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Why make a lousy flyer when you can show a video clip online that tells more than a photo? Bibi and Dropsy made a funny clip to announce their first Barak Invitational dirt jam. Watch it here on FATBMX.com.

The National Bicycle League (NBL) is proud to announce that America’s most prestigious race is headed back to the World Famous Derby City BMX Track in Louisville, Kentucky from August 30 to September 2. The 30th Anniversary of the NBL Grand National comes complete with an exciting blend of intense race action, awards presentations, entertainment, contests, and culminates with the highly-anticipated crowning of the 2007 National Champions. 

After a successful kick off in Lohof with more than 65 starters from five nations PlayStation® challenges all dirt jumpers and trails riders to rock the newly digged dirtpark of Moers on July 21th 2007. This recently established location offers all that one can wish for: Two lines of varying difficulty with four doubles each are waiting for you to take over from last years winner Markus Hampl and get yours self qualified for a total of 1500 € prize money.

Like on every tour stop there will be a Best-Trick-Contest in addition to the regular dirtjump contest which, for the lucky winner, will be worth a PlayStation®Portable console. For all amateurs taking part in the contest there will be material prices, all riders finishing 20th or better will score for the overall tour ranking.

For the PlayStation® the Camp BMX Series 2007 overall champ there will be waiting another 2000€. After the contest all riders, friends and family are invited to chill with us and enjoy a delicious BBQ. 

It's getting near that time of year again and this years relax jam should be one of the best so get yourself to Redditch Skatepark on the 29th July. Not only has the park had a revamp with several new ramps, lines etc but the locals have got this park down so even if you dont want to enter its well worth coming to marvel at the stunts that will be performed on a lovely english summers day! The gates open at 12 and its £5 to ride/enter or £2 to spectate.

The jam is being sponsored by Ride bmx magazine, Padded Cell Distribution, 4Down Distribution, Entity Board Sports (entityboardsports.co.uk) and Nueu Eyewear (nueu.net) as well as a few prizes I have donated myself.

The poster has been designed by the creative matermind that is Mr Tom Elliot. During the day events will include, Pro and Rookie Street, Pro and Rookie mini/spine, Vert Jam and Highest Hop. You've had plenty of notice so no excuses, see you there.

On Friday, 06.07.07, I showed up at around 7.15 am at the Office. The first thing I saw after I parked my car was a damaged window thrown in by a cobblestone! 10 days after we made the move into our new warehouse we had the first visit from a thief. Immediatly, I called the police as well as both owners Christian and Jann. A few minutes later the police arrived and had a quick look into the office. They didn't do anything special, no finger prints were taken and after a few minutes they left. For them it was just a normal housebreaking and they had no ambitions to find the housebreaker. 

Nass was back in Shepton Mallet for 2007, with names like Mark Webb, Ben Wallace, Daniel Dhers and Ben Hennon the somerset crowd were in for a treat. It was the second stop for the Braun spine cruzer tour and even though it was quite windy the riders didn't hold out. There were a crew of Mexican bmxers who made the long trip to Nass and all had some good tricks and good style to follow.

Chris Mahoney placed in 5th and had a good solid run filled with tricks and finished his run trying to backflip the 7ft spine. Ben Hennon Placed in 4th and went so high over the spine I think you could of stood underneath him with your arms straight up and he still would of cleared you. Daniel Dhers who rode with his usual smoothness and consistancy.; 360 double whips, 540 tailwhip airs and invert flairs got him 3rd place. Ben Wallace placed in 2nd and rode the whole ramp from tech spine tricks like whip to over ice to back over to double whips and flairs and smooth rode with his usual smooth style.

Warren Bancroft our Elite men’s rider shows the rest his skill and power The team rolled into action again over the weekend at a newly revamped Coppull track. Coppull is a fast and tricky place. Designed by Dylan Clayton it can catch the best riders out but rewards those that give it some love, attention and plenty of practice. A few of the team are local and they have put in the hours at the pace which showed during the races. I arrived just in time for the finals to begin, the forecast was for heavy showers and the camping field was pretty muddy but apart from a couple of puddles the track looked fine. 

Just 4 weeks to go until for the third time we say: “rebel jam- unfiltered BMX” in Berlin Köpenick/ Germany. Rebel Jam is still an international BMX contest of special character. As always the riders will start in the categories pro and amateur, and will have the chance to win €24.000 in 3 different disciplines: Street, Trails and Mini Ramp. For the international riders and visitors this might be the last visit to the Mellowpark, since the park will close down its 2500qm Street Area, Dirt Jumps and Mini Ramps by the end of the year and move to a new location. So for some of us this will be the last chance to ride and experience one of Europe’s greatest and biggest skate parks.

As in recent years, you can look forward to visit the art-gallery, which will be located in one of the adjoining buildings of the Mellowpark. This year we will expand the traditional photo exhibition with work from other fields of the art… but we won’t give away too much at this point…

The latest Mankind Bike Co. newsletter arrived with an update on all the news going on at your favourite green BMX company from Hamburg.
-NEW MANKIND PRODUCTS: New Mankind Asadi Phase 2 Frame: The new Mankind Asadi Phase 2 Frame is being released now and is about to hit stores in the next weeks. The new Mankind “Asadi Phase 2” Frame is the newest Mankind frame, featuring a very slim frame design with an integrated seatclamp, new shorter dropouts 

BMXTalk .com has the latest updates on Stephen Murray but we would like the FATBMX readers to know what the situation is. People from all over are showing their support and are organizing fundraisers which is great.  Next to visits from his family, Stephen has also received visits from Wade Martin (Dew Tour president), Travis Pastrana and Brian Foster. It makes him smile, and that's how we know him.

2 July 2007
Stephens had a bit of an up and down time over past few days. There are lots of complications associated with such an injury and these are the main concerns at the moment, as opposed to just thinking about letting the bones in his neck heal. Things like fevers, high temperature, breathing complications (his lungs still aren't working efficiently for him to breathe on his own so he's still on the life