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Mike Spinner and Ryan Guettler will make some shop appearances and will ride some sessions over in Australia at the end of this month. They will be visiting the following places:

January 21st - Brisbane
1pm, Cyclescene store visit
3.30pm, For The Riders store visit
4.30pm, Demo @ Fairfield Skatepark

We received a comment on our myspace site from Docks Video who posted a new Stefan Lantschner Nike 6.0 BMX profile. This video is not a rushed 90 second clip but a well thought out video where Stephen hits six different spots over in Italy where he's based. Quality is good for Youtube and Stevan sure has style which made 

This Saturday 20 January the Boneyard is putting on another jam on Tattenhall rd. near Chester (England). It's the park where Owain Clegg, Alistair Whitton, Robin Fenlon and mentor Mad Jon had sessions on a regular basis. The jam will start at 3pm and stops at 9pm. After that it's a good idea to have some pints together as the

If you have been into BMX for a couple of years you (should) know how to put a bike together part by part. If you're just starting out and have a few issues to get your ride tuned up, you should watch Matt Wilhelm's FIX YOUR BIKE instructional videos that he has posted on his new website. Even for the old dawgs the 5 videos might give away a few tricks that you could use from now on. 

Happy B-day this week to the following riders, media people, industry veterans and old school rippers:

15 January 1989 - Jan Willem Koppenens
17 January 1970 - Greg Guillotte
18 January 1970 - Alan Foster
18 January 1970 - Steve Swope
18 January 1970 - Mark Losey
19 January 1970 - Sébastien Woody Bonnot
19 January  19     -  Karl Poynter
20 January 1966 - Dave Wootten (GCD)
21 January 1962 - Harold McGruther

Sorry it has been a couple weeks since our last update. So I wanted to make sure you all know how much we appreciate your well wishes, birthday messages & prayers. I'm awaiting an update from Stephen's father, but I can give you a little insight from my time with Stephen & his family. Their holidays have been wonderful, just being together as a family is more than anyone could ask for. Though Stephen has been sick off & on he continues to fight everything thrown at him. At Christmas, Santa (you all know who you are) must have known all that they lost when they had to move after Stephen's injury. Seth & Mason woke up Christmas morning with 

Bruno Hoffmann might have picked up a new clothing sponsor in the form of Lavar, but I'm not sure if they're making jeans yet. If not, he should be talking to the Levi's company as they know how to make a pair or two. Here's a Levi's remix movie made by Will Stroud. The riding comes from T-Nez, Bestrick, Wade and Napolitan:

Michael McQueen finished up a new web video that you can watch over at the Eastern Bikes' site in High Definition. Zach Rogers, Seamus Mecoen and Phil Jones had a little street session in South Carolina that included a curved wallride, stairs, and rails.

On 16 February 2008 the RIDE IT winterjam will take place in The Cinema Studio Of Riga (Latvia). A new park will be built and there will be BMX, Sk8board, and MTB competitions, BMX flatland jam, Snow and Ski jam. The afterparty will take place in 2 large halls, with DJ and VJ show, and you will be able to relax in Chill-out hall. Visit the website by going HERE

After 14 years with etnies the time has come to move on. In late 1993 I sent etnies a sponsor-me video, half of which was footage from the video "Dirty Deeds". Surprisingly I got a phone call back from Don Brown, I wasn't really expecting one because etnies at the time was a skate only company. A few days later I headed down to their offices and picked up a package. I had my first real sponsor. I was 16 years old. By the time 1996 rolled around I had convinced them to give me a budget to start a BMX program. I asked most of the guys to ride for etnies at the South Padre X Trials contest.