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The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, today announced the roster of athletes that are pre-qualified for the 2008 AST Dew Tour. The Panasonic Open kicks off in Baltimore, June 19-22 at Camden Yards Sports Complex. Athletes are pre-qualified based on their rankings at the end of the 2007 AST Dew Tour season. Additionally 3-4 wild cards per discipline have been selected. Athletes who are not pre-qualified may compete as Open Qualifiers at the Panasonic Open to earn a spot in the preliminary rounds. The full list of pre-qualified athletes is as follows: 

BMX Park
Daniel Dhers
Mike Spinner
Scotty Cranmer 

United Bike Co are proud to announce that in conjunction with Rampworx skatepark in Liverpool, England, Nathan Williams & Drew Bezanson are going to be doing some rider clinics on July 22nd - 24th.

This is a chance to come and hang with the dudes and do a bit of riding, Check out the attached flyer for more details, and visit the Rampworx site to register!

Hit the Rampworx site to register!

More info on the riders and the clinic HERE

Did we mention it's free?

Did you ever ride on a salt mine? Okay, thought so. Alejandro Caro did and we checked with him on the experience of riding on salt. Are you salty?

What was that session on the salt mine all about? Where is that place? 

Crupi World Team claims 4 gold and 2 bronze medals at the UCI World Championships in Taiyuan, China. W1 12-year old Hannah Sarten of New Zealand worked hard to keep her title and take her place on the top of the podium. After a slow gate Hannah came into the first turn in 3rd place, but had the gold in sight. She stayed tough through the second straight, held a low line, went for the pass in the second turn taking over and holding the lead to the finish line. Hannah went on to take the gold in cruiser on Saturday for a first in the history of New Zealand!

Merle Van Benthem followed Hannah making sure the Crupi girls would shine. Merle came out of the gate and spent most of the race in second place. Coming in to the third turn she decided it was time to put her riding skills to use jumping the entire technical straight she took the lead and kept it all the way to the gold. She followed with a gold in cruiser where she left the gate in first place and never looked back holding it to the finish line assuring the Crupi girls with two double-doubles for the weekend! 

Check out this month’s issue of BMX Today for a hilarious look at BAWLS Pro riders and the guys at the NBL unleashing their inner G33K! This month’s insider cover ad features pro riders Matt “Ruckus” Pohlkamp and Rachel “Thunder” Smith giving a shout out to their new favorite drink – BAWLS G33K B33R! NBLers Kevin O’Brien, Justin Travis, Jason Schefelbein and Jess Moore also got “G33K’D out” for a photo shoot, chugging back on G33K B33R with their pants worn extra high!

Haven’t tried G33K B33R yet? You can find G33K B33R nationwide at Sheetz stores, CompUSA, Microcenter and 7-Eleven. The BAWLS Sampling Team will also hook racers up with G33K B33R in cans when they launch later this summer!

For more BAWLS BMX news, photos and sponsorship info, visit 

Fresh Fish video premier in Seattle on 16 June next. $5 ADMISSION AT THE DOOR | $10 FRESH FISH! DVD’S THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT FILMED AND EDITED: BY BRIAN CHACE FEATURING: ANDREW LONGSTREET, CASEY ZAUTKE, MICHAEL CHACE, JOSEPH PENNELL, SCOTT FULLER, TONY ARCHIBEQUE JR. AND TREVOR BEBEE. GIVEAWAY’S BY REVOLUTION CYCLES

8:30pm start time at EVO in Fremont:
122 NW  36th St., Seattle, WA 98107.
Phone: 206.973.4470

Beloe have got some new models coming out next month. The three new shoes are: The Miguel, The Motto by Jim Cielencki and The Stitch in the colorways shown. Main man Brian Osborne and the Beloe team have been blogging away on the Beloe Blogspot site so if you are interested how things are going with the brand and Jim Cielencki, Nathan Williams, Karl Poynter, and Kevin Kiraly:

BMX Australia was today advised from the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) that Australia have qualified the highest number of BMX athletes to contest the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Australia now receives the maximum number of riders permitted which is three men and two women. Five Australian BMX riders will now compete in Beijing in August. By the end of the qualification period which ended last week following the World Championship in Taiyuan, China, Australia’s points ranked them second in the men’s nation ranking and third in the women’s.