Must Watch: Osaka Tour / Yu Katagiri & Friends

Great to see some fresh Yu Katagiri and Takato Moriya footage out of Japan, throw in a TEP posse edit and you know your onto a winner. Great mix in styles between Yu Katagiri, Yuta Watanabe, Sota Watanabe, Kota Ikeda, and Takato Moriya.
Yu’s banger at 1:10 had me hitting the rewind numerous times to work what he did, good mixes in styles between all the riders, short and sweet with Takato finishing their visit to Osaka at 2:53 with more back wheel craziness.
I love to see this out of the Japanese riders, we don’t see enough of these guys on the site!

Dan Margetts & Mario Carelse win King of the Rollers at Birmingham NEC

It’s been a good day at the Birmingham NEC, lot of memories competing for years at this venue. Today it was the annual King of the Rollers contest at the National Cycling Show.

Congratulations to the winners in Pro, Dan Margetts had an amazing first run lacing everything with speed and authority, followed by Matti Hemmings and James White in third.

PRO.

Dan Margetts 

Matti Hemmings 

James White

Aran Gillan

Remus Simion

Steve Green

Yinka Thomas 

Misael Mizo 

Dino Jeffers 

Amos Burke 

In Am, TGM Maz was on a mission and stomped a flawless run to take the win, followed Mr Roll-on Flatland himself, Mike O’Connell who had a great second run linking together all his g-turn multiple fire hydrant combos and Steve Rooke nailed his nemesis, the cyclone to rope-a-roni.

AM.

Mario Carelse

Mike O’Connell

Steve Rooke 

Matt Dyer

Ellis Morgans

James Ovens

Next event up in the UK, the Easter jam at Southsea Skatepark, on Saturday 19th April.

Yu Katagiri & Chiaki Todaka win Chimera Aside in Kumamoto

Congratulations to Yu Katagiri, winner of the @chimeraaside contest in Kumamoto in an intense final battle with Yu Shoji for the top spot, Yu Shoji in second followed by Moto Sakai in third. If you watched the livestream Sunday morning, the level was so high!
In the Women’s class, congrats to Chiaki Todaka taking the win followed by Sariya Kajiwara and Kirara Nawagawa in third. (Podium pic below!)
Great start to the contest season in Japan!

James White & Luke Glover win Roll on Flatland

Photos: Effraim, Ben Marvin.

The premier Roll on Flatland event at Pitt St Skatepark hosted by Mike O’Connell was a huge success for U.K. flatland with around 40 riders plus spectators in attendance. A proper good day of riding to kick off the contest season.

Congratulations to James White throwing down a flawless second run to take the £150 cash prize donated by Rob Ridge followed by Jason Forde and Steve Green.

In the expert class, we had 15 riders with Luke Glover taking the win with his flat/street style followed by newcomer of the day Ellis Morgans and Billy Hughes in third.

Big up Mike, all the judges, staff at Pitt skatepark, riders and spectators for your support.

Roll on the next one!