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The National Bicycle League (NBL) is excited to renew their partnership with Underground Products (UGP) for the 2009 season. The two have joined forces to bring you the 2nd Annual UGP Open Series that will culminate with the UGP Open Championship at the NBL BMX Grand National on Labor Day weekend. As an official co-sponsor of the NBL, UGP will receive extensive promotion at National Series events including signage, a display booth and prize draws at all of the Elite series events.

It took some time but now the ProkopRider.net is back and way better and stronger than ever before. Every single race result since 2000, full 2009 schedule, tons of pics and videos, wallpapers, screensavers, various documents... just anything you could need is available at ProkopRider.net. This is the only place in the virtual World where you need to go for any info concerning Mr. Michal Prokop... Also, there is brand new secured download section for media

Haro has set up a MySpace account for the BMX race team with pictures from the ABA grand's that were last weekend in Tulsa Oklahoma where Haro's AA pro Khalen Young won the number 1 plate for the year! If you have a moment check it out.

History repeated itself this past weekend as Intense/BAWLS Pro Danny Caluag - the defending ABA AA-Pro Series Champ –wrapped up the season with a #1 Pro Cruiser win for the second year in a row at the ABA Grands in Tulsa, OK! "It feels so incredible to win another Cruiser title and I can't wait till next year." commented Danny.

In addition to his Pro Cruiser title, Danny finished in the AA-Pro Series Top 5 alongside Intense/BAWLS teammate David Herman who nabbed the #3 spot. It was a thrilling season for this dynamic duo who proudly sported BAWLS gear at all ’08 ABA and NBL Nationals!

“We congratulate Danny on his repeat win and we thank David for a truly exciting season! We are so proud to have these guys represent us and we look forward to Intense/BAWLS keeping in going in ’09!” said BAWLS Marketing Director Sabrina Gonzales.

Photo by: BMX Mania

Pro results ABA Grands, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
AA Pro - 1 Khalen Young 2 Mike Day 3 David Herman 4 Sam Willoughby 5 Danny Caluag 6 Brian Kirkham 7 Steven Cisar 8 Donny Robinson

Girl Pro - 1 Shanaze Reade 2 Dominique Daniels 3 Stephanie Barragan 4 Lauren Reynolds 5 Terra Nichols 6 Brittany Lounsbury 7 Krystal Hime 8 Courtney Tomei

Pro Cruiser - 1 Barry Nobles 2 Danny Caluag 3 Alan Hudson 4 Matt Baisley 5 Brandon Thomas 6 Billy Anderson 7 Todd Parry 8 Tyler Brown

Vet Pro - 1 Kenth Fallen 2 John Purse 3 Chad Street 4 Tim Dinger 5 Mike Gul 6 Dave Bittner 7 Paul Caldwell 8 Robert Harris

A Pro - 1 Josh Meyers 2 Corey Reid 3 Gavin Lubbe 4 Johnny Woodmansee 5 Masahiro Sampei 6 Logan Collins 7 Mike Larson 8 Jason Jewell

PRO Results Race Of Champions at the ABA Grands 2008:

AA Pro
1 Sam Willoughby 2 Joey Bradford 3 Danny Caluag 4 Kyle Bennett 5 Mike Day 6 Brian Kirkham 7 Randy Stumpfhauser 8 Cristian Becerine

Girl Pro
1 Shanaze Reade 2 Dominique Daniels 3 Alise Post 4 Arielle Martin 5 Lauren Reynolds 6 Stephanie Barragan 7 Krystal Hime 8 Terra Nichols

A Pro
1 Josh Meyers 2 Gavin Lubbe 3 Vance Weisendanger 4 Sean Storms 5 Matt Kelty 6 Logan Collins 7 Johnny Woodmansee 8 Matt Tischler

Vet Pro
1 John Purse 2 Chad Street 3 Kenth Fallen 4 Tim Dinger 5 Mike Gul 6 Brian Lopes 7 Paul Caldwell 8 Eric Rupe

GT Bicycles, Redline and Intense are the big winners of the 2008 Golden Crank Awards,  a prestigious award with a lot of BMX racing history.
And the winners are:
-Rookie Pro – Denzel Stein (Redline)
-Pro of the year – Mike Day (GT Bicycles)
-Bike of the year – Intense
-Team of the year – Intense / Phantom / Ontrac

BAWLS Guarana today announced their sponsorship of the #1-ranked NBL Elite Woman Stephanie Barragan for the 2009 BMX racing season! "I'm so excited to be a part of the 2009 BAWLS Team," said Stephanie. "I am looking forward to Bouncing with BAWLS on top of the podium at next year's national races!"

Stephanie, a native of Montclair, CA, began racing at 7 years old at her hometown track - Riverside BMX. Now a seasoned rider, Stephanie is the NBL Elite Women's Champion after winning the title the 2008 NBL Grand Nationals in Louisville, KY!

As a BAWLS-sponsored rider, Stephanie will take on 2009 ABA and NBL national races in a one-of-a-kind BAWLS-branded helmet while enjoying an endless supply of BAWLS Guarana drinks, including her favorite flavor - G33K B33R! 

When Supercross BMX released it's line of Race Ready Completes, the Icon Series earlier this year, it was available immediately in the U.S.A through it's Authorized Dealer Network, and through J&R Bicycles for mailorder.
But it was tough for BMXers outside of the USA to get their hands on one of the Supercross Icon completes, well after 6 months of working with an international Distributor network, they are now available on almost every Continent World Wide. 

The United States Olympic Committee announced BMX cyclisDonny Robinson (Napa, Cailf.) as its male Athlete of the Month for October. Robinson won the overall 2008 UCI Supercross BMX World Cup title in October. After finishing second in the final round of the World Cup in France on Oct.11, Robinson secured the top spot in the final World Cup standings. Another BMX cyclist, Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah), finished third in the women's voting after