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We received this from one of our favorite artists. In fact, we've got one of his paintings on the wall here......... Hello Friends of Bend... There are 3 new paintings for sale on the Bend site. They are all 7"x7" and $250 each. You can buy them direct through the credit card system on the Bend Store.

Michael de Wit used to live 10 miles from Aarle-Rixtel, our hometown. Together with the Van Boxmeer brothers he got into the BMX/skate thing early. Michael started out with a Minerva bike and made many trips to Aarle-Rixtel to ride together. One year at a contest/party at Ponypark Slagharen, Mike decided to go for the beerbong. Instead of pouring beer in the funnel, it was filled with a litre of Chocolate Milk. If you even wondered where the King of Choq nickname came from, wonder no more.

When you think of Oklahoma, what do you think of; Hoffman Bikes, Mat Hoffman, the secret ninja warehouse, Cowboys and Indians? Well now there is one other item you can add to that list; cement bike/skatepark.. That is right February 3, 2005 marked the official grand opening of the 1st cement bike\skate park in Oklahoma City. This is not just a bike/skatepark, this is a 26,000-square foot facility that features an 11-foot half pipe, 10-foot over vert pocket, Panda bowl with 3 shapes, Volcano with a sub box on top, 8-stair with two hubba

Kink BMX's Jim Cielencki is opening a bike/skate shop called Sunday Skate BMX in his hometown of Buffalo, NY. It should be open in a few months. He already has a key to the place. Danny Hickerson won the Front Yard jam held in Ventura, Ca. last week. The contest was organized by Ryan Sher. Dirty Dan Bogard is finishing up the design of his signature frame. They'll be available some time in May. The Kink crew was challenged by a unicycle that showed up at their offices. While most people have a hard time hopping on, Jim Cielencki grabbed the thing and just started pedaling. Will it be a new item for his Sunday Skate BMX store?

Help wanted. We at FATBMX don’t know shit about putting together our own videos. It seems like there are a lot of you guys out there that are messing around with digital video camera’s and computers. Maybe you can help us out making a couple of 30 seconds FATBMX commercials. We want to run some fresh ones in Props and Soul, the two leading BMX video magazines so you’re sure that the commercials will be seen. Because of the fucked up PAL/NTSC tape system and the various DVD

Tips when you go USA When you ride BMX, most likely you want to check out the scene in the USA. If you don’t live in the USA and you have never made the trip over, here are a few tips. I could list a whole bunch of good stuff and a whole list of bad stuff about the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here’s a mixture so you don’t get your hopes up of a perfect world but it shouldn’t hold you back from discovering the country where it all started.

Press release Oh yeah!! We are proud to present the Soul Cycle XL series! These series done by riders for riders will take place in the 3 best indoor parks in Holland. Round 1 12-03-05: Skatepark The Promise Heerlen Round 2 16-04-05: Skatepark Insaen Zaandam Round 3 07-05-05: Skateland Rotterdam The Series is based on a point system, so overall winners win big prizes. Every round we’ll give away prizes, but for the overall winners of Pro there’s €1000 prize money and also the Expert class riders will be blown away by the prizes…

If you're not into the MX thing, don't click on this. If you are, enjoy some photo's I shot in San Francisco, check the results and enjoy the notes that PR manager Denny Hartwig sent over. Three in a Row for Suzuki’s Carmichael Laninovich Takes Home First Win in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (January 29, 2005) - Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael, of Havana, Fla., won his third consecutive THQ World Supercross GP/THQ AMA Supercross Series race in front of 38,744 fans at SBC Park. Honda’s Billy Laninovich, of Lake Elsinore, Calif., won his first 125cc Western Regional THQ AMA Supercross Series race.

FRONT BRAKE REVOLUTION GOES STATESIDE The “Front Brake Revolutionâ€? part 2 is to take place at: Rampage Skatepark, Davenport, Iowa, USA on 18 th /19 th /20 th March 2005. Jam creators and organisers: Ben Foakes and partner Jasmine O’Brien have teamed up with Standard Industries’ Rick Moliterno to make the project happen. Rampage Skatepark will sadly close indefinitely the week after FBR 2 and this will be the last chance for riders to congregate at the legendary location and bid it farewell. Special ramp modifications are being prepared in the weeks leading up to the jam to make the park more BMX friendly.

Soul #26 has been released. It's by far the most international video magazine around. The quality of the Winter 2005 issue seems to progress in the same way that riding is progressing. It's got a Frenchman on the cover (Thomas Caillard) and shows footage from the Heartattack tour up in Scandinavia, the Urban Games in London, A bio on German Sven Hoffman, The Twenty jam in France, The Carhartt Ravage Road trip through the Netherlands + Germany, The Backyard jam in Derby, UK, a Bio on Aussie Corey Bohan and a Soul trip to CZ, A and SK. The video is 43 minutes and has a 32 minute bonus section. You can watch the trailer in the FAT Movies section.