South African Fraser Byrne of STF Media has taken on some side projects to film different stuff than BMX. He shot the Gumball boat trip in France, the mini bike race at the British GP that Jeff Emig won and is on his way to Eastern Europe in a Lada to find some more treats. Maybe he can swing by the Simpel session in Tallinn on the weekend of 6-8 January. Fraser sent us the following taster of his new elusive project:

STF-holy cow trailer

THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY BMX VIDEO WORLD PREMIER WILL TAKE PLACE AT MESH SKATEPARK IN FLORIDA ON 11 DECEMBER NEXT. COME RIDE WITH SHADOW RIDERS; ALISTAIR WHITTON, BYRON ANDERSON, JOE SIMON, JOHN JENNINGS AND RYAN SHER.

OVER ONE YEAR OF FILMING AT SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING SPOTS THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER ARE PUT INTO THIS NEW DVD.

LOCATION: MESH SKATEPARK ORLANDO, FL (DIRECTIONS GO TO www.MESHSKATEPARK.COM
TIME: 3:00PM OPEN SESSION WITH THE SHADOW TEAM
THE SHADOW CONSPIRACYS VIDEO PREIMER: 6:00PM (FIRST TIME VIDEO WILL BE SHOWN)

COST: SHADOW SPECIAL RATE: $7.00 ALL DAY SESSION (NO MEMBERSHIP REQUIRE FOR THIS DAY ONLY) PLUS GIVEAWAYS AFTER THE PREMIERS APPROX 6:30.

SE Bikes is proud to announce that Thor MX will be outfitting the SE Factory Team for 2006 and beyond. Look for the SE team riders to be rockin’ Thor MX helmets, pants, and gloves at ABA and NBL nationals across the country. The entire team will debut the new gear at the NBL Christmas Classic race in Columbus, OH.

For more info on SE Bikes, visit their website at:

www.sebmx.com

This upcoming weekend, the ABA Grand Nationals will take place and some of the most anticipated and exciting racing action will take place on the track. VSI Products is proud to announce a contest that will be just as exciting as the race action. Selected riders who are signed up to compete at this weekend at the ABA Grands will have the chance to be involved in THE BIGGEST BMX Giveaway ever held at the Grands! Inside of the ABA Grands Goodie bags, you will find the VSI Golden Ticket. After filling out the ticket, come by and drop it off at the VSI/Intense BMX display and have a chance to win one of 40 prizes.

T.J. Lavin, BMX athlete on the Dew Action Sports Tour, is MTV's newest host of the hit reality show Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Gauntlet II.The show premieres December 5th at 10pm ET/PT with a Preview Special on November 21 at 10pm ET/PT.

Lavin succeeds fellow Dew Action Sports Tour competitor and action sports icon, Dave Mirra who hosted the program's previous season.

Lavin recently competed in the Dew Action Sports Tour, the first professional league in action sports history. The tour hosts the top action sports athletes in the world vying for the $3.5 million in prize money and unparalleled television exposure with 32 hours of national programming on NBC and USA. 39,000,000 unduplicated viewers tuned into the Dew Tour during the course of the 2005 season making it the largest television audience in action sports history.

We've got some new FATBMX.com advertisements coming up. You will find them in the new RIDE BMX, DIG, Freedom and Pusher magazines. Here's ad two in a series of three. That's Mientje and our Mom throwing the Slayers at the FAT-JAM Heavy Metal party in OJA. They're not afraid to rock as you can see. Be on the look out for the new ads. Those magazines who are interested in becoming a FATBMX  partner, feel free to get in touch.

BdJ

Damn, Hell, Shit, Devil, the FATBMX server crashed yesterday. Not only did this mean that you couldn't check out the site yesterday, they had only backed up the site from 4 November.

This means that 12 days of uploads are gone and since that takes a couple of hours a day to do, this boy is pissed. What makes me even pissed off is that I have not saved any text and deleted all of the re-sized pics. This blows.

I hope you enjoyed it while it was up. If there is a lawyer out there who can help us sue Orion for a few million.... get in tough. Yeah right.

We apologize to everyone for the inconvenience. We'll try to get some articles back up again and continue from there.

BdJ

At FATBMX we do some things backwards. Instead of promoting the hell out of our new t-shirts and sell them online before they are even printed, we get rid of them first and then put the new design on the website. Deamer designed the new T-shirt and like I said, there are only a few left. You can contact Paul at Paul's Boutique to see what sizes are not sold out. The colour of the shirt will be black. That's the only colour that Coach will wear. That bike in the picture is actually Pete Fastinetto's wethepeople. The pic was taken at "Pete's Ditch" and Deamer got to work with it.

 Price: 20 Euros.

Contact Paul's Boutique at:
Tel: +31.492.382114

www.paulsboutique.nl

When Lance Armstrong's wristbands came on the market I didn't expect much of it. Before I knew it though, I saw loads of people wear those yellow bracelets. It didn't take long before the copycats thought they could cash in on this. We've seen pretty much any colour of the rainbow by now. Enter Mat Hoffman. When he was asked to make some art for a wristband, he had some doubts too. But the Condor was also asked to pick two good causes

We've done some wacky ads and this one isn't much better. That's what you get when you're working deep in the night to reach RIDE UK's deadline the next morning. Anyway, check it out and remember the ad when you see it in the next RIDE. We've used a few celebrities in this one so we hope they won't sue us for money. That would suck, having to pay extra to place an ad. We just want to keep reminding you on our website. Maybe you should bookmark it now and put it on your favorite list before you forget. That way you don't have to type it in all the time.

Hey Folks, on 29 and 30 October 2005 The Parano*Garage Lumberjack Contest will take place at the Skate Hall Aurich again.

This year there is also a new bowl and a new miniramp in the skate hall in Aurich, Germany. We are expecting many riders from all over Germany and the countries next to Germany.

What kind of lumberjack games we are planning this year? We won`t tell you here, but we can tell about the contest modus for the A-class this year: It`s 2 men tag-team time. The B-class will have a normal contest modus. Also: bowl-contest in jam session format.

We don't have a forum on FATBMX (too much thrash talking) but you can participate in the polls that we are putting on from time to time. We have a new one up and running and you can see the results of the old one right here:

Those riders who are living on the Northern hemisphere are feeling that the winter is coming up. In our new poll we'd like to ask you how you kill some time when it's freezing outside and the snow is coming down. Check as many boxes as you like:

To celebrate their tenth successful year NASS2006 will be taking place at the NEC Birmingham, witness the biggest action sports event and expo ever seen in Europe, they bring this unique event to the very heart of the country where a staggering 50,000 visitors will be able to visit the show…

And what a show it’s going to be!
Nass brings you the ultimate action sports event, taking place within 4 of the huge expo halls AT the NEC Arena, all filmed for TV.

MAT HOFFMAN & TONY HAWK Vert Demo Saturday and Sunday 8,500 capacity seating

URBAN ATTACK STREET COMP Pro BMX, BMX Dirt, Flatland, Vert. Saturday Qualifications / Sunday Finals.

From July 21 to 23, the international elite of BMX freestylers will meet up for three days in the Cologne Youthpark to compete in Street, Miniramp, Vert, Flatland and Dirt disciplines. Again in 2006, girls can enter in the Flatland and Street disciplines.

Reserve this date on your 2006 calendar for the BMX Masters in Cologne, Germany. More info on the event can be found at:
Official BMX Masters website.

To all other contest organizers, let's announce the 2006 dates right now so we don't have event clashes again like the one with the LG Action Sports finals in Manchester and the Etnies Backyard jam in Brighton this weekend. Send the dates to FATBMX and we'll put them up on the calendar.