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Name: Rob van den Wildenberg
Age: 25 (I am getting old!!)
Hometown: Valkenswaard, The Netherlands
Sponsors: Redline, Rabobank, Troy Lee Designs, Shimano, Swatch, Paul's Boutique

You have been riding different bikes over your career, from Webco's to MCS bikes, to Free Agent and now Redline. Is it easy for you to adjust to a new bike or do they make the frame in your personal geometry?
Rob: Yes, I had some different bikes in the past, but normally I adjust easily to a new bike. Because I am a tall person, I ride with an extra long stem. That's actually the only special thing on my bike.

Dave McDermott has two hand painted "Meridian" sprockets ready for the taking. There was a total of three, but back in October some dude decided to steal it from the Madera table at Interbike... Here is the contest: "Please submit a piece of art work that you have personally created. There is no piece too big or too small. There is no media restrictions so it can be a painting, a drawing, or even a sculpture. The only requirement is that it has to relate to bmx and include the madera logo. You must submit a scanned image or a photo by Thursday, January 31st."

Please submit entries to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Airing Wednesday, January 16, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, BMX pro Dennis Enarson will be on the show. He’s one of the most talked about riders in BMX and Enarson hits the Habit to tell us where he honed his sick bag of tricks. Plus, take a look back at Dennis in action on the FUEL TV show “New Pollution”. And, Jordan Morris takes the celebs to driving school at the launch party for EA’s new game, 

Ben of WestOzBMX snapped this shot of these girls hanging out at a skatepark in West Australia. It's summer over there so they wear less clothing than the ladies that are stuck in wintermode. They're on BMX bikes too so perfect for today's FATBMX Pin-Up section.

Mike Spinner and Ryan Guettler will make some shop appearances and will ride some sessions over in Australia at the end of this month. They will be visiting the following places:

January 21st - Brisbane
1pm, Cyclescene store visit
3.30pm, For The Riders store visit
4.30pm, Demo @ Fairfield Skatepark

We received a comment on our myspace site from Docks Video who posted a new Stefan Lantschner Nike 6.0 BMX profile. This video is not a rushed 90 second clip but a well thought out video where Stephen hits six different spots over in Italy where he's based. Quality is good for Youtube and Stevan sure has style which made 

This Saturday 20 January the Boneyard is putting on another jam on Tattenhall rd. near Chester (England). It's the park where Owain Clegg, Alistair Whitton, Robin Fenlon and mentor Mad Jon had sessions on a regular basis. The jam will start at 3pm and stops at 9pm. After that it's a good idea to have some pints together as the

The Mirraco Black Pearl, Blend, Fivestar and Chocolate frames have become available. It was a long wait but now you can buy a frame that riders like Dave Mirra, Nigel Sylvester, Rob Wise, Mike Laird, Mike Spinner, Ryan Guettler and Dave Rytell ride. The top tubes range from 20.75 (Blend Lite) to 21" (Fivestar Lite and Chocolate) with the Black Pearl Lite frame in the middle of the two with a 20.8 Top Tube.

The Fivestar Lite model(pictured on the right) is ridden by Dave Rytell, has removable rotor tabs, U-brake mounts on the seatstays and weighs in at: 4.66 lbs. (for the Europeans and other metric system users, that's 2.12 kg).

Results ABA Silver Dollar National - Reno, Nevada
AA Pro
1 Danny Caluag
2 Khalen Young
3 David Herman
4 Bubba Harris
5 Warwick Stevenson
6 Tyler Brown
7 Josh Oie
8 Joe Szurek

A Pro
1 Denzel Stein
2 Jason Bennett
3 Liam Phillips

The new format of RIDEBMX has been well received. I haven't heard from anybody that they liked the old issues better. It feels like you've got something in your hands with the thicker paper ad the mat-finish makes sure it doesn't drop out of your hands and spill the coffee over the whole table. In the past I would flip through a magazine and looked forward to having a photo in the mag. These days I hope not to find a photo of myself in the mag because they usually are taken at the bar when things are going a bit wild. Issue 141 is one of those issues which has a party photo of Paul and I which we can't remember where it was taken (Keith?). The good thing is that we have a few kickass party photos of the editor himself so it's time for "payback". Find the photo at the bottom of the contents list. We've got some spares too......haha.