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Kent, WA – Since its June release, the Diamondback Accomplice has proven itself to be a nice / positive addition to society. The release of the Accomplice was thought by some to be a little early, but the only thing the $525 bike has been found to be guilty of is providing consumers with more for their money than any other complete on the market. Diamondback has combined designs from the Northwest to Florida to develop the all new Accomplice - equipped with Shadow Conspiracy components. 

We (BMX) have been doing pretty good at the Playstation Trick of the Week competitions that go hand in hand with the Dew Action Sports Tour. It's a way for the riders to make some extra cash and it's up to you to decide who will win the big pot. For this week the BMX nominees include:
-Kevin Robinson, double flair
-Steven McCann, no-handed 720 to turndown
-Dave Dillewaard, 360 tailwhip barspin on dirt.
Voting ends on Monday, and the winner takes home $5k! Let's keep it in the hands of BMX.

System Cycle is proud to announce that it is now the exclusive US distributor for Germany’s Mankind Bicycle Company and the U.K’s Proper Bike Co. If you will be Interbike make sure to stop by the System Cycle booth (Booth #5565) September 27-29 to check out all the great products from both these brands as well as DK, FlyBikes, Suelo, Failure, The Shadow Conspiracy, Terrible One, Coalition and many more. 

The latest Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany was the biggest one ever. Even for BMX it had quite a bit to offer. Usually it's the same few big brands that show the new product but the 2006 version of it had the biggest ('core) German BMX distributors (Allride, G&S, La Finca, Unity) display their new stuff. Some had a booth outside (Allride, KingKong, Kuwahara, Perv and they were lucky with the super weather in Friedrichshafen. It was a stacked show which had over 31,000 trade visitors, 19,684 visitors on the Open House Day and 1,064 journalists from 32 countries.

Is it me or are there more Baco-a-go-go events per year? Anyway, the next fun BMX jam is happening on the weekend of 27-29 October 2006 at Chad de Groot's Mesh Park in Florida. Friday is all day open practice and sign-up for pros and amateurs. On Saturday we wonder who will make it to pro practice at 12 PM. Not Osato. We figure he's going to show up and put his helmet on at 13:50pm, that's ten minutes before the pro street comp starts. We're also guessing that he's going to make the cut anyway and if not, he'll be at the bar but it's a good guess you can meet him there whether he made the final or not. On with the program: 6pm will be the Open Bowl session. Osato will be rolling smooth at this time. Dave will be cheering on the Tony Crash Stunt show at 8pm and then jump in a special Halloween costume for the official party.

The ams get to ride on Sunday. 10 am practice. 12pm there's a break

New York, NY — On Sunday, September 24th, 11am to 5pm, the Scion Xposed lifestyle event is coming to Field 5 at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. The event will feature one of the largest gatherings of Scions on the east coast - many customized with turbos, superchargers, exotic rims, and custom paint jobs - as well as a long list of activities designed for Scion owners and those new to the Scion world. Besides the display of cool and custom metal, a hot line-up of DJs (DJ Premier from Gang Starr and DJ Evil Dee) and a B-boy exhibition will provide plenty of aural and visual entertainment. 

This upcoming weekend will be a busy one again for BMX. The Eastpak crew is on tour in Greece, Paul's Boutique will take his team on a trip, the FSO jam is happening over in Amsterdam, NL and also the DirtE19 crew in Belgium are inviting everyone to ride some dirt. The Braun spine ramp will be set up at the IFMA trade show for a Bulls spine mini ramp contest in Cologne, Germany and if you live in the UK and want to participate at the Backyard jam later this year, you can go up to Scotland for a qualifier. Huntington Beach is once again the

Scotty Cranmer has been ripping it up lately and if you want to ride the same bike as Scotty you can now.  Here's some details on his frame, called the Sheriff:
-Top Tube sizes 20.5” and 21”
-Matte Black only
Comes with:
-headset
-London Mod
-Two sets of mid bb bearings (19mm and 22mm)

A few years ago, we only had a few contests in Europe. The world famous FAT JAM in The Netherlands, the King of Concrete in the UK and the BMX Freestyle Worlds somewhere in Europe. Since that, things have changed dramatically and there is a BMX contest almost every weekend of the year and during the summer time, we can choose from multiple contests and jams each weekend. There are big contests with a fixed time schedule and there are contests like the BMX BOK Series in Deventer: no pressure on the time schedule, just relaxing, chilling and some bmx riding with your bmx buddies.

The qualifiers were scheduled to start around 2.00 PM, but of course not all riders had shown up yet. Approx 3 hrs later Herm and Paul decided to start the qualifiers. The qualifiers were in a jam format, where riders could earn a place in the finals by proving their BMX skills with their best tricks. Riders who qualified earned a really ugly tie, of which 12 were available. During the qualifiers it showed that Daniel Wedemeier and Franky "Kruimel" Elshof had their tricks wired: