Dude, a company has to work hard these days to promote a new T-shirt design. Steve Crandall had to dig to send us 5 photos so we would actually post a photo of their new T-shirt design. The crazier the better of course and Steve sent us the new DIG ad, the boys having fun at a fire, Derrick Girard doing a burn-out on his motorcycle and two photos of the actual T-shirt. Well, it's who they are and what they do. If you're into doing the same thing you might want to contact them to see if they've got some new shirts left. 
Friday night, March 21, there was a fire at the south end of the area where the BMX Jam ramps are being stored after the Toronto BMX Jam. Unfortunately, this was the area where 3 of the corners from the bowl were located so we have lost all 3 of those corners plus 2 – 3 foot quarters, the left hand side of the grind box and some tables. Few details yet as to who caused it, but judging from the amount consumed by the fire, it must have been a bit of a raging inferno for a while. Someone noticed and called the fire department – the fire department did a tremendous job of ensuring that the fire was 
Game over! Dirt Session's riders list is now complete! T-Mobiles Local Support Dirt Challenge allowed three non seated BMX athletes to qualify at the very last minute. Accompanied by two T-Mobile Wildcard winners they will rise to the occasion at T-Mobiles Extreme Playgrounds taking place on April 20th at Kraftzentrale of Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. BMX Dirt Jump will see the hungry young lions Benny Paulsen, Mike Buse and Aze Etzold take on top stars like Tobias Wicke and Ryan Nyquist. T-Mobile Wildcard goes to talented non-pro BMX-ace Christoph Deeg. Live music acts Jack Peñate from London, Swedens Punkrockstars Millencolin and Local Heroes Sportfreunde Stiller are ready to rock the house. MTV will cover the finals and Sportfreunde Stillers performance live, starting on 8 PM on April 20th! The starting field of the Dirt Session on April 20th at the Kraftzentrale of Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord is officially finalized.
The Mini-FAT-JAM is around the corner. On Saturday 29 March the Sugar Hills trails in Aarle-Rixtel will be the place to be for everyone who wants to get an early season trails session in. The trails have never looked better. There are some decent doubles for those who want to go crazy but there are enough tables and small jumps for everyone to give dirt jumping a try. The sandy surface makes for soft landings too so the crashes will be a bit more comfortable. 
It is possible now to register for the Braun CuZer tour. 25.000 Euros will be given out in this year's series. For you Americans, that's currently over $ 38.000,= USD for a three stop spine tour. Each event will award a total of 5.000 Euro and in addition the overall ranking will offer a total of 10.000 EUR. This year the two best scores out of the three contests count meaning you can go for an overall ranking with only doing two stops. Now show me them comps: 
Steve McCann and Simon Tabron did another write up for the Mongoose site to tell everyone who wants to know. McCann is putting a new bike together that is even brighter than the orange one he rode in 2007. Simon is riding for Steaz now. If you have never heard of Steaz, you can find out by checking his link below: 
After several months of development the Hoffman crew has launched a new Hoffman Bikes website. The site is a collaboration between Hoffman Bikes art director, Christie Owen and Seventies web & graphic designer, Elwood Ruffle. Together, they created a clean and easy to navigate site with unique functionality. The new site features Flash animations, new team and product pages and an added team blog page which is managed by the team. 
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.