Bart de Jong
Vans BMX proudly presents Courage Adams: Balanced, a new edit exploring the riding that has placed Courage on a path to success, steadily building his BMX career through hard work and dedication.
Cover boy Ralf Maier is designing skateparks for a living now as a landscape architect. I did a lot of trips with Ralf, some of them are covered in the issues of FAT-'zine. Ralf got an interview in issue 16 and so did Vic Murphy, Mike Golden, Sander Cornelissen and Gerrit Koornwinder. Back in 1990 you sent a letter to the other side of the world with the questions you had. You were hoping in a few weeks you would see a reply. Vic Murphy came through with the answers and I typed them out. He even put some pics in the envelop so I xeroxed them and then sent the pics back to him. Gotta love the e-mail of present time.
Matt Pingel contributed a lot of pages and went sandboarding. We had reports on a skate comp in Valkenswaard, a freestyle contest in Leiden, the Wath Jam, Spanjer's skate comp in Hengelo, and a concert report about the Digital Underground.
The free sticker came from Invert magazine (UK, now RIDE). We checked "The U" which was a crazy dirt spot where you rolled down a huge hill and did a fly-out at the end. We reviewed the following 'zines in issue #16: UHS, RIDE -'zine, RADAzine, Albert 'zine and Mental Chaos. Remember those?
Pages 51-63 show a review of places we visited in 1989. Looks like we were nomads back then already.
Enjoy the issue. It's the last 'zine on the Smith Corona typewriter. We invested in a new Olivetta
We've partnered with our friends at SHREDD bike shop in South Korea to bring you "FROM SEOUL". This video highlights the unique riding of Lee Cruickshank and Jihoon Lee, who both ride for SHREDD and rep Sunday as well. Lee and Ji Hoon Lee produced this video themselves, and it is such a treat! Enjoy!
CULTCREW/ FLORIDA DOWNTIME/ COREY WALSH, TREY JONES, JASON WATTS, PRESTON OKERT
Name: Felicia Stancil
Age: 26
Sponsors: SSquarred, Answer BMX, TLD, USAcycling
When was the first year you got yourself a BMX license to race?
Felicia Stancil: 4 years old. My dad used to race BMX, so I started young!
From the very beginning was the goal for you to become an Olympian?
Felicia Stancil: In the beginning I loved BMX because I got to travel the world and met so many friends within the sport. I believe I was 13 years old when I saw BMX racing during its Olympic debut in 2008. I thought it was amazing that my sport became an Olympic sport, but it didn’t become more of a reality that I could compete on that level until I was Junior Pro racing down the 8m. Once that began, I decided to only focus on BMX since I was involved in many sports growing up.
BMX Racing has changed from your early years to now. What are the biggest changes for you?
Name: Gracjan Jaszczak
Age: 19
Hometown: Olsztyn, Poland
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Avebmx
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Rails and grindbox
-BMX video: Alter BMX
-Website: Our bmx
-Web video: Gracjan Jaszczak 2022 edit
The ramps at the old 040 BMX Park were huge, but the ones at the new Area 51 Skatepark in Eindhoven, The Netherlands are even bigger. A perfect stage for a UCI BMX Freestyle Park Contest! Check out the highlights from the Women's and Men's Finals.
All those gripes about having no practice were gone, as the final 8 had plenty of time to sort their run for the finals. And, as you'll see, they went for broke....
2022 saw the best in Global BMX for the African Championships
For the First time since 2003 Flatland is at X Games and we are hyped!! The competition is “Battle Format” 1v1 Matchups and each rider has 90 seconds to put something together. They can also start/stop the clock whenever they want. Sit back and watch this highly enjoyable flatland competition unfold.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.