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The Beast is celebrating this week, don't miss the party.

2 October 1974 - Thomas Caillard
3 October 1970 - Jay Miron
7 October 1966 - Maurice Meyer

Kris Bennett is saving up to go to the FISE so give him some cash for his B-day. We've heard he loves the FISE.
28 September 1964 - Eddie Fiola
29 September 1970 - Tim "Fuzzy" Hall
1 October 1978 - Kris Bennett

Wow, 6 riders are celebrating their B-day this week. I'm sure you know at least one of them so call 'em up. Get Koji Kraft another sword or some batteries for his night vision goggles, he'll dig that.

18 september 1979 - Simon O'Brien
19 september 1969 - Dave Parrick
19 september 1968 - Mike Dominguez
20 september 1980 - John Heaton
22 september 1970 - Bill Nitschke
23 september 1982 - Koji Kraft

It's my wife's B-day on the 14th and if I'm not on the Eastpak tour in Greece right now I can spend that special day with her.  Also Ruben and Takashi celebrate their Birthday this week. Gefeliciteerd.

13 September 1974 - Ruben Alcantara
14 September 1976 - Takashi Ito

S&M Bikes owner Chris Moeller is getting all the B-day attention this week. As far as we know (or the 23mag list tells us) he's the only BMX-er celebrating his B-day this Thursday. Chris might be over B-day parties but that's a good reason to surprise him.
7 September 1970 - Chris "maddog" Moeller

What a mix of people this week.  All of them were big time in their day and Taj in fact is still up there as one of the most respected riders. Tell them happy B-day when you have their phone number or send them an e-card.

28 August 1963 - Woody Itson
30 August 1970 - Gary Pollack
31 August 1973 - Taj Mihelich

OBG is no stranger to partying. His name didn't change to OBD for nothing. Find him on the 25th for a good time. Congrats man!

21 August 1983 - Josh Harrington
21 August - Alexandre Valentino
23 August - Nigel Sylvester
23 August  - Bobby Fisher
23 August 1979 - Todd Walkowiak
25 August 1975 - Stefan "One Big German" Geisler

Okay, this weekend we're having the FAT-JAM. Saturday night (18 August) will see the infamous OJA party and McGoo is going to attempt the 8.6 world record. This cannot be missed.
14 August 1967 - Brett Downs
14 August 1971 - Alexis Desolneux
18 August 1978 - Colin MacKay 
19 August 1970 - Chad Johnston
20 August 1967 - Paul de Jong

Goods BMX helps Defgrip celebrate its one year anniversary with a collaboration shirt only available through goodsbmx.com. The shirt was designed by Harrison Boyce and Rich Hirsch featuring a full front print pattern of the Defgrip and Goods logo, with a diamond or two thrown in there for good measure! The shirts are hand numbered from 1-100 and once they are gone... Thats it!

To pick up the shirt, head over to goodsbmx.com and get ready for an even more amazing second year!

The pro qualifiers faced some rain on Saturday. That's why everyone made it to the final on Sunday. Also those who had already ridden on Saturday. The finals with 58 riders took place in the blistering heat on Sunday afternoon on a course that saw quite a few new obstacles. Instead of calling it Street, it should be called Park but that doesn't take things away from the riding that was going on. Riders were trying fronties over the box that had a little higher landing that messed up a few guys. Alessandro Barbero did not have any problems with it as he pulled all the latest moves on it including double whip 360-s for the victory. He's from Italy so he's used to riding in these temperatures most of the year. Chris Doyle no-footed cancan-ed the spine and found different lines for second while Hector Garcia from Mexico ripped it up for third. Hector also made it to the World's in Prague last year and impressed in pro mini there. Mark König from Germany won the adidas best trick Spine contest with a 270 Tailtap to icepick to toothpick tailwhip over the spine.