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- The SPLIT team won the "PIG" contest at Woodward West. Ryan Nyquist and Colin MacKay had the biggest bags of tricks and beat various other teams in the "for TV" contest. That's all we know at this point. - Alex Rankin at 4130 publishing in the UK is finishing up the NoFrontTeeth video. There are five rider sections, contests from 2003, the DC Trails Tour, random jam sections which are nuts, tons of good stuff. It’ll be about 45 minutes long with a bunch of DVD extras, and a rocking soundtrack from Tim March. The video was premiered at Bike 2004 at a pub in Birmingham. - Cory "Nasty" Nastazio was involved in a terrible car accident and was in hospital with a collapsed lung and a hemorrhage on one side of his brain. Unfortunately Cory wasn't driving the big Benz as it would have given him some better protection than the Civic he was driving when he hit a tree. Cory was in the car by himself and on his way to ride some trails. Cause of accident is unknown. - Christophe Huber is making things work for himself to live off a BMX job. He has started a distribution company (Unity Distribution), does the MPS stuff, does video work and is currently finishing up the Dragonfly video. - How many people do fit in Marco Des Isola's mini van: A: 5, B: 7, or C: 14? C is correct! - Clicked finally have a website up at www.clickedvideo.co.uk so check it out! James and Tom at Retribution have been great in helping Steve B. on the design / website front. Clicked are also starting a Clothing line called Clicked Designs and the team is Mark Webb, Steve Bartholomew, Josh Elkington, Ollie Smith and Dan Collier. Get your copy of Clicked 08 when you subscribe to DIG. - HDT might have quit the website but look at this ride!! - GP MX star Josh Coppins is sponsored by Stolen BMX bikes. - David Marconi from New Zealand is now getting flow from wethepeople through triplesix. There are also a couple of sound guys in Puerto Rico aboard fresh Div frames. Brian Terada will be making his debut appearance on the wethepeople roadtrip through Italy. - Recently BULLY Bikes team riders, David Healy and Jimmy Hale, were asked to help in the filming of a TV show shown in Elementary School Classrooms. The show, called "ESPN Sportsfigures", uses practical examples of physics to help explain the theories to the students. Part of the show was filmed with Co-Host Dave Mirra in Greenville and the other parts in were shot at Brian Picolo Skatepark in Cooper City, Florida. Good times were had. - It didn't take TIP Plus long to replace the departure of Greg Walsh. Glenn P.P. Milligan, former BMX video producer at TransWorld Media, has taken up the job. Milligan’s new position will be as marketing brand manager for TIP, as well as team manager for Primo. After finishing up 14 videos in 4 years for the Transworld crew "PP" will have to deal with different deadlines from now on. - We want to wish Bill Bryant good luck. He has now entered Iraq with the US Army. - HARO Europe's Ben Shenker had a bad crash trying a flipwhip in the UK. He'll be out for a few months with a snapped fibia and torn ligaments. He's been operated upon but won't be on his bike for a while. Get well soon Ben. - Scott Timmins made it on the Neighbours TV show. Well, sort of. - Former Mosh team rider and brand manager Sam Arellano earned a promotion to Giant's director of marketing. Arellano has worked at Giant for five years and had managed the company's Mosh BMX brand until last summer, when Mosh discontinued its bike line to focus on parts and accessories. In August Arellano became Giant's brand manager. As director of marketing, Arellano will oversee Giant's marketing department and focus on branding and advertising strategies. - Eastpak is doing a European team. - Some Eastern News by Leigh Ramsdell: After months and months of not being on his bike Brad Gethard started riding again. He's postponed his leg surgery until November. Speaking of Brad, Eastern has a new chain out. For a bicycle. That's right. Phillip Teague is still kicking ass in the warehouse setting up new racks and living without electricity and losing things. I have no idea what I'm even saying. I (Leigh) just won the first Transam Texas Holdem Poker tournament recently. It was held in the Little Devil/Transam warehouse and was one of my greatest accomplishments. Ever. I'm also getting ready for my move back to North Carolina. I'll be heading to Greenville for the summer and then make plans to move to Raleigh later. Our old web site designer and former Play clothing owner, Hal Brindley took second place in a photo contest in South Africa and won a trip there. Now he's there for a month doing his new passion, shooting wild life photos. Check out www.halbrindley.com for his amazing photos. Mike Andrews is still living in Florida and 180ing anything he finds. Kyle Judy won't return my phone calls. Well, that's just because I keep dialing the wrong phone number. Man I'm an idiot. - BMX legend Brian Blyther broke his neck hanging out in the desert with his friends. He broke two vertebrae but first news is that things are going to be okay. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Get well soon sheriff. - Gary Young is off DirtBros and on the MacNeil team. Boss Jay Miron is stoked to say the least. - News on the streets is that G. Walsh is starting a P&A company. The coalition involves names as J. Rich and T. Mihelich. Believe it, or not!? - Barth Wahlen has launched "Groundcontrol", a website that should serve as a spotlog for bmx riders. After you register, you can upload your own favorite riding spots and share them with the rest of the world. Everybody can rate these riding spots, through which the best riding spots will be featured in the "Top Spots" section. We can go on and on, but you should just check http://groundcontrol.rizm.nl. - The Man In Black is staying busy. Check out what Thorne Buster has been up to lately: = Last week went to Florida & Arizona for Case Logic to sign autographs at trade shows for Best Buys & Boarders. = Last Friday hosted the red carpet for Billabong in Anaheim at the Grove, it was the XXL Awards, it was live on the Billabong website. = Right now I am filmin' for the short film "Mulberry Park" in LA, look for it at the film festivals this year, it's a gang movie where I get shot. = I have been riding up at Woodward gettin' ready for the CFB next weekend, XGames look shady this year, only 10 go to the games, how they miss out on so much. = BOOST MOBILE recently sponsored me, I'm stoked to be part of the team, thanks. = Featured in these video's that recently released: Warp Tour Video, Slammed, John Comer documentary, Natural High 2 - The RedBull Circle Of Balance was won by Yanmar beating Alex "Go-Kart-King" Jumelin head to head in the final. KGB's Martti Kuoppa battled with Fly's Matt Wilhelm for 3rd and won that fight. The event was nuts and showed that Flatland sure is a rad sport/art to watch. Report up on FATBMX soon. - West Coast's flatland gangsta Jesse Puente showed up with a signature KHE frame at the Bike 04 event that looked quite trick. Jesse has been riding really well and had no problems getting used to the machine. - Ben Hennon and Ben Manuel are now riding for HARO Bikes UK. - Think of your favorite: UK Rider, World Rider, bike company, ad, clothing company, shoe company and best BMX DVD. Okay, got it? Now look how your votes compared to the ones from the RIDE readers. The mag just released the reader survey: WORLD RIDER OF THE YEAR 1ST DAVE MIRRA 23.4% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND MAT HOFFMAN 12.9% 3RD RUBEN ALCANTARA 9.2% 4TH RYAN NYQUIST 8.5% =5TH NATE WESSELL 2.3% =5TH SERGIO LAYOS 2.3% =5TH DAVE OSATO 2.3% 8TH CORY NASTAZIO 2.1% =10TH JAMIE BESTWICK 1.7% =10TH SETH KIMBROUGH 1.7% OTHERS 33.3% UK RIDER OF THE YEAR 1ST JAMIE BESTWICK 59.8% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND ALI WHITTON 7.5% 3RD SIMON TABRON 4.4% 4TH KYE FORTE 4.1% 5TH STEPHEN MURRAY 2.7% =6TH BAS KEEP 1.7% =6TH ROBIN FENLON 1.7% =8TH ZACH SHAW 1.3% =8TH WILL JACKSON 1.3% 10TH BEN HENNON 1.1% OTHERS 14.2% BIKE COMPANY OF THE YEAR 1ST HARO 19.3% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND WETHEPEOPLE 16.6% 3RD MONGOOSE 9.5% 4TH FLY BIKES 6.8% 5TH FIT BIKE CO 3.7% 6TH FEDERAL 3.1% 7TH MACNEIL 2.7% =8TH FBM 2.0% =8TH GT BICYCLES 2.0% =8TH S&M BIKES 2.0% OTHERS 31.9% ADVERTS OF THE YEAR 1ST G-SPORT 29.9% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND ETNIES 11.6% 3RD DUFFS 4.4% 4TH EASTPAK 3.4% 5TH HARO 2.3% 6TH PRIMO 2.1% =7TH BACKYARD JAM 1.7% =7TH OSIRIS 1.7% =7TH VANS 1.7% 10TH HOFFMAN BIKES 1.3% OTHERS 39.8% CLOTHING COMPANY OF THE YEAR 1ST LITTLE DEVIL 22.7% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND ETNIES 17.3% 3RD FOX 8.8% 4TH LORD 7.8% =5TH UGP 4.4% =5TH FENCHURCH 4.4% 7TH DC SHOE CO 3.4% 8TH ZOO YORK 3.1% 9TH VANS 2.3% 10TH ELEMENT 1.7% OTHERS 23.8% SHOE COMPANY OF THE YEAR 1ST ETNIES 33.6% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND VANS 26.8% 3RD DC SHOE CO 12.5% 4TH OSIRIS 6.1% 5TH DUFFS 4.4% 6TH ORCHID 2.1% 7TH GLOBE 1.7% =8TH EMERICA 0.3% =8TH ADIO 0.3% =8TH INOPIA 0.3% OTHERS 11.6% BEST BMX VIDEO 1ST CASSETTE 18.7% (OF THE VOTE) 2ND PROPS ROAD FOOLS (ALL) 18.3% 3RD ETNIES: FORWARD 8.5% 4TH SNAP: HOW TO DIRT JUMP 4.7% 5TH RIDE US: MOMENTUM 3.7% 6TH SOUL VIDEOMAGAZINE 3.4% 7TH MACNEIL VIDEO 3.1% =8TH RIDE US: THUNDER 1.7% =8TH ODYSSEY VIDEO 1.7% 10TH RIDE US: DIGITAL INTERFACE 1.3% OTHERS 27.9% - The Shady Shadow Conspiracy team consisting of Alistair Whitton, Joe Simon, Byron Anderson, John Jennings, Ryan Sher and newest England INTL Rider Owain Clegg are on tour again. They headed out for a trip in Florida and Georgia to film some more for an upcoming Shadow DVD. - Peter Geys has finished his personal vert ramp. The Bike Devil will have a grand opening on 20 June 2004. With plenty of riders, a barbeque and TV around, "Peter's Passion" should be a fun day with some good halfpipe sessions. - Chris Moeller entered the Sea Otter Classic event racing 4X and dual slalom on a 26" S&M Saint. He didn't do too bad either beating overpaid MTB riders racing in brown Dickies and a Pro-tec. True S&M style. Things went down (literally) when he was leading the 4X semi. Still not bad for a 30+ first timer. - The Condor Mat Hoffman recently destroyed two more bikes when he rode out of a plane twice for a Nickelodeon TV show. The Condor did plenty of spins and flips until he got too many G's out of it and left the bike to land in a bunch of slime for the TV show. Next to parachute jumping Hoffman has also been going back and forth to his new 100 foot wide vert ramp with his paramotor. Ramp sessions are back up. - Some 60 American BMX racers and fans will make their way to the UCI BMX Race world's in Valkenswaard, NL at the last weekend of July. They'll be in town for the Pre-race as well to get used to the track. - Volume 11 Issue #52 of Props Video Magazine will be out shortly. It includes a bunch of good stuff with revolutionary riding from: Toronto Metro Jam: Toronto Canada, Backyard Jam: Bournemouth England, Austin scene Report: Austin, TX, FBM Last Call Contest: Little Rock Arkansas, Women Of Freestyle Road Trip, Home Made Jam Flatland and Street Jams: Amsterdam Holland, As a bonus Props added Props Video Magazine Issue #29 from January 1999 in its entirety to the DVD. - FITbikeCo is coming out with 4 complete bikes ranging from $219 to $399 retail coming out of Taiwan. High-end frames will still be made in SoCal by the S&M/FIT crew lead by Chris Moeller. AA Pro racer Neal Wood is the latest rider employee over in Santa Ana. Neal has been clocking in at 6am for the last couple of months. After work is done at 3:30pm there's still time to hit the trails. Some Dutch News by PDJ: - Mark FOX Vos almost beat VanHomen at the HomemadeJam in Amsterdam, he didn't this time but watch him in the future. Mark made the move from VANS to ORCHID just before this contest but is still on Paul's Boutique and Eastpak. - Den Bosch is gonna be a major BMX city according to the guys from the Storttrails Den Dungen. Downtown is selling a lot of BMX bikes and they are building trails at the local skatepark right now so they might be right. - Michael v/d Lee (UGP & Eastpak) is working on killer brake cables with his next door neighbor. Plans are being made to get them on the BMX market worldwide. - Sander Nieuwenhuis and Riccardo Moes will be doing some Halfpipe demos at the Dutch GP Motocross at Lichtenvoorde on May 15th. Paul's Boutique will be there to promote their new division: Distribution of UNIVERSAL MOTOCROSS PRODUCTS in the Netherlands. - Dennis Keunen (PROPER/Eastpak/Vans/Shadow) is back on his bike and nothing is gonna stop him this year, the miniramp in Aarle-Rixtel is being ridden daily and so are the Sugarhills, also the Concrete pool in Tilburg is not save anymore, Dennis is killing it lately! - FlatTV 3 DVD is out and super good, if you are a flatlander you can't miss it. Get your own DVD now cause the FBI is warned to get all you cheap copiers from the street and lock you up for months, there is even a built in virus that will kill your computer immediately. - First and Second May will be the weekend of the European Championship round in the PROMISE in Heerlen, the first of 3 rounds so don't miss it. - The A4 Trails are gone....... well that was the rumor but it's not true at all, they were in bad shape because those fucking MTB'ers didn't fix the jumps after they destroyed them with their full suspension crap bikes so this is an advice for them: BUILD YOUR OWN SILLY JUMPS NEXT TO THE A3! - FAT JAM 2004 will be bigger than the years before, the party is already organized and BIG things will happen at the SUGARHILLS this year! August 21st and 22nd is the date so don't say you didn't know after you missed it. - FIT will be supporting Chubby in 2004, he was the first to call PURE BMX Distribution after they asked for riders so don't complain and call fast after someone ask for riders you fools! PDJ - The TEAM 2-HIp BIKES SUMMER 2004 tour will be the biggest tour EVER! Ron Wilkerson and crew have a new ramp set-up this year and some new riders, so after 15 years of doing Summer show tours this tour looks to be killer. Featuring three of the riders: MARK KEHL, CORY JARMAN, JOHN DEMERS, RYAN ARMSTRONG, JARROD ALLEN, DAVE MCDANIEL. JUN 17 - THE COMPOUND BMX SHOP, OAKHURST, CA, USA JUN 19 - BICYCLE WAREHOUSE, VISTA, CA, USA JUN 20 - RTS BIKE SHOP HQ, BAKERSFIELD, CA, USA JUN 21 - FOY'S BIKE SHOP, WOODLAND, CA, USA JUN 23 - BEAR CREEK BICYCLES, ASHLAND, OR, USA JUN 25 - MT. TABOR SPORTS, PORTLAND, OR, USA JUN 26 - SKAGIF PEDAL SHOP, BURLINGTON, WA, USA JUN 27 - WHEATONS, KALISPELL , MT, USA JUN 29 - THE BIKE WAY , OMAHA , NE , USA JUL 1 - ROCKFORD BICYCLE CO., LOVE'S PARK , IL , USA JUL 2 - C-4 BMX, MILWAUKEE , WI , USA JUL 3 - SPROCKETS BIKE & BOARD , LACROSSE , WI , USA JUL 4 - SPROCKETS BIKE & BOARD (JELLYSTONE SK8PRK) , WARRENS , WI, USA JUL 8 - CHALLENGE PARK XTREME , JOLIET , IL , USA JUL 10 - WHATCHA-MACALITS , BEECH GROVE , IN, USA JUL 11 - QUALITY BIKE SHOP , OWENSBORO , KY, USA JUL 17-18 - BIKE LINE OF NAPERVILLE , NAPERVILLE , IL, USA JUL 20 - DESTINATION BMX , INDIANA , PA, USA JUL 21 - GREEN MOUNTAIN CYCLERY INC , EPHRATA , PA , USA JUL 23 - ELEVATE CYCLES , SARATOGA SPR. , NY, USA JUL 24 - ALL SEASON'S OUTDOOR , HOOSICK , NY, USA JUL 25 - SKI RACK , BANGOR , ME, USA JUL 27 - BIKE DR. & SPORTS CENTER , CANAAN , CT, USA JUL 28 - SUSSEX BIKE & SPORT , SUSSEX , NJ, USA JUL 30 - THE BICYCLE PLANET, SYOSSET , NY, USA JUL 31 - BIKE SHOP OF STATEN ISLAND , STATEN ISLAND , NY AUG 1 - TITLE 10 SKATEPARK , PHILADELPHIA , PA, USA AUG 4 - POINT PLEASANT BICYCLE , POINT PLEASANT , NJ, USA AUG 6 - WOODEN WHEELS , NEWARK , DE, USA AUG 8 - BIKEWAYS , HENDERSONVILLE , NC, USA AUG 11 - RICHARDSON BIKE MART , RICHARDSON , TX, USA AUG 14 - CYCLE LOGIC , SAN ANTONIO , TX, USA SEP 11 - LOVELAND CYCLES , BRIGHAM CITY , UT, USA ALSO--- ronw.'s monthly injury report- the 2-HIp BRASIL tour has to be postponed to MAY, because after clearing up some last-minute visa problems, ronw. was F-L-Y-I-N-G home from San Francisco to Santa Cruz on his motorcycle, and laid his Yamaha FZR600 down on HWY 17 at 60MPH!!! ...and very luckily not getting run over by any other cars.... Ron broke his right kneecap and is on crutches for the next 6-8 weeks, and has learned a NEW lesson about not running his tires beyond BALD... - With 72 pro street riders entering the first Backyard Jam in the UK, making it to the finals was a tough task. When the yellow lights were dimmed it turned out that Dirtbros' Gary Young (now MacNeil) beat the Canadian Beast (now his boss) by 0.20 points leaving Alistair Whitton (now his team mate) on third place. PRO FINALS 1 Gary Young 94.60 2 Jay Miron 94.40 3 Ali Whitton 93.40 4 Bas Keep 90.20 5 Luke Marchant 85.40 6 Nate Wessel 82.40 7 Kye Forte 81.20 8 Paul Kinder 80.60 9 Dave Osato 79.00 10 Taj Mihelich 78.20 11 Dan Sieg 77.80 12 Garrett Byrnes 76.80 13 Matt Beringer 76.60 14 Ben Hennon 76.20 15 Tony Mortenson 75.60 16 Allan Cooke 75.40 17 Dave Freimuth 73.80 18 Ruben Alcantara 73.40 19 Mark Webb 70.40 - The First European Championship BMX race took place in Lempdes, France. The Elite classes were won by Holland's Willy Kanis and France's Florent Boutte. For full results, check here. Elite Woman 1 KANIS Willy 2 FAURE Lydia 3 CONVERT Cyrielle 4 HORAKOVA Jana 5 POLAKOVA Dagmara 6 HLADIKOVA Aneta 7 MADSEN Malene 8 AJINCA Elodie Elite Men 1 BOUTTE Florent 2 ALLIER Thomas 3 PROKOP Michal 4 TRICARD Jean Christophe 5 MATISONS Arturs 6 BALTZERSEN Henrik 7 BATEY Kelvin 8 BISSELING Sander - We'd like to show you the results of the BIKE 04 contest because we're still working on the reports. Check the BMX Freestyle section in the next week or so for pics and text on the Birmingham NEC event. Bike Show 2004 Results Pro Flat Results 1 Travis Collier 2 Nathan Penonzek 3 Alex Jumelin 4 Martti Kuoppa 5 Jesse Puente 6 Frank Lukas 7 Michael Steingraeber 8 Raphael Chiquet 9 Michael Sommer 10 Dan Margetts Pro Street Finals 1 Ryan Nyquist 2 Dave Mirra 3 Tobias Wicke 4 Chris Mahoney 5 Tom Haugen 6 Senad Grosec 7 Ronnie Surridge 8 Martyn Tambling 9 Ben Manuel 10 Ben Wallace 11 Gareth Wilson 12 Lance McDermott 12 Craig Stephens 14 Pill 15 Lorenzo Reid Pro Vert 1 Jamie Bestwick 2 Simon Tabron 3 Zach Shaw 4 Mike Mullen 5 Shaun Eglington 6 Ronnie Remo 7 Benny Kopp 8 John Taylor 9 Jan Valenta 10 Dennis Wingham 11 Chris Mahoney 11 Toby Gresswell 13 Pete Marselle 14 Paul Jones 15 Justin Gardener 16 Eggy