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The new Racerhead FL came to be by a round table discussion in the shop one night. Kris and Mikey ride park and trails as much as they ride the race tracks and wanted a cool front load stem to slap on to their new Passion frames.

So we sat down sketched something up, took it to the machine shop and made a sample, it was close, but we wanted it to be a little sleeker, and a little lighter, so we refined it down three more times to get what we wanted. Then we slapped them onto Kris and Mikey's personal trail bikes and let them have at it. After a few months of testing and making sure it was what they wanted we put it into production and what you see today is the final result. 

World class action sports athletes will be coming out for the third stop of the 2009 Dew Tour season, the Wendy's Invitational, August 13-16 at the Rose Quarter. The Dew Tour returns to Portland for the fifth consecutive year and will feature BMX and skateboarding competitions, as well as an FMX jam session. Over 140 of the best action sports athletes in the world will be in Portland to compete in the four-day competition, including 23 athletes fresh off winning 2009 X Games medals. Athletes include X Games 15 gold medalists Paul Rodriguez (skateboard park), Scotty Cranmer (BMX park) and Garrett Reynolds (BMX park), and four-time defending Dew Cup champion Jamie Bestwick (BMX vert).

The list of pre-qualified BMX athletes expected to compete in Portland are as follows:

Brett Banasiewicz
Jamie Bestwick

Todays lesson is building a bmx park and working with your local Public Officials to make it legal. Some years ago we here at Psykopath built a bmx trail park on private property because the county officials said there was no land available, we ran this private spot for a few years and even had it sanctioned by the NBL. We held time trail money races, dirt jump contest, BBQ's, and a lot of late night sessions (RIP Psykopath Trails). The County Code Enforcement Department shut us down because the land we had

Name: Jeferson L. Siqueira
Age: 16
Hometown: Brazil
Hook-ups/Sponsors: None

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: all street
-BMX video: Odyssey Eletronical
-Website: fatbmx.com, dracbmx.com
-Web video: All from Mark Webb
-Food: Fish
-Travel destination: all places with good street stuff

We're on the road. These things are hard to do when you're not behind your desk all the time. We actually need your help with the FAT FAVs, so fill in the form and get some coverage. After running over a hundred FAT FAVs I'm running short for the upcoming week so if you always wanted to get one of those things yourself and want to be on the FATBMX website, send in 4-5 pics (150Kb max per photo/jpeg/max 700pixels high or wide) of yourself together with the following list and we'll get you some coverage. Thanks in advance.

As the Miniramp and the BMX Park at the city wall in Darmstadt received a makeover lately, the area is well prepared for the upcoming 20 inch weekend on August 15th/16th, 2009. On Saturday, August 15th, the T-Mobile Local Support Miniramp Challenge takes place. Besides Spot Support worth € 4.000 & BBQ Partys (Pro class) as well as a portrait at freedombmx & high quality stuff (Am class) in the team challenge, all riders compete for 4 tickets to ride at the Summer Session of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds on

It’s out and it’s wet like Hadrien Picard who sacrifice himself to shoot this pretty rare photo of Dylan Smith doing a tyreslide on a curb. Find attached to the magazine the VANS DVD of 2 big tours : Wheels of Rock (props rocknr’oll look alike) and Let It Ride. In this issue:
-Let It Ride comp with Dylan Smith on board
-Vans Wheels of Rock tour
-Dijon local scene report
-Flatland in Osaka