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Forcefield Body Armour is stepping into the cycling scene and have Chris Smith testing out their product at the minute. Telling from the product picture, the pads look like they could work for BMX. In fact, they've got a whole line of protection gear that plenty of speedway, motorcycle racers, snowboarders and stuntmen use so why not BMX. Here's a little more info on the brand and if you're interested, get in touch with them. If protection gear helps you be back on your bike tomorrow instead of healing up, we'll give it our thumbs up.

FATBMX 2012 EVENT REVIEW: ONK, HELM TRAILS. It was the first time that a Dutch rider won the Open Dutch BMX Dirt Championships at the Helm Trails in Helmond, Netherlands. The Belgian riders had been the strongest the last two years but this time Desmond Tessemaker showed the Dutch have some dirt jumping skills too. The day kicked off with a bright sunshine and practice for all starting at 10am. The new trails were well received by pretty much everyone. Riders were impressed by the spot which put a smile on the faces of the locals who had been digging for months to get the spot ready in time for the event. Much respect. When practice and registration was over, Catfish got on the mic for the 13 and under class qualification runs on the tables in the middle of the dirt spot. With encouragement from the crowd 8 riders made it to the finals. Same went on for the 14+ group who each had two runs with the best run counting for a final spot.

After the qualification rounds the trails were brought back into

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