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These blueprints show a prototype street fork we're working on for summer 2009 introduction. Dubbed the Pickle Fork, our new fork is engineered for street and ramps. That means you can run a peg. Heck, you can run two pegs. Like so many high-tech frames now available, the dropouts on the Pickle Fork are CNC'ed from 7mm thick 4130 chromoly. All unnecessary metal has been relieved from the dropout to reduce weight, and the edges are faceted to give the fork a distinctive appearance. In a nod to pure street and ramp riders' needs, the dropouts are designed to

ASA Entertainment (ASA) is excited to announce that the ASA Action Sports World Tour, one of the industry’s oldest and most elite action sports competition circuits, will return to Chicago for the first time in over a decade. On May 1st the ASA Action Sports World Tour will visit the Sears Centre Arena with a one-day competition featuring the world’s top X Games pros in Skateboard, BMX and Freestyle Motocross (FMX). As the third stop on the 2009 Tour, this event offers a chance for the competing athletes to gain the valuable ranking points necessary for qualification into the season-ending Action Sports World Championships and for fans in the Windy City to see these amazing aerial artists live for the first time after a 12-year absence.

For three hours, fans will witness intense competitive action between the sport’s top pros such as BMX star Mike Spinner (Oceanside, New York), X Games BMX Gold Medalist Daniel Dhers (Caracas, VZ),

Over at Parano Garage they're having a complete bike sale. If your wallet is effected by the crisis too you might want to check out the specials they've got going on Mirraco bikes, Eastern bikes, KHE complete bikes, wethepeople completes and United bikes. There are some cruisers for sale too. Specials on both 2008 and 2009 models. 

MARCH 7 IS THE DAY! THE GRANDOPENING PARTY FOR SAMBA ROCK ACAI CAFE!! YES IT'S TRUE, WE'VE FINALLY GONE THRU THE RED-TAPE, FINISHED CONSTRUCTION, AND WE'RE READY TO CELEBRATE! Maybe you already know that Ron Wilkerson and his wife are opening an acai café in downtown Santa Cruz, and maybe you already know that their space was designed by RICH HANSON ‹"The most unique space in Santa Cruz" said Andrew Slader- health inspector).

Ron Wilkerson: "We've been working on this for ONE YEAR, and now we're pulling it off by the skin of our teeth! so we are ready to CELEBRATE! We're going to have dj's playing throughout the day, and performers including the illustrious Sharon Allen (and Sheri Austin -tent.), Nate Dennen + his crew, and others starting @ 11A (we open at 8A)...as well as having our UNIQUE, DELICIOUS, HEALTY,

It is nice when your local council gets it. In Middelburg they can't complain. They've had the indoor Meker skatepark for a while now (a cool little ramp set-up inside an old sports hall) and now only 50 meters away from this place a new outdoor spot is shaping up. Making the most out of a little space, and a limited budget of course, is tough but it looks like there was some good