A review of the first Bensink Speed & Style Jam Season Closener, fueled by Rockstar! No stress, just fun in the 'backyard'!

It's autumn again and the gravity season is coming to an end. All the main races and contests are behind us. So it's time to relax and ride with your friends. No stress, just fun.

That's why Desmond Tessemaker and I decided to organize a season closener. Professionals, riders for fun and a bunch of kids were invited to the first Speed & Style Jam, october the 4th, in 'the backyard' at Bensink BMX Gates. The weather was good, fortunataly, because the day before it was raining hard during the Dutch Championships Four Cross.

What more do you want: the sun was shining, the music nice and there was free Rockstar to drink. Riders and spectators from across the Netherlands came to Bensink, to close the season under relaxed circumstances. About 100 BMX and MTB-riders enjoyed the dirts and the speedline Desmond and I built and shaped in the weeks before the event.

After a good warm-up, the big tricks were shown. Backflips, 720's, frontflips, you name it. I made some efforts to land a 360...but it's better I stick with racing. Desmond, Bart Mol and Derio (winner of the Style Award) made one big trick after another. Even Johannes Fischbach was impressed.

Frank 'the Tank' Heijne and I were battling to set the fastest time on the speedline. In the end Frank won, but it seemed he had bribed the time officials with a few euro's just to get a hold of the prizes... For the kids there were prices as well, from Rockstar, SRAM, Giant, Adidas and Schwalbe.

Contests were over and on the beats of the music we kept on riding. We even had to use the artificial lightning. At 1930 we ate and drink something, before everyone headed home.

The first Bensink Speed & Style Jam Season Closener (fueled by Rockstar) was an awesome and succesfull event. Next year it will be back, only BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER! This was just a try out…

See you in 2010!

Cheers
Joost

Thanx to: Bensink, Rockstar, SRAM, Adidas Eyewear, Schwalbe, Giant en Theissen!

Pictures or video's will follow as soon as possible.