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Dark clouds came in right before the Dirt finals but it stayed dry all night so the show went on. Good thing because the stands were filled with people and the conditions were next to perfect. With the best riders present the level was just insane. Diogo Canina was going wild on his brakeless DB, Chris Gerber pulled a flip double whip, Scotty Cranmer pulled a flair on a take off but did not make it through the sets once in front of the Salt Lake City crowd. Every rider had three runs of which the two best runs counted. This system mixed things up a bit but the big jumbotron helped keep track. With one rider to go Brandon Dosch was in 2nd and TJ Ellis in first. But the last rider up was Ryan Nyquist, who had one bad run and one really good one. If he would stick the tricks in his last run he would have a good chance to move up to the top. He did stick his tricks in his run and finished it with a one-footed X-up 720. But TJ Ellis had rolled out of a frontflip tailwhip earlier and had a great variety of tricks. Whatever, it is nice not having to judge for a change so I shouldn't be letting this get to me right now. Nyquist 1, TJ 2, and Brandon Dosch 3.

2009 Salt Lake City Dew Tour - Park Qualifying Results
1. Daniel Dhers - 91.50
2. Brett Banaseiwicz - 91.25
3. Dennis Enarson - 90.63
4. Rob Darden - 89.88
5. Ryan Nyquist - 89.50
6. Brandon Dosch - 89.25
7. Brian Hunt - 89.00
8. Gary Young - 88.63
9. Mark Webb - 88.25

Automatically qualified riders:
Dave Mirra
Garrett Reynolds
Marcus Tooker

Finals tomorrow.

So Mirraco have not only changed things up this year with the street bikes. They have completely redone the whole line with plenty of help from Dave Mirra, Nigel Sylvester, Ryan Guettler and all the other team riders! Now available the Fivestar, Icon, Gargoyle and Mainline are hitting dealer’s floors across the US. These bikes Range from a low $309 to $489 with the Mainline model. The base model Icon and Fivestar bikes are perfect for the younger rider looking for a bike they fit on and can go shred with all the components necessary. These bikes feature CRMO top and down tubes and CRMO fork legs to shed

Ramp:
Gary Young
Jamie Bestwick
Garrett Reynolds
Dave Mirra
Chase Hawk

Dirt
Mike Aitken
Chris Doyle
Corey Bohan
Chase Hawk
Mike "Hucker" Clark

Street 

Not everyone knows that FATBMX is based in The Netherlands. Although most of our visitors come from the USA, we don't always have access to the latest and greatest that comes out of the USA. We do have lots of contributors that fill us in and we do make trips over to Eastcoast Cali (inside joke) from time to time. We have landed in Salt Lake City for the thrid stop of the 2009 Dew Tour series and this FAT Friday we'll fill you in on the latest news that we picked up on the first day in Salt Lake.

We received the following flyer from Kalle who is setting up a BMX street jam in Cologne Germany for this Saturday September 19th. It's basically where the info stopped on his part but Peter Fastenroth informed us that earlier in the week he had seen an old Ford car parked in the parking lot of the Underground Club and they placed a trashcan next to it so it sure looks like things are actually going to happen. Then today we received some additional info from Aze:

On Saturday 19 September the first BMX street session is going to take place on the parking lot of the Underground Club. It's free to get in and there will be a BBQ, Chill zone and street stuff to ride. After the jam the AI TIEM will go live on stage in the club (7 Euro to get in) supported by the Funkmaster Ozone. More info on the Underground BMX JAM can be found here.

When Kalle and the 20ZollMan get together, it's worth a visit.