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Stop 1: Lohhof 16/17.06. Get ready for the kick off of this years PlayStation® The Champ Series on 16th and 17th of June in Munich (Lohhof to be exact), Germany. For the first time the tour will consist of four stops with four disciplines: park, miniramp, dirt and pool. It’s for amateurs and pros. Each contest will have a price money of 1500 euros, plus a PlayStation® Portable for the winners in pro and a lot of free stuff for the amateurs. Last year winner Mark König will try to get the title again since the overall winner will receive 2000 euros extra!

The new locations for this years BMX-Contest-Tour will be the following: 

Tickets for Red Bull Empire of Dirt were snapped up within just ONE WEEK of applications opening. But! If you live near Newton Abbot, you could get your mucky mitts on a two-day pass at the miniscule cost of £7 (including transport to event, no car access). This pass entitles you access to the World's First BMX Dirt Slopestyle on both Friday 15th June and Saturday 16th June 2007. Additionally, this ticket entitles the holder to transport to and from the event! YOU MUST UTILISE THIS TRANSPORT TO VALIDATE YOUR TICKET!

Armin Batoumeni is taking care of the 100 contests event in Paris/Cergy on 15-17 June 2007. Another Year, another good opportunity to come and ride and take it easy. The BMX Flatland part of the 100 contests event will take place on a  brand new dedicated tarmac area. There will be one zone for practice and another one for the contest.
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You want to watch a kick ass video and you don't want to pay for it. If you've got 9 minutes time, you can watch the Federal video online. They've got you covered. All you need to do is go to their website and you will see the Federal Paris button. Click on it and you're good to go. Watch Derek Strickland, Dan Cox, Dan Lacey, Mark Love and Davey Watson tear shit up in France. What are you waiting for?

Düsseldorf/Cologne, june 6, 2007. The arrangements for the BMXMasters get up to speed and again many international a class riders have confirmed to compete in street, dirt, vert, flatland and minramp. Four german championships, four world championships and up to now – two successful Suzuki BMXMasters comps – the german bmx scene is established worldwide and pro riders from all over the world came consistently to the Cologne Jugendpark to enter the BMX competitions. 

The 3 Backyard digger stops for Germany have been announced. This upcoming weekend (8-9-10 June) the  Red Bull heavy equipment will visit the G-Spot in Trier to fix up the trails on the Kleeburgerweg. When the trails are fixed, a session will follow on Sunday 3 June. Other spots that Benny Paulsen and his crew will patch up and modify (for the better) are:
-Bad Saeckingen (Murgerweg) on 15-17 June
-Arnsdorf (Gewerbegebied) on 27-29 July

NEW YORK – JUNE, 2007 – The AST Dew Tour, the world's premier season-long action sports tour, today announced AST Drops In, the tour’s new national charity initiative, will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland when the tour comes to Cleveland for the Right Guard Open on July 19-22. As part of the announcement, BMX star Steven McCann today taught a special BMX clinic at Chengaworld Brookpark to children from the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland. The second event of the AST Dew Tour’s 2007 season, the Right Guard Open will be held at Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor.

AST Drops In will work with children from the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland. As a way to introduce them to action sports, the Tour will provide donations of equipment, with support from Mongoose BMX bikes, along with funds to incorporate action sports into their daily activities.

The winner for the LEVI's Road Fools Rock-n-Roll Tour Roadie Contest is...Kyle Ramsden of Spring Green, WI...Kyle is extra lucky...since he lives fairly close to where we are starting the trip...he gets to go on the entire Rock Tour instead of just the first three stops...When called about his winning the Roadie Spot the only thing Kyle had to say was: "Oh My God."

My guess is he might repeat that statement when he rolls up to Detroit in the Props Rig to pick up 17 of the best riders in the sport for a ten day road trip with the likes of Lucero and Thunderlip... 

World famous BMX rider Rick Thorne stars in a new 23 minute short film called Keeping Up With The Jonesers premiering on Showtime Extreme at 4:20 June 6th. Rick plays a drug dealer and reprobate who gets a lot more than he bargained for when a deal goes wrong. A trailer can be seen by clicking here.

We are having a party at the Standard (Sunset) June 11th at 9pm to celebrate this premier. Rick will be there.

T-Mobile now supports halls, spots and events in Austria with the T-Mobile Local Support program. Last year T-Mobile started to successfully enlarge their involvement in cycling through the BMX scene. With the Local Support program T-Mobile is trying to reach the goal of developing the regional BMX scenes as honestly and genuinely as possible. One of the first actions is the support of the Austrian spots – ahead of all the BMX halls in Vienna Due to T-Mobile’s involvement, one of the best indoor bike halls in Europe will be opened in Brunn am Gebirge / near Vienna. Location support and events are the focus for the summer 2007

In addition to the support for the spots, Local Support Events are an important component of the project. Its first activity will take place