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We received the results and rider comments from the Asian X-Games. There's a surprise in the Park results. How much longer before the Asians are going to rule the Dew Tour? Heard of Kiattichai Wanitsakun before?

The Liberation Jam in Tilburg was another excuse to get together and ride together. It's a theme that Team Neighbor lives by and fits well in the Dutch BMX scene. After 5 weeks of amazing sunshine and summer temperatures in Holland also this day was a good one. We are welcoming Global Warming as long as the dikes keep the water out.

Anyway, back to the Liberation jam which was organized by BMX-er Jesse de Doelder. On the 5th of May each year we celebrate the end of World War II and festivities take place all over. In Tilburg this year Jesse got a roll-in, jump ramp and quarter to wall at a prime spot in the city center and with the back-up from Red Bull there were some good tunes too. During the day anybody could ride the set-up. Mischa Rath was on the MIC to talk some shit and gap between the launch ramp and landing changed a few times during the day. It was a little flashback to the old GT Airshows that took that same (shitty) take-off ramp all over Europe.

Perfect trails, a good atmosphere and sunshine all around: Those were the conditions for the first T-Mobile Local Support Challenge in the Abflughalle Grevenbroich on the weekend of 21st of April 2007. All in all ten BMX teams from all regions of Germany had a great battle in front of the judges Andy Zeiss, Achim Kujawski and Sari Jörgensen. It was all about top-prizes, like a new Local Support Obstacle or a complete BBQ party. Furthermore there was a T-Mobile Wildcard to be had, awarded to the best unsponsored BMX rider who would then be able to move directly into the finals of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds event in Herten on the 12th of May.

The “Sport Import Team” with Markus Hampl, Bjorn Heyer and Benny Paulsen won the team challenge at the end of the day and are now looking forward to a brand new custom made Local Support Obstacle. The T-Mobile Wildcards stayed local with Mike Buse (BMX) going to ride with top-riders like Ryan Nyquist at the Dirt Session, which is the premiere of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds series, 

The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, today announced its pre-qualified athletes for the 2007 season. Athletes are pre-qualified for the 2007 AST Dew Tour’s first stop, the Panasonic Open, based on their rankings at the end of the 2006 AST Dew Tour season. Additionally 3-4 wild cards per discipline have been selected. Athletes who are not pre-qualified may compete as Open Qualifiers at the Panasonic Open and the Right Guard Open to earn a spot in the preliminary rounds. The full list of pre-qualified athletes is as follows:

BMX Park
Daniel Dhers
Scotty Cranmer
Ryan Nyquist
Alistair Whitton
Gary Young
Steven McCann

The first round of the 3 series BMX Flatland World Series took place in Tokyo on Saturday.  Michael Steingraeber is the sole European in the top 20 on place 12. The comp was won by Yoshiki Uchino. Let's see how many Japanese riders will make it to the Voodoo jam in the USA and Flatground in The Netherlands to score points for the overall title.

2007 Round 1 Pro Class results
1 Yoshiki Uchino 1000
2 Yoshihiro Shinde 939
3 Hiroya Morizaki 897
4 Shintaro Misawa 865
5 Hirokazu Miura 840
6 York Uno 817
7 Ryoji Yamamoto 796
8 Shinichi Kiba 778
9 Syuichi Osada 761

Bart pretty much summed up Singapore in his last entry so I'll try to stick to the PIG game this time... Like Bart said they bussed us from the "metro" hotel downtown about 20 minutes to our new home, the Siloso Beach Resort. I think shock and awe pretty much sums up everyone's reaction when we first rolled up. Jay Miron filled

What holidays are more appreciated than those who not only contains the absence of school, but also good times with bikes and friends? The recently finished Easter holiday was just a vacation like that; an opportunity to get away from the tedious weekdays and travel around the country with a bunch of good friends. I (Jon Bokrantz) and Adrian Malmberg had been talking about a trip down to Linköping over the Easter week-end, basically just to get away from home and peacefully enjoy some riding and friendship. But after some discussions forth and back we came up with the idea of extending the former plan and make it into a one week roadtrip. We loosely planned the trip and hoped for consistent luck rather than spending hours of preparation to come up with a strict schedule. So on Thursday morning I threw my bags and my bike into the car and headed down south. 

Results JomoPro Pro class: 
1. Zack Warden - $7000
2. Steve McCann - $4000
3. Craig Mast - $2500
4. Ricky Moseley - $800
5. Ron Thomas - $750
6. Josh Perry - $700
7. Mark Mulville - $650
8. John Rodgers - $600
9. Jeremiah Jones - $550
10. John Ludwick Jr. - $500
11. Steve Woodward
12. Lil' John
13. Cole Todorevich
14. Karl Poynter

With rain showing up at the end of group 3 on Saturday, the plan was to move it up into the night. Just when everything had dried up it started to rain again and plan B was to start first thing in the morning. For most of the riders 8am is pretty damn early but when Jay Miron and Paul Roberts ask you to cooperate after you've been flown to the other side of the world for a contest, you just say; "No Problem." The bar looked pretty empty on Saturday night and at 00:30am it was just BiBi and myself finishing up our last drink. Bibi had already ridden his qualifying session and didn't have to get on the bike at 8am.

I was surprised to see everyone at breakfast in the morning and at 8am riders were rolling around on the street course "warming up" for their runs. After filming a little TV introduction Matt Beyers had the opportunity to start off the day with his last tricks. Rain showed up on Saturday right before last tricks in his group.