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This was one of those casual California gatherings that remind me I live in paradise. Bob Haro, Jeff Zielinski, Kurt Rasmussen and a handful of other bike inspired artists shared their creations with us at Go,Rilla in Santa Ana, California. The 3 level art gallery/toy boutique displayed some great work. I was really impressed with this Lego block bike. There are actually two versions, a life size (half Lego, half actual BMX) and another, approximately half that size, that’s 100% blocks. If the toy building blocks didn’t take me back to my youth, then talking with Haro did. The stories behind some of his pieces 

Paul Howe over in the UK sent over some shots and I was impressed. We're showing you some work here but you should also check out his Flickr page for more good stuff. Paul's interested in any sort of photo job so if you want to change things up and go with Paul, feel free to contact him. He's down with BMX so that is a big help.

43 Bolts have new (Hollow Bolts) for metric stems these new bolts are heat treated and harden to ensure superior strength for extreme and normal riding conditions. And the bolts also have a (Zinc plating) to help fight harsh weather conditions and our hollow bolts fit most of the (New Style) small hloe metric stems so! don't worry kids these bolts kick ass. Here is a list of color ways the Hollow bolts are available in High Lighter Yellow, Bright Orange, Bright White, Burgandy, Purple, Mint Green and Brown. And there is aldo one last step the new 43 Hollow bolts go through and that's the Powder Coating process which is our "Super Bake" process which helps prevent paint chipping when installing your stem bolts. Now go ride your bikes and have some fun.

Airing Tuesday, August 12, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, Ricky Carmichael and Allan Cooke are featured on “The Daily Habit.” We’re on the rooftop of the Standard Hotel for DC Week, and today’s guest is the only motocross rider to have a perfect season, DC team rider Ricky Carmichael. Plus, he invented the Backflip Superman Seat Grab, 

The 2008 NBL Grand National of BMX begins only 8 days following the sport’s thrilling debut at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China and once again, the highly-coveted NBL Pro titles will be decided on Labor Day weekend. Kicking off this year’s program on Friday, August 29, the pros will duke it out during the War of the Stars/UGP Open Championship to earn one last valuable national score. 24 hours later they will race their way into the history books at the 2nd Annual NBL Pro Spectacular on Saturday evening. A growing number of

Action Sports Coverage Generates Audience Growth Across ESPN's Multi-Media Platforms; Increase in Television Viewership & Online Traffic The 14th annual X Games was held in Los Angeles, at both The Home Depot Center and STAPLES Center, July 31 - August 3 with record-breaking milestones on the course as well as among consumers via both television and online. X Games 14 was ESPN's most-viewed X Games among households, men 18-49 and 25-54 as well as persons 18-49 and 25-54. In addition, ABC's X Games 14 was up double digits year-to-year among households - an increase of 14% overall from X Games 13.

"X Games 14 surpassed all our expectations both on the field and across all of our global multi-media platforms, reaching a record number of fans", said Rick Alessandri, Managing Director, X Games Franchise. "It's clear that fans around the world have embraced these athletes and our events". 

We are BMX lovers from all over this planet they call earth. Once a year the X-Games take place in the USA. They invite some of the better riders to compete for medals and big bucks. In the USA this can be followed live on TV but in the rest of the world people have it rougher to check all the latest footage from the X-Games. That is until Freecaster.tv got involved. You can now watch replays of all the BMX riding, FMX riding, skateboarding, the whole 9 yards.

WeThePeople has been working on several new side projects to finish off the two new coming signature frames from Ashley Charles (a2b) and Chester Blacksmith (sleepless). Both using a process that allows us and the manufacturer to get some clever stuff in there. These drop outs are a result of that and will appear on

Harry Main from Liverpool, UK, is the newest teammember from King Kong. Marcin Stypulkowski talked to him and asked him couple of questions and they are down with each other. When he asked him if he still goes to school he just answered: "No man full time pro." And thats how he rides: big and burly.

We like him and you will see more of him at a contest near you. Thanks and congratulations.