Backyard Jam
Backyard Jam is a UK BMX contest series founded by Stu Dawkins in Hastings in 1991 and revived by Seventies Distribution as an amateur series in 2019.
4 min readBMX contests, series and jams. The history, format and significance of the events that riders compete in and fans travel to.
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Backyard Jam is a UK BMX contest series founded by Stu Dawkins in Hastings in 1991 and revived by Seventies Distribution as an amateur series in 2019.
4 min readBattle of Hastings is an annual BMX team contest, first held in 2016, at the Source Park, an indoor skatepark inside former Victorian baths in Hastings.
3 min readThe Bicycle Stunt (B.S.) series was Mat Hoffman's early 1990s freestyle BMX contest tour, run from 1992 to 1995 and a direct precursor to the X Games.
3 min readThe Dew Tour is a US action sports tour launched in 2005 that ran televised BMX park, dirt, vert and street contests across several city stops each year.
3 min readFISE is a large action sports festival held in Montpellier, France, since 1997, with BMX park and flatland contests that later became UCI World Cup rounds.
3 min readKing of BNE is an annual two-day BMX street jam in Brisbane, hosted by LUXBMX since 2022, where riders ride spot to spot and one is crowned King of BNE.
5 min readThe NORA Cup is Ride BMX magazine's annual awards night, where riders and industry vote for the Number One Rider in street, park, dirt, flatland and more.
3 min readOlympic BMX freestyle is the judged park event added to the Olympic Games for Tokyo 2020, where riders perform two timed runs on a purpose-built course.
4 min readOlympic BMX racing is the eight-rider sprint race on a dirt and asphalt track that has been part of the Summer Olympic Games since Beijing 2008.
3 min readSimple Session is an annual BMX and skateboarding contest in Tallinn, Estonia, known since 2001 for its custom park and street courses and party atmosphere.
3 min readTexas Toast Jam was a rider-run BMX contest in Austin, Texas, started by Odyssey's Taj Mihelich and held from 2011 to 2014, with street, park and dirt events.
3 min readThe UCI BMX World Championships award the rainbow jersey in BMX racing, with freestyle park and flatland titles decided at the UCI Urban Cycling Worlds.
4 min readThe X Games is ESPN's annual action sports event, running since 1995, that brought BMX vert, street, park and dirt contests to a mainstream TV audience.
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