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First of all Ben Hennon is riding for King Kong BMX. Whenever he feels of his bike, King Kong is taking care of him. Marcin Stypulkowski is glad to have him on the team. And second the Markus Wilke signature glove, called the "Gorilla Glove" is now available. Everybody who buys one pair will support Markus so he doesn´t have to get a "real" job. The gloves are available in xs-xxl, colors brown and black.

Eurobike show: King Kong BMX wants to invite you to our booth at

The Source BMX crew are hosting a trails jam at Sidley woods trails in Bexhill-on-Sea on Saturday the 2nd of September. Everyone is welcome, there will be a BBQ there so feel free to bring some food and drink. There will be no format to the event but plently of prizes for the shredders! To find the trails head to Sidley high street (Ninfield road A269) in Bexhill-on-Sea and head to the end of Preston road, the trails are in the woods by the play park.Click the picture to your right for the flyer and more details.

But there's more. If you don't ride dirt at all (you should try it, it's fun) you can go to the "De La Warr Pavilion" for the Big Spin 2006 the next day (3 September). That one doesn't start until 2 in the afternoon so there's room to party hard on Saturday. It all sounds like a true BMX weekend in the South of England.

Alex rims, manufacturers of some super BMX rims are proud to announce, that you can reach ALEXRIMS from today via our new European Office. "Our European Office and our Team in Taiwan will work together, to give you our excellent support."

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The weather forecast wasn´t too good for this weekend and I ended up looking towards the sky every two minutes the days before. We built up everything between pouring rain and the hot sun. The day of the event started pretty good. A lot of German pro riders showed up and I was really happy about everything. We started a really relaxing day with bikeriding, hanging around, having some drinks and so on. We wanted to start the comp around 3 o´clock but we decided to wait for Nathan Penonzek because he was on the way.. 

LAGUNA HILLS, CA September 1, 2006 - Talk about a competitive spirit! Two-time NBL Grand National winner and ABA's 2002 World Champion and 2004 NAG #1 in the 36 and over class has created a new patent-pending board game called NAQ, pronounced "Knack". His friends now call him "Nick NAQ", but he prefers to just go by "Nick". "I had to put off finishing NAQ because of my commitment to the sport of BMX," said Nick DiPaolo, NAQ Games President and Creator. 

Talk Show – “The Side Show”: This original Rip.TV series featuring the comedy and insight of one of the Industry’s most recognized figures: Corey Leclerc, along with our resident house DJ Josh Martinez, will entertain our weekly internet viewers, and live studio audience, with on-location comedy vignettes and one on one interviews with the top action sport professionals of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Each show will interact with an online audience through viewer emails directed at Corey, Josh, and the guests from week to week as well as satellite phone calls and iChat with Corey's guests from anywhere in the world.

Santa Monica, CA – August 23, 2006 – The second installment of the Red Bull Backyard Build-Off makes its way to the suburb of Plainfield, IL., 40 miles southwest of Chicago. The contest will be held at the home of lucky contest winner Jaimy Spreitzer. Jaimy’s yard was selected to host the BMX building and riding event from September 20-23rd. After the success of last year’s event, at Matt Bischoff’s Failure Compound , the world’s best course builders will be back at it using their expertise, sweat and a little bit of sabotage in an all out battle for ramp building supremacy. Guided by famed builder Nate Wessel, the three teams of ramp designers and builders will each have the same amount of raw materials and three full days to design and construct the ultimate BMX course. The final day will see some of the worlds’ best Pro riders battle it out on the newly built ramps for a cash purse and the Red Bull Backyard Build-Off riders title. Invited riders include: Anthony Napolitan , Josh Harrington, Alan Cooke, Koji Kraft, Van Homan, Taj Mihelich, Brian Kachinsky, Chad Degroot, Brian Vowell, Rick Moliterno and Dave Freimuth,. A full rider list and builder teams will be announced soon.

Woodward Am Jam Contest this weekend!
-Dates: September 22-24
-Disciplines: Park, Mini Ramp, Dirt, Mini Vert (9' Vert ramp in lot 8)
*Classes:
14 and under mens (Mini Ramp, Park)
16 and under mens (Mini Ramp, Park, Dirt Mini Vert)
17 and over mens (Mini Ramp, Park, Dirt, Mini Vert)
Womens (Mini Ramp, Park, Dirt, Mini Vert)

*Must have at least 3 entries to make a class, if less than 3 entries, riders will moved to the next closest class.

-ALL participants MUST have proof of medical insurance.
-Those participants under the age of 18 MUST have a signed and NOTARIZED waiver for the event.

Photos by: Jared Souney

Ricky Ratt and his Sheep Hills Locals crew need your help. It's not a donation of prizes or money that they want. It's help re-building Sheep Hills. The legendary spot dries out during the summer months and Direct BMX bought a generator and a water pump to help wet the dirt. Ricky Ratt: "There's a line that runs from the water to the trails. So we are pumping water every day to fill in holes and wet the dirt. We're almost done clearing all the bushes and the section we're working on right now is the 8 pack / boozer / styles/ paradise / step-up. It's me Ricky Ratt and midget Cory doing this."

Gilbert, Arizona—August 23, 2006— The ABA (American Bicycle Association) announced today that it has retained the brand, event and marketing specialist group; bonspeedMedia of Anaheim, California. ABA, founded in 1977 is approaching thirty years of organizing BMX (Bicycle Motocross) racing on local, regional and national levels. As youth sports have grown the ABA has become the largest promoter of action sports in the world. bonspeedMedia is primarily known for their specialized branding, event and product marketing in the automotive, luxury and motorsport markets. bonspeedMedia clients have included Ford, Jaguar, Saleen, BMW, Barrett-Jackson, Bombardier Aircraft, Michelin and many others. It is bonspeed’s President, Brad Fanshaw who brings a vast knowledge base to the ABA, Fanshaw was a former Vice President of the ABA in the early 1980’s, when he retired as an active racer. After ABA, Fanshaw became Director of World Wide Marketing for Vision Sports an early action sport industry leader. Vision was a company he assisted in growing from $10 million to $120 million in just five years and is heralded as the one of the founders of X-Sports!