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Yeah yeah we're late with this one and actually all of the Dew Tour Utah updates but cut us some slack. We've been partying, checking in with friends, visited Matt Beringer's house and had a barbeque there, flew to Las Vegas and this week will be more of the above. Good times for sure and we'll get you what you've been waiting for but it might just take a few extra days. The party life started off in Salt Lake City's Hilton Hotel with the Red Bull party. 

The Dew Tour also hosted a UCI BMX Supercross race. The starting hill and the jumps on the track were very impressive. It's good to see that they're stepping up giving the best riders in the world a challenging track. The way thing are run are as follows. Plenty of practice time, followed by a time trial to determine starting positions and then the race starting with 1/8th finals. Teams from Italy, Holland, Belgium, Colombia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Argentina, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, France and some other countries raced against Americans to score points for future Olympic selections.

When you are on the road you seem to end up at the craziest places. It was the surprise Red Bull party on day one (report soon) and it was a boxing game last night. Boxing? Sander, Bern, Andy, Paul and I were walking back to our overcrowded hotel room when we noticed a church that had a boxing game going on. We tried to take a quick photo but the security wasn't having it. The Press from Holland trick didn't work either and we weren't going to pay the entry fee to watch a full game.

Jamie Bestwick moved closer to a third straight Dew Cup by winning the BMX vert finals and James Foster claimed his first AST Dew Tour victory in the BMX dirt finals Friday night at the Toyota Challenge. Bestwick, 36, scored 94.00 points to beat the 92.50 of fellow Briton Simon Tabron. Australia's Steven McCann was third with 91.00 points. Bestwick has won at 11 of 14 Dew Tour stops since 2005.

"I have a few good things I've been working on that I plan to showcase in Orlando in the finals," Bestwick said. "There's a lot on the line next month. I'm going to work on the things that I couldn't get done here and try to give it to the fans in Florida."

Foster, 21, of Redlands, Calif., clinched the victory with a highly technical flawless final run to finish with a 93.25 average score. Foster's previous best finish this season was seventh. 

Jamie Cameron and his crew are organizing a jam next week to raise money for the Pepi Winder Memorial Fund. Pepi, who passed away quite recently at home in Horsham, England, was an early pro on the U.K. BMX scene, riding and competing in events since the early '80s. He rode for Skyway and Vincent amongst others, and was still riding as hard as ever in the current age, attending contests and jams throughout the U.K. and riding his local skatepark weekly.

As things stand, Pepi will be cremated and put in an unmarked shared grave. However, according to Jamie, if they can raise around £1,200 by the end of next week, then they can bury him in Horsham, which is what he always wanted.

In order to raise money for the fund, Jamie is organizing a light hearted jam at Pepi's local park in Horsham, England. 

Oh boy, it was a good day yesterday that didn't seem to end. I like it when things are going good an it doesn't seem to end. It just got better and better and Colton Satterfield and his friend were down for a litle street session for the drunken FATBMX camera. They knew about some stairs around the corner and 2 minutes later we were there. Colton's friend started off with a clean 180 down the stairs and repeated the trick for another shot. Colton stepped it up and did a clean 180 barspin down the stairs first try. The session took 5 minutes and I promised them they would be on the site the next day. 6 hours later and they're online before any of the other Dew Tour coverage. Colton said he had a photo on FATBMX before and I remembered the photo he was talking about. I looked it up just to spell his name right. Cool session guys, let's hook up after the party tonight for some more.

Our buddy Ralf Maier is inviting BMX-ers, skaters, skatepark interested people and locals for a gathering on 21 September at the People's Store in Cologne, Germany. Ralf will have a skatepark model available and will answer skatepark building questions to those who have them. 

Hi, I am now back from Denver after an emotional week with Stephen. To carry on from my last posting Stephen had horrendous neck pain after his teeth extractions. His neck muscles locked and he had to have a sheepskin collar and heat massage to loosen up the muscles alongside his pain medication.

He had a very sleepless night on Thursday and so Friday he was extremely tired and a bit down. He hadn't managed to do any physio or occupational therapy all week and it seemed as though he couldn't progress forwards at all.

What's better than a naked chick on a bike? Two chicks on a tandem!!! Haha. You think we're kidding? Check it out (21 and over)

Here is a new bike from Stolen filling a gap we saw for a high quality yet affordable Brakeless*, Free-coaster bike. The Sinner FC - New Stolen designed 100% Chromoly frame w/ smaller tubes, integrated headset, micro dropouts, w/out 990 mounts or cable guides
- Mid-type BB w/ tubular Chromoly cranks, Stolen Alloy sprocket & Odyssey Twisted PC pedals