Yes, there was a pie eating contest at the Wigan Street Jam. Do you need to know more? Well… Spots were ridden, clips were filmed and then Tom Cookson sent this video over!

Some words from Tom Cookson…

“Hosting a jam in Wigan is something I had thought about for a long time. Growing up there, we always had a decent BMX scene for a small town and still to this day there’s a crew of core locals who still come out and ride the park/street/DIY every week. A proper street jam had been needed for a long time.

I got the ball rolling early in the year and reached out to as many local crews as I could to get them involved with the jam. Once we had a date set, we gathered all the local grafters and set to work on Ambo DIY to get as many features built as possible, with the plan being to close out the day there after the jam.

The day started out at Alexandra Park Skatepark and then we moved through spots throughout the day, with the infamous Goose Green roof drop being spot number one. This definitely set the tone for the day as two people attempted it, one crash and one stomped!

Following that we hit the town centre which has a nice variety of spots, everyone was on form and some wild stuff got done at every stop. Some highlights for me were Chris Smith’s crooked down the Scholes Kinker and Alex PB’s 540 down Church Banks.

At the end of the day we hit Ambo DIY where we had a BBQ and a pie eating contest (it is Wigan after all) – with the fastest man to eat a Wigan Kebab taking home the goods. They were freshly baked and roasting hot which we thought would slow people down but some people were more up to the challenge than others!

Thanks to everyone who showed up, we must have had 50+ people there at the peak with folk coming from as far as Wales and Newcastle to shut down little Wigan.

Special thanks to the main men who helped make it all happen: John Gav, Ham Bamber, Kayden Hankinson, Pawel Piotrowski, All the guys at Alans BMX, WN Bikes, The Hills Co, Technical Difficulties Crew, BngBngMcr, Unavowed Globale, AskWhoCares, Feeble Mafia, and Imogen and Amy for being our pie bakers!”

1st Place – Chris Smith

2nd Place – Rob Annis

3rd Place – Luke

Best Trick on the Kinker – Ben Gordon

Biggest Dick of the day – George Clark (for that roof drop)

Best trick on Church Banks – Alex PB

Longest Grind – Pawel Piotrowski

Pie Eating winner – Ollie Cush

Filmed by Piotr Rybicky, John Gav, Kayden Hankinson, Eddie Furber & Tom Cookson