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Felt Bicycles is happy to announce the addition of Josh Betley to the BMX team. The deal came about pretty fast and TM Alan Foster cannot believe how smooth it all is going. Josh is a great guy and we hope to do a bunch of cool stuff together in the future.
Alan: "I am sure a lot of people with question the match up, just be patient we will work on some cool stuff together." 

The Hoffman Sports Association announced the second round of invites for the BMX Freestyle competitions for ESPN’s X Games 14, to be held July 29-August 3 in Los Angeles. Along with naming the final invites for the Park, Vert and Big Air competitions, the Hoffman Sports Association announced the increased field in Big Air to seven riders and the additional of two alternates for Big Air and Vert. The final round of invites for the last 4 spots in SuperPark will take place on or about July 1. Announcement to follow soon after. Invitees include:

Super Park – Full class will be 20 riders
Pre-qualified: 1. Daniel Dhers, 2. Scotty Cranmer, 3. Dave Mirra
Round 1 invites: 4. Morgan Wade 5. Ryan Nyquist 6. Gary Young 7. Dennis Enarson 8. Josh Harrington 9. Ryan Guettler 10. Mike Aitken 11. Chris Doyle
Round 2 invites: 12. Steve McCann 13. Brian Foster 14. Chase Hawk 15. Chad Kagy 16. Alistair Whitton 

Name: Asa
Age: 13
Hometown: Nederland
Sponsors: Nop

Frame: Simple Enigma
Fork: Odyssey Race
Bars: Slams 

Westgate City Center, located in Glendale, Ariz., will soon host professional action sports as part of a newly formed partnership with ASA Entertainment (ASA). ASA, the leader in action sports event, television and content production, will bring the fastest-growing sports genre in America to Arizona’s newest and most exciting urban development community. Beginning this fall, this partnership will provide action sports experiences several times a year, headlined by the stars who ride on ASA Entertainment’s Action Sports World Tour.

Westgate City Center, often called the ‘crown jewel’ of sports venue complexes, has virtually redefined the concept of super-regional destinations. It is the largest mixed-use development of its kind in North America and is anchored by the University of Phoenix Stadium, home to the Arizona Cardinals, Fiesta Bowl and Super Bowl XLII, and Jobing.com Arena, home to the NHL Phoenix Coyotes. 

Takuya started the year very well with a little trip in the north of Europe for the Simpel Session and then a lot of practice in various place of Japan. However, he got a bad injured falling hard from an opposite 360 at the Kobe trails and now he is out of riding for few months. He was also preparing a Jam at his local hand-made skatepark and now he is somewhere between unmotivated and depressed...The little video below is not very new but shows him riding his skatepark he put so much energy from his high school days to build, maintain and ride. We hope he will recover very soon from his injury because riding his skatepark without him is not good enough.

Thanks and take care,
Laurent

We're on our way to the RedBull Bikenight in Italy. It's a BMX/MTB event and the riders list this year looks impressive. We'll keep you posted from Italy if we can find a break in between eating pizza and icecream.
BMX ATHLETES – RED BULL BIKE NIGHT 2008:
-ALESSANDRO BARBERO, 25 - Ceva, ITALIA
-BEN HENNON, 22 - Newcastle, UK
-DANIEL DHERS, 23 - Caracas, VEN
-TOBIAS WICKE, 26 - Berlino, GER
-ARTHUR DIETRICH, 22 - Colmar, FR
-STEFAN LANTSCHNER, 24 - Bolzano, IT
-BRUNO HOFFMANN, 15 - Cologne, GER
-KEVIN KALKOFF, 21 - Annecy, FR
-AXEL JURGENS, 31 - Buenos Aires, ARG
-HARRY MAIN, 18 - Liverpool, UK
-COLIN MACKAY, 29 - Brisbane, AUS
-JURICA BARRAC, 19 - CRO

The BMX concete park in Larisa, Greece is finally ready. The park is equipped with lights for the night, no entry money required, just bring your helmet anytime you want to ride the park. Check the pics.

8 July  - Armen Djerrahian1969
11 July  - Vic Murphy 1970
13 July  - Achim Kujawski 1972
13 July  - Clint Millar 1974
13 July  - Christophe Dassié 1972
13 July - Morgan Wade 1983