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The Dew Tour, the world’s premiere season-long action sports tour, today announced Aaron Ross as the Standout Rider from the Nike 6.0 street specialty competition as voted on by fans through RideBMX. The first ever street specialty competition took place at the Nike 6.0 BMX Open, June 26-27 in Chicago’s Grant Park. “To be chosen the Standout Rider feels really good,” Ross said. “The guys that I rode with in the contest and the entire group of riders were some of the best in BMX. My votes went to Garrett and Danny; I thought their video parts were amazing. It’s awesome to be picked because I think they deserved it more than me.”

As the winner of the Standout Rider award, Ross will receive a $1,000 bonus.

The street specialty competition consisted of nine riders divided into teams of three with one filmer per team. Based on their X Games

Bikes, beer and some bitches. That was the spirit of Vladdie's Birthdayjam! In the middle of nowhere ''Vlissingen polder'' on an old trailerpark the locals built some nice dirtlines. The weather was pretty nice and so as the riding locals and gast rider of al places from the country jamming for fun.
The locals build an pretty technical line. You got a quater to air and get speed for the step down to step up. After that a litle drop and three dirtjumps. Syo show us some nice nowhanders, Dennis (PB gangmember was flowing and did some nice tricks to. Also flowing was Michael van de Lee (PB gangmeber) Foling by me (PB Ganmeber)! Pim van de Bos was showing his big dirt skills at the Goirle jam. 

Pro Results:
1 Matthias Dandois
2 Jean Buhlon
3 John Leblond
4 Kevin Jacobs
5 Jeremy Brosset

Master Results:
1 Mika Machard 

Out of a field of 22 BMX riders, Spencer Bass won the BMX park competition Sunday at the Gatorade Free Flow Tour’s stop in Grand Prairie, Texas. Eighteen-year-old Bass from Euless, Texas earned the BMX park victory at Alliance Skatepark on Sunday after landing a number of tailwhip variations including a double tailwhip and a backflip tailwhip during his winning run. Chris Hernandez was second and Anthony Jakab finished in third place.

The first ever Nike 6.0 street specialty competition took place at the first stop of the 2009 Dew Tour, the Nike 6.0 BMX Open, June 26-27in Chicago’s Grant Park. Team captain, Sean Sexton, took home the first place finish with teammates, Aaron Ross and Danny Hickerson.
The street specialty competition consisted of nine riders divided into teams of three with one filmer per team. Filming time was designated to each team on the Wessel-designed street course, for the filmer to edit footage into a three-minute video. Walter Peringer shot and edited the winning video for team Sexton. Fans can find videos from all three teams on allisports.com and RideBMX.com.

In addition, the teams went head-to-head in a 20-minute jam session. Judges rated the jam session and video part, combining the two scores and declaring Sexton’s team the winner. “The course was great and the format made for an awesome contest,” said team captain, Sexton. 

BMX VERT FINALS, 27 June 2009
1 Jamie Bestwick 92.88
2 Simon Tabron 91.50
3 Steven McCann 91.25
4 Kevin Robinson 90.38
5 Jimmy Walker 89.75
6 Dennis McCoy 89.38 

DEW TOUR RESULTS BMX VERT PRELIMS
1 Jimmy Walker 91.63
2 Dennis McCoy 90.38
3 Francisco Zurita 89.38
4 Kevin Robinson 89.38
5 Jay Eggleston 89.38
6 Koji Kraft 88.88
7 Steven McCann 88.88
8 Vince Byron 88.13 

BMX PARK FINALS
1 Dave Mirra 93.38
2 Garrett Reynolds 92.63
3 Marcus Tooker 92.38
4 Steven McCann 91.88
5 Brandon Dosch 91.50
6 Mark Webb 90.88
7 Craig Mast 90.88 

Josh Hult won the BMX dirt competition on Friday at the Nike 6.0 BMX Open, with Brandon Dosch coming in second, marking the first podium finishes in Dew Tour history for both athletes. Ryan Nyquist rounded out the podium in third. Hult, a 25-year-old Idaho native, pulled out a 92.50 finish over Dosch’s score of 92.31, with a truckdriver tailwhip, superman tailwhip and 360 to downside whip.

"It feels absolutely amazing to win, but I don't know if it's really sunk in all the way yet. I kind of messed up my first run, but I made up for it in my second run with double tailwhips both ways,” Hult said. 

It was a wild night of riding as some of the best Dirt jumpers in the world tore up the course in the first Finals of the 2009 Dew Tour. It was a tough comp, and in the end it was Idaho's Josh Hult who took top spot, followed by Brandon Dosch and Ryan Nyquist.

BMX DIRT FINALS
1 Josh Hult 92.50
2 Brandon Dosch 92.31
3 Ryan Nyquist 91.38
4 Corey Bohan 91.31
5 Dennis Enarson 91.31
6 Rob Darden 90.37
7 Cory Nastazio 89.12
8 TJ Ellis 88.94 
9 Chris Doyle 88.94
10 Jaie Toohey 88.37