Bart de Jong
Cycle Group, Inc. (CGI) is pleased to announce that it will be an official sponsor of the GT Factory BMX Team in 2014. This past year, CGI supplied the team unofficially with brakes, cranks and some handlebars and stems. “It was an honor that GT asked us to be part of their program last year. The team is stacked with many of the world’s top riders and is one of the best-run programs out there. The riders and GT trailer always present a legitimate factory image at the races. I’m really excited that they asked us to be an even bigger part of the program,” said Toby Henderson, founder and executive director of CGI. Besides the race team bikes, GT currently specs Promax brake levers, brakes and stems on a variety of its high-end complete race bikes, among them the Speed Series and Interceptor lines of bikes. “We’ve worked really hard the past two years to develop two complete lines of top-notch BMX products—BOX and Promax.
Happy New Year everyone! This past weekend at Nerang on the Gold Coast hosted the season opening rounds of the BMX Australian National series. This years event was the largest Australian National round Nerang has had pulling lots of fans, spectators and riders, even with the weather. Racing conditions where tough with the Gold Coast recording the hottest day in 6 years followed by the most humid day. It was a great feeling to be racing back in front of a home crowd in Australia and back on the BMX bike full time in 2014.
RIDE UK sends out a teaser of their new magazine that yet has to show up in the newsstands and bike shops. They want to beat the readers snapping a photo of the cover with their phone to post it on their Myspace. With issue #184 you can win a Sunday bike, they'll show you how the rush skatepark was built and RIDE shows you what you can find on Google Earth. There's way more to be discovered. Robin Pearson explains the cover:Spending hour after hour searching around on Google Maps and dedicating days to scope out the courtyards of housing estates and can lead you to transitioned spots like this playground, but there’s no guarantee they’ll actually be any good to ride. However, it’s all part of the process and it’s all worth it when it works out. Among the most rewarding feelings we can get from our bikes is the one when we succeed in interpreting obstacles that were not designed
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.