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Mutiny is proud to introduce Brandon Hoerres’ new signature frame, the Nocturnal. We have been working on this for quite a while, we sat down with Brandon to see what he wanted out of a frame and what we could do to fix the problem he has with denting down tubes. The Nocturnal features a double butted teardrop down tube this offers two huge advantages over a regular round tube. One is that this type of tube is very good at being dent resistant, in tests we hammered on the tube, the only damage was small dents on the bottom of the tube, we also took a normal tube and beat it the same way and pretty much flattened it.

Man, what a contest! It gets better by the year which also means that more and more people are putting the Simpel Session on their schedule. Not only to participate but there were tons of people just watching and partying and they weren’t let down on either part.

Simpel Session regular Josh Harrington took the victory in the BMX street final. Josh simply flows the course, and started off with a big boost. The Premium rider did a barspin to fufanu, an ice pick grind to barspin off, nosebonk to barspin out of the mini, a huge no-hander on the quarterpipe, a tailwhip, 270 barspin over the hip, no footed seatgrab to barspin on the box, a massive transfer from the 10 ft. quarter over the mini in a bank and returned to do a tailwhip on the same gap. Josh finished off with a 360 over the box to a jawbreaker. That’s not a name of a new trick but a crash at the end of the jam session resulted in a broken jaw. After collecting the high air and street trophies (and checks) it was straight to the hospital for a check up. Hope all is well Josh.

The BMXinvasion at skate 57 was an awesome time for sure with 125 shredders in the house. I want to thank all the sponsors especially Stephen Catalano who sent down the Monster crew to hand out tasters to everyone at the event. Everyone definitely enjoyed the Monster Energy boost. The first place winner is Craig Mast out of Ohio who was banging out crazy tricks like a front flip over the spine. Craig did an excellent job at riding and props to him on the win. It was also good to see some good friends who I haven't seen in while like the Mullaly crew Casio Perez , Rob Ramos and Jimmy Mac from Bulldog bikes NYC in the house. I would like to thanks all the fans and parents for coming down to support the riders. Everyone was riding really well and some even progressed during the event like Sonny pulling off his first flair on the battleship,way to go step it up. Albert Carlson was my choice for the best trick during the event he pulled off a wicked transfer 180 to flat landing in pure street style riding so BMXinvasion awarded him the Dans Competition gift certificates for his effort. 

BMX Street FINAL results:

1 Josh Harrington USA 485
2 Chase Hawk USA 479
3 Dave Mirra USA 456
4 Sebastian Keep GBR 446
5 Alistair Whitton GBR 442
6 Ben Hennon GBR 439
7 Mark Webb GBR 436
8 Mike Spinner USA 422
9 Danny Hickerson USA 420
10 Alessandro Barbero ITA 418
11 Nicolas Cambon FRA 404
12 Aaron Ross USA 398
13 Corey Martinez USA 398
14 Sergio Layos SPA 397
15 Dave Osato CAN 396

Damn, quarter pipe high air contests are getting popular these days. When you have riders cranking towards a 10 foot quarter pipe at full speed you can expect some serious air time. Riders who gave it a go at the Simpel Session was the Chester posse of Jon Taylor, Owain Clegg and Alistair Whitton who did a couple of trains which did not help the camera scoring system much but their airs were more in the 2-3 meter range where Josh Harrington and Bas Keep were reaching the 4 meter mark. Dave Mirra threw in a flair that was huge and pleased the crowd.

In the end it was Josh Harrington who won it with this air of 4,21 meters. You figure out yourself who many feet that is but it was insane. It's party time now so don't expect a report in the next few hours.

BdJ

We got the Simpel Session qualifying results here for you. Finals start at 4pm today and again you can watch it live on the internet if you are one of the unfortunate ones who could not make it over this year. Before the finals the Red Bull High air will take place. With Josh Harrington, Bas Keep, Ronnie Surridge, Jon Taylor, Alistair Whitton and Joe Rich in the house it should be a good one but Dave Mirra wants to win it with a flair. Don't miss it.

A good contest involves some good parties but there is some awesome riding going on here in Tallinn too. What would you expect if you get 72 pre-qualified riders on a Nate Wessell designed course? The atmosphere is great. Riders are being treated well, we've got Catfish on the microphone and for the finals the place is sold out. We'll run some photos of Friday's practice here and will get into the qualifying day in a little while. Enjoy the show.

Today was qualifying with the finals being planned for tomorrow. It was a crazy time with lots of unique and crazy tricks which we'll report on at some stage.  For now we'll give you a party image, shot at the Kumu museum. I swear that Dave Mirra is in that photo somewhere. As usual we ended up in Hollywood which is only a short cab ride away. More tonight, I guess.

With super wireless internet connection over here in Estonia it's possible to keep on working. Somewhere in the city Dean Hearne is doing the same thing and he just finished adding a Corey Martinez blog to the United website. You can follow what Corey is up to, where he's going, who he's filming with and what he thinks of Estonia. Mike Ardelean's blog should be up some time next week if Dean can find some wireless connection while on the road. Watch the vids and pics on the United Bike Co website. They've got a killer team so expect something good.

Hit this link if you want to check out Corey Martinez' blog.

That's right. DC Shoes and SE Racing are taking you back to the good 'ol days of BMX. Get ready to ride down BMX memory lane in the Spring of '07.

SE BMX, making things happen.

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