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Scotty Cranmer came out to California this week to shoot a Panasonic commercial. I have seen a few TV commercials being filmed but this was crazy. He flew in Monday afternoon and shot some stuff down in the San Diego area. The plan was to hit some skateparks but the no bikes rule shut them down, the next thing you know and Scotty is tailwhippng over a dumpster using a shady piece of scrap wood as a ramp. The next plan was to hit the Etnies skatepark of Lake Forest on Tuesday, Tuesday is not a bike day so the film crew made a donation to the City of Lake Forest and they let them film from 8:00am to 10:00am before they opened. There was 23 people working on the

AUSTRALIA CREATES HISTORY “Stevenson and Fenwick dominate� Who can forget the headlines after last years World Championships in Holland? Australia is preparing for another assault on the world stage this year and is looking forward to another successful UCI World Championship in Paris.

The NBL Easter Classic took place in Florida last weekend. Author's Mikael Prokop had a good weekend with 3 wins (out of 4). Dutchman Robert de Wilde got a third on Saturday but didn't make it out of his motos on Sunday. He got stuck in some soft dirt and crashed once. Cristian Becerine didn't make the mains this weekend but there was more bad news. Warwick Stevenson is out with a torn ACL. He had to get off the bike while riding his backyard trails and made a wrong step. Get well soon Warlock! Anyway, here are the PRO weekend results:

BMX trix & Techniques for the park & street By: Tony Donaldson ISBN: 0-7603-1963-4 Prize: $ 19,95 US BMX books are kind of rare. Whenever you come across one at the library or a book store they usually make you giggle. The pics are outdated and the tricks not from this time. Tony Donaldson has finished a BMX-how-to book. Although the book was published in 2004, the pics already make me giggle. He's got Todd Anderson doing the vert part on a quarterpipe, Stephen Scheurer explaining the flatland tricks, Kyle Huber doing the street stuff and Mike Drolet doing the basics on a HARO Shredder with coloured chain wearing a pro-tec with sunglasses on.

A new website over in Germany is putting the BMX dates together. Visit www.bmxdates.de to see where things are happening. This site focuses on the German scene. The info is listed in German. For a more international Freestyle and Race calendar, click on our FATBMX event schedule. Seems like there are lots of events going on again.

SNAFU CONRAD seatpost clamp When you're trying to save weight on your bike every little bit helps. Throw away your current seatpost clamp if it weighs more than 32 grams. It probably does. FEATURES -Extruded and CNC-machined aluminum construction -Replaceable Allen bolt and hex nut hardware

Premium Gloves Premium Gloves have a nylon foam padded palm top with Premium 3D logo and are made of 4-way stretch spandex for comfort. The Clarino leather palm with internal thin padding makes sure you hold on to the grips. The Premium gloves have knuckle protection and a neoprene wrist band with velcro closure to make sure they're on as tight as you want them. The colour combination is grey/black and that's the only combination available. There are 4 sizes starting from Small through XL. Paul's Boutique has the Premium Gloves available for 39 Euros. You can rock some Slayers with them too.

Ahhh back again with a true old school picture from the May issue of BMX Plus1 (1980). The term Bicycle Motocross (BMX) is taken very seriously back then. It means sticking out your leg in the loose turn, crossing up the bars over jumps and ride any terrain that a motorcycle would go through. The smooth BMX tracks of today do lack a lot of the Bicycle Motocross feeling. If it's too loose or bumpy, complaints will be heard. Sticking out a leg in the first turn? man, I'm clipped in!! When there's a chance of the track being muddy, some of the riders don't even bother showing up. How different it was back in the day when bike tests went on no matter how many puddles could be found in the first turn.

Paul's Boutique is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this upcoming weekend. We caught up with owner Paul de Jong to see how he survived: When exactly did you start Paul's Boutique BMX hardware store? April 1st 1995 we started Paul's Boutique, Lambert van Stekelenborg (LAGEJA) and I teamed up and started a 100% PURE BMX shop, I bought him out in 2000. What made you decide to start a BMX shop? My shitty work as a salesmanager for roofing materials made it easy to quit my job and we couldn't buy anything in the Netherlands BMX wise so we started to import everything by ourselves and tried to sell it to the 100 riders that were left in the mid 90's.

Here's a bike check on Chris Arriaga's piece of steel. Just click on the picture to see what parts the Kink rider has on his current bike.