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The UK’s biggest action sports and music festival Relentless Energy Drink NASS is returning to the Bath and West Showground from the 8th to the 10th of July 2011. In 2011, Relentless Energy Drink NASS will once again be hosting the International BMX Freestyle, attracting some of Europe’s top action sports talent, including Relentless Energy Drink’s BMX riders Mark Webb, Matt Priest, who won 2010’s British Dirt BMX championships, and Lima Eltham. New this year is the Relentless Energy Street Spots, an area where 

So for today, we ended up hittin' up Da Compound park in Riverside. The sun was definitely in full force. We all sweated it out, and made the best of it. Got a few clips on the trails, and headed south to San Diego. More shreddin tomorrow!

-Nick Noble

Also in 2011 Camp-Ramps will be responsible for the planning and construction of the street course at the BMX Masters in Cologne. From 8th to 10th of July the biggest BMX-Party of the year once again hits the Jugendpark and the riders can be looking forward to a awesome setup, on which the street riders will find endless possibilities and lines.  With an optimized design for more flow the park is now a great combination of classic street elements such as

Ryan Guettler showed up in Duisburg with a fresh new paint job on his bike. It stood out in the single colour bike stash, that's for sure. It's good looking actually and fully colour coordinated. Note the Aussie flag which goes from the headtube all the way back to the rear drop-outs. We took some pictures of his bike so you can see what parts Ryan runs on his horse. The bike gets used for both dirt and park sessions at the major competitions and if it works for Guettler, it should work for you.

Canadian BMX Open - Saturday (UCI 4)

Elite Men
1. David HERMAN - USA
2. Nicholas LONG - USA
3. Tory NYHAUG - CAN
4. Kurt JAMES - NZL
5. James BROWN - CAN
6. Nick GOERTZEN - CAN
7. Victor AILLOUD - FRA

Elite Women
1. Alise POST - USA
2. Brooke CRAIN - USA
3. Arielle MARTIN - USA
4. Sabrina MILLMAN - CAN
5. Rosemary ADAMS - CAN
6. Amelia WALSH - CAN

BMX legend and FBM veteran team rider Mike Tag was recently diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment currently. Mike has no health insurance and can’t work. The financial burden of Mike’s treatment (and every day life) are enormous and the BMX community is rallying to help him out. FBM has a donation page set up and S-Luck has created this shirt with 100% of the proceeds going to Mike’s care.

Seattle Bike Supply has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Craig "gOrk" Barrette - SBS' Marketing Director, has accepted a promotion. His new title will be CCO. The bad news - at least for SBS, is that it will not be with our company. This coming July, "gOrk" will return to working for the American Bicycle Association (ABA) as their Chief Communications Officer. Prior to coming to work for Seattle Bike Supply (Redline) in 1999, gOrk had been with the ABA throughout the 90's, as their Editor/Photographer for the BMXer membership magazine.

"All of us at SBS will really miss Gork," expressed Chuck Hooper, President of SBS. "He has been a great person to work with and