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ESPN Teams Up with X Games Stars to Support Tsunami Relief Efforts 1 March 2005, Bangkok - ESPN will team up with some of the world's best action sports athletes to support tsunami relief efforts with the inaugural Thailand X Games Cup in Bangkok, March 24-27. The event, which will take place at Huamak Indoor Stadium in Bangkok, will feature demonstrations by several former and current X Games champions, including aggressive inline skaters the Yasutoko Brothers from Japan and Fabiola da Silva from Brazil; BMX riders Mat Hoffman, Jamie Bestwick, and Kevin Robinson; and skateboarders Bob Burnquist and Sandro Diaz, among others.

Red Bull Drenaje, Mexico, 2005 On Saturday 26th February, Mexico played host to ‘Red Bull Drenaje’, a truly unique BMX competition that saw 44 International riders, battling it out to win a slice of the $30,000 pesos prize fund. Last 'ditch' attempt!

After organizing plenty of events together such as the Nass series, the Urban Games and the Bike Show contests, Zach Shaw has parted company with Shaun Scarfe/414 productions on the 28th Feb 05. Zach Shaw: "Four 1 Four will continue without me as will the events. I want to work on other projects and devote more time to riding and family. The events for me were going in the wrong direction so I decided to resign as a director at Four 1 Four......I wish Shaun luck." The split was on good terms. Zach Shaw is still working for VANS.

What an intro. I like it when people go out of their way to make something good. Chocolate pudding wrestling with strippers might not have anything to do with BMX but a little fun here and there never hurts. The riding isn't a let down either. Surprisingly Danny Hickerson starts off the riding with a eye-contact tailwhip bunny hop. He later does tailwhips to icepick to tailtap on a sub box, tailwhip pocket airs and 3-whips to manual to 180 over a spine. Insane. Jim Cielencki is the tech wizard and shows he's got more up his sleeve than sliding down rails in 149 different variations.

Vans Warped Tour Pre Sale Starts Today!!! Catch the BMX demos and enjoy the music. You can be amongst the very first to score tickets through Vans' special PRE-SALE SITE. For just under $28, you'll receive a ticket to the show AND the new Vans Warped Tour 2005 CD compilation -- that's LESS than what it will cost you at the show! The price covers all shipping and service fees too.

Ben Shenker from Hungary has been working hard on his personal website. You should take a look at it, it's great. The URL is: www.sbmx.hu Ben has had to deal with several injuries over the last few years. The latest is a bit strange: "I'm off my bike again for a week or so, a fucking dog bit me real bad. I had to have stiches in my finger, actually almost totally destroyed it. I felt its teeth hit against my finger bone on both sides. I got 4 stiches as did my dog. To top things off, it ended up the dog had no vaccine

FELT BMX NEWS by Alan Foster Scotty Cranmer has been riding non-stop all winter and his tricks are getting crazier and crazier. Back flip double whips, front flip variations, switch footed stuff plus much more. Check out the May 05 issue of Ride USA for a Fox poster showing a front flip turndown... If Scotty is not at the Incline Club he is usually busy with his new non-bike riding pass time of paintballing. Speaking of Incline Club, it got a face lift a few weeks ago and I have heard a lot of good things about it.

Staats Pick s Up Top MX racer Staats Bicycles is pleased to announce hooking up a sponsorship deal with 2004 Woman Motocross Champion Jessica Patterson. Jessica is one of the most dominate female motocross riders in the world and she is going to assist Staats Bicycle’s cross marketing effort to the motocross community. Many motocross stars starting riding BMX bikes before moving to motocross. The basic bike handling skills learned from BMX attributed to teaching riders like Jeremy McGrath how to ride with precession and finesse.

The first issue of Twenty BMX Mag (USA) is beginning to ship, and will be on newsstands on April 1st. This mag will cover all aspects of BMX: race, street, dirt, ramp, and flat. Everyone seems to want to know what percentage of coverage will be assigned to each discipline; all we can say is that that is impossible to predict. We'll do our best to provide equal coverage, but the bottom line is that whatever notable happened that month in BMX will do more to dictate what ends up in the magazine.

George Dossantos is a killer street rider from Northern New Jersey. As a BMX-er yourself you might be aware of that. What you might not know is that George is a killer bass player too. He's in the "Words Away" band. We fired over some band/BMX related questions. When you're done reading that, you can listen to a few songs of the band and watch their video of the song Move On. What is your occupation at the moment?