Bart de Jong
When the rain comes it normally means it's time to go home, unless you're from Bristol that is, in which case it means set everything on fire and turn up the music! The Curbside Jam in Bristol, UK always gets loose as hell but this year got even wilder. Here's how the weekend went down for the 4Down crew. Don't try this at home kids (well do, just not the fire bit!)
Name: Márton Vai
Age: 23
Hometown: Budapest, Hungary
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Strt lf
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: The closest skatepark
-BMX video: Oss ruin your whole summer
This was without a doubt the longest day of competition for me that I can remember! The level of riding was so insane! In this video I’ll take you through all of my runs even the crashes as well as getting a first look of what my face looked like when it was announced that I won! Such an AMAZING day!
The Busch Crew homies spend some quality time in every street riders favorite city: Barclona, Spain.
The Triple Challenge is back to its normal self…an open invite event that welcomes anyone who is capable of clearing two maaasive jumps. As always, the open invite element makes the first day a bit…interesting. This year, some unusual winds compounded things so riding was a bit mellow with the qualifying event being postponed til the following morning. Here’s what went down…Qualifying highlights are in the works!
Nitro Circus and BMX star Nate Wessel joins the show to talk about raging with Travis Pastrana and TJ Lavin, how bad the CTE problem is in the extreme sports community and how he deals with his own history of concussions, and why Jared decided to work on his Subaru instead of join the show today.
In this episode, Hucker was in the house building up a new frame in a classic s&m color, 29" atf prototype gets a testing, and some Fungi frames are headed out the door. If you watch closely you may catch a glimpse behind the curtain of Factory Friday too!
STRESS BMX rider Igor Kuznetsov “pushes it to the limit” in his new video. Techno riding from all kinds of spots. All those moves Igor balances with a good dynamic that creates a nice rhythm. Some back in the day vibes and contemporary riding filled with plenty of control.
Mark Burnett rolled through the Source BMX Distillery recently with some homies so you know we had to get a BULLSEYE done!
FAT-'zine issue number three. The year was 1988. Flip through the pages. Go back in time.
It was rough at times to do a 'zine. Photos were received by post and then photocopied. The original photos were returned and you had the paper to work with. You made a layout of the page and started typing on the actual page. The space you had available was the space you needed to fit your story in. The pages got stuck in the typewriter very often which caused major headaches. The typewriter ribbon faded out after a while too and finding a new one for the old typewriter was a challenge in itself.
The page numbers were added at the end with a number mold. The pages needed to line up and all of you who have done a 'zine before know that this did not always go smoothly.
But it's 1988 and issue 3 came out. It had the following content:
The cover was shared by Jeroen Hoogaerts (RIP) and Bart on the skateboard. The issue had lots of art again, made by Joachim Mulkens and Speed One who showed up with new drawings during school breaks.
We visited a secret spot in Germany which is not so secret these days: The University of Düsseldorf with all those brick banks. 1988!
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.