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Sidewall Distribution is proud to announce the addition of TSG Safety Gear to their line of distributed brands. “TSG offers a large line of helmets, pads, bags to apparel, including special products that are geared towards women and children. TSG will enhance our already great line of brands and product that we offer," says Sidewall owner Mark Owen.

Founded in 1988 by German vert skateboarder Titus Dittman, TSG's main objective was to develop quality safety gear that protected the user from injuries without restricting their movements. Now 21 years later, TSG’s headquarter and design lab is located in Switzerland and their range of products includes helmets, pads, bags and

For the time being Eindhoven has an indoor place to ride. We've got to thank Klaas and Pim van den Bos for that. So even when it gets cold and starts raining in the next few weeks, you've got an indoor location in Eindhoven city to work on your skills. An opening jam is coming up. We fired over some questions to Pim and here's what he had to say.

You and your dad have been lobbying for years to get an indoor place in Eindhoven. It looks like you have a place this winter. Is it a perfect situation?
Pim: Actually it’s far from perfect but we didn’t have any indoor location in this area so it’s a good start. The park is located in an old Philips machine factory exploited by a foundation called ‘Straatcultuur en –sport’ (streetculture and –sports)and they called it ‘The Building’. My dad and I had started a foundation called ‘BMX Freestyle’ to fight for an indoor place in the area of Eindhoven (areacode: 040). Since our foundation was the only party working together with ‘Straatcultuur 

Rich was responsible for the 3 trailers leading up to the event and has once again given his slightly left of centre tweak to the 2 days of insane riding 200 ft under quaint English countryside that was the Nike 6.0 Tunnel Jam. With the first edit hitting over 2m views in a fortnight we’re pretty sure you saw, or at least heard about, some of the crazy lines that got thrown down by the likes of Garrett Reynolds, Bas Keep and Drew Bezanson. Now the dust has settled, we’ve cleaned up and it’s your turn to give the Nike 6.0 Tunnel a run for it’s 

The Bike Festival in Santarém, will receive the last stage of BMX Series by Eastpak - National BMX Championship 2009. The stage will be in 24 and 25 of October and will determine the firsts classifieds of the national ranking. This stage counts with a new circuit built only for this event. There are only 3 categories, Pro , Amateur and Beginners, only riders born after 1992 are able to register in beginners class. The competition will be jam style, the riders will have six minutes for each three riders, alternating 

Name: Aaron Zwaal
Age: 19
Hometown: Altijd Nijmegen!
Hook-ups/Sponsors: No hook-ups or sponsors, hook me up for some quality time!

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Park is 1 1/2minute from my home which I consider one of the most fun parks in Holland, street is fun as well!
-BMX video: Road fools 17! 
-Website: Vimeo, FATBMX, TCU, bmxigans,hyves and 031!
-Web video: Erik Elstran and most videos I watch but that Ty Morrow and Lacey edit was sick!
-Food: Wraps, ice tea, stroopwafels and Hollands culinary stuff.