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With a tally of 3-3-1 in Saturday’s AA-pro mains, DENZEL STEIN scored a sweet victory in Bakersfield at the ABA U.S. Nationals. With lane 1 for the third and final main, he’d mumbled under his breath - “I think I can win this one.” Sure enough, Stein laid down his horsepower and took it from start to finish, while Olympic Gold medalist and low-points leader Maris Stromsberg got squeezed out of contention and wound up 8th. Denzel’s 7 points were good enough to place him ahead of rookie pro Nic Long, and gave Denzel his first AA win of the ’09 season - and the 3rd AA victory in his two year Pro career.

New National BMX Champions were crowned today in action packed finals in Brigadoon in Perth. Canberra's Caroline Buchanan claimed her first elite national BMX Championship win in a spectacular race. Buchanan started strongly however a passing move by Sunbury's Lauren Reynolds changed the lead mid-race. Reynolds came unstuck and crashed allowing Buchanan to take the title. Second was defending champion, Melissa Mankowski from Queensland while Ziggy Callan from Victoria placed third. Young Perth rider, Kirsten Dellar placed fourth and was the first junior woman while fellow WA rider and BMX Olympian, Nicole Callisto, finished seventh. A disappointed Reynolds walked her bike across the finish line with the disappointment showing on her face.

The elite men's race had some action but the lead was secure

After another wild weekend of racing at the Easter Classic, the 2009 NBL Elite Series is headed to the West and the chase for the coveted NBL National Title is more exciting and entertaining than ever. Next up on the stage, the highly anticipated, All-American National, held at FBX in Fresno, California and it promises to set the stage for the 2nd half of the series. Free Agent's Maris Strombergs, the Olympic and World Champion, continued his winning ways at the Easter Classic winning Elite men both days. His team mate and 3-time NBL Elite Champion, Kyle Bennett, made his first NBL appearance of the year and ended up

The final round of the Hog’s Breath Café National BMX Series in Brigadoon late yesterday saw local favourite, Bunbury’s Lauren Reynolds, win the junior women’s race claiming the overall series. The 17 year old had won six of the seven rounds in total and was also expecting to do well in her national title race on Saturday. Second was Townsville’s Rachel Bracken. In the elite women, Perth’s BMX Olympian, Nicole Callisto was outclassed by Caroline Buchanan 

SINZ is proud to announce the arrival of the Limited Edition White Alloy Stealth Fork, the most technologically advanced Pro Alloy fork for BMX racing. Our Pro R & D team developed and refined the Stealth Fork from the ground up for over a year to make sure we can bring you the best fork in BMX and it has been a huge success with riders placing 2nd and 3rd at the Olympics and the last ABA and NBL #1 Pro are running SINZ Stealth Forks. 

The American Bicycle Association has been in the business of BMX racing since 1977. That's 32 years of BMX history in the making. We've decided to make all the years of ABA BMX race photos available online through ababmxphotos.com.

This is a very long work in progress and the older archives take a lot more time to work on. Basically if we were to have every single photo uploaded on the site we would have over 400,000 photos to look at. So as you can see, we have our work cut out for us for sure. As of now we have every photo uploaded on our ababmxphotos.com through the 2004 - 2009 seasons, with some older events sprinkled for some added ABA BMX history. Our goal is to have every picture from every ABA BMX National Series event uploaded on this site. 

ABA CEO, BA Anderson stated "Many of the photos we shoot at each national event are never used in publication or seen by the public. To say that we have an abundance of photos is an understatement.

It didn't take the newly formed REDLINE-CHALLENGE Team long to show their strength; taking the Factory Team wins both days at ABA's Great Northwest nationals. Now in their 21st year of existence, the CHALLENGE TEAM, based out of Northern California, has teamed up with REDLINE Bicycles for 2009 and beyond. This new Factory combo combines thee longest lasting "privateer family" teams with the original BMX brand- which is bound to make it a force to be

Just finished watching the late night sports news on national TV which had the announcement of Bas de Bever being the new National Coach for Track Cycling. Next to coaching the BMX riders Bas will still be running the BMX program but is probably getting some assistance there. Congrats and good luck Bas. Let's give the Brits and the Aussies some heat on that velodrome.

Results Round 3:
1. Sifiso Nhlapo RSA
2. Raymon van der Biezen NED
3. Jordy van der Heijden NED
4. Martijn Scherpen NED
5. Ivo van der Putten NED
6. Rob van den Wildenberg NED
7. Damien Godet FRA
8. Manuel De Vecchi ITA

Results Round 4:
1. Sifiso Nhlapo RSA
2. Jordy van der Heijden NED
3. Tyler Brown USA
4. Arnoud Dubois BEL
5. Lukas Tamme CZE
6. Martijn Scherpen NED 

Australia is pleased to announce Tioga is the official tyre and saddle supplier to the Cycling Australia BMX Elite Development squad (EDS) for 2009-2010 BMX season.
“With the Elite Development Squad riders raving about the fast rolling Tioga PowerBlock tyres and superior grip in corners, it was imperative that we have Tioga as an Official Supplier to the program,” said Wade Bootes, Cycling Australia BMX Head Coach. “It is important the riders use products they know will work and that help produce results for themselves and the program."