Dan sent in a link to a new park edit.

Some nice flow filmed by Dan's friend, Alex.

Click here to watch the edit.

Dan went to the Belmar dirt contest in New York this past weekend.

Dirt comp was set up with just one just where you had to pedal as fast as you could to clear it. According to Dan it was the biggest jump he has hit so far, and was really fun to ride.

Dan ended up making the finals, and placed 7th with tricks like the 360 in the photo. Congrats.

Here are the results:

Pro Finals-
10.-Cody Brown
9.-Garret Guilliams
8.-Mark Potoczny
7.-Dan Foley
6.-Chris Childs
5.-Van Homan
4-.Dan Psimer
3.-Brian Foster
2.-Clint Reynolds
1.-Chris Doyle

Photo and results list comes from FBM.

Pim went to the FATJAM as well, and ended up riding away from a double backflip on one of the jumps.

Pim has been at it with that trick for a while now, and it finally worked out, with a controlled landing and all. Congrats Pim!

There is a small video of the backflip here.

What's next with this guy?

Eduards went to Ride It summer Jam in Latvia this past weekend.

The contest is the biggest in Latvia, and is located right on the beach. Looks like such a nice place to be riding.

It rained twice during the contest, so ramps were a bit wet, but that did not seem to stop the contest.

Eduards has a small edit of his run here.
And there is also an edit of the full contest here.

Those 540 flatspins are not small!

To see the nice pictures that Artis Ludbozs and Janis Dreimanis shot, click here.

While in Denmark for the demos at the tradeshow and for the team gathering, Mark put a new bike together with all the good stuff from Simple and Odyssey.
Unfortunately Mark just called in to let us know that the new bike got stolen in Amsterdam. Bloody long fingers!
So if you happen to see a white Enigma with green parts roll around Amsterdam, chances are it's Marks.

Despite having no bike, Mark went to the FatJam anyway, and just rode someone elses bike as you see on the photo.

With Mark being a produt deveolper at TomTom GPS navigations I could see him mounting a chip in his next bike so he can spot it whereever...

Dan sent in a picture of his new bike, which is just set up with fresh new parts. Had a bit of a beating after the Denmark trip.
Looks good, looks good.

Dan is about to move from Maryland to North Carolina to go to the University there. Seems like there is a lot of good stuff going on there, loads of riders and good spots to ride.

Kert is sporting a cast on the arm these days. Had a bit of a hard landing while riding street a few days ago, hit his front wheel in a hole, and got fractures on his lower arm and his thumb.

Kert is in the middle of filming for a new webedit, and working on pictures for an interview for bmxunion.com, and it should not be long before he is back on his bike again.

We wish you a quick recovery with no complications Kert!

On a sidenote, the Ace frame, which is designed with Kert and streetriding in mind will be in stores very soon. Stay tuned for more info.

Just came across this new T-shirt from DC Shoes with a bunch of sprockets.

Couldn't help but noticing how one of my designs made it on there. See the CPH sprocket there to the right?
Funny how the designs appear random places from time to time...

Frank Coggins held on to his video camera during the demos at this years Roskilde Festival, and sent in this flick of some of the good riding.

Quite impressive filming taken into consideration that Frank was busy balancing beers in the other hand while filming.. Good stuff.

Thanks again to all the riders, and everyone who sat down to watch. Fun it was!

And thanks to Frank for the clips.

Click here to watch the edit.

David sent in this text to let you know that he was on the latest Carhartt Visit My Town:

After Malaga, this CARHARTT ' VISIT MY TOWN was in Colmar (Norh-est France) with David Lombard, Tobias Wicke, Barry Kohne, Sergeï Geier, Mangoose and Arthur Dietrich who was the local that invited the others. Good street riding and parties, expect a webvideo on Carhartt
website soon

Just about half the Simple team is sponsored by Carhartt, and we are working on a Carhartt/ Simple colaboration on a limited edition product right now.

Click here to go to the Carhartt website.

The picture is shot by HADRIEN PICARD, and here is what David has to say about the spot: "i pocket aire (higher than the wood fence) the curve behind me and i'd a flat tire just with the
pressure on the landing (not hang on), who said that old dogs can't fly?"

Eduards recently competed in a park contest in Tukums, Latvia, and maneged to get 2nd place.

Apart from that he won the best trick with this 360. He had to leave the skatepark to get enough speed for the jumps. Amazing!

Thanks to Janis Dreimanis for the photo.

Rene Roebel sent in a link to some of the pictures he shot at the demos at the festival.
There's some really nice ones in there, and they should give you a pretty good idea of what went down.

Frank Coggins was there with the videocamera, pointing left and right, so expect a short edit sometime soon as well.

And Rutger Pauw was here as well, snapping images of the riding that went down before the festival, so keep an eye up for some nice photos in the magazines after the next deadline also.

Thanks a lot to Rene for sending in the pictures.

Enjoy.

Click here to view the images.

So we are back from the festival again.

This year the weather treated us really well, no rain, and no wind to bother anyone during the demos.
Riding this year was so good, and everyone seemed to be having a really good time. We had some minor injuries, but all in all everything was great! Some of the things that stood out would be Adrians 540's over the spine, Eduards 360 nosedives over the spine, Mitch's very high tailwhip airs and flow all over, Dan's 180 lookdowns on the spine and high tables (and a ton of flow), the tech trickery from Andreas Lindqvist and a high turndown straight out of the sleeping bag from Brad Simms.

Slayer was great, and so was all the other bands, sun was shining, beer was cold... good times!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to hang out and ride this year. Hope to see you there next year.

You are probably wondering why the 100% photo on the right is posted here... It was a shop out at the festival. Eighter they have a straight forward marketing plan, or they were not done painting the sign yet... haha, you decide. Eighter way, it's a funny photo.

FAT Bmx has a picture up of Pim at the Masters. Pim now features a very good version of the Swellbow after competing at the Masters.

A week in Denmark riding the local Copenhagen spots and doing demos at this years Roskilde Festival left Pim with a sore wrist, but that still didn't keep Pim off the bike at the Masters.

Pim said he wanted to do something else for this contest run, so he did a double backflip as the first trick. Good stuff.

Click here to see the FAT news.

David Lombard sent in a few pictures of his bike with a new paintjob he calls Murder Paint.

Quite the art paint there. Good stuff.

David is headed for the Masters next weekend in Cologne. Keep an eye out for the french!

Click here to see the pictures.

We have fresh new colors for the hubs out now.

Green, Purple and Blue.

To see the color picture, click here.

Our graphical designer and all around good guy, Mike DeWit just put together his new ride.

A Black Enigma frame with loads of nice parts, and a really nice and clean colorway.

Have a look at his full bike check on FATBMX by clicking here.

Mike also just finished a new line of tshirts, which once again looks really good. Stay tuned.

Everyone has just about arrived in Copenhagen now.

Plans are to ride some street and the ramps and ditches that we have here, and then go do the yearly demos at the Roskilde Festival.
This year we are lucky enough to be joined by Slayer and a bunch of other interesting bands.

Some really amazing bikeriding has been happening during the past weeks time, and Rutger Pauw has been here all the time taking pictures of it. So expect some nice photos to be published in the magazines soon.

Here is the lineup for the Simpe team as it looks now:

Mitch Yeates
Travis Johnston
Pim Van Den Bos
Kert Petersel
Eduards Zunda
Niels Thanild
Frank Coggins
Dan Foley
Mark Vos
Jeremy Muller
Axel Jurgens
Adrian Malmberg

And the friends list looks like this:

Brad Simms, Andreas Lindquist, Søren Habekost, Shozo Tanaka, Torbjörn Lundqvist, Nicklas Käll, Mikael Heidlind, Klas Löwbeer, Morten Larsen, Jesper Simonsen, Andreas Houmann, Martin DT, Peter Louv, Rene Roebel, Christian Twitchett, Jocke Olsson, Allan Pedersen, and Thomas Skou.

Jeremy just recently went to the hhhhhh ramps to have a session with John, Lalo and Robin.

Jeremy is starting to get the hang of editing, and has this nice little edit done from the session.

Good stuff.

Jeremy is also confirmed to come ride the demos at this years Roskilde festival.

Click here to see the edit.

Dan recently went to a contest in New Jersey called Bike Battle 8.

Apparently the whole skatepark is shaking and moving when you ride it, but that just makes it so much more fun.

Dan made the finals and ended up on the 7th place in Pro with cancan airs like the one on the picture here. Congrats.

PRO
1. BRANDON CHRISTIE
2. CHRIS CHILDS
3. COLLIN EVANS
4. BRIAN DEMATEO
5. GEOFF MEADE (TIED FOR 5th PLACE)
6. ROBERT HAMIEN (TIED FOR 5th PLACE)
7. DAN FOLEY
8. JORGE HERRERA
9. MIKE POMERIEAU
10.JOHN RITCHIE

Thanks to Evan Smedly for the photo.

Our Australian distributor Mike Daly has been one of the main characters behind an amazing event in Australia which is similar to a snowboard halfpipe contest, only on bikes with snow being exchanged with dirt.

Scott went there and has nothing but good things to tell from it. Here is what he has to say about it:

"This past weekend I lucky enough to get an invite to the RedBull DirtPipe contest.
The comp was held in a serene little town called Mount Beauty, which is out in the country about 400km north-east of Melbourne.
Having seen a few photos of the construction phase around the internet I expected this thing to be insane. The first thing that I realized when we arrived on the hill was that this thing was past insane. I know its cliché, but it's hard to put this monstrosity into words. The thing was intimidating, fast and some of the most fun ever when training a few mates down the beast. By the end of the second day of practice riders were booming 12- 13 foot airs off the lips, and getting sideways for a bit of fun. Everyone was smiling and laughing all weekend as people flowed down the hill each day until the organizers told us to stop.
Riders from all around Australia came out of the wood work to have a knock, there were even a few international riders in the mix. In the end an Aussie took the title and style won over tricks as Russel Brindly, better known as Rusty, grabbed the cash.

After the craziness of the whole weekend sunk in I can safely say that the DirtPipe was the most intimidating, fun, different and insane thing I've ever ridden. After a run down the pipe all you'd want to do is run back to the top and haul ass down it again. By the end of the first day my hands were killing me from hanging onto the bike, and there were still two more days of riding to be done.
I heard talk of RedBull doing the comp again next year, I cannot wait".

To see more from the event go to the redbull website.
There's also some photos on naturalbmx.com

The photo to the right features Scott courtesy of Naturalbmx.com

Eduards spent the past days filming for a new web edit, and the thing is ready and uploaded now.

No more brakes to slow this lad down anymore.

The 180 on the picture on the right hand column took a few tries, and cost a big ancle. Such an amazing gap!

Click here to see the edit.

Thanks to Janis Dreimanis for the footage, and to Toms Siliš editing it.

Enjoy.

Oba has a really nice picture up on the Ride US website.

Shot by Keith Romanowski at the Yankee Stadium.

Click here to see it.

Oba has been slowed down by a smaller injury, but should be back on the bike by now again. He will be travelling a lot this year, doing some US roadtrips with friends, and coming to Europe to hang out, ride some street and do the Roskilde demos as well.

Thanks to Keith for the nice image.

Dan put up a new webedit with loads of original things and a fair bit of flow added to the lot.

He has been busy doing the local exposure contest, and will be heading the New Jersey to ride a contest too now.

We have slowly started to look into the demos at this years Roskilde Festival, and Dan has confirmed his arrival here. Slayer, Radiohead, Raveonettes and Hot Chip will be there as well. Sounds like it will be a good time again.

Click here to see the new edit of Dan.

Enjoy.

M.O.N spent some time filming for this new web edit.
Russian street riding is blowing up, and this edit is tech!

To see the edit, click here.

Enjoy.

Dominik posted a nice photofeature on Mr. David Lombard on Woozy.

If you have ever seen David riding the Montpellier bowl you know that this is just a tiny bit of what he can do there. David grew up there, and really has that place dialled.

Jerome Morlan did a very nice job with the camera.

See David in action by clicking here.

Frank has been busy improving the Xhall Skatepark in Copenhagen lately.

It isn't long ago that Frank and Travis put a lot of hours in to make some new stuff to improve the skatepark under the bridge with all the bowls. And now Frank is at it again.

This time there is an addition in the more shallow end of the park with some nice tight trannies linking everything together even better.
Looks like it's a bit of a puzzle to get everything to fit, but it seems to be coming along well.

Can't wait to go ride that stuff.

Keep the good work up Frank.

To see the progress of the project, click here.

See you there soon.

Luke just finished an edit of him riding the miniramp in the Carhartt Skatepark in Weil Am Rhein.

No brakes, flow, good 360's and a turndown 360 to fakie is not bad at all.

Luke is off for the Nokia Fise in Palavas tomorrow, and will start filming for the next edit when he is back.

Enjoy the edit.

Click here to watch the edit.

After being off the bike for something like a year and a half due to a torn ACL and Miniscus injuries, I am now back on the bike pedalling around and having a good time.

Being off the bike for that long makes you appreciate just the smallest little things like being able to go pedalling down the street when the sun is out, hopping the curbs and do stupid skids. Can't beat the feeling of just being out there enjoying bikeriding.

This weekend has been spent like so many other weekends has been spent in the past, with a group of friends out exploring and having some fun at new places.

I figured I would post this picture, which is the first one shot after the injury. Fun roadgap with little kickers on each side.

Thanks to Frank for holding the flash, and thanks to Travis for pressing the button on this.

See you out there.

Dominik at Woozy sent in a link to an edit with Dan riding with some friends, and Dan also sent me a link to another edit of him riding a really old snakerun in Maryland.
I rode that snakerun a long time ago while passing through there on a roadtrip, and I think that place is absolutely amazing.

click click click to watch the white bike move...


This is the Snakerun edit.

This is the Woozy edit.

This is a Skatepark edit.


Thanks to Woozy for the link.

Our two foreign Copenhagen imports has put some time in to film for a wintertime edit.

Travis (who is from Australia orignially), and Frank (who is from Ireland originally) shares this webedit with some nice riding and some good lines from the Copenhagen Skatepark bowl, Xhall and there's even a clip from the Wonderland bowl in there too.

The picture shown here is Travis with a tabletop at Xhall
(photo by niels)

Enjoy.

Click here to see the edit.

Cameron has a web edit up on Vital.

Anyone say flow?

Stay tuned for an interview with Cam here on the Simple site one of the coming days.

Enjoy the edit.

Click here to watch it.

Luke just emailed in to let us know that he won a dirt contest in Switzerland a few weekends ago.

Luke won the style award and the highest jump. Congratulations Luke.

Luke also wanted us to know that he changed his name from Lucas Kneubuhler to Luke Brown. Let's see how long it will take me to get that changed on the teamsite here...

Luke is running a seatpost on his bike again, but the jeans still stay as low as the fashion dictates.

Congrats again Luke.

Jeremy sent in 2 pictures of him riding a miniramp somewhere in France at night.

Can't say that it's a bad table really. That's a proper invert.

Jeremy is also saying that they will be having a jam at LaSource Trails at the end of April. The trails there look amazing and is worth a go for sure. I know I will go!

Thanks to Gazou for the nice shots.

Click here to see the pictures.

We are very happy to welcome Adrian Malmberg to the team.

Adrian is from Sweden and is a really nice guy.

With Jimmy leaving Sweden to go live in Australia there was a spot open on the team, and who would fill that better than Adrian.

Adrian was at the contest in Stockholm a week and a half ago, and ended up taking 2nd place. Good stuff.

There is a webedit over on the Ride UK website. Click here to see it.

(For those of you who have been in the sport for a while and are wondering if there is a relationship to Jonas Malmberg, I can tell you that there isn't.)

Welcome to the team Adrian.

Our Latvian distributor, Janis at Parbmx sent in this photo of Eduards at the latest contest in Latvia.

According to Janis and Ed it was a really good time, with loads of good riding and a fun party.

I am not sure how Eduards did at the contest, but 360's like this qualifies for a cold beer in my book.

Click here to see the picture in colour and to see a lookdown to fakie as well.

Thanks to Janis for sending in the pictures.

Lucas has been riding the Carhartt skatepark in Weil-Am-Rhein during the winter, and has sent in some new shots from the sessions there.

There is also a new picture up of his new bike on his team site.

Thanks to Nonda for the pics.

Click here to see the pictures and the bike check.
Enjoy.

On February 23rd this years winterjam will take place in Stockholm, Sweden.

We are sponsoring the event, and we will have a few of the teamriders attend the thing as well. Local boy Peter will be there, along with myself and Travis from Denmark, and along with Mitch coming in from the UK.
The people behind the park, Andy and Tobbe has done a really good job on the park, and if you haven't been there yet you should start planning your trip there right now.

Our other local boy from Stockholm, Jimmy, won't be there as he is about to move to Melbourne to settle down with his girlfriend. Good luck with that Jimmy.

Click here to see the flyer for the jam.

Cam Hardy has a few new photos up on his team site.

A nice one footed table, a 540 and a fuffanu on a backrail.
These images just show a small small bit of what Cam is capable of doing on a bike, so stay tuned for more photos and videoclips soon.
There's an interview with Cam coming soon as well.

Thanks to Craig Tull and Dunk for the photos.

Click here to see the photos.

Travis and Frank have more than one thing in common.

First of all they both left their home countries (Australia and Ireland) to come live in Copenhagen. There might be different reasons to the moves, but some of the general things would be bmx and the scandinavian girls.

Apart from being teammates on Simple, Travis and Frank also teamed up to improve Xhall, one of our local indoor parks. Those of you who have been there know that the 3 bowls linked together is good fun for a session, but now things has been opened up and linked together even better.

At the lower end of the bowls there is now a vert wall and a small mini, allowing you to jump out of the lower bowl, carve around and come back in again.
As you see on the picture to your right, there is now a cutout between the 6 foot and the 9foot bowl, opening up for endless lines and combinations.
Chopping out and putting back together like this is definately not an easy task, nevertheless a really good result. - Now log off your computer and go ride this thing!

Click here to see more photos from the construction.

Our favorite german teamrider (and only german teamrider), Sascha Roll sent in some photos to let us know what he's been up to lately.

Sascha was about to go into surgery with his foot a while ago and have some pretty serious things done to it. Story was that they were going to have to fixate the ancle to a point where he would hardly be able to move it.
But about a week before the scheduled surgery the pain went away and Sascha escaped surgery. So nice!
Sascha is riding loads, and travelling around Germany to new spots all the time now.

Sascha sent in a picture of his current bike setup, and he also sent in 3 pictures of the car that he has spent so much time shining up. As the car would count as his "second ride" it's posted under the bikecheck section on Saschas teampage. I really like that car! Click here to see the bike check.

Sascha should be attending this years Roskilde Festival in Denmark as well... German invasion - look out!