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We've tried to do a scene report on the etnies park in Lake Forset twice but were denied access. This not only pissed us off but left us puzzled on their policy of having photographers shoot their park to promote its presence. We received the new 2007 photographer policy by e-mail and were curious if they had figured it out by now.

Happy New Year 2007 - The new year has arrived and the Skatepark will have more programming and fundraing this year than ever before.

We got some news to start the year with: We are glad to announce the new KHEculture brand. It´s a separate clothing company but with close contact to KHEbikes.

The collection starts with brand new Tantra-, Paris-, Method2-, Equilibrium-, RIP-, Militant-, Dafunction- & Goldie-Shirts. Each shirt print is handmade by Heike Hensinger.

Besides that, we will supply some clothes, specifically designed for rider´s purpose like the new “Flatpant” trousers, which has some features that makes them perfect for every flatland rider. More stuff is about to come in the future (like more “Limited Edition” shirts, for example).

The Reindeer Games are on the program for this Saturday 20 January 2007.  The Open Ground park will welcome all BMX-ers. Beginners class starts at noon, followed by the Intermediate class (2pm.) and advanced BMX riders (4 pm. ). The Best Trick on the Big Box contest starts at 6pm. For more info you can visit the openground.com website. It looks like FATBMX will be present to do a report so if you've always wanted to get a photo on the FATBMX site, find Lloyd Ramsay, get rad and check back in early next week.

Duffs Shoes Pro team:
-Anthony Napolitan
-Biz Jordan
-Jimmy LeVan
-Adam Banton
-Jim Cielencki
-Vinnie Sammon
-Ryan Metro
-Anthony Cico

Duffs 2007 Flow:
-Cameron Wood
-Sean Sexton
-Mark Mulville
-Tony Cardona
-Jeff Landister
-Dylan Smith

From the looks of it you guys want more BMX/bike related pin-up shots. We used to do a pin-up of the month section but it has turned out in a weekly pin-up (on Fridays). Hope you appreciate the effort. Contributions are welcome. This one came in from Wisconsin. WisBMX.com!

– Reno, Nevada – Formula Bicycles made its 2007 debut last weekend at the ABA Silver Dollar Nationals in Reno with its brand new title partners, Monster Energy Drink and Fly Racing. National #1 Pros dR Donny Robinson and Alise Post joined newly turned A Pro Warren McDow, 17 Expert Lee “The Flea” Lewis, and 12 Expert Chad Kerley at the ABA’s season opener and the new team did not disappoint. 

Edmonton, Alberta 1664 Distribution has reached an agreement with Atomlab founder Mike Flaherty to distribute all Atomlab products in Canada for 2007. “Atomlab is both widely recognized for their BMX and MTB products, and to be able to offer Canadian bike shops the opportunity to carry the full product line is an exciting new venture” said Travis Moir, 1664 Distribution Buyer.

Heading out to Brazil, I thought that it was going to be a breeze. Not realizing how tough it would be to get there, this is how it started. I was supposed to fly out to Sao Paulo on Wednesday, but had some visa issues. Therefore I had to fly out the following day. On my lay over, I had my boarding pass ready to go, when the unthinkable happened... I was pulled out for more visa issues! Once again, I had to miss the plane and was told that if I didn't get a visa overnight that I would not make the contest. But to me the impossible some way some how, with the help of Leslie and Jimbo (thanks a lot), I made the impossible possible and was on my way to San Paulo.

Sven Schuilenburg is inviting everyone for a BMX jam at Skateland Rotterdam (Netherlands) on 27 January next. Barry has taken care of some DJ's for that night so there will be some tunes as well. The 27th is already next week so get your agenda out and pencil it in if this sounds good to you.

Address: Skateland Rotterdam, Peikstraat 45,  3071 EL Rotterdam, NL.

Kedengedeng, kedengedeng, kedengedeng, kedengedeng, kedengedeng, tjoektjoek!!!!!!!

Mutiny is proud to introduce Brandon Hoerres’ new signature frame, the Nocturnal. We have been working on this for quite a while, we sat down with Brandon to see what he wanted out of a frame and what we could do to fix the problem he has with denting down tubes. The Nocturnal features a double butted teardrop down tube this offers two huge advantages over a regular round tube. One is that this type of tube is very good at being dent resistant, in tests we hammered on the tube, the only damage was small dents on the bottom of the tube, we also took a normal tube and beat it the same way and pretty much flattened it.