Renny Roker one of the Industry nominees 2018. In June 2018 the USA BMX Hall of Fame did publish the names of the nominees in their respectif categories. In the Industry section one of the nominees is Renny Roker (Jag BMX). I know most of the Industry nominees personal, also Renny Roker. One think I can say is, that because of the 1979 en 1980 Jag BMX World Championships in Indianapolis-USA, finaly the I.BMX.F. saw the light of day in 1981, which organization integrated into the UCI in 1996. UCI being a part of the I.O.C., announced that BMX Race would become an Olympic discipline at the 2008 ..read more

August 2018.   A project of Janis Grinvalds - Latvia named "global BMX Community, worldofbmx " Some time ago already, Janis Grinvalds asked me to help him make his project known to readers of the universityofbmx.com  With the enclosed information I want to give my readers the opertunity to check out Janis's project. So here some information to get involved in the ...... worldofbmx.com ........ informative BMX facebook page and such. With this we want to support Janis's project. ENJOY ! Janis Grinvalds wrote to me: I see several things which could be done with cooperat ..read more

This page was created in May 2018 and will be filled during time, step by step.  Reactions are placed ad random. Enjoy. May 1st. 2018.  This FACEBOOK reaction came in from Tom Lynch - GBR. Ok, such a great response from my last post, thank you, only went in the loft for a picture for Dale Holmes. So a lil international flavour then just concentrating on a little over 1 year. Team AMEV ruled from 86 led by Sir Gerrit Does from Holland, the Godfather. Got battered a bit coming from 15 expert (IBMXF euro champ) to Superclass for Team Robinson, yes lots of pack racing & elbows to he ..read more

Dear friends in BMX, 40 years ago, the sport of BMX (Bicycle Moto-Cross) was introduced in The Netherlands and Europe as an official registered sport. Around 3 years later BMX turned into an international world wide sport through the I.BMX.F.  And it was after the merge with the UCI that BMX became an Olympic sport in 2008. 40 years of development of riders, events, officials have past and in my opinion we can all look back with pride of what has been achieved. So let's celebrate the 40th anniversary of BMX 1978 - 2018 in The Netherlands and Europe. Yours sincerely, Gerrit Does ..read more

On June 18th, a special documentary on Dutch BMX has been shown on Dutch National TV, NPO 1 at 22.15 hours. This 30 minutes docu will tell people about the introduction, start and developments in Holland over time on Bicycle Moto-Cross. BMX was introduced by Gerrit Does early 1978 in Holland and coordinated activities European wide in Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden the first couple of years since 1978. Special about this docu is the fact that mainly privat never shown 8 mm films and video-tapes will be used (archiefs Gerrit Does ..read more

UCI Press-Release, Lausanne June 9th. 2017. Madison and BMX Freestyle Park added to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Programme. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is delighted to announce that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to add the Madison and BMX Freestyle Park to the Programme of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The decision was made at today’s meeting of the IOC Executive Board in Lausanne, Switzerland. Named after legendary races organised at Madison Square Garden in New York (USA), the Madison is a dynamic, exciting and technically demanding track cycling event, which r ..read more

To read about the DEVELOPMENT in BMX at the highest level, the Elite classes and within the World Cup/Supercross format, check this out: Waalre, March 26th., 2016   An historical overview. For some time now I had the plan to write an article about the developments/evolution in the sport of BMX at the highest National and International level within the UCI, in the Elite Women and Men classes. Also all the other BMX classes followed the development closely. Background information. Since BMX started as an organized sport in the USA in the early 1970's (1974 to be exact) and was spread over t ..read more

During a visit in October 2016 to the Dutch "BMX MUSEUM" of Old Skool BMX'er Mike Janssen, I saw the following objects that I thought were worth while showing to you all. Shown below the BMX MUSEUM logo with in front a prototype ONE Bicycles frame, donated to the museum by Christian v.d. Groenendaal, owner of ONE Bicycles.   EPPO magazine was a childrens magazine that was issued at schools. In the '80's EPPO started a BMX team in cooperation with former moto-cross Champion Pierre Karsmakers. Here two pictures of concept drawings for rider uniforms and painting the team bus. All exposed a ..read more

Groesbeek-Holland, Today the Dutch National Championship Cross-country ATB/MTB/VTT took place in the small town of Groesbeek near the city of Arnhem in Holland. Corine Dorland, the QUEEN of BMX with in total 10 World titles, could win here another Dutch National Title as she did last year, in ATB/MTB/VTT cross-country. She almost did, however, a few hundred meter and out of sight of officials, here main competitor van de Brand, T-boned Corine in on of the last tight turns. With only a tenth of a second mrs. Van den Brand did win the title and left Corine very upset at the finish line. Anyway ..read more

Seen here a page from an American Magazine calledd "BMX PLUS" issue October 1985 were it is announced that Gerrit Does will retire as General Secretary from the I.BMX.F. ending 1985. He made the announcement during the annnual congress at the I.BMX.F. Worlds in Whistler - Canada, 1985. He stated: I have layed down the foundation for this world wide organization and worked on this for 5 years. It's now time for other to take over. I normaly set a goal for myself and within a timeschedule of around 5 years that goals has te be achieved. Then other can take over and make things better. Good luck ..read more