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Building on the success of last year's season, NBL BMX continues to grow in the Southeast and the Coyote Nationals will provide a great opportunity for Western riders to qualify for the NBL Grands. Amateurs need only 6 National scores plus the Grands to earn a NBL National number and two of those scores can come from NBL Regionals. With four more Nationals in the West (Las Vegas and Prunedale), it's easier than ever to qualify. NBL awards number plates to all qualified riders in the Expert, Novice, Rookie, Girls and Cruiser classes at the NBL Grand National each year. What more do you need? Here's 9 reasons to race it!

1. RACE AN AWESOME TRACK
- Estrella Mountain BMX is one of the best tracks in the country and it even has a sweet Pro Section. See for yourself at estrellamountainbmx.com.
2. GET TWO NATIONAL SCORES
- Did you know you only need 6 scores plus the NBL Grands

It's pretty incredible how much the print industry has developed. Not only can cars get a cool sticker design with logo's etc. but more and more photos are used to grab people's attention on the road. Now there's something new, photos on concrete! To present the patented technique Ralf Maier of Betonlandschaften has teamed up with artist Ira Marom for an exhibition which goes from 20-25 January 2009.
-Place: Deutschen Sport & Olympia Museum’.
-Times: 11am - 7pm daily.

Team Colony is about to hit the road over in Australia. They're teaming up with Forgotten bikes and have Vans finance the thing. Smart lads. They'll be bringing Ryan Guettler, Jaie Toohey, team chief Clint Millar, Josh Mete, Zac Miner, Jed Mildon, Alex Hiam and Liam Fahy-Hampton and loads of free goodies to give out at each stop.

On Christmas Day The Byke Project took it to the streets and donated a new bike and custom trailer to a local inner city resident named “Coffee”.  Coffee is one of the hardest working men in the neighborhood, who was well in need of a new bike and strong trailer to haul his cans and metal for recycling. The Byke Project documented the donation and edited a short video piece for all of their partners and contributors to see what they gave towards this X-mas.

REDLINE's "'08 Rookie Pro of the Year" - DENZEL STEIN, just got the cast off his arm from his ABA Grands Pro-Section "lawn dart" in Tulsa - and is all ready to kick off his first full year of AA-pro. Armed with already 2 double-A wins from last year, and now with a lucky No.5 plate on his Flight Pro XXL; Denzel plans on making a serious bid in 

The Snafu Online softgoods store will be open real soon. We showed some new T-shirt designs a little bit ago and there's three more to show you right now; the Dark Side, the Snakeskin and the Mini Bolts. Chances are that they will have these T-shirts available in your size when the store opens in the next few days so act quick.