Bart de Jong
World’s best Freestyle BMX riders to compete at the 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink BMX Games presented by Strictly BMX
Jan 13, 2009
The 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink BMX Games presented by Strictly BMX will be the biggest Freestyle BMX competition ever to be held in the Southern Hemisphere. With only two weeks to go till the first day of competition, the world’s best freestyle BMX riders are getting set to make their way down to Docklands, Melbourne for the January 24th games opening. Included in the list of high flying international riders is a healthy dose of Australian pro’s including Australian BMX Pioneer Colin Mackay, Newcastle born Cameron White (1st place in the 2008 Dew Tour), X Games 
-Frame: Zion Silence -Fork: Macneil bmx ID fork
-Handlebar: Proper team
-Cranks: Fly bikes
-Pedals: Demolition team
-Chain: KMC lite kool chain
-Sprocket: Zion Street
-Seat: Zion Pivotal prototype
Name: Craig Campbell
Age: London, UK
Occupation: DJ/Producer
You were one of the BMX pioneers in the early freestyle days. When did you start hitting the skateparks?
Craig: Romford Skatepark, 1981
Clint Millar and his crew are still on the road. Instead of doing daily updates for FATBMX, Clint has decided to send us some exclusive photos for the site. So far we have received none, but that's okay Clint. Enjoy the trip and stay out of trouble. Here's what has been happening with the Colony-Forgotten guys on the road in Australia: 
Hey all…. As always I’ve been mega slack with helping Bart with fat Fridays but he emailed me a few days back asking for a bit of help this week so I put my superman suit on my texting thumb & fired off a text asking for help… here’s the text I sent & the following are some of the replies… “Roll up Roll up! What with me not having the funds to go to Estonia this weekend I’ve been handed the task of collecting as much BMX based news as possible to help make Bart’s life easier while he’s getting wasted with the rest of the European Circle. So, if you got ANYTHING no matter how trivial it may seem fire it over to me asap….” Here’s what I got back:
-Harry Main pulled flair to footjam on Jan 7th…. FLAIR TO FOOTJAM! Check it out online somewhere cause it's NUTS!
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.