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First and foremost we would like to thank everyone who helped pass the original message along. The initial responses in the form of emails and calls have been a true testament to Mike's vast group of family and friends through out the world. To those who are getting this as a forwarded message, Mike Vincent is a BMX rider, a professional golf gold caddy, a worker at the local LA animal shelter, a son, and a friend. While riding his bicycle to work last month he was struck by a car. He incurred severe head trauma along with many other injuries.

His four-week stay in ICU at Cedar Sinai has been filled with many achievements and many setbacks. However, his response to the latest few surgeries have seemed to set the momentum in the right direction. The lung surgery was a success and the chest tubes

BAWLS Guarana – the drink of choice for BMXers everywhere - today announced the signing of a multi-year sponsorship deal with the American Bicycle Association (ABA)! Through the partnership, BAWLS will continue to support the “Sanctioning Body of BMX” and its nationwide network of tracks through 2009. “Many of our most memorable and most successful events in 2007 were ABA races and we are proud to be on board with their team for two more years,” 

Madrid is to host the first leg of the five stages of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup and Freecaster.tv will be streaming Live from the finals on Saturday 9 February at 18:30 CET. BMX racing is a new discipline for Freecaster to cover so they’re starting with the first major event of the 2008. 100 competitors from 20 countries will be watched by a 10.000 strong crowd in the Palacio de Deportes arena in Madrid but those who can’t make it to the venue can tune into www.freecaster.tv/bmx to catch all the action, as it happens, in high quality.

Freecaster.tv has always been dedicated to delivering the best action sport content and recently it has really been pushing the boundaries further on Live streaming with an increase in quality of streams and also in viewer figures.

Coverage of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup is another great

Brian Foster - out of respect for Brian's riding ability, style, longevity and out right creativity, we at Segment [and more so, Segment team rider, Scott Edgworth] decided to run the 'Creative Influence' tee.

An absolute influence to the whole Segment team....

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Senad Grosic, Tobias Wicke and Mike spend a weekend in Dubai to do shows at a Red Bull Air Race. They had planned to go to the Simpel Session but when the sponsor needs you badly, you just go. At least that's what Senad and Tobias did. Red Bull put them up in a sweet house with jacuzzi, they went on the dessert safari, rode some camels and did a few shows on shitty ramps that had dessert sand all over them. Here's a few photos of the action (the tourist action).

Alex Vazquez and his crew are organizing a BMX contest series again in Mexico. The name of the series is Revolcon BMX. Last year riders like Nigel Sylvester, Dave Osato, Wade Lajlar, Tom White and Edwin Delarosa made it to Mexico for one of Alex's contests. In 2008 Revolcon BMX has five stops, in different cities. International riders will be present at all five stops. The first stop will be in Guadalajara on March 1st and 2nd.

Mexico has a lot to offer, and Alex's main goal is to expose BMX Mexico to the world. If you're interested, hit the banner or get in touch with Alex through MTNT

Starting a BMX magazine isn't automatically a success story. The magazine has to be paid for. The printing costs money. Somebody needs to take pictures. A person needs to write the articles. The layout needs to be done. Shipping the magazines to shops, subscribers and the newsstands, it all costs money. It's not uncommon to see a magazine fade after the first issue. Pulling off one magazine is doable. You need to have a certain budget to make the issue that you think is going to sell. If it doesn't work out, your budget is gone but at least you gave it a shot.
BMX magazines rely heavily on BMX advertising. But how many magazines can a company support? There's DIG, Ride USA, Ride UK, RebelYell, 2020, FreedomBMX Soul, Cream, BMX Plus!, BMX World, The Industry, Sahtel, BMXer, BMX Today, Zwanzig Zoll. Next to print advertising the companies can choose for web advertising, video magazine advertising or a company can put their marketing dollars into all kind of other activities to promote their product. 

Name: Mike Miller
Age: 19
Hometown: TADLEY
Sponsors: Proper bike co, Eastpak , Lotek, Aversion

Frame: Proper bikes TTL
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