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Mat Hoffman is asking for your attention for a fundraiser he's doing: The last couple years I've been shaving my head to help raise money for this kids cancer research foundation called St. Baldricks (www.stbaldricks.org/) This year I shaved my head and put a Condor ECI on eBay. I'll sign it and personalize it to the highest bidder. Here's the link  It will be up for Auction until 4/4. Here's a link for specs on the ECI Condor.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you! -Mat 

The next “Extreme Sport” Festival will be held April 6th – 9th, 2007 on the combined sites of AURON (FRANCE). This new edition offers the following programme… , contest, promotion, demonstration, introduction and good mood! The International Movie Festival “Extreme Sport”: Price money : € 10.000 Starting Friday.

Hot babes on bikes doing even hotter tricks! No that’s not the tagline for the latest Biker-Babe B-movie. It’s a bold announcement of great things to come. The creative Canadian BMX stunt rider, Angie “sKwirl” McEwen and Extreme Sports Stunt Team Owner/rider, Brent Sprute have joined forces to put together an amazing Extreme Sports Stunt Tour like no other! “sKwirl blew me away with her ideas and vision for a girls tour that would be empowering, educational and a lot of fun.” Said Sprute. The tour will take place over six weeks starting in September and running through mid October. The venues that will host the tour will be as varied and colorful as the riders that will be on the tour. Malls, Bike shops, skate parks and other hotspots will all be packed when the tour rolls through the U.S. and Canada later this year.

Encouraging a positive vibe among young women via unity, community and harmony flow strong as themes of this tour.

We want to ask you for a favour today. Even if you don't speak Dutch, you can vote for FATBMX.com to win a Moora Cup. We'll take you through the procedure. Go to: www.mooracup.com. Click on the splash page. Now hit the button that says: STEMMEN (vote). It's the third button from the left on the top. Hit: GA NU STEMMEN (Vote now).

A BMX pro known for his innovation and dominance in the streets and on the rails, Etnies team rider Brian Kachinsky is in the studio. This Wisconsin native tells us about his early days riding with the Baco Boys and how University led him to become the dominating rail rider he is today. And, we’ll check out the trailer of Brian’s latest film with Etnies, “Grounded”. Plus, red-carpet crasher Jordan Morris gets some self defense tips from the cast of “300”.  Catch him on TV tonight.

Dusseldorf/Cologne, 22 March 2007 BMXMasters is back and will again take place this year in July. The contest will be held from July 13-15, 2007 – one week earlier as planned. Reason for changing the date is to avoid any overlappings. The international BMX contests are close this summer and we wanted give the riders the possibility to enter all contests.

During the three-day event Cologne will see the world’s best BMX athletes battling it out in five different disciplines – street, mini-ramp, vert, flatland and dirt to win some of the € 30,000 prize money. Each discipline will have amateur, master and pro classes. In addition, the Suzuki BMXMasters will once again support the involvement of girls in BMX, with Girls’ flatland and street disciplines.

On top, the final of the Braun cruZer Tour will be battled in Cologne on the refreshed Braun Spine Ramp - the world’s largest mobile mini-ramp. More info at Braun CruZer Tour

The Newest Sport Addition Will Welcome the Greatest Motocross Racer Of All Time, Ricky Carmichael, to X Games 13, August 2-5, 2007. For the 13th annual action sports event, ESPN X Games will add stadium motocross. Debuting at The Home Depot Center, Moto X Racing will showcase the premier motocross racers in the world competing in an event collaboratively developed by Ricky Carmichael and ESPN. Joining Ricky will be fellow motocross stars Chad Reed, Kevin Windham and more top racers from all over the world. For X Games 13, Moto X Racing will join the other Moto X disciplines Freestyle, Step Up, Best Trick and SuperMoto. Fourteen hours of live programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will be offered August 2-5 as well as X Games 13 coverage on ESPN International, EXPN.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN360.com, SportsCenter and ESPN2's X Center.

The TWENTYbikes website has some new updates:
- the new spring shirts
- injury & music
- new product weights
- FrenchKiss fork spotlight
- joke injury

When you lose your wallet you only realize what's in it.  Do a little test, pick it up, go through the stuff that's in there and then worry what it would be like if you really lost everything that is inside. Do you want to know what's in Terry Adams'  wallet? Then you have to check the following video. It's well done.
 Watch it by clicking here.

Instead of posting event flyers we are now being asked to post event commercials. This professional commercial was sent in by Steve Crandall and it's rearding the Film Festival they help putting on. We posted their flyer a while ago and now this. It shouldn't get more crazier. For those guys who own a stylish motorcycle like Steve and are interested in a fun ride together, check out the El Diablo Run.