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Name: Tom Kuiper
Age: 16
Hometown: Hengelo, Netherlands
Hook-ups/Sponsors: My parents

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-Spot to ride: trails & streeeet
-BMX video: Ian Schwartz
-Website: fatbmx.com
-Web video: Ian Schwartz Sunday
-Food: pizza pizza, pizza from Italia
-Travel destination: Spain
-Riders to ride with: Dyon Planting, Scary Jeff, Danny ten Boske, Tyson ten Vaarwerk and more

More than 80 Pro and Am riders participated in the T-Mobile Local Support Street Challenge on October 17th and showed amazing BMX riding to a large audience at the Tretlager Halle in Emmering near Munich.

The pro class riding was at the highest stage: With real bangers like superman flips, flipwhips, 360 bars to whip as well as some techy tricks the riders raised the riding level and atmosphere at the indoor bike park with every single run. In the end Czech Agang team Ondra Slez and Zdenda Pesck took the win by a narrow margin in front of the Czech-Austrian Red Bull duo Michael Beran and Senad Grosic. The reason for their victory was a top-notch team performance including a flair tailwhip by Ondra Slez whilst his team buddy Zendra Pesck did a perfectly timed wallride under him. With their prize, spot support worth € 4.000, team Agang has now the ability to strengthen the BMX infrastructure in their home country. Sven „Sprosse“ Lehmann and Tino Schnecke from Berlin took the 3rd place. 

Sidewall Distribution is proud to announce the addition of TSG Safety Gear to their line of distributed brands. “TSG offers a large line of helmets, pads, bags to apparel, including special products that are geared towards women and children. TSG will enhance our already great line of brands and product that we offer," says Sidewall owner Mark Owen.

Founded in 1988 by German vert skateboarder Titus Dittman, TSG's main objective was to develop quality safety gear that protected the user from injuries without restricting their movements. Now 21 years later, TSG’s headquarter and design lab is located in Switzerland and their range of products includes helmets, pads, bags and

Name: Thomas Ruissen
Age: 19
Hometown: Doesburg, near Arnhem
Hook-ups/Sponsors: No hookups yet

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-Spot to ride: Meker 3 (?) skatepark, Skateland, and now that I 

For the time being Eindhoven has an indoor place to ride. We've got to thank Klaas and Pim van den Bos for that. So even when it gets cold and starts raining in the next few weeks, you've got an indoor location in Eindhoven city to work on your skills. An opening jam is coming up. We fired over some questions to Pim and here's what he had to say.

You and your dad have been lobbying for years to get an indoor place in Eindhoven. It looks like you have a place this winter. Is it a perfect situation?
Pim: Actually it’s far from perfect but we didn’t have any indoor location in this area so it’s a good start. The park is located in an old Philips machine factory exploited by a foundation called ‘Straatcultuur en –sport’ (streetculture and –sports)and they called it ‘The Building’. My dad and I had started a foundation called ‘BMX Freestyle’ to fight for an indoor place in the area of Eindhoven (areacode: 040). Since our foundation was the only party working together with ‘Straatcultuur 

Rich was responsible for the 3 trailers leading up to the event and has once again given his slightly left of centre tweak to the 2 days of insane riding 200 ft under quaint English countryside that was the Nike 6.0 Tunnel Jam. With the first edit hitting over 2m views in a fortnight we’re pretty sure you saw, or at least heard about, some of the crazy lines that got thrown down by the likes of Garrett Reynolds, Bas Keep and Drew Bezanson. Now the dust has settled, we’ve cleaned up and it’s your turn to give the Nike 6.0 Tunnel a run for it’s