My Bicycle Union podcast is live, great catch up with John Dye a few weeks ago at Volt BMX in London.
We talk about my younger years growing up surrounded my amazing talented riders such as Carlo Griggs, Jamie Morley, Carl Westfield, Vince Gregory, Martyn Knight, Craig Campbell and many more at Southsea Skatepark.
My days running a ‘zine, growing up riding with Mike O’Connell, competing all the world, winning the worlds and the controversy, sponsors, Through to modern day, judging all over the world, starting Flatmattersonline, taking the DIY approach, riding in my 50’s, sampling all eras of my riding and running a flatland school.
There’s a lot on here, enjoy!
FLAT SYSTEM 012: UCI RULE CHANGE IN FLATLAND
In this episode, Dub discusses the recent changes to the rules/format of the UCI BMX Freestyle Flatland sanctioned events worldwide.
What do you all think about the end of the 3 minute run? Dub raises a lot of good points about format change, rider reps, loss of Bart de Jong as technical director…
Here is the link to the modified memorandum:
https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5…
Art Thomason: BMX Banter Podcast
Jon Dowker & Anthony Berardi are back with the BMX banter podcast, this episode they catch up with Art Thomason and talk Art’s background, working for Nasa, having a home riding spot and much more!
IGI Flat BMX / Brand Showcase: Interbike 2026
Brant Moore invited Dub, onto his new idea “Interbike 2026”. Get to know the stories behind the IGI product we all love, this is a good listen!
Chase Gouin: 1998 BMXicos2
Pure gold from the French archives early Cream magazine days, Chase Gouin during the early brakeless conception, if you haven’t seen this. This is really interesting and still stands up to this day, 27 years on….
Tamao x Uchino Yohei Moto Bunka Year-End Party Discussion Project
Nakamura “TAMAO” Keishi and Yohei Uchino discuss the state of flatland in Japan at the Moto Bunka year end party, you will have to put on the English translation for this interesting discussion.
Gals Weekend: Chenga World // February 14th
Chenga-World will be hosting Gal’s Weekend 2026!
In conjunction with Ray’s MTB park
Chenga will have special hours Friday February 13th, opening at NOON!
Friday hours will be from NOON until 9:30 PM — open to all riders.
Saturday FEBRUARY 14th, hours will be from NOON until 9:30 PM also, with special $5 admission for any girl riders:
(BMX, MTB, STAKEBOARDING, SCOOTEER, ROLLER BLADE, and yes…. ROLLER SKATE TOO!)
All women riders will receive 10% product discount all weekend for any purchases in Chenga’s pro shop.
ALSO…..A special FLATLAND JAM too!
The flatland jam is open to any flatland riders and will begin at 2 PM and continue until Chenga closes at 9:30 PM.
FREE for any FLATLAND only Gals!
$10 for flatland guys
Call during business hours with any questions…..
THE 2025 FLATMATTERSONLINE YEAR END AWARDS: WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
It’s time to announce the winners of the Editorial and Reader Choice 2025 Flatmattersonline Year end awards. 2025 was one of the better years, in terms of edits, instagram clips, add to to that of course jams and contests in recent times.
As I put together the editorial side of things running Flatmattersonline. I like to discuss why I’ve picked the winners and offer some insight. It’s time to get into the details, it’s cliche to say, but truly just to be nominated feels like a master achievement in my opinion.
Let’s kick off with your votes in the reader choice category….
Effraim.
