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Paulo Charaba is keeping things alive in Brasil. He's putting on two more contests in March of this year.

It's flatland time on 18-19 March and the street/park contest takes place on 25 and 26 of March. The park set up can be viewed by clicking on the flyer on the right.

Expect to read a report of both contests here at FATBMX.com. If you need more info now, go to www.abbmx.com.br

Mutiny are having a couple of video premiers at the end of the month. The video features riders like Morgan Wade, Joe Simon, Brandon Hoerres, Matt Roe, Neil Harrington and Vidal Vigil.  On February 24th you can visit Undercover skatepark, 4 Seasons, Sixth Avenue skatepark, Mesh skatepark and Empire BMX. Next day it's Goods BMX in Oregon, Dirtwood Bike & Skate park, Hardcore Sportz, Gordy's Bike Shop and Disabled Bikes. The last day of the premier series will be the 256th. You can go to Tri City bikes to check out the Mutiny vid.

NEW YORK – February 15, 2006 – The Dew Action Sports Tour, the first professional season-long, multi-sport tour for action sports, today announced its schedule for the 2006 season. The Tour returns to all five tour stop locations from its inaugural season.
The Dew Action Sports Tour schedule, events and locations are as follows:
DATE             EVENT                                               LOCATION  
June 22-25  Panasonic Open  Louisville, Ky. - Kentucky Expo Center
July 13-16   Right Guard Open  Denver, Co. - Pepsi Center 
Aug. 17-20  Vans® Invitational  Portland, Ore. - Rose Quarter 
Sept. 7-10  Toyota Challenge  San Jose, Calif. - HP Pavilion 
Oct. 12-15  PlayStation® Pro  Orlando, Fla. - TD Waterhouse Centre

“We are excited about returning to our five host sites from the Tour’s inaugural season and we are eager for fans to see the best action sports athletes in the world battle for the Dew Cup,” said Wade Martin, general manager of the Dew Action Sports Tour.

Name: Corey Bohan
Age: 24
Hometown Northern Hemisphere summer: Corona, CA
Hometown Southern Hemisphere winter: Brisbane, Australia

How do you enjoy your BMX Pro lifestyle?
Corey: It’s just been like a wet dream, I'm still waiting for my alarm to wake me up and me be pissed off. haha.

Do you believe it's weird making a living riding a BMX bike?
Corey: Not so much weird but lucky I think. It’s pretty cool to look at your bike and see what it has done for me and the places I have taking it. Its small and the general public don’t understand how much fun it can be. I love the death stairs from business men while riding street or something, if only they new how much fun us bmxers are having haha. As Mr. T would say “I pity the fool"

AA Pro Greg Romero has agreed to fill in the now vacant position on Team Haro. Greg Romero, a highly decorated BMX racer, agreed to fill in for his good friend, and fellow racer Jason Richardson while he is out with his recent femur injury. Speaking with Richardson yesterday about the decision he commented "I'm grateful for the fact that there's no issue with Haro supporting me while I am down...which also proves that there is no place better for me in BMX. My decision to pick Greg as my replacement was backed up by many reasons, but our mutual respect for one another and his ability to compliment the existing Haro team seemed to be the two that stood out in my mind. I'm very thankful that Greg (somewhat) put his personal BMX career on hold to help out me and my Haro teammates."

Yo dudes went Orlando, Florida 2 ride/host tha Tony Hawk Grand Jam inside of Universal Studio's 4 2 dayz, it was tha bomb, we sold out of 3-4 thousand a day, we had moto, skate, bmx & my mouth. Keep rippin' & thanx 4 tha support!
Much luv,
Thorne
Biker-N-Black

Yo sum old ridin' buddies of mine got N2 film makin', they thought tha movie/documentary, "Super Size Me", was a stupid flick so thay came up with, "Jack Me".  Now N "Super Size Me" this dude ate Mcdonalds everyday & got sick & phat, so N "Jack Me" tha main character eats Jack-N-Tha-Box & grows boobs just 2 make a spoof/comedy, funny stuff dude.  I rode & did a cameo N tha flick, should B funny.  Just another update from tha dude that doesn't slow down @ all!  Thanx 4 everythang!
Much luv,
Thorne
Biker-N-Black

Over the weekend I was at a local DH race in Fontana, Ca trying to hook up with some people I hadn't seen in a while and meet some people I have never met. I ran into Nigel Page, Cody Warren, Brian Smith, Eric Carter and met JD and John Swanguan (the inventor of the rock walk). However, there was one person around that Eric Carter was looking for to introduce to me. "Where's Phil?" he asked someone and there he was. I couldn't figure out who the hell he was but he knew my last name when I introduced myself. 

-WHEN: Saturday Only - April 22nd WHERE: Oak Creek BMX in Roseville , CA. - during the ABA U.S. Nationals ... (think Rockford, but without the grassy park and paved roadways).

-WHO: All Vintage BMX collectors and race fanantics.

-WHAT & WHY: Bring your bikes to display, meet other collectors, swap & sell parts, and vote for "Best Bikes of Show" in multiple categories. .. Later that night (starting about 7:00pm) PATRIOT BIKE SHOP (unofficial home of the first ABA BMX Museum ) will host the Awards Banquet (as voted on throughout the day by spectators and fellow collectors) and pizza buffet. Custom "Flight" Awards brought to you by Redline Bikes. .. 

GREETINGS FROM 2-HIP LAND! These days Santa Cruz is beeeautiful, and things are poppin' here at 2-HIp:
1. Get ready for the new 2006 2-HIp video: 'UNDER THE RADAR' to be released beg. of MARCH, featuring groundbreaking sections of the amazing 2-HIp team: LINO GONZALEZ- MASS JARROD ALLEN- SANTA CRUZ CORY JARMAN- COLORADO BENNO HANKOWETZ- AUSTRIA MAURICIO OSPINA- COLOMBIA MATT WAKEFIELD- UK and the other 2-HIp riders: JAKE ORTIZ- SEATTLE FERNANDO RAMIRO- CENTRAL CAL STEVE-O SCOFFONE- SANTA CRUZ MARK GONZALEZ(NOT related to lino)- MARS

2. 2-HIp is beginning a new line of '2-HIp HANDMADE' products, beginning with the just released the LINO GONZALEZ signature USA-MADE frameset, featuring a euro bb and integrated headset, three different colours -black, grey, army brown- and two sizes, 20.25tt and 20.6tt. Weight- 5lb.14 oz.