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Name: Jamie Bestwick
Age: 34
Hometown: Derbyshire, England

What has daddy Bestwick been up to lately?
Jamie: Well apart from being a dad to my fantastic son Samuel, alot of traveling, just got back from the etnies photo shoot in CA, working on a few new ventures that I am passionate about, and trying to get a new bike together.  (ed note: He's off GT)

Have you moved your family over to England permanently?
Jamie: No they are here with me in PA at the moment, I don't want to be too far away from them, as the contest season is coming around again, we are just commuting back & forth at the moment, but still spending the majority of the time here in the States.

The NBL RM59 Tropical challenge race is taking place in Puerto Rico this weekend.  A whole bunch of BMX pros made it over to race and hang out. Robert de Wilde won 3 out of 4 classes. Congrats Afro Bob!

Sunday results:

Elite Men: 
1 Robert de Wilde
2 Donny Robinson
3 Kyle Bennett
4 Mike Day
5 Bubba Harris
6 Jason Rogers
7 Henrik Baltzersen
8 Randy Stumpfhauser

The NBR jam was a big success. Good BMX sessions simply rule. We posted a report on the Jam earlier this month. If you missed it, you can click [url=//fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1179]here[/url] to read what was going on and check some photos.

But there's more! Vladdie de Koning, one of the organizers of the NBR jam finished editing a sweet movie of the riding that took place in Middelburg, The Netherlands on 14 January.

There are three ways to watch it. Either through the FAT movies link here at FATBMX.com, through the www.mekerskatepark.nl website or through www.bmxigans.com.

Enjoy.

The Props Mega Tour is on the road in California at the moment. We received some updates left and right of what's been going on:

By Greasy Comb Dustribution: It's official, the Inopia MegaTour team has grown into the Greasy Comb Distribution MegaTour team. Inopia and GCD decided to join forces on Prop's MegaTour 5 to make the most of the California tour.

Name: Clint Millar
Age: 31
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia

When did you start Colony BMX?
Clint: Well it’s been an idea of mine for quite some time now. But I guess it all started officially around the beginning of 2005. That’s when it started as a registered company.

Are you the sole owner or do you have business partners?
Clint: No, I have Chris Harrison (owner of triplesix distributions) has my 50/50 partner. Chris is great with the business rules side & artwork & I take care of the product design & team side of things. I mean we both all do it together as a partnership should be.

ABA is proud to announce the return of the original ABA National Event web-casting.  ABA was the first to bring this service to BMX racing and it’s back in full force.  Best of all, it’s FREE!!!!!!!  To better serve the BMX racing community, ABA will now be broadcasting all U.S. National Series events at 6pm on Fridays, 11am on Saturdays and 8am on Sundays, beginning with the Sooner Nationals, February 3-5^th.  All times are relative to the events time zone.  Log onto www.ababmx.com the day of the event to catch all the race action!

MADISON, Wis. - January, 2006 - GT is pleased to announce that it has re-signed dirt jumper Stephen Murray to the 2006 GT BMX team. A former X Games and Gravity Games gold medallist, Murray has been a pro rider since 1999.
"GT has always been the team that the best riders rode for. I'm stoked on riding for GT," said Murray. Murray's riding the new 2006 Fueler this year and will compete in the NBC Dew Action Sports Tour, The Worlds, a variety of U.K. dirt jump contests, and he'll host and hold Murray Jam '06.
Recently married and a daddy of two boys, Murray's a busy guy and he loves the lifestyle. "I'm lovin'it," said Murray. "(Being a dad) has given me a new outlook on life and changed me in different ways."

You know what it is with video reviews? It's hard to explain the situation with words. One tailtap on a fence out of the skatepark isn't the same as the next one. An alley-oop 180 out of a curved wallride (Yeagle) might not sound ridiculous but when you see it in action, you gotta realize it's nuts. Doing a 360 out of a 180 curved wallride with an orange spin wheel, Standpoint got it on film. We're not even trying to describe Matt Beringer's backyard or the tricks that are done on a weird shaped bowl in the middle of nowhere.