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The 40D gave up on me and also having no computer is a pain in the ass. These are two important items when you are doing a website and communication is part of your job. Hopefully these things will be fixed by next week and things are back to "normal". It's hard to worry about these situations when you don't have to deal with them yourself but I can tell you that it gets stressful when things don't work the way you want them to work. You take these things for granted, that's for sure. 

-Frame: Mirraco Black Pearl, 20.8″
-Fork: Odyssey Race forks
-Bars: Mirraco, 8″ rise
-Stem: DK Race
-Grips: ODI
-Barends: Animal 

We've posted that photo of the BMX girls copying this photo and receive it every now and then from people who think it fits well on the FATBMX Pin Up page. Real FATBMX Pin Up visitors know what photo I'm talking about. Here's the original picture.

For Simpel Session international guests, the easiest way is to purchase the tickets from Piletilevi. Just go on the site, register yourself as a user, make a payment with your creditcard or bank transfer and print your ticket out with your home printer right away or let it send it to your e-mail and print it out later. 

On Saturday, December 6, 2008, The Byke Project will host the Official premier of the new Terry Adams DVD “DREAMS”. Released in October 2008, this new film/documentary follows the travels of Terry Adams, professional bmx flatland rider, and shares his personal story about how this sport has taken him across the globe and impacted his life in so many ways.

Mickey Gaidos, the film producer and Terry Adams set out to produce and film a movie that is structured not only as a flatland bmx video but a story of motivation and how one person can make anything happen if they believe in themselves. Taking your childhood dreams and making them come true is possible for anyone is the message that Terry gives through this film. A trailer for the film can be seen here.

The premier will take place at “BLOCK 21”, a new club/lounge located on Washington Ave. near Downtown Houston. Pre-event festivities include several hours of jam & riding time for many attending Am &

BMX giants getting together! The Street Session at the Velodrom, November 29th & 30th will show you the world's best BMXers. On the list of participants there are big names like X Games winner and AST Dew Tour winner 2006/2007/2008 Daniel Dhers from Venezuela, his Australian opponent Ryan Guettler and last year's Street Session winner Alessandro Barbero from Italy. Halfpipe-wise there will be international top notch riders like multiple world chamion Simon Tabron UK), X Games winner Chad Kagy (USA) and Francisco Zurita from Chile.  The countdown for the Street Session 2008 is ticking. The world's best BMXers are on their way to Berlin. On November, 29th & 30th the action will be "GO" in the disciplines Street and Vert at the Velodrom. The starting field consists of ten invited riders, Street has three more qualifiants as well as a T-Mobile Wildcard winner.

Top favorite for Street is hot shot Daniel Dhers from Venezuela. Dhers won the X Games two times and also took home victories

The United States Olympic Committee announced BMX cyclisDonny Robinson (Napa, Cailf.) as its male Athlete of the Month for October. Robinson won the overall 2008 UCI Supercross BMX World Cup title in October. After finishing second in the final round of the World Cup in France on Oct.11, Robinson secured the top spot in the final World Cup standings. Another BMX cyclist, Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah), finished third in the women's voting after

Stew Johnson made a new Anthem/Aitken T-shirt that is available at some fine BMX dealers to support Mike Aitken. The T-shirts are $20 bucks and all proceeds go to the Aitken recovery fund. Get them from DansComp, TimelessBMX, 5050BMX, CircuitBMX, Empire BMX, OBMX, TwoByFourStore or MaulsBikeShop. You can have the same shirt in your closet just like the Condor, Joe Rich, T-Nez, Taj,