Name: Mark Atkins
Age: 34
Occupation: Bricklayer
Hometown: Leicester, England
Years riding: From '85-2000, then started riding again last year.
Hook-ups/Sponsors: None

The Favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Corby, Bar Hill, St Neots
-BMX Video: Headfirst, Barry on a Grifter, Joe Kid
-Website: Ride, Vital, Facebook
-Web Video: Mark Webb
-BMX Filmer: Mark Eaton
-BMX MC: Kevin Martin during the 2 Hip contest! 

If you're making thongs you can expect some pics in the mail from customers. Colony received a new photo and Clint was cool enough to share it with us. Nice one!

The second episode of this program is about riding trails because they are my favorite places to ride and I thought it could be the other part for my First Hand. We started in Malaga where we have two trails running now that are very good but it was almost summer and it started to get too dry to ride them. Then I decided to go to the trails in PA that are the best that exist and probably my favorite place to go riding. The work that they do there is unbelievable and just to go down through those lines it gives me the best feelings on my bike that I can imagine... a very sad thing was when Sergio had a very serious crash... I was so worried about him when it happened and when I saw him in that condition.

We took him to the hospital, he had to be there for over a week... The crash was so bad that nobody really felt like riding but going everyday to visit him and see that he was doing better we started to ride again taking it easy.

There are not many miniramps in Germany which are capable for high-quality BMX contests. That’s why the 2009 T-Mobile Local Support Miniramp Challenge takes place at the BMX Park in Darmstadt the second time after 2007. Starting at 11 a.m. on August 15th, 2009 the slogan for the first day of a weekend full of BMX madness in Darmstadt is: Grab your bike and ride the ramp! In good old Local Support tradition, two riders partner up to a team and compete in separated Pro and AM classes in the miniramp, 

Company: Standard Byke Company / Goodtimes BMX
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Years in business: Since 1989

It was quiet for a while over at the Standard camp but it looks like things have picked up lately. How is Standard going through the rough times?
Rick: We are going well. It was quiet for a while as we had zero

Name: Stefan Lantschner.
Age: 24
Hometown: Steinegg, Italy.
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Fly Bikes, Nike 6.0, Carhartt, Eastpak, Frontocean bmx.
Years riding: 10

The favorite list:
-Travel destination: Barcelona and south Italy.
-Football club: It was Milan when I was a kid, it's Koolt now, me and my friends play at one tournament ones a year. 

The 2009 ABA BMX racing season has been a crazy and exciting one so far this season. Almost every ABA BMX event this season has been up in rider participation and attendance. Some events have been the largest they have been in the past 10 years. The UCI events, the USAC National Championships, and the ABA BMX Nationals series events have been a who's who in the BMX racing world. We've even seen some world class dirt jumpers make the jump back to their roots and get back out on the track. Heck, even everyone's favorite BMX hero, Cru Jones has been spotted on an ABA BMX track in 2009! 

Preparations are well underway and the summer edition of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds has confirmed more competing top riders from all over the globe. Throwing themselves into the miniramp for honours and a decent amount of cash are BMXers Ben Hennon (UK), Mark Webb (UK) and Tobias Wicke (GER). In order to get the audience equally wet and sweaty, ska-punkers Mad Caddies have been confirmed, along with headlining legends Rise Against! Fans and visitors of this year’s Summer Session should come prepared, because the 2009 Summer Session will once again deliver „extremely“ superb actions!

BMX miniramp features star material as well. Not only is last year’s winner Harry Main (UK) already confirmed; the winner of the Dirt Session 2009, Rob Darden, who placed third in last year’s X-Games, is also going to be in Hamburg, along with German Champion Sergej Geier from Berlin. Also freshly confirmed are world-renowned Englishmen Ben Hennon and Mark Webb, as well as

Morphine Industries signs Addison Sasso to Street/Park/Dirt Crew. Addison got our attention through Morphine Industries’ Guru and Crew T.M., Marlowe Buelvas. “I have been riding with Addison for a while and have watched him shred everything in site. He needed to get hooked up with a company that would get behind his riding and help him blow-up”, tells Buelvas. “Addison has always been riding busted up bikes/parts due to his “go-for” it approach, like his 17 step bar-spin bomb drop, so I though he would be a great fit with Morphine Industries.”

“We are stoked to work with Addison on new parts as we make a big push into the Street/Park/Dirt market. He is a great rider with a fearless style of riding that is evident from his recent exposure in Ride, Props 72, Banned 3 and Sunshine Sports Channel.” continues Buelvas.

“The Morphine Industries’ guys have been great and I’m juiced to be riding their parts and look forward to repping them in the streets”,

Nike 6.0 has teamed up with Beat Gasoline to encourage youth to use the power of sport to beat gasoline. Gasoline itself isn’t the enemy. The enemy is its use. The Nike 6.0 BMX team is fighting global gasoline consumption by doing what they love: riding bikes. Not only does riding a bike reduce impact on the environment, the world is more interesting behind bars. Watch the 6.0 athletes story and share your own Beat Gasoline story by uploading a video to beatgasoline.com, illustrating how you use sport to power your life,

Bikes, beer and some bitches. That was the spirit of Vladdie's Birthdayjam! In the middle of nowhere ''Vlissingen polder'' on an old trailerpark the locals built some nice dirtlines. The weather was pretty nice and so as the riding locals and gast rider of al places from the country jamming for fun.
The locals build an pretty technical line. You got a quater to air and get speed for the step down to step up. After that a litle drop and three dirtjumps. Syo show us some nice nowhanders, Dennis (PB gangmember was flowing and did some nice tricks to. Also flowing was Michael van de Lee (PB gangmeber) Foling by me (PB Ganmeber)! Pim van de Bos was showing his big dirt skills at the Goirle jam. 

Pro Results:
1 Matthias Dandois
2 Jean Buhlon
3 John Leblond
4 Kevin Jacobs
5 Jeremy Brosset

Master Results:
1 Mika Machard