Bart de Jong
It's always a hell of a drive going to Eurobike. Especially the trip home after spending a couple of days on your feet and sleeping less than normal is rough. But if you want to know what's going on in BMX and its industry, it doesn't hurt being present. With little expectations Philip and I left Helmond for FN. We made a quick stop at the Hockenheim F1 circuit where the Swiss Porsche Cup was held. After the mid trip break we made it to Friedrichshafen 9 hours after we'd left home. As I said, a bit of a drive.
The pre-printed media passes worked so we made it in without any problems. Media centre West was closed which was an indication that this year's Eurobike show was smaller than usual. In fact, some
Results 2021 Russian National BMX PARK Championships. Kazan. 4-5 September 2021.
Men Park:
1 RIZAEV Irek RUS 200 UCI points
2 GILIMZIANOV Roman RUS 160
3 NIKULIN Aleksandr RUS 130
4 AKHMETZYANOV Jamil RUS 110
5 ISAKOV Nikita RUS 90
6 AGARKOV Artem RUS 70
7 FOMINOV Nikita RUS 50
8 MOLLAEV Aleksandr RUS 30
9 OKATYEV Mikhail RUS 20
10 ANDREEV Konstantin RUS 10
11 ZHURAVLEV Pavel RUS
Boston, MA is packed with history and prestige, and we've combined the two with the new, limited-edition, shamrock-inspired Boston Big Ripper. Whether you're looking for a bike ready for a marathon or a quick trip to grab a pint, this sweet ride will have you saying "cheers" with every pedal you take. Don't sleep on the Boston Big Ripper—only 300 are available in the USA! The majority of these bikes will start to become available exclusively in stores in the Boston-area this weekend. The remaining bikes will be released on SEBIKES.com in the coming months.
The new, limited-edition Boston Ripper jersey is the perfect way to complete the Boston kit.
The official NK BMX Freestyle 2021 will take place in Skateland Rotterdam on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September. In that weekend it will be determined who can call themselves Dutch BMX Freestyle Champion for a year. BMX was part of the Olympic Games for the first time in Tokyo this year and is now officially an Olympic sport. Fans can now also attend an impressive championship closer to home. The NK BMX Freestyle 2021 is part of Rotterdam Street Culture Week that takes place in Skateland, among other places.
Three disciplines
In addition to the traditional Park and Street disciplines that were introduced in 2018 and 2020, a new discipline has been added. Flatland is an officially recognized part of the Dutch Championship for the first time. National Championships are now being held in 3 BMX Freestyle disciplines. 'Street' is ridden on the Street Park course where mainly tricks are done from stairs and rails. Park is ridden on the 'Park' course that mainly has high quarterpipes, boxes and spines'. 'Flatland' is sometimes called 'breakdancing with a BMX bike', the participants perform on a flat floor and do various tricks and combinations there. On Saturday September 11, the competition will take place in the Street and Flatland categories. The Park category will be held on Sunday 12 September.
Rotterdam Street Culture Week
Rotterdam is full of talents and grass roots initiatives in the field of street art, hip hop and urban sports.
Qualifying round 2021 Red Bull UCI Pump Track World Championships September 18 at Urban Sportpark in Eindhoven
Olympic BMX race athletes Twan van Gendt and Merel Smulders will participate in the Red Bull UCI Pump Track on September 18 in Eindhoven. The Dutch qualification for the world championship has been officially under the UCI flag since 2019. This means that the winner can wear the rainbow jersey for a year. But amateur riders can also participate on September 18. The winners will eventually represent the Netherlands at the Red Bull UCI Pump Track Word Championships in Portugal.
The location
September 18, Red Bull UCI Pump Track will take place in the Urban Sportpark in Eindhoven.
The 2021 Eurobike bicycle trade show also had to deal with the corona virus. The show was smaller than usual but with two BMX shows doing several demos per day it sure gave us a good reason to drive down to the Lake of Konstanz in the very south of Germany. The flatland demos were done by the Deep BMX crew and included the 2019 UCI Flatland World Champion Dom Nekolny as well as Martin Drazil. On the Braun the sessions were heating up with a bunch of solid riders including Tom van den Bogaard, Evan Brandes, Tobias Freigang, Dean Florian, Sikharin Supanmart, Jan Mihaly, Timo Schulze and Paul Thölen.
With fitting music and a good MC, the people who took a break on checking out the 2022 bicycles got to see the latest in BMX tricks. The Braun Spine Mini proved its value and offered a challenging ramp for spine tricks and the extension was there for the daredevils to step it up. With two days of sunshine and perfect weather for good miniramp sessions the crowd was treated with flair whips (Schulze), triple barspin 540's (Sikharin), whip to footjam whip to footjam whip (Florian), double downside whips (Tom) and brakeless barspin tailtaps on the extension to fakie by Paul Thoelen. Shows like these where riders naturally get pushed to 'one-up' each other can explode pretty quickly. Doing improvised runs together on the spine mini at the same time did the job for the Eurobike public. Good stuff people, good stuff.
34 Men and 11 Women registered for the 2021 Red Bull UCI Pump Track World Championships qualifier in Brussels, Belgium. Riders from Belgium, Netherlands, Latvia, France, Switzerland were racing the newly built Velosolutions pump track for a spot at the upcoming World Champs in Lisbon, Portugal. There was a fairly even split across BMX and MTB and a few Freestyle riders joined the fun. Aiko Gommers was absolutely unstoppable in a stacked Women's category, unbeatable in every single round saw her secure her World Final ticket with her best time of the day in at 11.622 with Olympian Elke Vanhoof taking home 2nd spot on the podium in the Women class.
In the Men's category, a small mistake saw top qualifier Mateo Colsenet take a fall in top 16, leaving Latvian rider Kristaps Veksa to take home his World Final ticket after his third place in the German Qualifier last weekend. Second place behind Veksa was Belgian rider Elias Verbinnen.
Next up qualifiers:
11 Sept. Leogang, Austria
18 Sept. Eindhoven, Netherlands
19 Sept. Jössefors, Sweden
25 Sept. Schüpfheim, Switzerland
Results C1 USA BMX Derby City Nationals, Louisville, KY - 05 September 2021
Elite Men:
1 WOOD Cameron USA 90 UCI points
2 MCLEAN Joshua AUS 70
3 SMITH Jeremy USA 60
4 LIMBERG Alex RSA 50
5 SHIMADA Ryo JPN 40
6 SUAREZ SUAREZ Santiago Angel COL 30
7 LINARES BERNAL Santiago COL 25
8 TESAR Cole USA 20
Name: JP Ross
Age: 23
Hometown: Temecula, CA
Sponsors: Volume Bikes, Merritt BMX, The Secret BMX Shop, Ends Footwear
The FAT FAVOURITES list:
Spot to ride: Chaparral High School
BMX Video: Anthem II
Website: thesecretbmx.com
Web video: Nick Castillo 2014 Edit
Food: Tacos!
Twitter to follow: I don’t have a Twitter.
Person on instagram: @somawheatberry
Travel destination: Barcelona
Riders to ride with: @thankyouaf
Car: 1997 Chevy Camaro
Movie: Stand by me
Elite results UEC European Cup #6, Anadia, Portugal
Elite Men:
1 Arthur PILARD FRA
2 Eddy CLERTE FRA
3 Vincent PELLUARD COL
4 Cédric BUTTI SUI
5 Mathis RAGOT RICHARD FRA
6 Romain CATENACCI FRA
7 Sylvain ANDRE FRA
8 Dylan GOBERT FRA
9 Julian SCHMIDT GER
10 Pietro BERTAGNOLI ITA
11 Thibaut STOFFELS BEL
12 Martti SCIORTINO ITA
13 Magnus DYHRE DEN
14 Liam WEBSTER GER
15 Pedro Vinicius SANTOS MEDEIROS BRA
16 Bruno COGO BRA
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.