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The Tour Dur Laarbeek is a nice concept. 4 miniramps will be visited in one day. At 11:30am you can register for the Tour in Mariahout. The first stop starts there on June 22 at noon. Last year they had live bands at each stop an it did wake some people up in Mariahout when the band kicked off and the guys started riding. It's a BMX-Skate and inline event that is open for anyone to enter. At 2pm the hipped mini will be shredded followed by the spine ramp in Beek en Donk at 4pm and the final stop in Aarle-Rixtel at 6pm. 

Beginning with the new seasons’ product for 2009 (Arriving Sept 2008), Sport Import will take over all distribution rights for wethepeople bike co, Salt Bmx and FUSE protection. Despite the change in distributors, availability and delivery times will not be affected. We’re very much looking forward to working together. A combination of Sport Import’s excellent distribution network and the bmx professionalism of Bodo Hellwig (BMX-Sales) our product will

KIA X Games Asia 2008, the number one action sports competition in Asia looks certain to start off on a winning note when it opens its gates to Shanghai on 1 May 2008 with another impressive line-up of world class athletes for the second consecutive year. Renowned athletes at this year’s event will see the return of Andy Macdonald, the current KIA X Games Skateboard Vert defending champion, who shares the honour of having the most number of X Games skateboard medals (16) with the legendary Tony Hawk ; the Yasutoko brothers Eito and Takeshi Yasutoko, who regularly finish first and second at major competitions around the world and have dominated aggressive in-line vert for the past 10 Asian X Games; and the 2006 X Games BMX Vert champion Chad Kagy, who was last year’s gold medallist for the same event at the KIA X Games Asia 2007.

“We’re extremely heartened by the enthusiasm by the people of

The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, today announced General Admission tickets to the 2008 events are available for purchase beginning Monday, April 28. A limited number of Action Zone and Reserved Seating tickets, which went on sale April 1, are still available. The fourth season of the AST Dew Tour kicks off June 19 in Baltimore, Maryland. For all AST Dew Tour events, General Admission tickets cost $15 for adults and $7.50 for children, each day, Friday-Sunday. The Reserved Seating ticket is available for $35 a day, Friday-Sunday, for children and adults, and guarantees premium seating for all finals competitions on purchased day. Action Zone tickets cost $100 per day for adults and children and provide access to priority reserved seating for all finals competitions on purchased day, as well as official merchandise, a behind the scenes tour, 20 percent off merchandise coupon, Fast Pass Access into venues and interactive areas, along with a 12-month subscription to one TransWorld Magazine (TransWorld Motocross, TransWorld Skateboarding or Ride BMX). 

The Brasil X Games were awesome. Since the beginning when HSA asked me to invite good Brasilian bmxers to participate I could see that it would be different, talking about real street, that updated discipline for around the world, although I always say it's not new, it just got the right value now... Then we could see here in Brasil with this ramps made by very known skatepark designer here in Brasil, George Rotatori, he was very artistic in this X Games project, reproducing real boulevards we got in my down town city,

DK Bicycles is doing a week long tour of China. Brian Hunt, Brian Kachinsky, and Catfish will be traveling around China doing demos for Labici bike shop a huge DK dealer in China. They will be doing some skatepark demos in addition to teaching some BMX to any local riders that want to learn. Everyone is invited to come out. Check out the schedule and come on out.

DK –Asia Tour
Touring Cities: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing
Dates:
May 6th, 7th, Shanghai
May 8th, Hangzhou (Wulin Square)
May 9th, 10th, Nanjing (NanHu Extreme Coliseum)

Cycling Australia and BMX Australia are pleased to announce the team to contest the 2008 BMX World Championships being raced in Taiyuan, China from 29 May to 1 June.
Elite Men
-Jared Graves (Toowoomba, Qld -16/12/1982)
-Kamakazi (Jimboomba, QLD -08/03/1981)
-Luke Madill (Cranebrook, NSW -28/05/1980)
-Khalen Young (Kelmscott,WA - 20/11/1984)