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After visiting the IBMXFF World's in Prague, some of the Etnies/T1 pros will make it to the Download festival in Donnington, England for the Snickers Soul Bowl event/Slayer concert. While on the road the T1/etnies riders will stop at Viki Park in Warrington to ride and judge the amateur comps. The contest at the Viki park will include Best trick, Best transfer and Best line. Prizes will come from Etnies and T1 and there's some cash for Best trick. Not bad for a Tuesday in the middle of June. If you can, go. Scheduled to show up in Warrington are: Joe Rich Taj Mihelich Rueben Alcantara Scott Malyon and UK team riders.

If a magazine is at number 31 it's a has shown that it can last. Dirtbiker is a magazine from the Czech Republic, home of the 2005 IBMXFF Nokia Freestyle World Championships. We'll have to wait until this event is over to see the coverage in Dirtbiker but you can be sure that they will be around. The magazine is a mixture of BMX racing, BMX freestyle and all types of MTB disciplines (no XC, Marathon or that type of riding though). The full colour magazine has BMX ads from DC, GT, Specialized, Etnies, VANS, Bell, 3120, Gotcha and Vehiclo so the support from the Czech BMX industry is there. The Duben 2005 issue is 98 pages and costs Kc55. Wait a minute, that means they don't run the Euro in Czech so you better change up some money when you go to the World's next week. The magazine is written in Czech which makes it hard to understand if you don't speak the language. It's got a big news section, an interview with cover guy Michal Pribyl and Josh Harrington, a report from some Czech riders who went to the USA, a flatland contest report, winter funbox report and a how-to of a transfer X-up to fakie. Petan TJ also gets an interview and Jamie Bestwick's GT Team bike gets tested. Pick up your copy at the World's in Prague, home base of Dirtbiker magazine.

Vans King of BMX PACA 2005. Results pro Street: 1 VALENTINO Alexandre 2 CROCE Damien 3 LAUQUE Tommy 4 BROWN Randy 5 ANDREWS Mike 6 GUERARD Pascal

Josh Harrington Ride BMX Cover, Team Update and Upcoming Events. Congrats to Josh Harrington for getting the cover of Ride BMX, July 05 issue. Josh has been resting his knee up and also shooting a Vans Ad. Josh just got back from a road trip filming video parts with SCOTTY CRANMER and MIKE AITKEN. Scotty and Josh will be heading to Australia soon to film more parts. Scotty is busy riding with RYAN GUETTLER at this time. Tricks will go down this week. Ryan just got first place in dirt at the CFB in Oklahoma. He also got third in the park. Ryan was seen doing front flips on the dirt course and won best trick on park with a wall ride to flair. Next comp for Ryan is the Asian X Games in Seoul, Korea.

NBL Golden State National, Prunedale, California, USA. Round 5 of 8 Elite men championship series. Day One, Saturday 21 May 2005 Elite Men 1 Robert De Wilde 2 Donny Robinson 3 Randy Stumpfhauser 4 Jarrett Kolich 5 Brandon Meadows 6 Jason Richardson 7 Mike Day 8 Nate Berkheimer

One more from the old box. This BMX Action subscription ad shows some riders "getting rad". That's what it was called back in the day. With a camera around the riders pushed a bit harder to get on that HOT SHOT page. These bail photos showed up in the Subscription advertisement. It would be cool if current publishers could still send a monthly magazine oversees for an extra $ 4,= USD. per year. Times have changed. As always, click the image for a bigger picture.

Over twenty years ago Mongoose came out with a set of wheels that had rims that were 17% lighter. This weight saving was accomplished by drilling holes in between the spoke holes. Saving ounces on rolling weight is extra beneficial so the idea was a good one. With single wall rims it was even possible to use different colour ribbons to match the paint job of your ride. Check that address. It lists a TELEX number! Click the image for a better view.

- Peter Geys (HARO Benelux) went back to the Ukraine and lived the life of a rock star being transported from show to show in a private jet. Peter will travel to the USA (not by private jet) to try to qualify for the Dew Action Sports Tour. With the way he has been riding lately we say he has a fair chance. - Congratulations to Dave Mirra and his lady. They're getting married in November of this year.

I checked for the cover price on this magazine. It's 3 Euro 20. That's pretty cheap for 84 pages of full colour BMX coverage. Make sure you pick up a copy at the newsstands when you make it over for one of the German contests this summer. What you get is a nice covershot of Alex Dropsy getting stylish over some doubles. Michael Steingraeber takes some great pics. One of them is the Contents spread. Flatland represent. Lots of regional news this time and a full events calendar. Reviews, an article on saving weight, the third generation of BMX riders, the Braun trailpeople report and a Ravage jam article. It doesn't stop here. If you still didn't make it in the magazine by now, here's some more chances: Bike Show report, photo gallery, Muenster scene report, XL series at Heerlen, Pariah in Berlin, Roadstar jam, product stuff, Verthaus report, commercial shoot in Barca, how-to's, letters, you get the picture, it's a full issue.

What would you do when you had millions in the bank and could do whatever you wanted to? Things like the Gumball 3000 rally come to mind. After selling DC shoes to Quiksilver, Ken Block has been enjoying life even more. Block has picked up Rally driving (a nice choice to burn some $$) and has been in Europe all week as he entered the Gumball 3000 rally, a fancy car race for the rich and the famous. The Gumball race, which is being held on normal streets, started in London last Saturday and arrives in Monaco where the competitors will watch the F1 race from a boat this weekend.