Old School Sundays with Ron Wilkerson & Mike Pardon

For this weeks OSS we go back to 1985. Ron Wilkerson vs Mike Pardon at The Kelloggs TV BMX Championship, a TV Series hosted by Mick Brown and Andy Ruffell. The show was broadcast on Channel 4 here in the UK in 1983/84. The show mixed freestyle and racing, with The worlds biggest BMX racing stars from USA and Europe took part and it ran over six weeks at tracks all over the UK with a record Pro purse for the time. Old School stars like Stu Thomsen, Gary Ellis, Eddie King, Andy Ruffell, Tim March, Geth Shooter, Andy Patterson, Brian Patterson, Nelson Chanady, Eric Rupe, Harry Leary, Tommy Brackens, Mike Miranda, Clint Miller, Greg Hill, Eddie Fiola, Mike Dominguez and many more took part!

Contest of Love – 1995

Original footage from Twenty Inch Video Magazine from the Contest of Love contest in February 1995! Killer footage of the likes of Trevor Meyer (check the line at 2:34!), Chad Degroot, Phil Dolan, a rare appearance from Ice Money, Day Smith, and many more! More of a throwback than old school sundays material but worth a post nevertheless. Thanks to Jffe for this one!

Fight the Winter BMX Flatland Contest 2014 by Manuel Bernardo

Fight the Winter BMX Flatland Contest 2014 by Manuel Bernardo Born to BMX from Born to BMX on Vimeo.

Yesterday the Fight the Winter Contest went down in Göttingen, Germany. Congratulations to Dominik Nekolny who won the contest that used a judging system inspired by the Winter Olympics. Martin over at http://www.global-flat.com judged the event and explained the format. “Every rider had 2 runs, best run counts. The 3 judges were scoring (1 to 10 points) all runs immediately, showing the scores to the riders and audience right after the run in order to increase transparancy. The average of the three scores were then used to determine the final ranking.” Thank you to Manuel Bernardo for sending in this dope contest edit so fast!

1st Dominik Nekolny 9.3
2nd Kevin Nikulski 8.6
3rd Martin Drazil 8
4th Rayk Hahne 7.6
5th Dustyn Alt 6
6th Steffen Peter 5.6
7th Mates Tucek 5.3
8th Michal Kupec 5
9th Pavel Dort 4.6
10th John Krämer, Nico Bergmann 4
11th Malte Orth, Martin Drews, David Hoffmann 3.3
12th Maik Speer, Denny Reichswald 2.3
13th Georgios Perisakis 2