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Cycle Group, Inc. (CGI) is pleased to announce that BOX Components will be the official component supplier to the Dutch National BMX Race Team through the end of 2016. The powerful team is packed with some of the best up-and-coming talent on the international BMX scene. “The Dutch national team is one of the most professional and best organized national teams in the world. Not to mention they have some of the fastest riders around.

"We are really excited to be working with them and team director Bas de Bever,” said Toby Henderson, founder and executive director of CGI, BOX’s parent company. Henderson worked with de Bever previously when he owned VSI. 

This is the weekend of the USABMX Grand Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The racing world gathers to decide who are going to grab the #1 title plates on Sunday. HARO released their 2013 prototype frame at the Grands (photo after the break). Cliq is the name of the BMX racing parts by HARO bikes' so if you ever get your hands on that new frame, here's some parts to put on it.

The cover of the December 2012 / January 2013 issue of BMX Racer has made it in public through a Facebook post. It will be at the newsstands and bike shops on November 27th, so in a week from now. Issue three comes with a 16 page radical Christmas special and you can win 2 jerseys of Connor Fields.
The content: 7 PRO XL bikes get tested, from HARO to GT to SE, Kuwahara, Redline Pro Line, Redline FLight and a complete bike from Intense. Also 13 frames get presented plus 6 more pages with goodies to buy. BMX Racer was also present at the Roc d'Azur, the French version of Interbike. the magazine also pays a visit to the Orange track in California to see what BMX is like on that track.

Also there's a hommage to Kyle Bennett (RIP) and an interview with Tyler Whitfield. If that isn't enough, issue three has 2 big foldout posters for your wall.

ONE Bicycles is happy to announce their team will be sponsored by one of the greatest new BMX companies on the planet. BOX Components is the new brand that former BMX pro Toby Henderson brought alive. We’re proud to run the BOX components along with the PROMAX parts, which is also part of Cycle Group Inc. Just like ONE Bicycles, Toby and the people at Cycle Group Inc., have a passion for BMX. Toby has been helping ONE Bicycles for many years and this time he took BMX to another level with BOX Components and PROMAX. 

To know if a product works, the best way is to let the riders test it. The Elkay crew had a Leatt test session with the Dutch BMX young development team and Leatt employees tested some 2013 stuff themselves as well. The most impressive product from the test day was the new Leatt 3DF Bodyvest. Last year Leatt introduced the Chest Protector Lite for BMX use and everybody was positive about the best celling Leatt protector. In 2013 Leatt will introduce the new 3DF line

When races are won by a fraction of a second, reducing weight and drag without disrupting other functions can be the difference between first, and well, not first. The PowerBand S-Spec is a no compromise tire designed specifically to reduce drag and save weight up front. Ultra lightweight sidewall matched to low profile "speed strip" tread makes this the absolute lightest (and in our opinion, the fastest) front specific race tire in the world.

Specifications:
-PowerBand 20 x 1.85" S-Spec
-120 TPI Cyclex Casing

For 2013, Leatt redesigned its best selling off-road brace for improved comfort and fitment, better range of motion, more adjustability, and gave it a brand new name — the GPX Race brace. Formerly the Club 3, the Race brace has been reengineered to improve on all the features that made it the best-selling neck brace in the world.

Round two of the Stoppelcross series took place in Boekel. The wet weather during the week made it another tombola how the track would end up. After last week's mud fest, the track in Boekel held up perfect, and the sun came out even. Again plenty of (former) BMX riders made it to the Stoppelcross. We saw Raymon van der Biezen, Ivo van der Putten, Glenn van de Wetering, Harm van Brussel, Wilco Groenendaal, Stijn Nouwen, Govert Schonewille and plenty more.