Hi there,

while surfing the web yesterday night, i visited the Norwegian Sandnes BMX club website. Nice track and holder of two of the Euro Rounds in 2010.
I know that there a couple of good riders coming from norway. Like AG, SK and Andre Fossa Aguiluz.

But... what´s up with the rest of Scandinavia. (Denmark aside, cause they don´t consider themselves as Scandinavian. If i remember right...)

Well, of course you can forget Iceland. lol

What happened to the Swedish?
I watched some "Svenska Cupen" videos on YouTube where Gustafsson is doing a great show. Maybe a bit overbearing, but so what. He´s young. lol
What happened to Matamoros? And the girl Cim Sjölander? Are there any more future hopefuls

Is there any BMX Racing in Finland? Never heard of one Rider coming from there.


Can anybody (Grendizer can you hear me? lol) here on Vintage give an update on the Racing scene in Scandinavia?
Talking about Rider count, track count, international activities, future outlooks etc.

cheers

euro from Germany

hi there

thats right Filip gustafsson is THE best swedish rider. there is no other swedish rider touching him.
norway has o young guy named birkeland that is in class with filip.

why wouldn't denmark belong to scandinavia? there are also a cuople of good riders there.

Finland had one racer in this years Nordic Championchip (denmark, sweden, norway, finland) but he is not living in finland, just racing for them.

Cim sjölander is more into 4x nowadays

matamoros has seen better days

i actually dont know how many riders we have but there are 9 swedish bmx clubs. and on an international scene we race pretty bad;) except for a few guys.

we do have a lot smaller races, on those we use to be like 8-12 racers in the 17+ class. a bit more racers in the younger classes

our tracks is holding a pretty good standard with many new build tracks and a few more clubs are getting new ones next year.

copenhagaen is holding the worlds 2011!
here are a few newly pics from their track







are track in Malmö sweden is looking like this:


http://www3.idrottonline.se/ImageVault/Ima...ultHandler.aspx

But the future looks dark, at least for sweden;) as we said before we do have gustafsson but he is 19years old now and we dont have any of those crazy young guys in sweden. We do have a few hopes but thats just on a swedish or top nordic scene. Al other riders that are pretty good racers are 22+ and they are not crazy good

or what do you say mattias(grendizer)

Tarm pretty much covered it. BMX is really small here in Sweden. I'd say here are around 200-250 riders total in Sweden and around 90-100 that race the national series and championship. 5-10 hit up some of the euro rounds.

Filip Gustafsson is hands down the best rider we have, and probably the best in the history of Swedish BMX. I'm not sure he is really interested in pushing himself to the next level though. He seems to mostly ride steet/park/dirt, and he has started tattooing so I guess he is not really interested in full commitment to a racing career. We shall see...

Personally, I don't think we have any serious racers in Sweden. At least not over the age of 19.
I truly don't believe you can live in Sweden and be a serious BMXer.

Gren

tattooing himself or others? that´s weird. lol

so, aside from the weather, what´s the problem in Sweden? i mean, your neighbors, the norwegians and danish, do very well in BMX.
correct me if i´m wrong, but it also seems that bicycle culture plays a more important role over there than in your places.

or is it just the same prob we have in Germany, that the sanctioning body just pushes those disciplines forward which succeed internationally? which is pretty much MTB and road cycling. it´s a bit like a vicious circle - no support, ... no success. no success, ...no support.

do you know if gustafsson joins for a training purpose other national teams? if the danish or norwegians don´t want him, why not join our guys?
i´m pretty sure he would be welcome. (i could make a contact if requested.)