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Ryan Nyquist continued his domination on the AST Dew Tour collecting his second consecutive event title in the BMX Dirt competition on Friday, July 20 at the Right Guard Open, the second event on the 2007 AST Dew Tour at Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor.
Nyquist of Los Gatos, Calif., completed a flawless final run to overtake Corey Bohan and Luke Parslow of Australia to capture his second event title in as many events. Nyquist finished with a final score of 91.08. Bohan followed close behind at 90.42 and Parslow at 89.67. After two events, Nyquist leads the BMX Dirt tour standings with 200 points, followed by Cameron White at 130 and Bohan in third at 124.

“I’m definitely off to a great start,” said Nyquist. “I’m definitely happy. I had kind of a scare in the second run and knew the 720 was a risky move, but I’m glad I was able to pull it off. It was a great competition and we’ve had some amazing runs this season.”

These are the qualification results of the dirt contest at the second stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour that takes place in Cleveland, Ohio this weekend.
1. Joey Marks
2. Ryan Guettler
3. Ryan Nyquist
4. Anthony Napolitan
5. Diogo Canina
6. Cameron White
7. Luke Parslow
8. Corey Bohan
9. Allan Cooke
10. TJ Ellis
11. James Foster

Results Vert prelims Dew Tour Cleveland, Ohio, USA:

1. Jamie Bestwick
2. Chad Kagy
3. Jay Eggleston
4. Francisco Zurita
5. Steve McCann
6. Simon Tabron
7. Kevin Robinson
8. Dennis McCoy
9. John Parker
10. Jimmy Walker

Here's a recap of the Suzuki BMX Masters that took place in Cologne last weekend:

Street
No doubt, one of the absolute highlights of this year´s Suzuki BMXMasters were once again the pro street finals at sunday afternoon. In a burning heat the pro BMX riders fought a real trick marathon. While in the last year still "double tailwhips" impressed the spectateurs, BMX riders like Ben Wallace amazed the crow now with the triple edition – the "triple tailwhip". Also Alessandro Barbero (IT) ambitous and impressive tricks such as "backflip tailwhip" over the box, Allan Cooke (USA) "backflip x-up nofoot" or Michael Beran's (CZ) "frontflip tailwhip" were celebrated by the spectators loudly. With a spectacular run Daniel Dhers from Venezuela could save the first place before Ben Wallace (UK). Alessandro Barbero (IT) who took first place in 2006 became third.

A broken arm didn't stop Mark Webb from claiming his third Braun cruZer Tour championship at the final round at the Suzuki BMX Masters in Cologne, Germany. Thousands of partisan spectators from across Europe watched the Braun Mini Ramp's last outing for 2007 and their enthusiastic support inspired the riders to new heights. Webb was displaying the awesome class that won him the 2005 and 06 Braun cruZer Tours, but crashed heavily halfway through his second run and immediately knew he had snapped his forearm. "My arm is broken," he announced from the bottom of the ramp. "Tell someone it's snapped!" However, his trick-laden first run on the Braun cruZer Mini Spine was enough to earn him third place on the day.

Ben Wallace (GBR) won the leg, nailing a Tailwhip to tap on the spine and picking up enough points to tie him with Webb on the 

The BMX Masters is a huge event. It has expert classes, master classes and pro classes. And then they've got flatland, vert, street, mini and dirt. Some of them are pro-only but you get the feeling that there is some riding to take care of in one weekend. With rain on Friday that didn't help the situation but with a little improvising there's always a way to get it done. And they did.

Fourteen riders showed up to ride the vert ramp at the Suzuki BMX Masters. Not a whole lot but for a vert competition these days it was quite a turnout. The vert discipline is still one of the favorites for the crowd, especially when Mat Hoffman and Simon Tabron drop in. The two are living (vert) legends and the chance to see them ride in the flesh needs to be taken. A lot of people did, which was a good way to end the 2007 Masters.

Daniel Dhers decided to join the fun and entered his first vert contest ever. After a second place on mini and a first in street, Daniel had nothing to lose and just rolled in for the fun of it. His type of fun doesn't end with X-up airs though. He did whips, double whips, MX airs, no-handers and flairs and ended his runs with a couple of X-ups, some in alley-oop mode. Daniel qualified in third but ended up in fourth in the finals. Still, not bad considering it was his first real halfpipe competition.

On Friday before the contest fellow jump builder Benny Paulsen estimated a 10 rider field for dirt. The set up was gnarly and people who had entered (48 pro riders) did not have much time to get used to the course. Making it to the end of the course wasn't easy but when it mattered, 33 riders rode, which was a decent number. Respect to all who had the balls to drop in from that 5 meter high platform and made it to the last set.

Mother Nature is a BMX fan! Despite weather forecasts predicting cold and rainy days for the weekend, a packed Whistler Village witnessed the skies clear and Red Bull Elevation go off to once again live up to the hype as the best event in BMX dirt jumping. From the first run, the 32 invited riders were throwing it all on the line and in the qualifying rounds, it was Corey Bohan who led the pack dropping a double tailwhip, superman seat grab and backflip in his first drop-in!

From there it was a battle between Bohan and 2005 winner Ryan Nyquist as they dropped every killer combo on the course and inched point by point up the board to land first and second place settings leading into the finals. 

There have been talks about this year's dirt course. After weeks of building and dealing with a lot of rain, only Marcus Hampl had made it through the complete set on Friday 13 July. The field of 48 riders will be cut quickly as most riders simply can't handle the terrain. The straight final (with whoever wants to ride) will be on Sunday afternoon. The course starts with a 5 meter high platform where the riders get speed to jump into a 2,30 meter landing followed by a 5 meter hipper to the right and some mighty sets.