The first preliminary round just got done here in sunny Abu Dhabi for the 2024 UCI World Championships. Congratulations to Yu Katagiri taking the top spot followed by Matthias Dandois and Yu Shoji. Top 12 make semi finals tomorrow.
Repo: Effraim.
Photography: Effraim, Thaddeus Schau.
Videos: Brant Moore.
Bit late with getting this repo up on the site, after a very busy summer. I finally have some time for myself to return to riding and updating the site regularly. Hope you all enjoy this one!
As I boarded my first flight home from the FA Battleground contest, I planned to start writing a report on the event for the site. Then, over the tannoy, we were told that we were unable to land in Chicago because of a thunderstorm. Off to Indianapolis we went, to wait until we could land in Chicago. I thought to myself, was this trip all worth it? The flight home was already delayed by twenty-four hours, and now was going to be even longer.
The Battleground contest had a real family community vibe that we really need right now. As this event clashed with the Olympics, I thought to myself, what do we really need to help the sport grow? More events? More jams? Better communication between riders? What is it that holds us back?
The annual Battleground contest full results right here, sorry for the late upload on this. Needed 24 hour recovery after a nightmare trip back home, repo still incoming. Congratulations to all the winners!
Pro.
Kio Hayakawa
Jean William Prevost.
Matt Wilhelm
Lee Musselwhite
Dustyn Alt
Terry Adams
Austin Luberda
Jean Francois Boulianne
Omari Cato
Remy Denoyer
Dax Wolford
Ryan Russell
Bo Wade
Cesar Rangel
Experts.
Ed Jolie
Francois Debroux
Anthony Schneidewind
Steven Lapsley
Lee Mejia
Jerry Milborn
Andy Sheltraw
Andrew Graziano
Andy Pandemic
Masters / Mid School Legends.
Ruben Castillo
Bryan Huffman
Todd Carter
Dave Nourie
Ron Monis
Old School / Vet Class.
Matt Veach
Ron Seay
Brent Schulze
Tony Abasolo
Bert Williams
Peeps
Glenn Mehltretter
Colin Ashe
Ron Metzger
Mark Johnsen
Keoth Richardson
Soon to be.
Brant Moore
Kevin Czaba
Joel Munday
Kelly Oldfield
Bri Welch
Ricky McHenry
Dan Pickering
Emil Hetzger
L.A. Mallin
Julien Metzger
Best Trick.
Jean William Prevost
Congratulations to Moto Sasaki holding onto the top spot in semi finals this morning in Sunny Abu Dhabi. Top 8 make finals later today.
Congratulations to Moto Sasaki who qualified first here at UCI World Championships here in Abu Dhabi. Top 12 make tomorrows semi final. Congratulations to everyone who made it!
It’s time to announce the winners of the 2021 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards, as well as show some love to the nominees….
It’s a labour of love putting this together, after two weeks filming, capturing, and editing, the show is finally is done!
If you are unfamiliar with the awards, there are 5 categories in both editorial and reader choice. I made a few changes this year, adding Female Rider of the Year + Brand of the Year to the awards.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote, and congratulations to all the winners and nominees, tune into the Year end awards show to find out who won in each category!
Grab a Cuppa and I Hope you enjoy the show!
Flatmatters / Effraim Catlow.
So good to be able to see riders being able to session together once again, its been a while right? Matt Wilhelm, Bo Wade and Mickey Gaidos ride at the legendary Flatopia riding spot in Chicago. Great edit, don’t miss this one!
I’m a little late posting the Pro Class results, congratulations to Terry Adams who took the win in the Pro Class with an amazing run packed with progression, originality, and difficulty to boot. Terry was followed on the podium by a man on a comeback, Matt Wilhelm who showed he’s back on a mission. In the third place podium Toon Pakphum threw down a three minute combo that just knocked Bruno Zebu out of the top three, that’s how high level this contest was. Congratulations to everyone throwing down during difficult times, I had a lot of fun judging this event along with Joe Cicman and Austin Luberda.
Thanks Todd Carter and James McGraw for putting this on, and helping keep the flatland community together.
There’s talk of another event later in the year, so stay tuned!
Text: Effraim.
Photography: Effraim and Ged McConville.
Like everyone when the iBMXff World Championships were announced a few months back, I thought “Where the hell is Flatland?”, there were various trains of thoughts from most of the flatland community, but it seemed summed up with “it’s not the worlds without flatland”, emails went back and forth. If I am being honest, I didn’t think Flatland would be included with budgets and all….
Takahiro Ikeda, Xft no handed straddle time machine on his way to a huge second place.
