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-Tobias Wicke off wethepeople payroll, looking for a new ride.
-Bobby Simmons on Cult
-Phil Aller off KHE, on Stolen
-Jimmy van Belle off Vans
-Grant Casteluzzo on Profile
-Nico Badet Vans Flow Team France
-Adrien Lecomte Vans Flow Team France
-John Peacy on Cult
-Kym Grosser on The Set
-Bruno Hoffmann bumped up to Vans Europe
-Anthony Napolitan on RedBull
-Ian Schwartz off Sunday36
-Matt Barchus on Sputnic
-Joe Vee on Cult
-Lahsaan Kobza on Coalition
-Mike Babbel on Haro
-Bob Tedesco retires from NBL
-Slash on Haro
-Tyler McCarley on Coalition
-Andy Buckworth on Monster Energy
You know, it's the start of the new year. More sponsor changes when we hear about them.

On to DJ now. Here we go:

Slack as ever here's my long overdue 2 cents worth for this weeks FAT Friday...

T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds Street Session winner Harry Main has recently signed a nice 3year deal with long time shoe sponsor Nike 6.0 putting him firmly in the major players league.

One of the best BMX photographers there was is getting his cameras out the loft to get back to doing what he does best so expect lots of amazing new stuff from Chris Woodage real soon.

Shaun Scarfe has taken his skatepark building business to "the next level" by opening not only a facebook account but also a twitter one! Check them out on both sites under "fouronefour"

UK vert legend, one time circus performer & expert plate thrower Zach Shaw has recently parted ways with long time sponsor Oakley after 10 years but has become the 1st rider on the newly formed Vans Europe "Masters & Legends" team which I'm sure we'll get more info on soon? Cue Andy Zeiss....?  Zach is also waiting on Jan Valenta's broken back healing soon so they can head out to Woodward East for some winter training.

After some bullshit with neighbours, council meetings & eventual court order to remove it Mark Webbs perfect 7ft mini ramp with resi has been dismantled & removed from its perfect country location. Mark is currently scouring the local area trying to find a suitable indoor location to rebuild his ramp & possibly more.


Even though its a few months late congratulations to Ronnie Remo & wife Kim on the birth of their son Seth. Remo's Total BMX company will have parts in stock soon, keep a check on their website www.totalbmx.com for more info
 
Possibly the UK's best BMX video maker Mikey King is no longer riding for GT & is now representing BSD through Zeal Distro, totally stoked on the whole set up & still pumping out top quality web edits via his ffwdbmx.com site.

I'm going to make more of an effort to do my part of the news here on FATBMX so hopefully more soon? If you got any UK based stuff & you have my details give me a bell init?!

DJ

Thanks DJ. What else this week?
 
-David Wootten has some news for us from the Stolen camp: We just signed a deal to take over Boyd Coddington's (of American Hot Rod on Discovery Channel) Office/Showroom/Warehouse as the new Stolen residence. The building is almost 10,000 square feet of which 4000 of it will be a STLN bike park.

-Welcome back to HARO Bikes as a sponsor of FATBMX. They've got a new website up at: www.harobikes.com.

-The FAT FAVOURITE list is still going. As long as they're coming in, we'll keep posting them up. Good ones this week though and one with THE LORD coming up tomorrow:

-Hannu Cools
-Max Bimar
-Zac Miner
-Vince Kroff
-Andres Lainevool
-Lance Mosley
-Northern John
-Oba Stanley
-Scott Ditchburn
-Vince Byron

Serious list to go through and see what their favourite things in life are.

-We had a Levi's poster competition up here on FATBMX a few weeks ago and here are the winners of the poster packages. For the few that have not received them yet, you can pick them up at Paul's Boutique. That includes you Jamie Bestwick, tea is ready. And bring that dinosaur painting as I have a crocodile painting here for you.

-Michael van der Lee
-Jamie Bestwick
-Anne de Koning
-Vince Ouwersloot
-Klaus Dyba
-Stef Guener
-Jonathan Jansen
-Asa de Sadeleer
-Aaron Zwaal
-Rolf Thijssen

- Talking about Paul's Boutique, they are now doing Federal again.

-You probably noticed a new article on FATBMX called "Workshop Wednesday". First episode is now online. The articles are about (former) BMX-ers who are into building something in their own garage when they're not out riding. Think welders, benders, grinders, grease, tools, dirty hands, girl calendars on the walls. From hotrods to building ramps, from welding bicycles to fixing motorcycles. We have some good guys lined up for the future to bring you a weekly article that is different from the regular tailwhip down a set of stairs. Read the first episode featuring McGoo, right here.

-Upcoming events. Oh yes:

2010/01/08 - Silver Dollar Nationals
2010/01/09 - DEATH JAM
2010/01/09 - Flatland World Classic, Tokyo
2010/01/16 - Coyote Nationals
2010/01/22 - Sooner Nationals
2010/02/05 - Simpel Session 10
2010/02/06 - 040 JAM
2010/02/19 - Gator Nationals
2010/02/20 - Münster BeatCityJam
2010/03/05 - Winter Nationals
2010/03/20 - ASA Big Air BMX Triples
2010/04/03 - Easter Classic
2010/04/03 - Mini FATJAM 2010
2010/04/11 - UKBFA Reunion
2010/04/24 - All American Nationals
2010/05/08 - Freedom Nationals
2010/05/12 - fise
2010/05/28 - Spring Nationals
2010/05/29 - Saint AvoldSchool BMX French Reunion
2010/06/04 - IBMXFF Freestyle World's

Simpel Session is already in a few weeks. Holy smokes. If you can't make it there but are closer to the 040 jam, go there as it will be shown on the big screen live from Estonia.

-Results 2009 NBL Christmas Classic in KY:
Day two:
Elite Men
1 Barry Nobles
2 Javier Colombo
3 Josh Meyers
4 Andres Jiminez
5 Marty Wisehart
6 Josh Smith
7 Matt Kelty
8 Arturs Matisons
    
Elite Women
1 Jamie Lilly
2 Madison Pitts
3 Carley Young
4 Allie Dragoo
5 Amanda Geving
6 Donna Snow
7 Crystal Kalogris
8 Frances Maycroft

Day one:
 Elite Men
1 Javier Colombo
2 Marty Wisehart
3 Josh Meyers
4 Josh Smith
5 Andres Jiminez
6 Matt Kelty
7 Barry Nobles
8 Bob Rowley

Elite Women
1 Jamie Lilly
2 Amanda Geving
3 Madison Pitts
4 Crystal Kalogris
5 Carley Young
6 Donna Snow
7 Francis Maycroft
8 Allie Dragoo

-Yesterday we set up a Facebook account for FATBMX: http://www.facebook.com/FATBMX
We also set up a fan page. So if you see that link pop up in one of the posts, just hit it. You know it's legit. We're now at 250 friends on the FATBMX account and 187 fans on the FATBMX.com page. Vans are going to send out a package to a random FAN of every 250 people that sign up on the FAN page until we reach the 1000th FATBMX.com fan. So four people will be contacted for their mailing address until we've reached 1000 fans. First winner will be announded as soon as we reach the 250th fan mark.

-Sputnic Bike checks in case you missed them:
Ben Green
Stijn Staal
Sven Grieten (Premium)

To know where you're going you gotta know where you're coming from:

-Robbie Morales interview on FATBMX (2005)
-Robbie Morales' Best-Worst in FAT 'zine (1996 page 64)
-Robbie Morales interview in FAT 'zine # 31 page 16

Enjoy.

BdJ