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Tons of clips in the Videos section once again and also some old school stuff. Paul's Boutique became a Fixie shop for one day (1 April) and then said Fuck the Fixies on April 2. By the way, that KHE invention was a joke too, but they sent it out in March and has some people confused. Now here's more, just keep reading and see you at the jam this afternoon or/and the 15 years of Paul's Boutique anniversary party tonight in OJA.

-News from the FBM crew: Come celebrate the awesomeness of bmx and become part of your community with The FBM Ramp Jam And Punk Show at the Bike Lot in Richmond Va (April 10th) And the BMX swap meet and Tailgate with FBM at “Joel Barnett's Upstate Fiasco” on May 1st at East Shore Skatepark. eastshoreskatepark.com

BMX is a community, whether you’re from a small town or a large bmx scene you have traded and sold old or used new bmx parts with friends ,FBM be having a bmx swap with NOS (New old stock) and used Parts and clothing meet so bring any BMX related items to Sell, trade, Skate park opens at noon, And contest starts at 3pm, and we encourage people to bring there own stuff for the swap meet. ( Bring your own chairs/tables or blankets to set up...)

Ridaz:
-Jadan Roxburgh on Sputnic International Flow
-Mark Potoczny off Hoffman Bikes
-Linus Einarsson on Sputnic International Flow
-Chris Courtenay on Colony

-News from Faction: Eddie Fiola and Joel Alamo will be riding their 22" bikes at the Woodward Old School Jam this weekend. Kevin Jones got in touch last week wanting to buy two sets of wheels so he can make up his own frames. The Minnesota Faction guys got in touch yesterday and want to help out promoting our 22" bikes, some guy who works for Haro in the US also e-mailed yesterday wants one. We just hooked up New York trails rider David Yezierski who shoots with Keith Terra to ride for us. Craig Campbell has an interview coming out in Dig mag very soon and he's also designing his own 22" signature frame. Sidewall will be our US distributor starting in Aug with our next 22" bike the Amero.

-The FAT FAVOURITES lists this week came from the following riders:
-Dane Wild
-Glenn Salyers
-Mini Park
-Augie Simoncini
-Zane Bradley
-Eduards Zunda
-Mark Mulville
and because we didn't manager to send out a FAT Friday last week from Madrid we'll mention the ones from the week before too:
-AJ Anaya
-Jessica Ausec
-Brandon Dosch
-Chris Childs
-Terremoto
-David Grant
-Mykel Larrin
Coming up this week are a.o.: Josh Perry, Vincent Smith, Josh Stricker, Dan Foley..

2010/04/03 - Paul's Boutique 15th Anniversary
2010/04/03 - Easter Classic
2010/04/03 - Mini FATJAM 2010
2010/04/04 - Easter Bmx jam
2010/04/09 - JomoPro
2010/04/11 - UKBFA Reunion
2010/04/18 - Helm Jam
2010/04/24 - Freestyle BMX & MTB Polish Championships
2010/04/24 - Dorchester Skatepark Jam
2010/04/24 - All American Nationals
2010/04/25 - T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds
2010/05/02 - Flame Trails jam
2010/05/07 - UCI BMX SX Copenhagen, DK
2010/05/08 - BMX Jump Contest at Bike Days
2010/05/08 - Freedom Nationals
2010/05/09 - Tour Dur Laarbeek
2010/05/12 - fise
2010/05/15 - 20inch Trophy - Park Contest
2010/05/28 - Spring Nationals
2010/05/28 - adidas eyewear - Austrian King of Dirt 2010

-On the BMX side of things we posted the Good Stuff lists of the following Pro racers:
-Maik Baier
-Denzel Stein
-Courtney Tomei
-Alex Anthony
-Vance Wiesendanger
-Afro Bob
-Stephanie Barragan
-Steven Cisar
-Teagan O'Keeffe
-Sander Bisseling
Plenty more lined up so if you want to know what the current fast BMX guys think is good, hit up the BMX Racing button from time to time. We did an interview with South Africa's Sifiso Nhlapo too. Stored in there as well.

-The Workshop Wednesday we did this week was with Kim Boyle. For those who are into making/building stuff in their own garage working on bikes, furniture, ramps, cars, go check out that Workshop Wednesday section for some good reads.


-Are we going to luck out on the weather again today? I hope they've got the weather forecast right for once. Little cloud AND the sun above Aarle-Rixtel this afternoon.

-March 2010 was another record month for FATBMX.com. 45.000 more Unique Visitors than in the same month last year and over 100.000 more than in 2008. A little indication:

March 2007:    80886 Unique visitors that month
March 2008:  101962 Unique visitors that month
March 2009:  162020 Unique visitors that month
March 2010:  207701 Unique visitors that month

Off to the Sugar Hills. Laters.

BdJ