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Matthias Dandois is organizing an Invitational contest during the Sosh Freestyle cup in Marseille, France. The event will take place on one of the most beautiful beach in Marseille "La Plage Borély" from 17th till 20th June.

With the help of Sosh he's inviting 7 of the best BMX rider in the world to battle right on the beach on a 200 square meter wooden platform but most importantly have a good time altogether and showcase BMX Flatland at its finest!

The invited riders:
8 riders: Alex Jumelin (FRA), Viki Gomez (SPA), Ucchie (JAP), Dominik Nekolny (CZ), Waldemar Fatkin (GER), J-W Prevost (CAN), Raphael Chiquet (FRA) and Matthias Dandois.

The Judges:
With such a sick athlete panel we needed great judges: so Alexis

XGames.com revealed today the official course renderings for X Games Austin, taking place June 4-7 at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA). The course illustrations represent all 10 of the competition venues at this year’s X Games Austin, where the world’s top action sports athletes compete in Skateboard, BMX, Moto X, Rally Car Racing, Off-Road Truck-Racing and the newly added discipline of Harley-Davidson Flat-Track Racing. X Games Experience tickets and upgrades are 

Paul's Boutique are celebrating their 20th HARO Dealership anniversary in 2015 so all HARO BMX Complete Freestyle bikes are in stock now and they just got a shipment with awesome parts, those parts can be found on their teamrider Daniel Wedemeijer's bike as well.
2015 HARO parts in stock at Paul's Boutique:
- Haro Lineage Handlebars
- Haro Lineage Topload stems

The 2015 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series, owned and operated by the Atlantic Bike Stunt Alliance, will celebrate its fourth year of providing a platform of competition for amateur and professional freestyle BMX athletes. Onlookers at the events will experience many of the same stunts performed at largely televised competitions similar to those seen at the X Games. The contest series finished its first stop in Athens, GA on April 25 and the tour continues on to Raleigh this weekend.

The Raleigh stop will host the tour’s only Dirt BMX competition on Friday, May 15 at Lake Crabtree County Park. The following two days of this event will be held inside the Dorton Arena at the widely attended Got to Be NC Festival and feature Park (ramps), Flatland, Street, and Jump (rhythm) competitions. The Dorton Arena weekend activities will also include vendors, such as Lairdframe and Airtype Designs, and additional entertainment,

With 27’500 visitors the Bike Days 2015 have set a new record. This crowd got attracted by nice weather and a long list of product premiers as the 275 exhibitors at the bicycle expo had 20 entirely new products on display. The MTB dirtjump contest was won by newcomer Nicholi Rogatkin while Viki Gomez was the best rider in the BMX flatland competition.

It has been an extraordinarily successful weekend without any incidents for the organizers of the Bike Days. The seventh edition

One of gemanys finest BMX-events called ”Highway to Hill“ is happening at Berlin Mellowpark on the weekend from may 15. to may 17. This means lot of riders from all over gonna be there to enjoy this amazing place while riding their tiny little bikes and drink cold german beers. It’s a gathering of nice people, that represents the core of BMX and how it should be done. Even though the contests (street, miniramp, dirt and a few ”specials“) will be top level, everything evolves around having an awesome time. No big money, no cheesy business stuff.

Complementing the previously-announced music lineup, Metallica will join Nicki Minaj as another headline performance on the new Super Stage at X Games Austin 2015, taking place June 4-7 at Circuit of The Amercias. Metallica’s show will mark their 10th performance in Austin, Texas, and their first in the city in six years. Formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, Metallica has become one of the most influential and commercially 

After last year’s huge success, the 2015 edition of MUNICH MASH (June 26th – June 28th) will host the second BMX Street Rink comp in the Olympic Ice Stadium in Munich on June 27th throwing it down on the unique set up, designed by mastermind Brian Kachinsky, to get their hands on the pro purse. The first confirmations just came in. The BMX Street Rink will most definitely be one of this year ?s contest highlights. As the course from 2014 has been “one of the best courses ever” (quote by Garrett Reynolds) only small 

The Viva is the best helmet we’ve ever created that no one will ever give a shit about, but that’s ok. We designed this helmet for us. We wanted a helmet that was as comfortable and low profile as a non-certified skate helmet, but integrated all of the top tier safety technologies from our motocross line. The result is the Viva, the most technologically advanced BMX/Dirt Jump helmet ever made (for whatever that’s worth). It’s about the same size as a skate helmet, super light, and uses a layer of low density foam in conjunction with multi 

TomTom (TOM2) today launches the all new TomTom Bandit Action Camera which makes editing and sharing videos quick and easy.  Instead of spending hours downloading and sorting through footage, users can now create an exciting ‘edit and share it’ video within moments of the action. The TomTom Bandit is the first ever camera to come with a built-in media server, eliminating the need to download footage before editing it. The camera works with a