Lookback: April – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

The clocks go forward one hour, that feel good factor that the extra daylight brings, more riding time equals more time filming and documenting what you do. April was a busy month!

Deco’s Chad Degroot kicked off the month and had this to say:

“Since I starting riding my head wants me to learn as much as possible and this includes bars backwards tricks. The beginning of this link I learned this day so to make more smooth flow and no scuffing. The middle has been a gem and great feeling to whip the backend around with no brakes and keep speed. The end is bars backwards and played a huge head game for a bit because I had to push so much momentum to get into the backyard position and pump to keep speed. Real excited to move past the 15 second persona and get onto the longer story of this trick.”

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FlatDev 2016 Highlights

FLATDEV 2016 HIGHLIGHTS from magsociety on Vimeo.

Great official highlights edit from the biggest contest in Mayalsia, FlatDev! Enjoy the best moments right here featuring the likes of Matthias Dandois, Jean William Prevost, Moto Sasaki, Takahiro Ikeda, and many more.

Lookback: January – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

Hello everyone,

I dropped the 2016 Flatmattersonline year end awards just a few days ago, thank you to everyone who has already voted.Today I begin the task of going through the entire year and seeing what went down. In order to keep this as concise as possible, I will posting just what has happened in 2016. (In January there were a lot of edits posted from the previous year…)

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2016 really kicked off with the Quest BMX Sponsor Me contest, with a whole load of quality entries form across the globe arriving, in the end Jeremy Brosset and Gurvan le’ Brok won the competition and place on the team. Refresh your memories and take a look at their entries right here:

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Battle in the Rockies – Day 4

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The McGraw household is full with flatlanders as the weekend draws nearer, yesterday we kicked out the day with breakfast at Schlotzskys. Before heading down to James’ work, upon arrival we met old school legend Robert Castillo, Gary Knecht, Tyler Gilliard and our AM BITR video winner, Salvatore Castro all the way from Chile plus many others who started arriving as the day went on.

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Battle in the Rockies – Day 3

The days are going so fast here, already on Day 3 out here for the Battle in the Rockies contest! Yesterday was by far the busiest day yet, the morning began with heading to the Tintadome to work on last minute tweaks for the event, finishing off trophies, visiting a few local bikeshops and so on.

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Heading out to the Battle in the Rockies contest in Colorado!

It’s an early start for me this morning, as I head off to London Heathrow to fly out for the annual Battle in the Rockies contest in Colorado Springs. It seems as good a time as any to re-up this amazing edit from last years contest that Anthony Schneidewind put together featuring great riding from Moto Sasaki, Martti Kuoppa, Jean William Prevost, Jason Plourde, Pete Brandt, Bo Wade, John Yull, James McGraw, Bryan Huffman, Simon O’Brien and many more! See you on the other side, look out for daily updates from the event, as well as your regular posts daily.

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Matthias Dandois wins FlatDev 2016

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Round 5 of the 2016 World Circuit took place this weekend at FlatDev over in Maleka, Malaysia. Congratulations to Matthias Dandois, who yesterday took the top spot followed by Jean William Prevost and Moto Sasaki.

1- Matthias Dandois
2- Jean William Prevost
3- Moto Sasaki
4- Yohei Uchino
5- Benjamin Hudson
6- Takahiro Ikeda
7- Toon Pakaphum
8- Takumi Isogai
9- Takuya Higa
10-Nauto Tamaru

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.”