Bart de Jong
Two weeks of training in Spain with the Dutch National BMX Team.
Best of 7. Going back in time with people who captured BMX in the early years. Without these images it would be harder for everyone to understand what was happening in the beginning. It fits the oldskool articles nicely. Episode 49 goes to Bill Batchelor who has been treating the BMX historians with some gold lately.
Photographer: Bill Batchelor
Photo 1
-Who: Bob Haro
-Where: Pipeline King of the Skateparks, Upland California
-When: 1985
-What Happened: In between the actual contest judging events I always took a lot of pictures of the people and the behind the scenes action. Bob was judging the contest so this photo was part of a series of the judges.
-Why this photo: As a BMX kid in the early 1980s, Bob Haro was an idol of mine. He started it all, and epitomized what was cool at the time. We’d stare at photos of his riding in the magazines and his Freestyle Tricks book and try to build his ramps. When I first got a real Haro number plate for my race
You asked for it, so we brought Subrosa pro rider Matt Ray down to Florida to hit a few heavy session in The Lot at Sparkys Distribution.
BMX Jacob Cable 2021 KINK bytiM Production.
Filmagens feitas durante trips pelo Algarve, Aveiro e Minho no Verão de 2020.
Name: Hayden Bennet
Age: 23
Hometown: Uttoxeter (Stoke), England.
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Crucial BMX Shop, RHK-BODEGA.
The FAT FAVs list:
-Spot to ride: Anything you can smash your pegs into
-BMX video: The Price is Wrong
-Website: funkypidgeon.com
-Web video: every YATETAPE
-Food: Anything that swims
-Twitter to follow: Don't have Twitter anymore RIP
-Person on Instagram: Eric Elstran, dude is jokes
-Travel destination: The Pyrenees for sure
The Fourth video from Focalpoint's Into the City series, filmed entirely around Melbourne CBD (Pre Covid).
WeThePeople's Riley Smith built up a sample of their new Capital frame, which was made in the USA by Whthous. The Capital frame shares the same geometry as the WTP Battleship (specs below), so Riley had zero issues getting used to it and went on to stacking clips.
NAME: Ashley Little
HOME TOWN: Leicester, U.K
NUMBER OF BIKES IN COLLECTION: Currently have 21 complete bikes and approximately 20 frame sets. I’ve recently sold my unit where I had all my bikes, motorbikes, cars and other random stuff so everything BMX related is boxed up ready for the move.
What was the starting point of your BMX collecting madness?
Ashley Little: Completely random but the company I owned at the time had a job working near an old BMX track where I grew up. I had to sign the completed works off on a Saturday morning and there was an event at the track, I popped over for a quick look and it was a small dirt jump event, hanging around I saw a guy on a PK RIPPER and got chatting. Fortunately for me he had no desire to keep the bike and a short while later the bike was in my car and approximately $120 in his pocket. From then on my curiosity lead me to looking up old local bike shops and buying old stock.
Today, etnies is proud to introduce three new Jameson Vulc signature colourways for Jordan, Nathan and Tommy. These new signature etnies BMX shoes are available at finer retailers globally and at etines.com. The Jameson Vulc is a vulcanized version of etnies’ best-selling shoe, the Jameson 2. It retains footwear design simplicity while maintaining premium performance. Developed with etnies’ STI Foam Lite 1 insole and a low toe-box that keeps the vamp closer to your foot, the shoe also features a Geo-Hex tread pattern.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.