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A new law was passed in the United States August 14, 2008 that would add testing for lead to thousands of items that had never had to be tested before. This came about as a result of toys being imported in to the U.S. from China earlier in the year with high levels of lead in the paint and product used to manufacture these toys and the Congress and President Bush charged the Consumer Product Safety Commission with protecting children in the U.S. from this danger.

The American Bicycle Association hosted the Silver Dollar Nationals in Reno, NV. The weather this year couldn't have been outside the Arena. Temps in the low 50`s during the day made for a most excellent weekend. This HUGE event was 291 motos strong and the event went off without a hitch! The racing at the Silver Dollars event was THE first event of the 2009 season!

Those auto-players are annoying so we posted them on a second page. Videos are good though.

The 2009 Simpel Session was a good one. The riders that turned up made a good show, the crowd was on fire and the City of Tallinn parties all night long. The 09 course had loads of flatbanks and rails which gave the riders something to work with, at least if you were into these type of obstacles. We have collected some photos of the finalists and will use the captions to explain more. You probably saw everything on the net already but if you missed that,

Results BMX contest in Marina Mall in Kuwait city:
1 Mansour Mohammed
2 Ali Amir Deree
3 Yousef Al-Yagout
4 Khaled Al-Khalaf
5 Yousef Yagoub Yousef 

British born Ben Hennon makes the step up from the local UK team to join the ranks of the Vans European BMX team. Ben showed his skills not only on the recent Off the Wall UK BMX tour and obviously caught the eye of TM Andy Zeiss: “I know Ben for a long time and it came to a point where it wasn’t a question anymore if he could step up his career at Vans. I am stoked to have him on the EMEA team now.”

Best known as a park rider, Ben has been progressing his talent on all terrain and is now as at home on the street as he is on dirt jumps. Renowned for the biggest airs known to man Ben is a rider that pushes hard from the moment he steps on the bike. Sponsors: Vans, Eastpak, King Kong, Mpora,

Kevin Kalkoff to the European BMX team

Hailing from Annecy (France), Kevin has been part of the Vans

Simpel Session BMX Street Results
1 Garrett Reynolds 19 USA Toms River, NJ 371
2 Gary Young 25 USA San Diego, CA 358
3 Dennis Enarson 17 USA San Diego, CA 355
4 Rob Darden 27 USA Greenville, NC 346
5 Ben Hennon 22 UK Crook 345
6 Bruno Hoffman 15 GER Siegen 342
7 Björn Mager 23 GER Berlin 333