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The Chenga 2 BMX Contest is Saturday August 19th. Practice and registration will begin around 10AM and the contest will start around 1PM. Entry Fees are $25 for Beginner & Expert, and $50 for Pro. Everyone must have a signed and notarized park waiver on file to enter, they can be downloaded from www.chenga.cc.

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Jeff

Well, here for another year again….X-Games XII is in town and the 405 freeway in L.A. is jammed. This year the Games were divided over 3 locations, which two of them were going to have some BMX history. My first stop on this (obviously) sunny Friday afternoon after a nice long week was to pick up the freshly pressed Media Pass at the Home Depot Center…this was the stadium where BMX Street, The Mega Ramp, Rally Racing, Skate Street and Super Moto was held… excited already, as little Subaru’s where drifting by at a ridiculous speed, while I make my way out to the Staples Center, which is where the 100ft + wide vert ramp was located, right next to the Freestyle Moto X area….and this is where it all went down this very night..

August 6, 2006   Los Angeles - Kevin Robinson soared to his second gold medal of X Games 12 with a victory in the first-ever BMX Freestyle Big Air competition at The Home Depot Center. Chad Kagy finished second to pick up his third medal of X Games 12 (gold - BMX Freestyle Vert, silver - BMX Freestyle Vert Best Trick). Allan Cooke finished third to take the bronze medal. Robinson, who won gold in the BMX Freestyle Vert Best Trick on Friday with the first double flair ever landed in X Games competition, took the Big Air gold with a backflip tuck no-hander to no-handed flair. "I'm psyched," said Robinson after his medal-winning adventures on the mega-ramp. "That's the biggest no-handed flair I've ever done in my life. I'm just glad I landed rubber-side down." 

While the X-Games were going on in Los Angeles, FATBMX visited the Motocross GP in Namur, Belgium. The place of the track is the exact same place where Paul and I did our first international BMX race back in 1980. The motocross track normally isn't there, they just fence off a track through the parc and have the race. I love Belgium. The race this weekend was special because Stefan Everts was able to win his first (out of 10) world titles in front of his own Belgian fans. He didn't disappoint and won his 99th Grand Prix of his career. The dude simply rules the MX1 class and calls it a day at the end of the year which I believe is a good move.

LOS ANGELES - August 2006 - Youth was served Saturday when New Jersey's Scotty Cranmer, the youngest BMX rider at X Games 12, grabbed the gold medal in BMX Freestyle Park. In doing so, the 19-year-old Cranmer (aka: The Bulldozer) improved upon his silver medal performance at last year's Summer X event and threw down the gauntlet for next year. Morgan Wade won the silver medal while Daniel Dhers rode off with the bronze. "This event is so awesome," said Cranmer following his victory. "The riding levels are out of this world. This course couldn't have been better. It was a good day."  Cranmer's winning run was a fluid masterpiece and included a tailwhip drop in, a double whip over the big hip, a 360 double whip over the step-up ramp and a front flip turn down over the step up.

Wade took silver with two pocket airs, a hip to the wall to a massive hip landing. Like Cranmer, the Tyler, TX native was complimentary of the world-class park course.

Los Angeles - August 2006 - A double flair may sound simple, but X Games 12 Men's BMX Freestyle Vert Best Trick gold medal-winner Kevin Robinson can assure everybody that its not. Robinson's double flair (a back flip into a cork screw) earned him the X Games gold medal that has eluded him until tonight, when he beat out silver medalist Chad Kagy and bronze medalist Simon Tabron. Fittingly the three-time BMX Freestyle Vert bronze medalist earned gold by landing a trick he's been chasing for years. "This was three years in the making - it's the end of a three-year-long day," said Robinson. "I took off and it felt light the whole way through until I hit bottom." Kagy, who earlier in the evening won gold in the BMX Freestyle Vert, tallied a second X Games 12 medal by landing a double tail whip flat spin. Tabron grabbed his second X Games 12 bronze medal with an Alley Oop No-Hand to Turn Down 540. Earlier in the evening Tabron won bronze in the BMX Freestyle Vert. "I'm happy to get third in the middle of all this mayhem," said Tabron. "The best thing is that everyone came up healthy. History was made tonight, and there were no casualties." 

LOS ANGELES - August 2006 - For the first time in nine years, the BMX Freestyle Vert medal podium is owned by someone not named Mirra or Bestwick. Chad Kagy edged fellow BMX legends Jamie Bestwick and Simon Tabron to take his first gold in BMX Freestyle Vert. The State College, Pa. BMX superstar electrified the STAPLES Center crowd with a run that topped stiff competition and was punctuated by a flat-spin bar spin flair, the first time the signature trick had been landed in competition. "All the pieces came together," said Kagy. "It was the right time and the right place. It definitely puts a huge smile on my face. I rode to the very best of my ability." Kagy's run also included a flat-spin tail whip and a superman seat grab flair. Fans will see more of the 27-year-old at X Games 12, as he will compete later this evening in BMX Freestyle Vert Best Trick and will also compete in BMX Big Air, new to X Games 12. 

On August 5th the Allcity Style Graffiti & Design exposition will open at the People's story in Cologne, Germany. Over 40 designers, graphic artists and graffiti artists (loomit, Boris Hoppek Viagrafik, Marok etc.) have worked on scaled versions of New York City Subway trains. On Saturday August 5th the opening takes place and Mr. Reissdorf is taking care of the beer and DJ Galaxyexpress 999 is taking care of the tunes. Opens at 12:00hr and will end around 21:00hr.

With the opening of the "Pivot" skate shop across the street, don't be surprised if there will be chaos in the Roonstrasse.

People's Store: Roonstr. 61 50674 Köln Tel:0221-5897790

www.peoples-store.de

X GAMES, LOS ANGELES — Cory Bohan rode to an unprecedented third-straight gold in BMX freestyle dirt at X Games 12 on Thursday evening at the STAPLES Center. The Australian native came into this year's competition as the only rider to win back-to-back BMX freestyle dirt gold medals. Following a winning run that included a no-handed, one-footer to tail whip, a one-footed table 360 and a bar-spin tail whip, he let the crowd know that he has no intention of letting up. "The three-peat is fantastic, and what to do now is keep winning," says Bohan. "The no-hand one-foot, to be able to put it into a run and hold it throughout feels unbelievable." 

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