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Spokesmen BMX Magasin, the magazine part of it, is no more. Trond Huso is calling it quits: "I tried to put the magazine in the magazine-shops, but no advertisers wanted to support the idea. There weren't really that many advertisers supporting the magazine either, and the project was mainly work an no money, and I've come to the conclusion that four years was enough.

The SuperCross season in the USA is in full swing. On the start in San Francisco will be: Yours truly. The Suzuki Crossover Challenge race brings athletes from different sports and celebrities together for a 5 lap race on the actual SX track in front of a packed stadium. 24 participants will be on the same type of bike (DRZ110's) and for most of us it's task to survive the 2 whoop sections. The race will take place on Saturday 29 January. I've only ridden a mini bike on dirt once and that was last Sunday on Paul's CRF50. Never touched a 110 in my life but I'm looking forward to the challenge. Wish me luck. The program looks like this:

The life of a ramp builder isn't always glory. Burned out tools, splinters in the eye, deadlines to meet, crappy weather and fighting the army. What? Nate Wessel flew to China to fix a vert ramp for an important contest. It must have been an important contest if they fly someone in from the USA to fix a ramp. When Nate worked on the ramp, the China army walked in and made him stop for whatever reason. Clever Nate decided to sneak in at 2am to finish the ramp but the China Army doesn't sleep and they surrounded the vert ramp. Imagine being in this position and all you want to do is fix a bloody ramp! Nate survived and was hired to do some building at the new Little Devil facility. Let me correct that, it's not "some building", the indoor wooden bowl stuff looks killer! For pics

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Ben Foakes has teamed up with Standard's Rick Moliterno and Jasmine O'Brien of FBR Ltd to organise the 2nd Front Brake Revolution video Jam! The Jam will take place at the end of March, in the soon to be deceased RAMPAGE Skatepark, Davenport, USA. Date: 18th 19th 20th March 2005 The DVD will be out Summer 2005 and will be called: "LEGEND" More info: Ben Foakes, Front Brake Revolution Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 7861 250 562

Props, the best of 2004. Props Visual, Ltd. P.O.Box 10 Stockton, IL 61085 U.S.A. We got this one in today. It's the best of the best 2004 Props issues. Props has been going strong for years and the 04 year-end DVD has cuts from issue 51 through 54. The bonus of this DVD is the 1994 Revisited....The Best of '94. Good for a history lesson. If you don't have the money for a Props subscription you should buy this DVD, it's the best value for money deal you can get. The Props 04 Year End comes with no Free stickers.

Contests and parties go hand in hand. A super contest without a party isn't great. A great party combined with a terrible competition doesn't win any awards either. Finding the perfect mix is the way to go. The Pop!Session in Tallinn was good in both respects. Team Holland (Barry, Martin, Bas, Mark, Souf) had arrived early on Wednesday and did not skip an opportunity to go out. Paul and I joined the crew on Friday. Last year we spent a lot of our evening time (and money) in some stupid discotheque. We did not have a clue where to go and in the end it worked out fine.

At FATBMX we received a press release from Mark Pettersson on his new bike company called: Yoghurt. It is with great pleasure that I would like to introduce our new bike company, Yoghurt. Our first production model will be the "Capital Athletics" complete bike. The market this bike is aimed at: "Our goal was to create a pro bike that would appeal to smaller riders in

The first editorial of the year will guide you through the new FATBMX set up. Most buttons have remained the same but some of the features have changed. Your start up page should be the Latest Article page. This shows the 5 latest articles posted on FATBMX and let me tell you, you better come back quick to read them all. The goal for 2005 is to bring you superfresh content. -All articles that are posted in the Latest Article page will also be stored under the buttons on the left. News will be stored in the Believe it, or not!? section, race articles under the (B)MX racing button, etc. One click will bring you to all the latest uploads per category.

The January issue of RIDE BMX came out and it's 180 pages FAT. If you read your magazines on the toilet I hope you're having the shits because you'll need quite some time to make it through issue #82. The new issue is titled the Do It Yourself issue and has a few articles on how to make your scene alive and kicking with the help of a shovel, broom and some cement. Josh Stricker gets the cover and an interview and there's reports from the Gravity Games, FBM Ghetto comp, Backyard Jam in Derby, an Orchid road trip and a Mike Taylor interview along with the regulars. RIDE #82 also features a new ad for FATBMX (yeah, it was time....) and look up the Standard ad for me. Now check the shirt that James Hitchcox is wearing. Cheers man!