Roy wrote a few lines for you about the King of New York 2010 flatland contest. The King of New York has been part of NYC BMX history since 1995. Originally KoNY was a contest featuring Flatland, Vert and Park... Over the years the contest format had gone through changes and unfortunately Flatland was dropped. 2010 marks the second year Flatland is back as one of the events featured at KoNY. The new attitude for all KoNY events is to have a great day of riding. No timed runs, no pressure, just ride... read the whole story.
Laurent from Third-Kind / Magicfruit informed us about a new webshop and distribution based in France called Distance Cycles. They will sell a bunch of Japanese brands including Nankai, Magicfruits, 059Brands and more. So hopefully it will get easier to buy parts of these brands in Europe.
There is already a website with a blog online: distance-cycles.eu. The shop will follow in September.
Here are the results of the 4th round of the Flatland Circuit in Bogota. At the moment Javier Roldan is leading the series just a few points ahead of Esteban Palencia. You can find the current ranking on colombiaflat.
Matthias won the Flatland Dream Contest in France last weekend. Alex came in second so it was business as usual for team ABT ;-) Itīs also great to see our Rider of the Month Jean Bulhon (January 2009) in the top 8 of the pro class.
The third and final stop of the DownUnderground series was Redcliff, Australia yesterday. Shane Badman won the contest and also the series (advanced class).
Just in case you havenīt read it on Flatmatters yet ;-) Effraim and Keelan won the King of Southsea contest. Congratulations boys! Probably there will be much more coverage on Flatmatters soon. Here are the results:
The more eagle-eyed of you may have noticed there´s not been a Rider of the Month for a little while...
We had some nominations to chase up, but you folks being the humble souls that you are, passed them over feeling ´not worthy´... it´s not true!
So, we´d like your nominations for Rider of the Month... Let´s have some more female riders, Julia´s ROTM was a real inspiration! USA represent? It´s been a while since we´ve had a rider from the good ol´ US of A...
Let´s give a new, unknown (to us) rider their ´15 minutes of fame´, and see how our global family is growing!
Make a post in the forum or email us: info@global-flat.com
Did you know that there is an online flatland store in the UK? Itīs called the Function Flatland Store and Chris Massey is running it. He dropped us a few words:
"The store has been set up to provide a flatland specific store in the UK and to use profits to sponsor up and coming riders and support flatland in general - I have already hooked up 2 young riders and will be providing prizes for the novices at Effraimīs King of Southsea flatland finals as well as running 2 flatland clubs for kids in Manchester UK."
The store itself is actually a blog but you will figure out how it works. Here is a post on how to order.
We received three video from Malaysia this week. Boy Onitsuka sent them and you can download them from our video section. Here is what Boy has to say:
"Malaysia is one of the most beautiful countries in Asia. The Malaysian scene is really fun, we ride, chill and still progress. We hope to see more pro riders come to Malaysia and enjoy the place, everyone is welcome to visit Malaysia. Thanks to global-flat and Victor for uploading this video."
S&M Bikes put a bunch of photos of their Intrikat prototype frame on Flickr. Besides the top tube length of 19" no further information have been published so far.
Chad is going to test the frame now. You can also find a bike check on sandmbikes.com
On another note the Fieldcontrol website is now online. You can register online and they are also doing the online contests again. So check out the website: www.flatlandfieldcontrol.com
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