Bart de Jong
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!
A BMX movie filmed on the streets of Hungary.
USA BMX - the largest BMX racing organization in North America - announced today the 2022 USA BMX Freestyle Amateur Series has partnered with Hyper Bicycles for a second year. The USA BMX Freestyle 2022 schedule will consist of seven national events and one Grand Final competition where membership and pre-registration are required for both.
“Hyper Bicycles has been supporting the BMX industry for more than three decades, and to have them on board for a second consecutive year for the BMX amateur series, is a per- fect fit,” said USA BMX Freestyle President, Shane Fernandez. “Hyper Bicycles signed on last year for the inaugural event not knowing how a first-time contest series would end up, but believed in the same vision and hope of helping to progress the sport of BMX. Now that we know how successful that first year was, we couldn’t be more excited to see what 2022 brings for the riders and the sport alongside Hyper.”
“Hyper Bicycles is proud to continue our support of the 2022 USA BMX Freestyle Series following a
For our EMEA HQ in Amsterdam, Sole Technology Europe is looking for a Customer Service Representative. In this role your key responsibility is to ensure the best possible service to our webshop customers and online retail accounts in order to achieve maximum sales and customer satisfaction.
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Blue Ridge Nationals. Friday 28 January 2022. VA Horse Center - Lexington, VA
Pro Open results:
1) PATRICK COO 19 1 BELLFLOWER CA VELOCITY BIKE CO 16160667 562 NC
2) JONNIE VANCE 24 2 BALTIMORE MD SUPERCROSSBMX 16233320 30 NAT
3) CAMERON BRAMER 20 3 SOUTH PARK PA 18690164 456 NC
4) VICTOR BEHM 28 4 MAYSLANDING NJ 18410105 145 NC
Name: Kostya Chimkovitch
Age: 34
Hometown: Port Coquitlam, BC, CAN
Hook-ups/sponsors: Back Alley BMX, On Some Sugar, Weird And Revered, Crank Industries, Old Man BMX, Crimson
The FAT favourites list:
Spot to ride: I go with the mood. Is today a wall day? A rail day? A quarterpipe day? A tight transition day? A day to search for a new spot?
BMX video: Anthem 2.
Web video: Erik Elstran and Luc Legrand, Grand Bucharest Hotel. Perfect combination of talented riders, incredible, never-before-seen spots, and creative moves all perfectly put together.
Girl: My wife.
Food: My wife's mushroom risotto.
The Olympic cycle starts all over again this year. It's only 3 years now till Paris 2024 and preparation has started already. Australia's Izaac Kennedy has Paris in mind, and he will be there this time. But that means dedication to the training program, eating healthy and running the correct bike with the best bike parts. Read on to see what Izaac has in store for us this year.
Name: Izaac Kennedy
Age: 21
Hometown: Gold Coast, Australia
Sponsors: Speedco, LUXBMX, Knobby, Vans
Did 2021 turn out the way you wanted?
Izaac Kennedy: Well no it didn’t go how I wanted it to with dealing with an injury and not being selected for the Olympics but overall, it was still a solid year. I made the final at the UCI World's, a few USABMX podiums, finished the year off with another National title and got to travel the world racing my bike so still a lot positives to take from it.
Ben was down in Hastings for the new year and linked up for an evening at the Source Park, here's what he got up to! He is currently riding Alex Valentino's new signature "Auto Portrait" frame, which will be available to buy online very soon and from all your favourite United Bike Co stockists.
We are really excited to present you the first episode of the « Vans Tribes Project » that is taking place in the BMX Mecca, Barcelona.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.