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Andy Jenkins, Tony Larson and Andy Mueller are showing "Taking Turns" at the Monster Children Gallery in Sydney, Australia starting this Thursday night. The work is a series of collection small and large digital monoprints, plus a salon-styled wall of hands-on work done specifically for the exhibition. Opening on the 11th from 7pm for anyone in Sydney. Show goes from 12 - 27 January 2007. Check their Art Dump blog for current updates of progress.

Arnaud Dubois just signed for 2 year with MBK! Arnaud who is one of the best riders of the world completes the 2007 MBK team with the main goal to be selected to the Olympics games of 2008 in China! The Belgian is only 20 years old and has already many titles and victories and is ready to add some more with MBK! 
Arnaud Dubois (Belgium): Elite men 13 times Belgium champion. 3 times Holland Champion. 3 times European Champion. 10 times European finalist. 8 times World finalist. 46 international victories.

- Taka (Takahiro Nishikawa) joins the very small group of riders selected for the 2007 Red Bull Circle of Balance, february 24th. That's a proof of Taka's level.

- Many parts of the St-Martin video are available on the following link. Remember that the video is only available online, for free. We don't not make money on it and we do not create pollution on it, it is only virtual.  Video link: ici

- Keisuke Matsumoto is the first flow team rider at Dirty Bike in Japan. He rides expert level and will get some support with St-Martin parts.

- Miura Hirokazu, another Japanese rider will compete the Circle Cow, in Servon, France.

We've got a new poll up but before we get into it we will give you the results of the most recent FATBMX poll:

-You only have your small budget available but you want to do so much more. It would help if everything would be less expensive but if you could choose one out of the following list, what would it be?

- Dean Evans joins Superstar throught the UK team. It means that in a few month Superstar will be also famous in Glasgow, Scotland.

- The Superstar UK team is now managed by Guy Terry. He's the perfect link with the growing UK team and Mark and Aaron from Padded Cell, Superstar UK distributor.

- Károly Sieger, pro rider from Hungary joins the Supertar team, thanks to the help of Attila at Harlee/GorbX, Superstar distributor over there. Note that Hungarian riders are really active and skilled. Sure you'll hear more of these riders in a near future.

The ABA kicked things off huge this past weekend, as the ABA crew outdid themselves with one of the best race tracks ever built at the Reno Livestock arena for the 2007 Pro Series opener. With 25 of the worlds top AA Pros in attendance, the Silver Dollar Nationals was a great weekend of exciting Pro racing and has set the stage for what should be the best year of AA Pro racing in the ABA's history. Randy Stumpfhauser, Brandon Meadows, and Cristian Becerine were all in attendance for the event and here is how they finished up:

Terry Adams is a busy cat. Traveling to contests gets him around and he isn't shy of a camera either. He is the only flatlander to get two covers on American magazines in 2006. When it comes to filming, Terry knows how to get in the picture as well. After doing clips for Fuel, Disney and an ABC show, Terry did a strange solo project where he was loving his bike. Add to this the Incubus music video starring Adams where he is setting priorities straight by ditching the girl over a photoshoot.

We wonder what kind of party Ice Money will be throwing on the 30th.
30 January 1970 - Ice Money
2 February 1973 - Troy McMurray
3 February 1973 - John Peacy

21 January 1962 - Harold McGruther
22 January 1972 - Robbie Morales
23 January 1971 - Xavier Robleda
24 January 19..    - Paul Buchanan
25 January 2007 - Boyd de Jong
25 January 1979 - Mike Collins

2020 is keeping me updated on what's happening in Australia at the moment and around this time of the year (their summer), that's a whole lot. Sitting behind the computer getting a magazine together while the rest of your friends are out riding is rough. Add to that a couple of weeks of hospital and head surgery and you understand that life wasn't pretty for editor Matt Holmes. But BMX is strong and is motivating. Matt's drive to finish the mag was bigger than anything else resulting in a fine issue of 2020. Inside you find Heavy Metal Heroes, a Nitai photo profile, Shreddin' lives article, Who the fuck is Alex LiIv, Bio's with Ron Rampton, Jed Mildon, Abelardo Vargas, Malcom Hanslow and Garreth Hedfield. Video and music reviews, how-to's, 2 pages of product reviews, 'zine lookback, photo section, news pages, spot checks and most Australian jam and contest reports. Yup, it covers the Australian BMX freestyle scene