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Mongoose rider Cam White was invited to attend the Happy Valley Park Contest in Shenzhen China during May 1 - May 5. Here's how it went down in Cam's own words:  After four days of rain the contest was finally finished. It was supposed to be a four day event but due to weather conditions it was postponed and the contest was shaved down to a two run contest with no finals. There were some really good riders from Thailand and China. One of the kids had every trick possible: 720's, flairs and double whips but it sucked because he crashed in both runs. He would have won the entire contest if he hadn't crashed.

Pete Radivo and Brendon Jones made it out from Australia. Both of those kids have some amazing talent and know how to throw down. Pete did some awesome tailwhip variations including a huge x-up transfer in the Best Trick Contest. Brendon did the biggest flip turndown I have ever seen.

Take the Forte Brothers, Robin Fenlon, Bas Keep and Jon Taylor and put them on the ramp at a car show and this is what you get. Raya Films made a ten minute movie of it and it shows pretty much what was going on; Crazy stupid cars with stereos that are way too loud. In the clip, the BMX-ers talk shit on the Kev's but it also shows some good riding. There's no huge crowd needed to fire up the session when the riders themselves are having fun and are stepping up their riding. The decent size spined mini gets treated with flairs, huge airs, 180's, hurricanes, rollback to tailwhips, 360-s and such leaving the passers by confused on what they just saw.

I got a call this morning, from my friend Ben Hucke (we had done some BMX demos last winter in Wyoming). He let me know he was in the area and an hour later the session was on at Thrill-Zone. Lots of amazing riding went down and we all had a great time. Smooth, awesome and big were the words the Adio team used to describe the 18,000 square foot skate park. To say they liked it wouldn't do it justice, they loved it! 

Super sized SE head badges are now available. Do you want that perfect, custom, last bit of a cool touch in your work room, office, bedroom, or living room? Well, if you are a true SE fanatic, then you MUST have one of these extra large (2ft x 2ft), aluminum pressed, 3-D, SE metal tacker signs. They are made out of aluminum and are an exact replica of the “SE Bikes” head badges that come on the ’06 line of SE bikes. And check out all those normal sized “SE Racing” head badges below the gigantic one! Yup, that’s right. Those are authentic “SE Racing” head badges that are now available to all of the SE collectors out there. 

We don't have the intention to put every video trailer online here at FATBMX but when Josh Suhre made us aware of the project he's working on in Ohio, we checked if we could run it on the site. The video is scheduled to be out this summer so that gives the Ohio crew some more time to do some outdoor riding. The footage they've collected so far is amazing.

Check for yourselves right here: [url=http://www.tcbmx.net/fromnothing.mov]From Nothing video trailer[/url]

08 May - Chris Rye 1972
10 May - Ron Kimler 1971
10 May - Mike O’Connell 1973
11 May - Cory Nastazio 1978
11 May - Jason Enns 1976
12 May - Kevin Jones 1967
12 May - Thomas Goring 1971
13 May - Mark Eaton 1969

On April 30th Tony Hawk, Mike Vallely, Me, Bam, Ryan Dunn, and Carey Hart all took on the adventure of a lifetime. They began the 2006 Gumball 3000's race around the world in eight days. The car line-up went like this: Jeep Cherokee SRT-8 w/Viper engine: Tony Hawk, Mike Vallely, Rooftop,and Ryan Young. Bams Lamborgini: Bam Margera & Ryan Dunn. Carey Hart's Car was detained at customs in L.A. so he got a Porche Cayanne when he got to London. To track these cars in real time go to [url=http://gumball.alk.com/default.aspx]The Gumball 3000 site.[/url]

Come check out the UARTS 2006 Industrial Design show at BASEKAMP gallery (723 Chestnut 2nd floor above Morimoto) Philadelphia PA on Saturday May 6th 6-10pm. Also check out the state of John Muray's proposal for BMX parks in the city of Philly. Drinks will be flowing and fun will be had.

After party at 221 S. 12th st. apt 309s (BYOB).

This is an invitation to the opening of our new spot called: "Venushügel". If you fancy riding dirt in Cologne, we will hope to see you at our spot this Saturday at 14:00hr. We're meeting at the Lidl/Aldi parking place at the Merheim Olpenerstrasse at 2pm and  will then cruise over together to Venus. Don't forget to bring your bike. Petrus will give us sunshine.

If you want to check it out, call Atze Etzold for directions.