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The NBL's Elite National Series now heads to Florida for back-to-back weekends in Sarasota and Orlando. In addition to the standard NBL payout, Day 1 of Orlando will serve as the last race in the Elite CHECK-POINT chase. 

Extreme sports lovers will have an mandatory appointment this mid April with the first round of the BMX Supercross World Cup, sanctioned by the UCI. The Juan Carlos I Auditory will hold this espectacular competition, in which all the best riders of the world will take part. An incredible show of ligths, and music will complete this espectacular event. The best urban music, hip hop, Freestyle exhibitions, Bike Trial and Half Pipe will amuse everybody between rounds. The competition will take place in a dirt track especially designed for this event. 

BAWLS Guarana, the Official Energy Drink of the NBL, today announced a sponsorship deal with NBL Elite riders Matt Pohlkamp and Rachel “Thunder” Smith and NBL Expert rider Tony Lehman for the remainder of the 2007 NBL season.

Matt, Tony and Rachel will rely on the refreshing, caffeinated taste of BAWLS Guarana as they race their way to an NBL championship! 

The American Bicycle Association is proud to announce the addition of Greg Leasure to the ABA Track Director Department. With the recent increase in both membership and tracks the ABA is excited that Greg has accepted a position as Track Director. The ABA Track Director Department is responsible for growing the sport at the grass roots level and offering all aspects of service and support to ABA tracks. Greg comes to the ABA with a wealth of knowledge and experience. He has been involved with the sport of BMX since the 1980’s and still races today in both class and cruiser. Greg is also one of ABA's top national officials. ABA President, Clayton John said this of the recent hire, "We are very excited to welcome Greg to our team. I am confident that he will be a great addition to the ABA and the tracks will benefit from his professionalism and experience in the sport." Greg said, “I am thrilled about this opportunity and look forward to building relationships with ABA tracks and offering them superior customer service and support.”

Round 4 of the 2007 NBL Elite Points series was held this past weekend in Boulder City, Nevada. The Nellis BMX Track is one of, if not the best BMX track in the NBL track list and this event had the making of a history making weekend: an all star International field of the world best Men's and Women's Pros and amateurs, UCI and NBL Pro points, history making National attendance for an NBL West Coast National, and perfect race weather.

AA PRO
Danny "Easy Money" Caluag – Intense/Socko – 4
Cristian Becerine – Free Agent - 2
Mike Day – GT Bicycles - 1
Javier Colombo -- SE Bikes -1

Woman’s PRO
Alise "The Beast" Post – Formula/Action Sports - 4
Krystal Hime – Supercross/O’neal - 2
Kayle Gaddis -- Bizarro - 2 

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On April 1st, 2007, BAWLS Guarana will launch exclusive BMX 12-packs at CompUSA stores nationwide to promote NBL BMX racing among BAWLS fans everywhere! The 12-packs will feature the BAWLS Guarana BMX mascot offering first-time BMX racers a free race & 30-day NBL 'Test Ride' membership at their local NBL track. The 12-pack program will put over 25,000 BMX 12-packs on CompUSA shelves and is the first partnership of its kind for BAWLS Guarana - the new Official Energy Drink of the NBL! 

The NBL National Elite Series already has six exciting races in the books and two of the most important events are coming up in Boulder City, NV February 24 & 25. NBL's reigning champions find themselves in opposite situations. In Elite Women action, Redline's Kim Hayashi has stretched her winning streak to four and finds herself at the top of the standings while on the Men's side Formula's Donny Robinson is ranked 8th going into Boulder and has only one win to his credit. GT's Joey Bradford and Amanda Geving both find themselves in command of the Junior classes while Redline's Jason Carnes tops the Masters.

Round 4 of the 2007 ABA Pro race events took place this past weekend Oldsmar, Florida. With all the other crazy race fans headed off to Daytona for some car race, the real race was going on for the BMX racers just outside of Tampa. Saturday had some great weather conditions for the racers, but Sunday was a totally different day with rain overnight and wind during the event on Sunday. Here is how the guys finished up:

Randy Stumpfhauser has been training hard for the past few months so he might now have been at his fastest at the last few races, but as you can see from history, Randy has been the most consistent Pro in BMX racing for the last 4 years. Oldsmar went very well for Randy as he would finish up 4th in AA Pro on Saturday and 2nd in AA on Sunday.