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The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo, announced today the addition of 20-year-old BMX Rider Nigel Sylvester to their elite team roster. This is Sylvester's first beverage sponsorship deal. Sylvester is the owner of Format, a BMX - lifestyle shop in Queens, NY and rarely competes. He rides primarily for photo shoots and for filming purposes, and appears in many endemic BMX films, including

Get in the shoes of a product designer. See what it takes to spec a bike pice by piece and you can win one of the three Breakless Suck It hoodies for your effort. The people at Breakless shop are going to put some bikes together and they want you to get involved. What inner tubes do you need? What sort of chain? The cool thing about it is that the bikes that they are actually going to have made will have your name on it. See what pricepoint your bike would come in. Would it sell? After going through all the parts the discussion can start about the colour of the frame and parts...Hmm more work than you thought?

Australia’s biggest freestyle BMX competition will enter it’s sixth year in 2009 and is putting on the largest scale BMX Games in the events history. Taking place over the Australia Day long Weekend, the 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink BMX Games presented by Strictly BMX, has more than three hundred Australian and International competitors wheeling their way down to Melbourne’s Docklands and battling it out over Park, Flatland and Dirt BMX disciplines. Competition fires up on Saturday January 24th with the Haro Bikes Park Competition at Central Pier, Docklands. Competitors will be split into Junior, Pro, Expert and Girls divisions with qualifiers on the Saturday and finals on the Sunday. All the action is taking place on Australia’s largest mobile street course which will be set up over water and feature the best street BMX competitors in Australia.

Waterfront City will then play host to the BMX Discipline with the 

Happy Birthday party people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6 January 19    - Sean Burns
7 January 1970 - Jesse Puente
8 January 1966 - Ron Wilkerson
8 January 19      - Matt Miller
9 January 1972  - Mathew Hoffman
9 January 1980  - Stephen Murray
10 January 1979 - Matt Wilhelm
11 January 1987 - Scotty Cranmer

Not sure about you but we can't wait to get to Tallinn for the Simpel Session. They do things right over there which makes it a good weekend full of great riding and fun times. It's insane to think the BMX community meats up in Estonia in January when temperatures are below zero and more snow is expected next week. The daylight is limited and most people will sleep through it after partying the night away. The contest schedule has been announced on their site and also when you get to town early, you can check out the film