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This one is for the old school BMX-ers out there:
-WHEN: Saturday Only - May 12th
-WHERE: Oak Creek BMX in Roseville, CA. During the ABA NorCal Nationals
-WHO: All Vintage BMX collectors are invited!
-WHAT & WHY: Bring your bikes to display, meet other collectors, swap & sell parts, and vote for “Best Bikes of Show” in multiple categories, or just take a stroll thru memory lane. 

Working in the BMX industry is fun. If you want to make good money, stay in school. If BMX is your passion and it's all you think about, there are a couple of options to live the BMX life 24/7. Once you've started your own BMX gig, you are putting in long days to make ends meet. But it's your choice. A 9 to 5 regular job or working your ass off in the BMX industry and scraping by.

Adam Banton is the newest member of the UGP team for 2007. "Chalk up another front brake rider". Adam is going to hold it down for the west coast. His bio and some of his favorite stories will be up on undergroundproducts.com as soon as he gets back from snowboarding.

A personal favorite is the time his body froze up while driving, somehow he pulled over by waving his "baby arms" out the window.

Welcome to the team.

Chad de Groot

Koelle Alaaf! Carnaval. Hate it, or love it but wethepeople in Cologne organized a comstumized party at their facility that started off at 11:11am after two pallets of Reisdorff had arrived. As soon as the double decker bus from Duesseldorf arrived with 70 people on board, the place was full and it just took off from there.

People had really outdone themselves with costumes that were so funny. Klaus was a sex tourist, Fastinetto showed up on foot doing some Nordic walking, there were some Ninja’s doing some kung-fu fighting, Janosch was Rocky Balboa, I think I saw Aze, Nacho Libre was in da house, Big Ed sure has gained some weight since he moved to Cologne, Kalle was a rock star, Aber Nice and by 2pm the place was rocking. 

After a hell of a long trip being sandwiched in between two strangers for 11 hours we have made it to Tokyo, Japan for the Red Bull Circle Of Balance (COB). We scoped the city for a bit last night and got some Indian Curry which actually tasted pretty good. The hotel internet wasn't easy to figure out but we're online now and hope to bring you some (daily) updates of what's going on over here.

BdJ

It couldn't be stopped. Kase Filipowicz is now featured in a DK advertisement. After a week long sponsor campaign on FATBMX, Kase chose to represent DK Bicycles and celebrated with an abubaca on the hood of this SUV.

As DK's Catfish stated: "We have been supporting Kase for a while now and it's time to move him up to the A program. Where do you find talent like this?

2007 the Battle in da Club tour is back! Four cities, four clubs and each time 16 of Germany's and Austria's best riders. In the end one of them will be get the BidC crown.

Once more the scoring system changed. The top 4 riders of each battle get points in the ranking and will directly qualify for the next battle. "Simple, hard but fair" is the new motto and that's why we decided to use the simple 1-on-1 battle mode again this year.

Mixed up with incredible live acts the BidC tour 2007 will definitely rock da house.

Watch the promo clip 

Kase is on the road at the moment but he found an internet cafe to make sure we have a new photo of him today. There was no time to set up extra flashes as the tree huggers came after Kase quick.

Roadfool
Kase took the RV out for a trip and found this tree and stopped immediately. He unloaded his ride and made it over to the tree to check it out.

Hope you have a good chilling ! You can now visit the TWENTYbikes website with many new updates:
- alex DROPSY & BiBi are back from Thailand
- what could you read this month?
- the “natural” video day!
- Free stuff to win with Vans
- the new 2007 posters!
- the new 2007 catalog!
- ESTONIA: Nicolas CAMBON video

Thanks a lot for your time and your visit. Have a nice day.

alex.B

On the way back from the park Kase wasn't tired yet and when he found a bucket and a piece of wood, he created a ghetto park for himself. Kase knows what's going on.

On the way home from the park
As I told you before, if you look around, you will find something to ride. Just use your imagination and be creative. In the photo I took a piece of plywood, a brick and created a jump.