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In nineteen-seventy when I was five years old my father would drive my brother Devin and myself on Friday nights to begin competing on a new kind of race course at a neighborhood city park. Ron Mackler was putting on the twenty inch BMX bicycle races at Palms Park on Overland Avenue in West Los Angeles. The course was a combination dirt and cement race track that had six burm turns that were built around tall Douglas Fir trees and a small jump at the bottom of a hill. At the start of the race you had to be the racer in front first into the turn if you wanted to win. 

Name: Garrett Reynolds
Age: 17
Hometown: Toms River, NJ

Frame: Premium team
Fork: Premium light
Stem: Premium light
Pedals: odyssey plastic. Once u go plastic, u can't go back.

All of us at Shadow are proud to announce the newest addition to our crew. "Chase Dehart". Be on the look out for Chase in the upcoming Shadow video along with the rest of the Shadow crew. 2008 Shadow crew: Eli Platt, Karl Poytner, Seth Kimbrough, Ryan

After one of the most dominate years in ABA BMX amateur history, Intense Phantom On-Tracs Dominique Daniels receives congratulations and her Amateur Award from the Governor of Arizona, Janet Napalitono and the President of the ABA, Clayton John. Dominique is one of the few riders in ABA BMX history to hold all number 1 plates (district-national) at one time. 

Next to making fine products that help us get our shit from point A to point B, Eastpak also has a killer BMX team. TM Andy Z. sent us these three clips of the team riders in action. One's from 14 year old wonder kid Bruno Hoffmann, there's one clip of the Italian styler Steven Lantschner and one from the team in Greece. Check 1, 2, 3:

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

You're from Amsterdam, people generally think that you guys get stoned and have sex every day. How ture is that?
Barry: Hahaha! Come visit Amsterdam and see for yourself! It's the truth though...just kidding!

What sort of stuff do you have to ride in the Amsterdam area?
Barry: When it's dry we can ride, otherwise only on Wednesday at the local parc! But when the weather is nice we have several spots. Street isn't the best option, but we have a couple of pretty fun pools and some ramps. Have to say that the Marnix pool and the new mini on museumplein (15mtr. Wide + spine) are the local spots this summer. And don't forget about the 020-trails, trails I arranged with the city, is gonna be sick in the summer. Thanks to redbull as well for that! 

The American Bicycle Association hosted the Sooner Nationals in Guthrie, OK. The racing at the Sooner National event was second to none! ABA BMX stepped it up in the track department and Billy Allen built a very challenging track to kick off the season. This was the second PRO Series event of the year and Guthrie has become one of the PRO Riders favorite stops on the tour. Guthrie has some of the best dirt in the country, the Arena is HUGE and there's always a sweet PRO section. This year saw two hip jumps added into the 

We do receive loads of e-mails from people who want us to link to their site. It might be a new website, a new video, a new magazine, whatever. We made a list of requests so you can kill some time if you have it available. Some of it is better than others but what is cool to you, might not be cool to everyone else. Are you ready for this?

-REDLINE’S NEW RACE RIG HITS THE ROAD FOR 2008 Even with a gimped-out driver, the brand new REDLINE Race Rig will be on the road and hittin’ up all of the major BMX events throughout the year … well, except for those big ones in China. Look for Redline’s new 32-foot trailer at an ABA or NBL national event near you;