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-Last weekend we flew over to Frejus, France for the last round of the 2010 UCI BMX SX series. I was up for adventure as I flew by Ryanair and then rented a car with Hertz but did not book any hotel for the weekend. I brought a tiny sleeping bag just in case. The first night was spent with my old colleagues of GT Europe, we looked plenty gay with 5 in the 207 convertible but had fun nonetheless. It was floor space at their hotel room that night but if I'm tired enough I sleep anywhere. The next day was the BMX race and Maris Strombergs showed who was king, even when he was sick. Laetitia Le Corguille had already grabbed the 2010 title which was a good thing because she'd crashed in the time trials and had to sit out the race with a broken finger and 2 broken ribs. Sarah Walker won this one. Read the reports in the BMX Race section, also the party pics turned out good and my hotel that night was parked right outside of the club. Sweet. Hope you get to travel as well. Adventure is never boring.

-Oh yes, the FAT FAVs lists have picked up again. The last weeks we had the favourites lists of non other than:
-Mike Spinner
-Ben Cobley
-Eric Ravagnani
-Ingvar Neumann
-Jeroen Kruiver
-Steijn Leijzer jonge!
-Joel Barnett
-Berenger Cordier
-Jack Clark
-Spencer Scott
-Jason Lopez
-Morgan Long
-Alex Landeros
-Kyle Biller
-Houston Harmsen
-Bryan LaCombe
-Mike Groff
-David Vernois
-Samy Salomon
-Kevin Peraze and
-Ryan Herbach.
If you know any of them, check what they answered for Favourite Girl....

-It's no surprise that things are slowing down contest wise towards the end of the year. The weekends where we had to choose between 5 events are gone, but if you look hard enough, there's always something going on. Check the FATBMX event schedule to see where you should be going. You can add your own event to the list too. Just submit it and I'll approve it. That way the info of the event is correct, or at least it's you who made the mistake.

FATBMX event schedule:
2010/10/14 - Dew Tour finals (stop 4)
2010/10/22 - Disney Cup
2010/10/23 - BMX Series by Eastpak
2010/10/23 - ASA Big Air BMX Triples
2010/10/30 - Vibrations Urbaines Pessac (FR)
2010/11/06 - Flatland Fanatics Contest 2010
2010/11/25 - ABA 2010 Grands
2010/12/05 - Telekom Extreme Playgrounds Berlin 2010
2011/02/05 - Simpel Session 2011

-BMX has grown so much that it's not always good news we can cover. Bad things are happening too. Just recently it was Niki Kroft that had a terrible crash to the head and just yesterday TJ Lavin was rushed to the hospital. When we hear the word Coma, it's not good. Keep 'em in your thoughts and wish them a full recovery. Wearing that helmet is not a bad idea guys. Just Do It.

-Gerwin Lucas and Lennard Gols made it over to Ale Blie yesterday. They've started filming for a BMX documentary that covers the Dutch BMX (freestyle) scene which should be done some time in December. They filmed Coach at Paul's Boutique and myself at the SugarHills and then cruised over to Burnside to do some more filming. Loads more work to do but we're already looking forward to the final production. Vans are sponsoring the effort so thanks to them for helping out.

-The last round of the Dew Tour kicked off yesterday with Pro Dirt Prelims. Here are the riders who made the cut:

BMX DIRT PRELIMS RESULTS, DEW TOUR LAS VEGAS, NV.
1      Corey Bohan      91.50
2     Anthony Napolitan     89.75
3     Gary Young     89.13
4     Ryan Nyquist     89.13
5     Chris Doyle     89.13
6     Colton Satterfield     89.00
7     TJ Ellis     88.88
8     Seth Klinger     88.88
9     Luke Parslow     88.63

10     Alex Landeros     88.50
11     AJ Anaya     88.50
12     Morgan Wade     88.13
13     Dave Dillewaard     87.38
14     Andrew Buckworth     87.00
15     Scotty Cranmer     86.63
16     Ben Wallace     86.50
17     Nate Berkheimer     86.25
18     Chris Gerber     86.25
19     Michael Clark     85.75
20     TJ Lavin     85.00
21     Kevin Porter     81.00
22     Cory Nastazio     77.25
23     James Foster     75.50
24     Jaie Toohey     DNS
25     Josh Hult     DNS
26     Diogo Canina     DNS
27     Rob Darden     DNS

*Top 9 meets top 3 in the standings in the dirt final: Maddog, Enarson and Dosch.

-Have you entered already for the etnies X Odsy X Sunday bike giveaway on FATBMX? A free bike plus free shoes if you get the answer right. There are only 6 of them in Europe and we got one of them to give away. Now don't wait too long, the answer to the question needs to be in before the end of this month. A bike, sent to your house, for FREE! Go here for details.

-Sponsor changes/happenings:
-Sam Cools off Supercross
-Drew Bezanson on RedBull
-Kyle Poynter off Duffs
-Kareem Williams off Stolen
-Mark Vos off etnies
-Maliek Byndloss off One Bicycles
-Caleb Quanbeck on Hoffman Bikes
-Chris Brown on BSD
-Maris Strombergs on Elevn
-Alex Vasquez on Sputnic
-Jake Malin on Coalition

-What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas! So also Interbike is staying in Vegas and is not going to Anaheim in August next year. Good news in fact. Gives companies the same time to get their sample products and catalogs ready and well, I believe Las Vegas is a good place for a trade show like Interbike. It's all compact, plenty of places to stay, to eat, to go out, the weather is nice, etc. It's more than enough for 5 days but you don't hear me complain we're going back next year. Viva Las Begas!

- PRO Results FISE Experience stop Montpellier, France.
1 LESSER Isaac
2 WEDEMEIJER Daniel
3 FRANCOIS Fabien
4 VALENTINO Alexandre
5 PEYRE Louis
6 KING Mike
7 DUMOULIN Rémi
8 PURSELL Billy
9 KLIMENTIDIS Nicolas
10 MILONERI Mike
11 GARREAU VINCENT
12 BLANCH TO
13 GAY Cyril
14 PIERRI JC
15 LECHEVIN Florian
16 SALOMON Sami
17 CHARRIER Thomas

2010 Overall FISE Experience Pro BMX winner: Daniel Wedemeijer, NL. Congrats ouwe!

-In France we walked the Roc d'Azur Salon and came up with the following new 2011 product report which we posted in the BMX Bizznizz section.

-BMX WILD GAMES, Rome, Italy. Results:

-Rankings Street – Expert
1 Simone Barraco (Genova)
2 Arthur Dietrich (Francia)
3 Fabio Limonta (Bergamo)

Street – Beginners
1 Elia Bedosti
2 Edoardo Botti
3 Nicolay Popov

-Monster Best Trick: Filippo Ferri (Rimini) with Back Flip Rock to Fakie
-Bunny Hop winner: Simone Barraco (Genova)
-Flatland winner: Benjamin Ramirez (Perù)

-Have you all seen The New Kids Turbo trailer? Jonge!

-We did a bike check on Caleb Quanbeck's new BAMA. Check it out, part by part by going HERE. If you like the colour red, you will like Jan Valenta's new signature ride . Also read what he says about his new bike.