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Big, Big News!!!!!! As of yesterday Scotty Cranmer and Felt Bicycles have extended their contract at least until the end of 2008. Felt could not be happier with Scotty and what he is doing to spread the good Felt word. Scotty has been with Felt Bicycles since 2003 and we really wanted to keep the momentum going, both Scotty and Felt are happy about the deal and looking forward to a great future together.

Alan Foster/TM

Yo here's another 1 4 tha "NEWS" Update, this time around I played an Irish gang member that ends Up gettin' shot by our enemies tha Italians. Mike Vallely, pro skateboarder is N tha film as well, It's funny cause N real life I'm an Irish/Italian/Swedish white boy, I could B on both sides. Anyhow my boy Tony Canonico made tha film & he's tha bomb, check more of tha film out @:

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. and DRAPER, Utah - April, 2006 - After an extensive search, Interbike, a division of VNU Expositions and producers of the OutDoor demo, Interbike International Expo and Winterbike bicycling tradeshow events, announced it has signed a three-year agreement with SOAR Communications, a full-service strategic marketing communications agency to develop and execute public relations campaigns serving all of Interbike's annual events. 

Name: Anthony Napolitan
Age: 20
Hometown: Youngstown, Ohio

Hmm, you're not living in a particular BMX mecca. Where do you ride on a regular basis?
Anthony: Well I currently live at Woodward camp, so when I wake up everyday I can choose from about 10 different skateparks to ride at, but usually I ride lot 8, the rock and the 7ft mini ramp at outdoor street on a daily basis.

Woodward seems like a place that helped you progress. What's your favorite part of the camp?
Anthony: Woodward definitely was a big part in my progression over the past year. My favorite part of the camp is the variety and diversity in ramps all over the camp.

KHE sent over photos of the Justin Miller “Militant” prototype frame. Justin will ride the frame on the NinjaSpin in France (6th/7th of May). Here's the spec:

-Justin Miller’s Signature frame
-1-1/8“ internal headset
- Euro Bottom Bracket
- Angles: HT 75.2° | ST 71.0°

Writing reviews is a tough task. You don't want to piss the makers off who have spent months getting the thing produced but it's no use either to praise every production so you lose track of what's good, and what's not. We like to give fair reviews to every DVD we get sent. We also apologize if the reviews take a while before they're up. It's simply how things go sometimes. Transcend is a production of Ty Stuyvesant & Steve Machuga who spent over a year to collect all the footage and then edited it to this very DVD. It has basically 14 rider sections with some freestyle skiing thrown in for (good) measure. Riders include Sean Burns, Anthony Napolitan, Ryan Worcester, Dennis McCoy, Jamie Bestwick, Seth Holton, Steve Machuga, Harrison Boyce, Nick Halsey, Dan Montgomery and more. Each of them have a section with one better than the other but with this group of riders you are guaranteed to have some quality riding going on. Harrison Boyce and Nick Halsey impressed me with their part and so did Ryan Worcester. 

They hail from Devon, they live to ride, and they go under the name of ‘the moVment’. Notorious to Devon, these local BMX’ers are hosting their third annual ‘moVment Jam’ on 27th and 28th May, at local Decoy Park, with an opportunity for any amateur riders to come along and take part, or simply watch the event unfold. It all started in 2003, when a small group of likeminded BMX’ers from Newton Abbot came together to create a low key BMX jam in response to their local trails being closed. Following an unprecedented response from the local community, Teignbridge Council resolved to work alongside the BMX enthusiasts to help respond to health and safety concerns, and support their dreams for a better facility ... and so the Movement Jam was born!

Now in its third year, and charging £5 to compete, proceeds from the Jam will go towards “The Decoy Misfits BMX Dirt Club” - a local skate/bmx park for the whole community and with a recent injection of £5,000 from the National Lottery fund and support from the local council, the target of £100,000 is beginning to look very possible.

What a difference it makes. It's been sunny for two days and I can ride again. Your outlook on life changes because of it. Psyched. Here's a quick review of the June issue of BMX Plus! that has Danny Hickerson on the cover doing an incredible rail ride up 6 stairs to no-hander. Damn! Chad de Groot knows how to score photos. He pulls out his flatland bike for a double page contents spread. Allan Cooke is seriously nuts. See his helicopter stunt. SE scores some good coverage with Postany getting the poster and Gerber getting an Inside the Pros Bikes article. Also Steve Cuesta gets a pro bike check and for those who forgot about Thomas Hancock, he's still around, simply read his interview. Mike Day and Bubba Harris both scored a #1 title in 2005. There's a one-on-one with the two fast racers. Kip Lekker waves to the camera for a full page shot on page 76. Also full page moving pictures go to Biz, Will Love, Brumlow, Johnny Devlin and Eddie Hernandez. Yup, Plus! likes to give coverage to those who deserve it.

Flatlanders united for the FLAT-JAM in Rhode Island. Here's the results:
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The folks at KHE are looking for a new graphic and web designer. Skills and Needs they're looking for:
* Creation of print advertisement
* Place of work: KHE headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany
* Graphic know-how: CorelGraphicSuite or Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
* Webdesign and programming know-how: HTML, CSS, PHP