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The last and final part of 4Down's Summer of Madness is online now. The last part is saved for the UK S&M team who are taking it to the streets.The dvd will be available next Monday, right after this Saturday's (1 Dec) premiere at The Brass Monkey in Hastings, England. Doors open for that one at 20h30 and the video will premier at 23h00. You can watch the last part, right here, right now:

Keelan Phillips, a well known flatlander from England, recently joined Zion family. Zion's really stoked on having him on the team. They have already started working on Keelan's signature frame and expect samples to be finished early next year. If you know Keelan, you know pretty much what to expect: straight tube design, clean look, brakeless, light and really strong. Zion's also working on some other projects at the time, so expect some great new products next spring.

Keep an eye out on zionbmx.com for spy pics of the frame.

Nick Valencia messed up his knee tearing all three ligaments at Icer Air 2007. Nick does not have insurance. To have it fixed he can use some help so support this Dawg Aid jam that's coming up this Sunday (2 December). It will help Nick get back on his feet.

Jimmy Levan had a horrible crash to his head. He spent some time in hospital and his insurance isn't covering everything. In fact, more money is needed to help Jimmy get back to the cool guy he was before the crash.
Tom Hooper spent the whole day with Jimmy and this is the situation:

The Paul's Boutique Tour is starting November 23rd at Paul’s Boutique BMX, “dinner” at 6 PM and first stop will be at the skatepark “the Promise” Heerlen The Netherlands. Ride till closing time and try to find some place to stay the night so if you have room for 6 stinking Gangmembers let us know! Satuaday we are going to Cologne Germany to ride some street and meet our friends at the Wethepeople warehouse and make Cologne a little bit unsafe at night. 

Here's a little update on the complete bikes that have been up on e-bay to support the Stephen Murray Family fund. Hit the hotlinks to go to the auctions. There are some great bikes offered at the moment. One of them is Fuzzy's one-off Redline Proline replica and another one is the Nora Cup DC Shoes/SE PK Ripper that was donated back by the person who won the raffle at the Nora Cup. 

On December 29th the crowd will be electing the winner of the jam in Zumiez. The winner received Carhartt and Eastpak goodies. Expect the crowd to be wasted as they're handing out free beers during the night. It's BMX only. No pegs. € 8,50 Euro to ride. Visitors have free entrance. Add to this a killer AC/DC cover band and you know it will go off. 

When you think of legends in BMX the first name that comes to mind is undoubtedly Mat Hoffman, who also happens to be someone Stephen has respected & admired since he was 7 years old. Stephen has come so far in such a short time and has remained positive & strong, I wanted to do something special to show him how much I love and appreciate him. I emailed Mat a few months ago and asked if he and I could make plans for a surprise visit to see Stephen. He replied, "Yes, I would be honored"!

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Oh man, Andy Shohara! Almost forgot about that name until this flyer showed up. The "Flyin' Hawaiian" used to live and ride in the UK. Why someone would move from Hawaii to England remains the question but Andy was a rad vert rider who showed up in almost every issue of R.A.D. magazine sporting his Town & Country wear. Now Andy is having a birthday jam at the Krause Family park in San Diego this Saturday (Nov. 24th) and the people who are supposed to show up will make this a BMX freestyle reunion right off the bat. Names added to the list are Andy Patterson, Ron Wilton, Ron Camaro and possibly Mike Dominguez and Bob Osborn. If they all will get out of bed on a Saturday to meet at 08:45am at the park remains to be seen.