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each person. Your place might be covered in snow (Alessandro Barbero's ramp construction got slowed down because of 4 feet of snow), where the folks in Australia might just be looking for shade. At least if felt good to be on the bike last weekend and the Helm trails and Sugar Hills are looking good.

-The contest in Latvia that took place last weekend was won by Michael Beran. The Czech Proper rider used his box jump skills to collect most points in the finals. Second in Riga went to Alessandro Barbero (Mirraco) and third place was for Harry Main (KHE). The riders from the area were impressive as well as we'd seen in Tallinn already.

-Some sponsor changes took place this week. Here's a few of them:

-Ryan Mills on Duffs
-Ryan Elcock on Volume
-Sean Logan on Quamen, not Hitman
-Tony Cardona on Credence bikes
-Rob & Big on 29 inch wheels courtesy of SE Bikes
-UGP sponsors the NBL
-Aaron Bostrom off Profile
-On Hitman: David Mahoney, Day Smith, Matt Brown, Jesse Warmack, Paul Meeks, Ben Snowden
-Steve Woodward and Corey Dewey on Alienation
-Sean Sexton on Empire BMX
-Jimmy van Belle, Quentin de Marteleare, Greg van Tulder and Sven "Fucking" Grieten on Premium
-Fabien Stephan on Eastreet

-The Odyssey video got premiered this week. Choq was going to cover it for FATBMX but he was too busy doing all his things. Even the Bawls drinks didn't help. Mike did show up on the FIT site though shredding the Vans ramp. Will Mike be at the Mini-FAT-JAM next month?

-The wait was long but tomorrow it's on! FAT-'zine 00 will be online, followed by 34 issues. One issue every weekend for the next months. If you're old school, you gotta love it.

-We posted some bike checks this week. If you missed them, here they are:
+ Patrick Guimez: Koxx Resurrection (signature Guimez frame) weighing in at only 9 kilos!
+ Markus Wilke: KHE Impact (signature Wilke frame)
+ Benny Paulsen: Colony
+ Taj Mihelich: T1 Ruben but should be on a Giant by the time you read this

-For $175 bucks you can get some almost private riding lessons from the VANS team riders. Rob-O, Gary Young, Chase Hawk and Nasty wil teach you the latest moves (including toe-jams) at the Vans park in Orange while Alistair, Josh, Guettler and MacKay take care of you in Florida.

-Big Black almost got a heartattack from racing BMX. He left the track in an ambulance. It sure will make another story in the diaries of Todd Lyons. Check the latest one here.

-Congrats to Paul Roberts who got married under the Huntington Beach Pier to his longtime girlfriend.

-The FISE Experience tour is kicking off this weekend in Gregam, France. Grand prize for the overall BMX winner of the tour is a FIAT Panda 4X4. Maxime is going after that thing. The 2008 Dew Tour schedule was announced and we added a lot of events to the FATBMX event schedule. Make sure to contact the event organizers before you book your trip.

-It has been a hectic week at work for news contributor DJ; 14/15 hours days! No time for anything! All I have is that Ryan Elcock is now riding for Volume & is on a Jason Enns frame! Myself, Zach, Webb, Wallace, Chris Job, Kyle Blake, James Hitchcox, Smooth Keith, Mike O'connell & Ronnie Remo are going Karting for Remo's "stag" do on Saturday!

-If you think you deserve a miniramp in your backyard and you don't want to waste more than 100 words to get it, you better check out this article on FATBMX. And that's Nate Wessel who will build it.

-Last night Mike Spinner 1080'd THE box at Woodward for the first time. There's a video of last night's session on the team Blowin' it website. Sick!

-Congrats to Matt Holmes (2020mag Australia) and Robyn on the birth of Miss Eddy Jaya Holmes.

-Shout out to Nekkie who just blew out his good knee. Get well man!

That was another week of BMX for you. If you want to receive the FAT-Friday by e-mail, simply sign up on the FATBMX mailing list and you'll get this in your mailing box before it goes online.

BdJ