The Joost Wichman Ultimate Bike Battle - Event Preview

Are you in the Netherlands on the 23rd of November? There's only one place to be and thats at Joost Wichman's Ultimate Pump Track King party! Find out more...

Who will be crowned as The Ultimate Pump track King?

16 pro bike riders from 8 different disciplines go head to head on the Icycle wooden pump track.The race will take place at Saturday night during the "Official Joost Wichman World Champion Party" in Disco Club "De Radstake" in Varsseveld, The Netherlands.

• 16 PRO RIDERS
• 8 DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
• RACING INSIDE A CLUB IN FRONT OF 2000 PARTY PEOPLE
• CLUB OPEN FOR EVERYONE!
• DJ HRUSKA FROM CZECH

Several national and world champions from different bike disciplines will go head to head in front of 2000 party people. This exclusive race will bring all bike disciplines together and will go back to the basics of bike riding: THE PUMP TRACK! At the end of the evening we will know which discipline and which rider will be the best on a pump track.

General event info:
Date: 23th of November
Location: Disco Club "De Radstake"
Adress: Twenteroute 8, 7055 BE Heelweg, The Netherlands
Doors open: 22:00
Pump track race: 23:00
Contact person: Joost Wichman - [email protected]

Racing inside a club:

We gonna bring biking to the party people.

We install our wooden ICYCLE pump track inside club "De Radstake". The race will be run on Saturday night while the club is open. 2.000 Party people will be dancing and screaming around the bike gladiators.

The Pumptrack: We will use the wooden Icycle pump track with a length of 40 meter and a 6 X 15M footprint. The track is a so called oval with 2x180 turns and in total 6 bumps.

The Race Format

There will be 16 riders competing at this race. In the first round (1/8 finale) 2 riders of the same discipline will battle against each other for the fastest rider in their discipline. So BMXer against BMX, XC against XC and so on. The rider who catches up the other rider first qualifies for the next round. If you loose your run you are out of the competition, it's a knock out system. In the 2nd round the fastest rider per discipline will compete against riders from other disciplines. At the end of the evening there will only be 2 riders left who will battle for the title "The Ultimate Pump Track King"

Pro Riders confirmed:

• Ralph Näf - XC - former World Champion
• Thomas Slavik - 4X - World ranking no1
• Guido Tschug - Freeride legend
• Jelle van Gorkom - BMX - World ranking no2
• Petrik Brückner - Enduro - Germany's fastest
• Johannes Fischbach - DH - National Champion
• Michiel van der Heiden - Cyclecross - former World Champion
• Joost Wichman - 4X - World Champion
• Benedikt Last - 4X - National Champion
• Rick Koekoek - Bike trial - World ranking no3
• Desmond Tessemaker - BMX freestyle - Red Bull rebel of the day
• Michal Marosi - Freeride legend
• Twan van Gendt - BMX - Winner Red Bull R.evolution
• Jurg Meijer - Party legend

Price money

There will be price money for the top 3 riders
- 1st place 1000 euro
- 2nd place 500 euro
- 3rd place 250 euro

The Joost Wichman World Champion (after) Party

Last month ROSE Vaujany team rider Joost Wichman won the world champs stripes, a good reason to Party!

Club "De Radstake" opens it doors at 22:00. The club is open for everybody, and can hold around 3.000 party people. Before, during and after the pump track race DJ + drummer will play in the middle of the pump track. Doors close at?

We hope to see you all at this special race and hope you will come to party with us to celebrate Joost his world title and the end of the season!

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