to win by doing something new and different rather than what’s already been done before. He comes into competition with little expectations, some tricks in his back pocket yet puts down hammer run after hammer run. His reputation for never-been-done tricks brings him to X Games Minneapolis looking to pull off the hat trick with his 3rd consecutive BMX Big Air medal.
BMX Beat! International hosted by Andy Ruffell & Gaz Top. The show featured some of the best BMX freestyle riders in the world at that time including the Hugo Gonzales and Rich Sigur and UK riders Craig Campbell, Dave Young, and Jason Hassell.
Advanced Sports joined Comcast NBCUniversal and other hometown donors this week to give 105 bicycles to the children of first responders and members of the military. The donation was organized by Philly POPS for its Christmas in July celebration at Philadelphia’s Comcast Center. The children received Fuji, SE and Tuesday bikes as part of Advanced Sports’ continued advocacy of cycling and for bringing more kids into the sport.
“One of the reasons we are so happy to be here today is because of the importance of cycling in the life of children, and in our community. We all know well that riding a bike brings us a feeling of joy, and each and every child deserves to experience that emotion,” said Milay Galvez, Advanced Sports’ manager of commercial sales and sponsorship.
“Kids have an innate desire to explore; riding a bike can help a child connect with the world. Studies have
Baltic Games BMX Freestyle PARK final results, Gdansk, Poland. UCI C1 event.
BMX PARK Final results Elite Men:
1 Dowell Justin USA
2 Dhers Daniel Venezuela
3 Rantes Marin Croatia
4 Reilly Kieran England
5 Meisel Michael Germany
6 Tryon Bryce USA
So much going on this summer that it's hard for us to keep up. The NASS Festival results are here and they had plenty of Pro categories happening near Bath, England. We've got the highlight videos lined up for the next days but here are the PRO results of NASS 2019:
RESULTS BMX Street: 1 Alex Donnachie 2 Bruno Hoffmann, 3 Anthony Perrin, 4 Sam Jones, 5 Alex Kennedy, 6 Bora Altintas, 7 Harry Mills-Wakley , 8 Fernando Laczco 9. Micahel Fleck, 10 Michal Smelko, 11. Josh Webber, 12.
BMX Park results: 1 Justin Dowell, 2 James Jones, 3 Jack Clark, 4 Kieran Reilly, 5 Declan Brooks, 6
We caught up with Logan Martin, 2018 UCI BMX Freestyle World Champion who speaks about life as a professional rider as well as his Olympic dreams!
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.