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If you're waching the miniramp contest live you jus saw these four guys transfer to the next: Ben Hennon, Mike Spinner, Phil Aller and Ben Wallace. The level bar has been raised and there are no easy rounds any more. Markus Braumann rode well but Phil had a next to perfect one minute run and made it through. Mike Spinner beat tech master Dave Osato who tried a few big tricks (720 - whip to 270 toothpick) during his run but needed more than a few tries to pull it. Ben Hennon went through because Tobias Wicke sat out his run. He's injured and hurting giving Ben Hennon an easy transfer. Mark "120 SMS" Koenig could not match Ben Wallace's non stop trickery on the grey mini. Ben had a few extra's for the crowd and flipped the spine and did three flairs back to back.

The bands have started playing but more and more people are checking out the BMX riding on the ramp. Semi finals are coming up. Stay tuned for a report or watch everything live on www.freecaster.tv

The first round of the T-mobile Extreme Playgrounds miniramp contest just took place. We’re semi live here. The vibe is good and the sun is here. Perfect because this round is called the Summer Session. It’s head to head today and this is how it went:

First heat: Mike Spinner vs. Mark Konig. It was close and some were disappointed that Mark Konig didn’t make it to the next round because his first run was killer and he did a lot of technical tricks but Spinner went off too and showed a 720 over the spine, tailwhip tire tabs, 3-whip ove the spine, 360 drop-in, nosebonk-360 turndown over the spine, a sweet 540 manual, invert, tailwhip, 1 handed x-down, 360, plus one-handed 360 x-down over the spine.

We got the results below.

One rider will make it through to the next round by SMS voting.

Round one results:

The next rounds of the contest will be shown online.

We're at the T-mobile extreme playgrounds Summer Session (no we din't make up that name) in Pinneberg, Germany. 6 riders rode the qualifying session and three of them mad it to the finals with the seeded riders. Michael Sieren did hard tricks to make it through, Daniel Traeder rode very smooth, was all over the ramp, did some airs an some lip tricks to finish second. Benny Paulsen wishes he had more ticks but made it regardless. He was riding trails later on in the day and enjoyed that. Achim Kujawski finished fourth and did a street style 360 over the little box to flat. Yeah! 

Canadian Flatland pro rider Nathan Penonzek has a new project in the works: "I suppose you saw on TV the earthquake in Perú last week?? I was in that town last year on my way down to Chile, it was poor then, I can only imagine now. I have a plan, I want to raise money for a social project. As you know, my Quijote tour is still in the works, I will be on a boat to Colombia soon, I will organize two quick events there and in Ecuador."

Germany has two main BMX magazines. Zwanzig Zoll and Freedom magazine. FreedomBMX is already at issue number 76 and here's what's in it:
-News
-Dates
-Media
-How to build a schaufel
-PS The Champ Series
-Highway to Hill
-FISE
-Stevan interview
-People Store Tour
-Erfurt street jam
-Wiesbaden miniramp jam

The 2007 Mexican X-Games will take place at Sept. 7-9 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. We can make all kind of jokes here but I'm sure they've got things handled over there in Mexico. The invited riders list looks impressive on street as well as vert.

*BMX STREET*  
Ryan Nyquist United States
Edwin DeLaRosa United States
Van Homan United States
Will Love United States
Garrett Reynolds United States
Eric Holley United States
Aaron Ross United States
Jorge Olveda Mexico
Hector Garcia Mexico
Christian Balmaceda Argentina

Stephen Murray is receiving a lot of love from his BMX family and it's good to see that. He can use all the support out there and here are a few more things you can do to help.
-The Worchester jam that is coming up this weekend has a photo competition going on. Anyone can submit their pics of the jam and the best ones will make it in RIDE magazine. The pics will also be posted on a website so Stephen can look at them. Find all info on the image that Kung just sent.

Will Stroud of Nine to Five films finished up another Mirraco web video. It has a bit of San Francisco street riding as well as some contest footage. Riders in the new movie are Dave Mirra, Rob Wise, Mike Laird, Dave Rytell, Mike Spinner, Nigel Sylvester and Ryan Guettler. To watch the footage click this link which will take you to the Mirraco site. While you're up there, bookmark the page. There are daily updates going on. Stay on it. New 2008 Mirraco bikes will be released soon.

The best riders in the world: BMX riders Tobias Wicke, Ben Wallace, Mike Spinner, Ben Hennon and Dave Osato +++ live performances by The Hives, The Donots and Ohrbooten ++++ Ten of the best athletes in the world, as well as local stars, will pit their skills in competition against one another at the Summer Session in Hamburg. The unique nature of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds lies in the mixture of the sports’ stars and bands of the moment. And so with this in mind, The Hives have been confirmed as the headlining act. 

Hell On Wheels opened today at 463 King Street, Newtown, Australia. The shop is open from:
11am to 6pm. Tuesday and Wednesday,
11am to 8pm. Thursday and Friday,
10am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

We have all good BMX stuff as well as skateboards, DVD's and a huge range of clothing and shoes.