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This coming Monday FATBMX will be on tour with the HARO Bikes crew in England for a week. Updates during that time depend on internet access while on the road. Expect a full blown report when we're back though. HARO UK tour 2005 - 29 March - 3 April After two years it's time to get back to the UK with a posse of HARO riders for another little fun tour. The riders on the HARO tour are the following: 1) Ryan Nyquist (HARO USA) 2) Josh Harrington (Premium USA) 3) Ben Shenker (HARO Europe) 4) Anthony Pill (HARO Europe) 5) Stefan Geisler (HARO Europe) 6) Senad Grosic (HARO support) 7) Ben Hennon (HARO UK) 8) Ben Manuel (HARO UK)

The following BMX videos are nominated for a "2005 Extremey Award": -Please Kill me (S&M) -Drop the hammer (RIDE) -Roadfools 13 (Props Visual) -Drama (FOX) -Cheap Thrills (KinkBMX) To enter your vote, go to: www.Xtremey.net

Steven Blatter of Swiss BMX Freestyle knows how it goes: I have a nice "sexy" girl on a BMX for you that I took at one of our Felt shows here in Switzerland! When I saw the girl I straitaway captured a pic for your pinup section! Thanks Steve!

This article was originally run on FATBMX in February of 2003. Why not post it again. A little history brush up never hurts. I had always thought that Bob Haro invented freestyle in 1978. That is until Crow sent me pics from 1975 of John Palfreyman and Thom Lund riding pools on BMX bikes. That's pretty BMX freestyle to me. But there is more to it. Crow had interesting stories and background info on the DogTown movie that Stacey Peralta directed. We interviewed Stacey in an earlier update on FATBMX.com and did not get much BMX

At FATBMX we've followed the BMX scene since the late seventies. Paul and I needed to get our hands on everything that had a BMX picture in it. More people were like that at the time but the difference is that we saved everything in an old box. Make that several boxes! Over the next couple of months we're going to dig in and show you some history. We'll show some pictures and list some quotes out of the magazines that have been collecting dust, some of them for over 25 years......

DON'T BE A SISSY - COME ON DOWN AND JOIN THE FUN TUFFbrothers BMX-TEAM 2005 Pierre Hinze (GER) Sas Kaykha (GER) Hauke Kob (GER) Sven Busse (GER)

Caroline "Caro" Moussy wrote the following report about a girls only jam in England. She also wanted you to know that there is a BMX girls jam coming up this summer in Montpellier, France. UK girlz jam, Thornaby, March 2005 The jam had been announced some time ago on BMinX.com and on WOFBMX.com, so I decided to meet some of the English female riders. In my quest, I took along the very motivated Julie who had travelled all the way from Paris and crashed at mine in Nottingham for the week end.

ISportsTV announces plans for live Audio Webcast of the NBL Spring Break Nationals March 22, 2005, Phoenix, Arizona - IsportsTV (ISTV.com) announced today it will deliver a worldwide, real-time AUDIO broadcast over the Internet for the NBL’s upcoming Easter Classic Event, held in Orlando, FL on March 26th-27th. This is the first-ever live audio broadcast for an NBL event, and isportstv expects thousands of participants from all over the world to log on to the audiocast via their own computers. In addition, isportstv will also provide a similar webcast for the Gator National in Tampa, FL on April 1st-2nd. Racers, families and fans can simply go to the home page of the NBL site and click on the ISTV.com banner during the event to hear all the exciting action LIVE and in real-time. With ISTV’s broadcast there are no delays, no waiting for race results, AND participants get to hear the play by play race action from the beginning of the first moto to the end of the very last main event.

Tony D. over at FOX Racing has made sure we're receiving the FOX press releases. This one is about their new line of shoes. Looks like there's no more need to buy white New Balance jogging shoes any longer.... by Press Release Fox Announces Performance Footwear Line Irvine, CA - For three decades, Fox has been producing the most technically advanced motocross equipment, apparel and accessories in the world, revolutionizing the industry and sport in the process. In recent years, the company has kept its momentum going by successfully expanding into the active wear and optics markets with the launch of its men's and women's lifestyle clothing line and its soon-to-launch (Spring 2005) fashion eyewear collection featuring Oakley's cutting-edge technology and premium craftsmanship.

Vans International, Euro & UK Team Signing Session, 47 Carnaby Street, London, W1 4 - 5pm Monday 4th April Vans are excited to announce a Vans International BMX Team signing taking place in the Vans European flagship store, 47 Carnaby Street, London, W1 Scheduled for Monday 4th April and fresh from their appearance at ‘King Of Street’ at the Bike Show, Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, International riders taking part include : Gary Young – 1st place, Backyard Jam ’03, 2nd place, X-Games ‘03 Ryan Guettler – ranked 7th overall for Vans Triple Crown of BMX Alistair Whitton – 1st place titles for both X-Games and X-Trials Scotty Cranmer – 1st place Vans Triple Crown Championship ‘04