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FLATtv Five Autumn 04/Winter 05 DVD by Ninja Inc. Productions The Ninja did it again! Long hours of hard work paid off with his fifth FLATtv DVD. As always this is a Flatland only DVD featuring the famous Dreamsession, Winter Jams, Circle Cow 05, KGB Agents, Night riders, Berlin City Games, London Scene and Jason Forde interview all mixed with European music by DJ Green Goblin. As a bonus you see The Making of FLATtv 5, Schwarz-Rot-Gelb, Highlights of Volume 1 & 2 and a Just Ride! session. This is a 4**** out of 5 with 60 minutes of European Flatland! Available at better bike shops in Europe. PdJ

In March 2003 Martti Kuoppa and Jorge Gomez met up in Malaga (Spain) to practice flatland together. While taking a lunch break at the beach the very first idea joining together as a company came up. And the most obvious name for the company was "Kuoppa Gomez bikes", KGB. Within 2 minutes both, Kuoppa and Gomez made the decision about founding KGB and to leave their current bike sponsors. Now, two years later, we checked in with Viki and Martti on the developments of the KGB brand. Some time has passed since you started KGB, what products have you been able to put on the market and sell to the KGB fans?

De Wilde grabs Saturday's AA Pro win in San Bernardino, CA. Stumpy wins Sunday. AA Pro (Saturday 30 April - Koninginnedag, Oranje boven!) 1 Robert de Wilde (doing it for Beatrix!) 2 Cristian Becerine 3 Donny Robinson 4 Brandon Meadows 5 Jamie Staff 6 Randy Stumpfhauser 7 Javier Colombo 8 Paul Lange

To make a perfect BMX weekend happen you basically only need a few things: Spirit, passion, dedication and heart. Exactly this is what the Rebel Bmx weekend should reflect in the first place. But sometimes you need to be a bit of a rebel… The date of the street/dirt/mini contest is 1-3 July 2005. The place is the Mellowpark in Berlin, Germany. It's an amateur and pro contest with tons of cool prizes and 22.000 Euros in prize money for the pro classes. More info can be found on the www.rebeljam.com website.

The Dew Action Sports Tour announced the kickoff of the Free Flow Tour, the official amateur series of the Dew Action Sports Tour. A grassroots amateur BMX park and skateboard contest series, the Free Flow Tour will bring jam-style contests to 15 communities across the country. The Free Flow Tour begins May 15 at the Vans Skatepark in Moorestown, NJ. The Free Flow Tour will include BMX competitions at seven sites. The top BMX finishers at each stop will be flown to the Dew Action Sports

Grab On grips had some unique advertisements going on in the early eighties. The BMX magazine ads showed a comic style ad about the Grab On kid. Going by the drawing style we believe it was Bob Haro who did these comics. Enjoy the flashback.

FreedomBMX Bicycle Motocross magazine issue 62 Number 62 of the German BMX magazine goes a bit international with stories on the Props Megatour (with the German WeThePeople company on board) and also made it to Tallinn for the Pop!Session that took place early January. The Wizzards with flattitude is a flatland jam report and also the Whootall JAM is covered in this issue. You can count on sharp photo's from the hands of Kay Clauberg all over issue 62 including the Gallery section. The German scene has been staying busy in the winter with another jam for park riders in Wuerzburg and a Woozy jam on page 54. Want more flatland? got it. Page 56 has a report of the "Flatland fuer arme, flatland fuer beine" contest. For the rich and the poor, for the arms and the legs, or something. Lowcash is taking care of a flatland how-to on page 58 and Gregor Podlesny is demonstrating the downside whip for the park riders. You can find a bunch of products on page 62 and 64 and a cool article on the Youth of Today (not the band). Video and media reviews. Check. It's one full issue. A must for every BMX-er who speaks German.

2005 UCI BMX SUPERCROSS WORLD CUP - RACE PARAMETERS If you want to take part of the UCI BMX World Cup races, you better read the following info. It's got the details about classes, pay-out, registration, ranking etc. Race classes & criteria’s Combined class for Elite Men & Junior Men (17 Years and older). Riders must carry an international license issued by their National Federation. (US riders shall carry a NBL license)

Here's a copy of a Blazer ad from an early issue of BMX Action. It shows that back in the day they used real cowboys to test BMX bikes. The little kid in the middle is all padded up because if he doesn't do his job, the whip comes out. Whap!! It's a good thing that Terrible One (located in Austin, Texas) have not taken up the traditional way of testing bikes. Poor Ruben in the range like a torro and Taj and Joe handling the whip...... whap!!!

Intense BMX is proud to announce their first factory AA Pro rider sponsorship with Jamie Staff. Jamie Staff, a former UCI World Champion, NBL #1 Pro, and current UCI World Champion on the Track, will be returning to the BMX circuit in 2005 with his first appearance this weekend at the ABA US Nationals in San Bernardino, CA. Jamie will be riding aboard an Intense XXL Sabot frame. Jamie will also compete with Products from Intense BMX Tires, THE, and Sinz. “I am happy to be back on the BMX race scene and look forward to mixing it up in the AA Pro Class. My training for the Velodrome is very similar to BMX racing training, and after riding BMX for the past month, I feel that I am ready to come back to BMX racing and the AA Pro Class.â€? Pete Dylewski, VSI’s Marketing manager stated “VSI is very proud to have such a caliber rider as Jamie work with us, as our first factory Pro rider.