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There's a cave in Sweden full of ramps. On 1 April it will host a jam. No, this is not a joke. Area 51 opens its doors for a BMX session, beer and Swedish GoGo girls. What a combination. Vans, wethepeople, Child, Sunshine, Carhartt and Simple are the sponsors of the wild fest. Find more info on www.bunkeberget.com.

"B on tha lookout 4 tha episode of CSI: Las Vegas N tha next couple of months, Travis Barker hit me 2 go on tha show with him 2 play myself posted up & promote Famous Stars & Straps, Travis played a rapper by tha name of "High-Def". Rappers: Obie Trice, Method Man & Akon, R on tha same episode, it was cool 2  meet & work with everyone on tha show, one day U might C a CSI Action Sports episode.

Much luv, 
Thorne 
Biker-N-Black

It's 21:15pm right now on Saturday 18 March 2006. The People's Store in Cologne was opened today. We drove over to Koelle to check it out and were impressed. The store is very stylish and well thought out. It's got a little showroom on the left in a separate building but the main shop is where the action is. Janosh's BMX shop and wethepeople teamed up to form the People's store. Janosh will be running the BMX shop that was designed and planned out by Harry Schmidt and Klaus Dyba of wethepeople.

Next to a full range of wethepeople equipment and FUSE protection gear, the shop carries BMX specific shoes from Orchid, etnies and Lotek and bikes from Hoffman as well as hard to find special stuff like adidas' Y3 bike and the retro Mongoose.

Name: John Povah
Age: 36 years old, married, got a kid on the way
Hometown: Corona, California. Been in the USA for 17 years.

When you moved here you didn’t have a job in the bicycle industry, what did you do to survive so you could still ride your bike in sunny California?

Povah: Originally the reason why I came over here was to ride my bike. I had a job painting cars. I always rode and in the weekends I did shows and made a lot of extra money that way but I still painted cars for a living. Down the line I was fortunately enough to get a job building ramps instead of painting cars which was also better for my health. From there I met Jay Miron, got a job with Schwinn. Schwinn went bankrupt and from there I got a job at etnies.

Do you feel you’re fortunate with the way your life turned out or do you feel that with your BMX history and BMX dedication, you deserve a job in the industry?

Povah: I think anyone can have what they want. When I was a kid what I wanted to do is ride a bike and have fun and never thought about a job because I rode in the early eighties and there wasn’t that much money in it, you know.

This summer Eastpak is proud to present a special selection of super-limited edition bags with artwork by living Rock Legends Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and Lemmy. Your favourite bag brand Eastpak is stoked to bring you a collection of three ultra-limited edition backpacks in a selection of prints designed by one of three true legends of rock n’ roll: Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and Lemmy, and all for a great cause! The bags will be in a selection of stores across Europe from June and are available in strictly limited quantities of only 3000 units total per design!

The Ramp Rats Bike and skatepark in  Petaluma, California are inviting to a Spring BMX contest.  It doesn't matter what level you r riding's at, there is a class for you.

Ams pay 25 bucks to enter and they can win some great prizes from some of the sponsors of the event.  They've actually lined up a whole posse of  good companies to support the Ramp Rats contest such as 2-hIP,  661, Props, FIT, Animal,  System,  BlackOut, S&M and  Kink. 

Pros pay 50 bucks to enter and there's 100% payback so the more pros that enter, the bigger the purse without the organizer putting dough in their own pockets.

Contests are fun.  If you're down in Norcal, check in at Ramp Rats on the 25th. 

With four ABBMX events just on this year done, we already can count a total of 10 competitions in 2006. With certainty the ABBMX mark recounts in this unpublished fact in BMX of Brazil. In this fourth championship we had athletes' presence of several states and cities of the state of São Paulo that it also shows that the text "friendship & BMX" this making effect, rescuing biggest value inside of our sport, the friendship and the pleasure of to find and meet BMXer friends. 

We're happy with the answers on the most recent poll on FATBMX.com. It showed that you don't need the shit talking on this site through chat rooms and forums. It also showed that you don't need a myspace.com/fatbmx site. We didn't listen there and saw that the URL was still available. Webmaster Jos got to work and within 30 minutes he hooked it up. Even though myspace isn't our thing, it doesn't hurt to do some FATBMX promotion on a website that has over 60 million members. www.fatbmx.com is and will be the real deal so make sure to bookmark it.

A chat room	16 % (51)
A forum	23 % (76)
A myspace.com/FATBMX page	17 % (54)
nothing, leave the shit talking elsewhere	42 % (136)

Ricky Adam is one of Dig's main photographer. Next to taking BMX pics, Ricky takes on other projects too. His website is completely redone and you can check it out by clicking the link at the bottom. Here's what Ricky had to say:
I've been up for long time now drinking coffee, chewing gum and listening to The Big Boys 'Lullabies help the brain grow' LP for inspiration (R.I.P. Randy Biscuit Turner). So finally after 15+ months of pure neglect I have got around to updating/redesigning my site ...If someone treated their kids like I treat my website social services would have taken them away by now! In the meantime I'd like to thank 'you' for checking it out (if you decide to!), Thomas Fritscher for kicking my ass in gear and doing a stellar job helping to redesign/programme my site, a big thank's to Ed Docherty for letting me use his excellent camera illustrations as well as everyone else who is a decent human being ...even if it's not hip this year. Enjoy the photos! I'm off to bed...
Love,
Ricky xx