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Name: Maxime Charveron
Age: 17
Hometown: Brignais near Lyon, France
Sponsors: Mirraco, Nike6.0, Teamloc

You just won the first round of the FISE Experience contest series. How was the contest?
Maxime: The contest was good with good guys (riders and staff).

For the 5th year in a row the Roadstar BMX Jam is taking place in Berlin. It has become a tradition to offer an original program for the Berlin party crowd. The Skatehalle opens at noon so if you need time to warm up you better show up then. At 6pm the open jam starts followed by the Afterparty show featuring the She-Male Trouble band who will play their first gig since a year, supported by the Delikat punks. DJ's will take over after the live set and then it's time to party till you puke. Watch the 2007 Roadstar jam movie below:

Check out the new Mankind clip “2 Days in Los Angeles” with Jeff Klugiewicz & Miles Rogoish. Street riding at its finest on a funky tune and great Mankind graphics. These web videos are getting good. Don't miss out, it will pop up automatically.  Right here:

Louis over at Aversion sent in another video: The Dagger Dirt Bowl Jam. Pre summer riding on dirt is lovely! Mark Love in da Hizzle.

Dagger Jam

The Beloe BMX page is up. It has info on their shoes, their team and most recentlyl they started blogging away. Karl Poynter took a trip to Europe at the beginning of the year and visited the cold of Tallinn and the sunshine of Barcelona. Read about it in the news blog of the Beloe site. Other team riders that are blogging on a regular basis are Jim Cielencki, Nathan WIlliams and Kevin Kiraly. 

The new Mystic poster/catalog is out! On the poster side Kert Petersel is doing a gnarly pegless icepick on one of the handrails in Tallinn Old Town and on the catalog side we have the Mystic 2008 highlight products from Odyssey, Sunday, G-Sport, Primo, Shadow, Flybikes, WeThePeople, Simple, MacNeil and Subrosa.
Well if you want to get this new Mystic poster then they will be added to every order from mysticbmx.com.   

You might not find some of these people on the BMX freestyle scene any longer but they became known because of riding a BMX bike:
26 February 1967 - Frank Schnütgen
26 February 1976 - Colin Winkleman (RIP)

Dale Reves saw all them updates of the Helm trails and Sugar Hills and decided to send in an update on the Backyard Digger trails over in Leende, or better: The Pony trails. Here comes Dale: We've been working on our spot for the past month or so. As u can see from the pic, we added a small line if triple rollers in the middle with a small jump at the end. It's a blast to ride. Also, the tables we made into step-ups. I just finished adding a French drain at the bottom of the start hill to hopefully keep the water from standing there for so long. The pump track is getting a lot of use by everyone, it's great for 

Name: Paulo Charaba
Age: 37/38
Hometown: Sao Paulo - Brasil
Sponsors: ESZE, DreamBMX, DoctorBike, ImpactBike, Sims, BMXman, ABBMX.

-Frame: Hoffman BAMA 21" TT
-Fork: Hoffman Fat Free
-Headseat: FSA

European round 8 Douai, France 24-02-08 
Results Elite men:
1. Maris Strombergs LAT
2. Roy van den Berg NED
3. Arturs Matisons LAT
4. Ivo Lakucs LAT
5. Thomas Hamon FRA
6. Thomas Allier FRA