Exploring Montreal Flatland

A lot of good content today here on Flatmatters to get your teeth into, including this “Exploring Montreal Flatland” edit by Dustin Tweedhope.

“Filmed over the days before RealCitySpin 2016, at the Opera House, and famous Chinatown spot. Riding by Jean Francois Boulianne, Alberto Moya, Dan Hennig, Kevin Nikulski, Moto Sasaki, Stephan Clark, Cory Fester, Benjamin Hudson, Matthias Dandois and more. A weekend of relaxed riding. Enjoy.”

Bike Days 2016 – Riders warm-up before the final

Comprehensive edit from the riders warm up before the Bike Days 2016 final by Niyaz Zaripov. Featuring the likes of Alex Jumelin, Matthias Dandois, Jean William Prevost (look out for the antrider turbines to inside switch b undertaker at 6:28!), Yohei Uchino, Moto Sasaki, Dominik Nekolny, Lee Musselwhite and Kevin Nikulski. Always good to see the riding outside of the contest run.

OneLoveJam2016

OneLoveJam2016 from One Love BMX on Vimeo.

Darin Wright over at One Love just dropped the annual One Love Jam edit, with over 100 riders in attendance. It was a great day at Newport Beach, California! Featuring great riding from Dub, Adam Kun, Gabe Kadmiri, Bo Wade,Lindsey La’akea Bode, Kevin Nikulski, and many more, hit play for this one!

Good Vibes Japan 2015

Grombar just dropped this amazing “Good Vibes” edit with plenty of unseen footage outside of the Flatark contest at the infamous Meriken park in Kobe Japan. Great riding from the likes of Benjamin Hudson, John Yull, Kevin Nikulski, Russia, Alexis Desolneux, Paul Chamberlain, Balu, Dez Maarsen, Jeremy Brosset, James McGraw, Jim Cavanaugh, Dustyn Alt,Yu Shoji, Alberto Moya, Mo Rich, Yuichi Ill Tamiya and many more! Good vibes indeed, loved this! Thanks Omar for posting this!

Bike Days 2015 Day 3

Text and Photos: Effraim

Judges view warm up

I just got back home from Bike Days with nothing but good feelings about this event. If you have never been to Switzerland, every thing runs like clockwork, everything is very clean, well signposted, lots of green countryside, beautiful mountain views, the people are very friendly and polite. It is hard not to love the place!

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Bike Days 2015 Day 1

Text/Photos: Effraim

It’s a been a long day for me here on day 1 of the 2015 Bike Days contest in Solothurn, Switzerland. Like I did for the BITR contest in November, I wanted to do do daily updates kind of like in diary form of each of my days here at Round 1 of the 2015 World Circuit.

Bike days

D&J

One of the best things about flatland, is the friendships you make travelling around country to country hitting different contests. Dan Hennig and James McGraw kindly picked me up from Zurich airport this morning for the Bike days contest after a 3am start for me to get to London Gatwick, the flight at least was a short one at 1 hour 15 minutes.

Chill

Upon arriving we went back to Dan’s apartment, we met up with Kevin Nikulski, Dustyn Alt, and Camilo Gutierrez chilling before we made the hour trip to Solothurn.
I also discovered the riding spot Dan films a lot of his videos from is indeed below his apartment block, dialled!
The Switzerland countryside is beautiful, so much green land, and mountain back drops. I joked with James McGraw this was the real Battle in the Rockies, as when I arrived in Colorado last year none of us could see the mountains.

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