Bart de Jong
This Friday December 16th the Moora Cup will take place at the Skate Café in Amsterdam. The new bar (with indoor concrete mini/bowl en paardenhoek) will be turned upside down when the Dutch BMX scene will welcome the cup winners. You can still vote till midnight today by going to the website. Here are the nominees.
Beste Flat Rijder *
Dez Maarsen
Sietse van Berkel
Gino Stuart
Beste Broekie *
Jari Roggeveen
Niels van Maren
Tristan van den Berg
Lifetime Achievement Award *
We are working on a project with Wall 2 Wall freestyle guys on a new history project they are working on. In the next few months they have been gracious enough to hook us up with some unscene footage from some big events in Freestyle history.
This is an awesome look at the behind the scenes of the first street contest. 2-Hip put this together in in Santee Ca. in 1988. You may recognize plenty of riders like Chris Moeller, Eddie Roman, RL Osborn, George Smoot, Craig Grasso, Craig Cambell, Spike Jonze, Ron Wilkerson, Pete Augustin, Dave Vanderspeck, & Dave Voelker.
This was a turning point in BMX and im so excited to be able to share some of this never before seen footage with you!
A couple clips from a quick session at a new Calgary skatepark.
Kyle Harris & Chris Akin are Southern Oregon raised and keep that roast alive on all the aging concrete parks in that area. Just like Josh White who grew up in the same area 30 years earlier. This area breeds that good style with a fearless approach.
Thomas Hooper revisits his childhood riding spot, Sidley Woods and also a guest stop at Two Snakes Tattoo to talk to Peter Adam about the limited edition frame wrap he collaborated with United on. If you're unaware of Thomas Hooper, he is one of the world's most sought after tattoo artists who grew up in the legendary UK BMX hotspot, Hastings and now years on has reignited his passion for riding a 20" bike. Seriously cool stuff.
The second street riding around in Athens with a bunch of young riders shredding some spots is on Gutlessbmx.com. Riders; Alexis Mostralis, Marios Mostralis, Orfeas Garpozis, Kostas Degleris.
Was Liam Zingbergs the first man on the moon? Maybe not but we're pretty sure he was the first guy to sling a bars up there! From technical street lines to one of the biggest kinked rails known to man, tune in to check out his part from the BSD TRANSMISSION DVD...
Sunday Results Indoor St. Etienne BMX Race. Graf takes Elite Men win and Etienne doubles.
Elite Men:
1. David Graf
2. Sylvain André
3. Arthur Pilard
4. Romain Mahieu
5. Romain Mayet
6. Renaud Blanc
7. Tristan Tournebize
8. Simon Marquart
The belt sander is back! When John Saxton isn't building parks for everyone to skate and ride, he's bringing his unique bag of tricks to Woodward. Click play and enjoy this one.
Rob Wise's section from Shawn "Elf" Walters' full-length DVD production "Dollar Bet". Check out more on this Salt Lake City area gem.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.