Bart de Jong
Featuring: Bjarki Hardarson, Jaume Sintes and Joram Van Dijk.
Name: Brian Malmquist
Hometown: Valparaiso, Indiana but I currently reside in Charlotte, North Carolina
Started riding BMX in: Approximately 1985 so I would have been 11 years old
Number of bikes in the collection: 18 completes and 22 framesets waiting to be built
Next to working on cars as a hobby, do you find it easier to work on BMX bikes?
Brian Malmquist: Of course there are far fewer parts to a bike, but it's surprising how complicated they can be to put together properly sometimes. Different headset stack heights, tight bottom brackets, chains that go tight and loose, wobbly sprockets, dialing in brakes. I am a very detailed person, so I don't just throw a bike together for show. I build every bike to ride smoothly.
2022 USA BMX Sunshine State Nationals Day Three.
After the incredible success of this years Olympic Freestyle BMX category, Neil Donoghue and Blake Samson thought it was only right they try their hand at BMX, so they chucked on some helmets, slid into some knee pads and squeezed on some skinny jeans to hit up @RampworldCardiff for a day of ramps, stairs and foam pits!
Elite results Sunshine State Nationals #1. West Palm Beach, Florida. Saturday 15 January 2022.
Elite Women:
1) DALENY VAUGHN 20 1 TUCSON AZ DK BIKES 13061288 3 NAT
2) MCKENZIE GAYHEART 19 2 FORT WHITE FL FULL TILT/RADIO 19010197 33 NC
3) OLIVIA ARMSTRONG 21 3 BEND OR FULL TILT/RADIO 09020620 54 NC
4) LEXIS COLBY 19 4 PHOENIX AZ GORDYS BICYCLES 17890287 256 NC
5) VINETA PETERSONE 22 5 LATVIA 90009807 212 UCI
6) EMILY HAYES 20 6 ROCK HILL SC 17360249 719 NC
7) PAYTON RIDENOUR 19 7 POTTSTOWN PA MONGOOSE BICYCLES 02572234 252 UCI
8) ASHLEY VERHAGEN 30 8 PHOENIX AZ 10126538 121 UCI
Elite Men:
1) JORIS DAUDET 30 1 CORONA CA CHASE / BRGSTORE.COM 10126479 33 UCI
2) JOSHUA MCLEAN 23 2 PALM HARBOR FL FULL TILT/RADIO 90001468 2 NAT
3) NIEK KIMMANN 25 3 HETEREN 90007455 1 UCI
2022 USA BMX Sunshine State Nationals Day One. Recap from West Palm Beach, Florida! Saturday 15 January 2022
MY 2021 sessions at Belmonte and Malaga with Alexandre Fermon.
In the darkness of my garage, the outline of an old familiar friend brings a collection of memories to the forefront of my mind. “Four years,” I mutter, as the sight of its two flat tires instills an unexpected sadness over me. My finger draws a line through the dust on the cross bar until finding the pair of Shadow Conspiracy grips. “How has it been four years?” Freedom, the road, friendship, empty wallets, and moments of agony, all now collecting cobwebs under the cover of a bulbless light. Whether it was out of curiosity or the guilt of bad ownership, I lifted my bike from the pile of lawnmower bits, fishing rods, and gardening utensils and gave it some TLC. With its spokes tightened, tiers pumped up, cranks and stem bolts checked, I decided to ride up the street -
Eleven-year-old, Japanese shredder, Kairi Yamada, rides with style way beyond his years. The kid has so much swag that the Van Homan took it upon himself to hit us up this time last year (while based in Tokyo working on the 2020 Olympics), to tell us about a young kid who was crushin' the Bashi Burger ramps... and the rest is history.
Name: Jeremy Golden (Goldie)
Hometown: Raised in SoCal made the move to AZ in 2001
Started riding BMX in: Started in 1984
Number of bikes in the collection: 12 completes, almost enough parts for 6 more.
Do you remember the moment that you decided to start collecting BMX memorabilia?
Jeremy Golden: I started collecting right around 2004. I built my Hawk f-20 that I had since the end of 91 for my son to ride and after he was done riding it there was a few parts missing and I wanted to build it back up. I then realized there was a collector’s market when searching for parts and that spurred my desire to search for the other bikes I was enamored by as a kid.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.