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The sun made it seem like August as I drove through early afternoon traffic. Marley’s ears caught the wind as he poked his fury head out the window of my little red pick up. “April showers? Yeah right, its 70 degrees and there isn’t a cloud in the sky” I thought as I sped towards the skatepark. “Marley, who do you think is going to win the BMX comp at Thrill-Zone?” “Woof” he replied…. “Me too”

The last Friday in April couldn’t arrive quickly enough for me. I knew this weekend was going to be amazing. Funky Monkey Radio in Tacoma had been hyping up the contest at Thrill-Zone for weeks. A 3 day BMX and Skateboard event with thousands of dollars in cash and prizes is a great recipe for fun. Redline Bicycles, Diamondback Bikes, Props Video Magazine, Animal, Pryme safety gear, Grand Prix Raceway, Applebee’s, Scion, The Volcano News, Monster energy drink, Kronik energy drink, Mountain Dew’s MDX energy drink and Full Throttle energy drink all donated prizes so generously that all in attendance were wired and no one left empty handed.

This is an invitation to the opening of our new spot called: "Venushügel". If you fancy riding dirt in Cologne, we will hope to see you at our spot this Saturday at 14:00hr. We're meeting at the Lidl/Aldi parking place at the Merheim Olpenerstrasse at 2pm and  will then cruise over together to Venus. Don't forget to bring your bike. Petrus will give us sunshine.

If you want to check it out, call Atze Etzold for directions.

Name: Ian Morris

Hometown: Hastings, England.

You recently started a distribution company, what's the name of it?
Ian Morris: 4 Down Distribution Ltd.

What brands will you be carrying? 

Alexis Bracke and Gilles van de Sompel are organizing a small flatland jam called 'Style Wars' on Saturday 13th of May in Ghent, Belgium (an hour away from Brussels, 3 hours away from Paris). The venue is a big indoor sports hall with an almost perfect floor (rolls smooth, grips well). They will take care of cheap food and drinks on location so you can ride all day without having to worry about anything! Music will also be present. There will be an afterparty in one of Ghent's most famous night clubs called 'Tijuana'. It's a small but very cool club with good music & vibes. 

Girls in short skirts are often used to cheer up a crowd. It also happened at the SX in San Diego where out of nowhere these girls started parading through the stands. The shots could have been a lot tastier with a bit of guts but it all happened so quick that they were gone before the camera knew how to focus.

Six BMX’ers, eighteen days and numerous spots throughout the UK – it could only be the return of the ‘roundabout tour’! From 12th to 28th May, Hastings boys Bas Keep and Caleb Kilby will be joined by Chester’s finest – Ali Whitton and Owain Clegg, along with Chris Souter and Robin Fenlon for a two week tour of the country. Starting in Hastings on 12th May, the collective, otherwise known as ‘roundabout’, will be hitting up local skateparks, trails and spots around the UK from Newcastle to Bristol, including the Red Bull warehouse in Bristol on 17/18th May.

Found this one on the internet. Maybe you don't want to see it, maybe you do. If you don't click on Read More, you won't miss much. But if you don't click to see the next page, you don't know what you just missed. Curious? It's a girl on a bike, that's all we can say.

Here's the latest info about the Suzuki BMX Masters to be held 21-23 July 2006.

-Announcement
Mat Hoffman will compete at the Suzuki BMXMasters The world’s best BMX rider ever will come to Cologne to join the Suzuki BMXMasters Hoffman’s last appearance in a BMX contest was at the 2002 X-Games. In 2006 Hoffman will once again be competing in a BMX contest. This reappearance on the contest scene will be at the Suzuki BMXMasters in Cologne! Also on the list are: Bram Verhallen, Mike Miller, Jurgen Funk, Ali B., Markus Braumann, Markus Hampl, Lowcash, Benny Paulsen, Mark Webb, Matt Parker, Michael Sommer, Timm Wiegmann, Bas Brouwer, Leroy Widdmann, Gareth WIlson, Ziegler and more. If you want to know who is already confirmed, check [url=http://bmxmasters.com]the complete list at the BMX Masters website[/url].

Ricky Adam provided this superman to tailwhip sequence from the Bridge Master comp in Amsterdam. Webmaster Jos Wissink got to work and made this animation of it. Click on the photo to see Hennon move. 

For the event report,   [url=//fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1482]click here.[/url]

We got a tip from Stijn on this chick that rides and also started doing some modeling. That's a perfect combination for a feature on FATBMX's pin-up section. We've listed a link that will take you to a BMX related interview with her. If you read it all, you can even find her myspace site.