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Colony's Clint Millar had this to say about the new cooperation: "After many months of having no source for Colony in the UK we have hooked up a deal with Alans BMX to become the main place to get Colony from in the future. For all you riders out there hanging for some Colony products you will soon be able to get direct from Alans. They will receive their first 2008 order including our long awaited frames in about 6-8 weeks. We would like to thank everyone for their patience & appreciate your support for Colony." 

"At a time when there are so many similar products out there, we really like Colony because a/ the stuff works and b/ Clint has tried hard to do things differently. We previously had a lot of success with Colony when Shindig handled it and it would of been a real shame if it wasn't represented in the UK. We are stoked with this  partnership 

Sifiso Nhlapo kept his Olympic hopes alive when he beat many of the world’s best riders to grab a second victory in the 2008 European BMX Championship Series in Switzerland at the weekend. The 20-year-old South African placed third in Round 9 and then won Round 10 of the 12-leg European Championship Series, the most competitive international BMX racing series in the world. The win came at a good time for Nhlapo, whose last triumph in the Series was back in Round 1 last December. 

The Mutiny Spring video is about to come out. The people over there have been paying attention to detail and they've just released a left-over clip that some people would be damn stoked on as their main production. We have said it before and we will say it again, we're loving the HD quality. Full on Mutiny Spring Video should be out any day now. Until then, here's the leftover web film:

There is a trailer up for the new United Down Under dvd on the United Bike Co. site. The dvd will be available free with every purchase of Dig issue 64 (out end of the month) and also from all United dealers worldwide! "I want to go back to Australia to hang out, all we did was ride every day for three weeks straight with no time to chill."

By the time the international BMX elite is gathering at Suzuki BMXMasters, from 4 - 6 July at the Jugendpark in Cologne, one of Amerikas leading power-drink-producer ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK is going to be involved as presenting sponsor. Among american extreme sport fans the „energy – supplier“ from Las Vegas is already well known. As they have supported the most important and biggest contests of the mainland for many years. Furthermore ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK has under contract a lot of top athletes from all

When some major companies decide to put on a three stop festival and combine it with bands, you can ask yourself some questions. Why do they need us to bring their message across? What have they done for BMX? Why do I need to get involved? You can make your own answers and if it's not your cup of tea, you simply don't go or skip this update, fair enough. But it looks like things are turning in the right direction. The Duisburg stop was sold out for a start. Maybe the crowd did not come for the BMX action alone but it was packed when something happened, 10 deep or more.

Ryan Barspinner and the Team Soil crew are teaming up with Al D and will be doing a bmx show on Monday 21 April at the local college "ESU" at 5pm. The riders for the show are:
-James Foster
-Chris Hughes
-Joel Hulsey
-Surfer Mike X

The Sea Otter BMX race today went pretty well, expect for the powerful wind that was pretty much constantly blowing all day long, with stronger gusts of wind every once and a while giving the riders a difficult time in the gate and with the jumps. Most of the riders played it safe by manualling the jumps and rollers instead of jumping them. Even with the riders playing it safe the wind still caused a problem. With the weather being dry and the wind so intense the dust was everywhere, sometimes causing the race track to not be visible.