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Two Queenslanders have stamped their claim on a spot in Australia’s first ever BMX team to compete at this year’s Beijing Olympics.
Krystal Cranfield originally from Gladstone rode strongly to win the tenth round of the UCI Oceania Series in Penrith today. Fellow Queenslander, Jared Graves from Toowoomba repeated his win yesterday to finish in front of New Zealand’s Marc Willers.

Beside Rookies and Amateurs there now will be the possibility for Oldschoolers to take part at the 3rd Rookie Jam on April 5th 2008 in Cologne. When on 5th of April 2008 the BMX beginners and amateurs will ride the Suzuki bike & skatepark in Cologne, for the first time there will take part another Class: The „E.T.-Class“! It’s for those guys who saw Steven Spielbergs film „E.T. – The Extra- Terrestrial“ in 1982 with tears in their eyes – but not because they felt sympathy for the little alien, the fact was, that they wanted to ride a BMX-bike like his friend, the ten year old Elliott. 

Yo dudes what Up? Here Is a You Tube Video from R performance durin' Clash At Clairemont 2 yesterday on top of tha mini-ramp.......

I hosted Vert Demo, rode and played........tha song Is called, "roll with tha punches", It's an Intro song 'bout never givin' Up.....all R songs R positive and got energy.......

The new FBM frame, The Exodus weighs in at 5 pounds 3 ounces. It features double butted top tube and seat tube, tapered single bend/squashed chain stays, with a 74.5 degree head tube angle, 

Amateur Final Results Toronto BMX Jam 9 March 2008:
1. Greg McMillan
2. Rich Redmond
3. Darcy Peters
4. David Fitzpatrick
5. Charlie Crumlish

Name: Barry Kohne
Age: 23
Hometown: Amsterdam, NL.
Sponsors: MankindBikeco, Carhartt, Etnies, KingKong.

Frame: Mankind Asadi 2.0, 20.8 tt
Fork: Mankind Asadi
Stem: Mankind Archangel

My son is 4 years old. He rides his Haro Z12 like he's possessed. Head down and pedaling as fast as he can until the situation is there to hit the coaster brake for a skid. Gotta love it. When Philip saw the new Freedom BMX mag on the kitchen table he yelled out; "Wow, vet cool! " He has already learned the popular slang language at school. Things go fast at his age. Philip wasn't actually referring to the German magazine in general (his German isn't there yet) but he noticed all the free stickers that were wrapped around the outside of the mag. His bike is blue and he's got those fuorescent thingies in the spokes that the wife gave him when I was out of town. It makes his bike look like a carnaval but whatever, he likes it so that's okay. From all the stickers on the magazine I told him to pick three for his bike. Here's what he chose: A PURPLE How's my riding? sticker, a GREEN Peoples store sticker and a dark grey Freedom BMX sticker.

Last year the Brawlin' at the Belmar was a huge success simply because the jam was a good time. People drinking, riding, messing about and having fun. Props was there, the pics got sent around and even some top dawgs showed up to ride. To remind you on the people who showed up last year we'll post the top Pro results. To see what Brawlin' at the Belmar entails, reserve the weekend of 2-3 August for a good time.

Pro results 2007:
1 Brian Foster
2 Ryan Guettler
3 Geoff Slattery
4 Tony Cardona
5 Nick "THE COBRA" Cooper
6 Cody Brown
7 Zack Early

Two UK riders with an attitude this week. We met Sam Wise in Estonia and hit it off right away. Maybe it was because he was on the booze like us. As far as FIDS is concerned, he's a legend, and not only in Cologne.  Happy B-day to both of them.

10 March 1988 Sam Wise
11 March 1970 The Fids