Pedro Nascimento was over in Europe visiting his sister, and made a big impression at the UK Flatland Championships with his amazing death truck variations and solid style.
3rd place in the Pro Class for Pedro, you can watch both runs.
* Best run counts.
Congratulations to Benjamin Hudson who won the OctoBiker Fest contest in Trois-Rivières, Canada this past weekend followed on the podium by Bruno Zebu from Brazil, and third place went to Austin Luberda.
Photos: Matti Hemmings.
Kevin Browne progressed a lot, and had a good day at the UK Flatland Champs taking home 4th place in the AM class.
ONE SESSION from James McGraw on Vimeo.
At the age of 49, James McGraw is riding better than ever. Psyched on his new custom ride, he left the front wheel tricks alone for a session and this is what happened. James explains more, this is a good watch!
“Since I got my new frame I’ve been riding mostly front wheel. It has been frustrating relearning all my tricks. So when my friend Ray came down tonight and we had a session in the shop. It was my first real session in the shop with the floor prepped properly on the new bike. We started calling out some of my video tricks and it seems like I couldn’t miss a trick if I wanted to. Tonight’s session was the kind of session that motivate me to keep riding. It was Pure Fun!!!!!!!!!”
Keelan Phillips just hit me up with news of a contest he is having on Sunday 3rd November at the International Centre in Telford, UK.
If you can’t make the Fise and UCI world Champs this one could be for you.
Keelan says “The idea behind this comp is to bring back the excitement and fun, no judging for consistency, riders wont be marked down for attempts only for what they land, quality over quantity. The comp will be held on November 3rd, one class to see who the ultimate freestyler is. Qualifying will be 2 x 2 min runs, finals will be 1 on 1 battles. Hotel at a discounted rate if needed. And held at one if the biggest car shows in the UK! For any info please get in touch with Keelan on his social media or insta page @ultimatefreestylecomp.”
Back home after the UK Flatland Championships, and there is already an edit up from the event with great riding from the likes of Dino Jeffers, Steve Green, Erik Soares, Dan Margetts, Dom Nekolny, Sam Foakes and Pedro Nascimento. More coverage to follow throughout the week.
Congratulations to Owen Bohn who won the Round 3 of the 2019 Master of Creativity online competition dominating the event this year winning every round, Tomaaki Yoshimura too the second place spot and also second for the year end, and Chris Woodling took third place in Round 3 and third place in the year end ranking. Head over to the Master of Creativity instagram and enjoy the videos.
Congratulations to Dom Nekolny taking the win today at the UK Flatland Championships at the Cycle Expo in Harrogate, Yorkshire with a flawless first run, that’s four years in a row as the UK Flatland Champion for Dom! Closely followed by Sam Foakes who had an amazing one touch second run, and Pedro Nascimento in the third place.
In the AM class Gregory from Greece took the win followed by Mizo from Ireland, and Michał Pietruszewski taking the third place podium spot.
Absolutely shattered, more updates soon….
Repo: Effraim.
Photos: Matti Hemmings.
On Thursday morning I made the trip to Bristol to meet UK Flatland Championship organiser, Matti Hemmings to travel up to Harrogate, Yorkshire in the north of the UK.
Yesterday, myself and Matti set up the arena which is located in a different hall than last year.
We are getting to that time of year, where the banger videos are coming in thick and fast. This new one by Matthias Dandois, that is full of clips from Instagram wouldn’t normally get the “Must Watch” tag as I have obviously seen it before. Matthias Dandois posts a lot of great videos online, and watching Instagram sometimes becomes a blur for me with so much content coming so fast, swipe and can be forgotten easily, and in truth I forgot half these videos which I realised Matthias filmed across the globe when he had a break from his work life (whilst the norm would be to stay at home and film), the man and his work ethic is literally quite amazing. Watching all these together is a treat.
At 7:57 mins long there is a lot to highlight and my UK Champs weekend is about to begin but I will highlight some of what stood out to me. The rest we can discuss on the site…
00:18: Switch handed spinning two footed steam x-hand pivot round bars to xft steam without holding the seat, super nice switch that I could Matthias taking to the contest floor!
00:57: Nose half cab nollie to nose, this one must be crazy hard on the wrists, whole lot of techniques going on through out this edit that ticked a different Must Watch than for example James Whites “Eye of the Tiger” edit. I love all the styles Matthia shows, and his tricktionary is vast, the hitch kick flip thrown in is a nice touch.
1:34: 180 hop to xft steam turbine flowing into spinning half hike dragging the bars that brought back memories of Darren Pelio in the 80’s hitting the bars on backwards Karls.
2:54: I had to rewind this clip a fair bit to understand it, backwards flail to backwards 5 for a moment, downside whip out to pedals. Possibly my favourite clip from the edit.
3:27: Xft pedal mega spin body varial two footed backyard, this is a good example of a clip I forgot all about and the tricks keep coming.
Like I already said, plenty more to discuss about this edit, and I am always left wondering. Which lines will appear at a contest soon?
For now let’s pay respect to Matthias who works so hard to be where he’s at. More power to him.
