ERA Kingston Cup – 30K Flat Pedal BMX Race

Check this out! A flats-only BMX race held on an entirely new and innovative track with a $30,000 purse. Finally! – A BMX race the way it should be.

The ERA Kingston Cup is part of the Kingston Bike Festival which also includes the popular Metro Jam and a Flatland Contest – A chance to bring all BMXer's together to ride, compete and of course, take in one of the many after-parties. Yup, that's right, you can leave your fruitboots/disco slippers at home for this one – no clips allowed.

The track will be built on the site of the current Kingston (Ontario) BMX track and will be designed by Jay Miron (6-time World BMX Freestyle Champion) in collaboration with Tom Ritzenthaler (Olympic track builder). "The goal with the new ERA race will be to do for racing what Metro did for street contests and what Elevation did for dirt jumping.” said Jay Miron creator of Metro BMX Jam, Elevation and now, the ERA race. "We're going to raise the bar."

Keep checking the ERA website for updates and visit the Kingston Bike Festival site here. For directions to the track, visit the Kingston BMX website.

See next page for dates and details

Aug 30 – 31 Metro
Metrobmxjam.com
$20,000 purse.
Metro will go down in the brand new five thousand-seat K-Rock Center. This year’s pro event will be invite only. That sounds shitty and we never, ever wanted to do an invite contest, but we feel as though we were forced to do this. Qualifying used to take six full hours because half of the guys entered weren’t actual pros. They were amateur riders who didn’t get into the amateur contest. Not only was it unfair to ask the spectators who paid for their seats to watch the amateur riders, it was super dangerous to ask the pro riders to ride practice beside a bunch of riders who had no business being on the course and often got in the way.

We’re going to be doing a number of amateur events in several Canadian cities. Out of those contests we’re going to qualify twelve riders who go straight into a Metro final held on Saturday night, right after pro qualifying. This should make for a banger night of riding. We’ll have all the qualifying cities locked down and we’ll announce them in a few days.

Sept. 3 Flatland
$5000 purse
For the first time in years Metro will be holding a flatland contest. It’s going to be on Wednesday night at a really cool spot in the city center. It’s going to rock. Stay tuned to the Metro site for details.

Sept 5 – 6 ERA BMX Race and Jumping Contest
Erabmx.com
ERA Kingston Cup Race $30,000 purse
ERA Jumping contest $10,000 purse
The ERA (Elite Race Association) race will be Elite riders only. The Kingston track will be totally rebuilt bigger and better. It will be amazing and the riders must race on flat pedals. No one is allowed to race in tap dancing shoes. The dirt contest will be on three sets that run down between the second and third straight with the last set flying over the second corner.

It starts Friday night with time trials for the racers and qualifying for the dirt jumpers. Then on Saturday night the race goes down and the jumping final happens.

Flight tips:

Fly to: Syracruse, NY or Ottawa, Canada