In spite of perfect autumn sunhsine outside, the Tretlager BMX Hall (Emmering/ Munich) was packed when the Local Support contest started and hyped up the riders for a big show. 19 teams and 57 riders - of which the youngest ones were only 10 years old - including many locals, but also teams from all over Germany and even Austria came to shred the Street Challenge. The final was full of action and finally won by ‚The Stevens’ followed closely by ‚Bodo’s Angels’ from Oldenburg. The winning team of Craig Stevens, Simon Stevens and Volker „Stevens“ Wildner took along the 4000 € T-Mobile support for their BMX spot in Dachau/ Munich. A local rider, Rafael Adam, received the T-Mobile Wildcard for the best . He convinced the judges (including former BMX pro Benny Korthaus) of his riding style and now starts directly at the Street Session Finals of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds held on October 13th in Berlin. This gives him the chance to compete with international top riders like Ben Wallace or Alessandro Barbero.
The dirt part of the Dew Tour was pretty sick. Fuzzy and his crew had brought in the premiere dirt and it was good. The course had a drop off for a start where some people did a little variation before hitting the first big set. After that three sets of big hips followed which made for a good course. The crowd during prelims and the finals was big which added to the pressure for the riders. The comp was held at night when the win had slowed down. The generators that provided energy for the extra lights were more poluting than anything I've seen. They even warmed up the Friends and Family stage with black smoke. A big difference between the Dew Tour and European events is that it was not posible to drink alcohol during the contest in the crowd. Some backpack beer runs and Rockstar drink bottles helped out during the dirt finals. The sign said: "Alcohol Violators Will Be Ejected" but if there's a will, there's a way. The State of Utah is kinda strange when it comes to drinking anyway with their maximum of 3.2% alcohol in beers and membership rules for the clubs which have to close at 1am on every night. It was definitely not the favorite state of the Hardcore Drinking Team. 
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.
This weekend the Bulls Spine Jam took place at europe's biggest bike-business trade show. National and international BMX rider showed spectacular tricks and BMX action. Saturday, 15. september 2007, IFMA Cologne: Nine o´clock on time the first BMX riders from Germany and Europe are doing warm-up runs for the contest at the Braun Spine Ramp, the world´s biggest mobile ramp. Beneath are top-class Pro and Amateur riders such as Phil Aller, Mark Webb and Chris Mahoney from England but also the twelve-years-old local and BULLS teamrider David Theisen from Cologne. 
Vert Finals - Official Results San Diego, CA - Belmont Park September 15, 2007 1. Simon Tabron
2. Steve McCann
3. John Parker
4. Koji Kraft
Purpose: "Our events target at-risk areas, bringing together pro athletes to encourage, support from the online BMX community for exposure of underground talent, and dedicated sponsors for support." Re-cap: Sunday, September 2nd 2007: For the 2nd year in a row, Eric Hough, and his organization known as Foundations, has successfully delivered an encouraging and inspirational BMX event to the city of Long Beach, California.
The Simpel Session Summer Splash took place in August. Not too many well known pros made it over to Estonia for this but after seeing the course this can only change in the future, just like the Simpel Session winter edition has turned into an event that everyone wants to go to. Mario Kalmre sent us the results and a bunch of photos of the summer event which was a way to qualify for the winter edition for riders over there in the Baltic countries. 
Huge Dirt Jump Contest In Brazil last weekend, pretty nice trails, 3 ramps ,starting with a gap drop giving a 60 KmH speed, first double about 2.90m high with a 7,70 meter distance to the 3,50m landing. "This is the formula to get good velocity to other 2 ramps", said by Eduardo Villar ( Rockets BMX ) the guy responsable to build those. All the dirt riders enjoyed at the first time view, the constest was opened 2 days before to warm-up and all BMXers could abserve the envorinment and the place, this is my main idea; have a nice time, not the usually contest competittion stress. Everyone could feel at home there, wich was the key for this big dirt jump event and best tricks shown in Brazil ever. Very young dirt riders show up different style and push up all the level and encrease the pontential of all those who went to easily win the prize, the 3 judges Andre Ribeiro (DreamBMX), Fabio Navarro (AranhaBMX) and Fabiano Gigante( Rockets BMX) were perfect and very well since the classify to the finals.
The dust has settled, the sunburn has gone, the injuries are healing, the hangovers are just a memory but what great memories we all have of the 2007 TWOAND8 Worcester Stephen Murray Jam. This year was a very special one as all proceeds from the jam went to our good friend Stephen Murray and his family. We raised over £10,000 and would like to say a big thanks to everyone who made the effort to come to the jam to ride, hangout, eat, sunbathe, party or draw blood. The whole weekend had a very relaxed and laid back vibe (as TWOAND8 jams do) due to the lack of a strict schedule and Redbull providing tunes all weekend. 
The inaugural X Games Mexico Presented by Rockstar Energy Drink concluded today in Mexico City as 14,038 screaming fans welcomed a world-class, international field of gravity defying athletes. The three-day event showcased some of the world's best action sport athletes from 12 countries and three continents, competing in BMX Freestyle Street, Skateboard Street and Moto X Best Trick at the Palacio de los Deportes. 
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.