Bart de Jong
The AST Dew Tour, the world's premier season-long action sports tour, begins its second event of the season on Thursday, July 17 with the Right Guard Open at Cleveland's North Coast Harbor. The five-city tour also includes stops in Baltimore, Portland, Salt Lake City and Orlando. Currently in its fourth year, the AST Dew Tour is the most watched and attended action sports property in the world. Attendance for the 2007 AST Dew Tour totaled 280,000 and an average of 41 million viewers tuned in via NBC and USA each year. The top athletes in the world will take part in this year's Tour, all competing for the highly coveted Dew Cup that will be awarded in Orlando at season's end to champions in each of the six disciplines. The 2007 Dew Cup winners include Jamie Bestwick (BMX Vert), Ryan Nyquist (BMX Dirt), and Daniel Dhers (BMX Park). There are a number of athletes to watch on the fourth season of the AST Dew Tour-both veterans and a few new faces. A list of a few of those athletes to watch is as follows:
Nike 6.0 is providing Reuse-A-shoe collection bin¹s at every AST Dew Tour stop, where your old kicks will be recycled. Besides Dew-ing the right thing, you¹ll save $2 off admission everyday you bring a pair of blown-out shoes. Show your battered kicks to the ticket office, then toss them dogs in the Nike 6.0 collection bin. As part of Reuse-A-Shoe, we¹ll grind up grimy sneaks of any brand, then process and recycle them into a post-consumer material used to build sport surfaces. This Sunday at the Cleveland AST Dew Tour, Nike 6.0 will be swapping your blown-out kicks for new 6.0¹s for the first 30 peeps with old sneaks to recycle. Bring your camping gear and get in line early to make the top 30, then show your support at the BMX Park Finals. Gates are scheduled to open at noon. BMX Park Finals go down at 4:30.
Besides finally disposing of that "weird" smell and saving a few
What: FAT-JAM Who: Everybody with a BMX bike + party animals Where: Aarle-Rixtel, Netherlands
Why: 20th edition!
When: 9 August 2008
What: FAT-JAM The 20th edition of the FAT-JAM is going to take place on 9 August next. The FAT-JAM was started in 1987 with the first street jam on the RollerRink in Aarle-Rixtel. A sheet of plywood was nailed against the basketball pole, some pallets were placed against the Renault 4, a washing machine made for an obstacle and together with the few ramps we had to formed a real ghetto park. But the statement was made. Ride for fun and don't worry about the contest. We can say that for the 20th edition the intention is still the same.
Who: The FAT-JAM has been a De Jong Bro cooperation from the start.
Heard of Scott Twiford before? Me neither. But it shows that you don't need to be big time to get a cover of BMX Plus! and we like that. Pay $ 4.99 and you have the August issue in your hands and as the cover says, you can win Darin Read's personal Diamondback too. Turn to page 56 for that. Bikes tested in this issue are the DK Six Pack and the Formula Pro XL race bike. Events covered are the Ticos Jam (flatland!), Ricardo Laguna's Extreme Thing (Vegas style) and the NBL Pacific Nationals. Next to that the following articles can be found inside: -Racing tips from Matt Pohlkamp
-Hang-5 how-to
-Installing 3-piece cranks how-to
-Bikechecks with Nate Berkheimer, Kevin Porter, Will Love, Ricardo Laguna and Karl Poynter
-The annual T-shirt shoot-out. Over 100 T-shirts you can choose from.
You know, you talk about ideas and nothing happens. This time however it worked out. Thanks to Mike de Wit (Medow design) and Mike Emde (Carhartt) we now have limited edition FAT-JAM sticker packs! 19 different stickers in one pack, a special 20th edition FAT-JAM collab. We're stoked on the designs, they show the FAT-JAM history with a Bavaria 8.6 design, Bikes- Beers- and Bitches sticker, the old FAT-'zine logo, the FAT-JAM megaphone and of course the OJA handlebar beer bong. 
Invited Riders to ride at the Soul Bowl in Huntington Beach 25-27 July 2008:1 Dave Brumlow
2 Austin Coleman
3 Jay Eggleston
4 Chad Kagy
5 Koji Kraft
6 Mike Mancuso
7 Steven McCann
8 Joe Rich
9 Kevin Robinson
10 Ben Snowden
11 Tom Stober
12 Jimmy Walker
13 Francisco "CoCo" Zurita
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