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The folks at Hotwheels in the UK have decided to show a bit of their BMX roots by showing their old school bike collection online. Find bikes from Patterson, SE, Kuwahara, Hutch, Mongoose and  Diamond Back that date way back to 1978. Cruising through the site you'll step back into time when BMX racing was just starting up and freestyle bikes like this chrome Hutch Trickstar had just hit the market. Never mind that high laid back seatpost.

Dear friends and fans of Freestyle BMX adrenalin, I like to ingote to freestyle bmx and MTB race „ČEZ Bike Hall Contest III“, which will be from 4.5. to 5.5. 2007 on ice-stadium on Trutnov city. Thanks to our partners and sponsors our realisation team Kamile Feifer & Pavel Hyvnar & Radek Horák build up atractive bikepark designed on cooperation Jakub Skupina (blueprint of park) and one of best Czech flatland riders – Dominik Nekolný. 

Videos are all the craze. Here are three short promotional clips of the Mirraco crew. One of Ryan Guettler, one featuring Nigel Sylvester and the last one is of Dave Rytell. Enjoy the Will Stroud produced Mirraco clips.

Ryan Guettler

Nigel Sylvester

Dave Rytell

There have been some changes on the international Eastpak team for the next 07/08 season. We changed the team line up a bit to keep it fresh and also to provide some other younger talents a little support. Of course all of them fit perfectly to Eastpak and will extend the family even more. Be sure that all riders who we had to let go of the int. team are still family members and will get our support in any case. 

Confirmed 2007 BMX Freestyle Park
Ryan Guettler - 2005 Asian X Gold Medalist / Australia
Colin Mackay - Australia
Kenji Tsuruta - Japan
Mike Spinner - United States / International 

The NokiaFISE contest  is coming up shortly. Only a month to go before Montpellier will be swamped with BMX-ers. This year the Braun Spine ramp will be there and also the Red Bull King sized Vert ramp. Next to that there is Flatland, Dirt and of course Street/Park.  A few names that  are on the list are Dave Mirra , Daniel Dhers and Mike Spinner. Reason enough to  make the trip down to the sunny south.  The 11th edition of the FISE will be held downtown Montpellier, France. Look at the drawings to get a bit of an idea. 

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....
24 april  - Corey Martinez 1983
26 april - Jason Davies 1970
30 april  - Chris Doyle 1981
30 april  - Robert de Wilde
30 april -  Jamie Staff

With 30 out of 35 riders already confirmed for the Red Bull Empire of Dirtcontest in England, we can't wait till the actual date of 13-16 June. The week starts off with a session at Kye Forte's barn and practice on Wednesday, followed by more practice on the course and a jam at the Decoy trails on Thursday. Friday will be qualifying and finals will be between 12:30pm and 15:00pm on Saturday.

Here is a list of confirmed riders: Anthony Napolitan (USA) Joe Rich (USA) Ryan Jordan (USA) Heath Pinter (USA) Chris Doyle (USA) Corey Bohan (AUS) Steven Murray (UK) Martin Murray (UK) Liam Eltham (UK) Mitch Yates (USA) Taj Mihelic (USA) Gary young (USA) Alistair Whitton (UK) Bas Keep (UK) and Tobias Wicke (GER).

etnies are inviting everyone to view their new BMX DVD with the etnies crew in Lake Forest, California.  If you live anywhere close or really don't want to miss this, mark Friday 18 May in your agenda. Starts at 7:00pm and will go on till 10:00pm (no, we don't think it's three hours long but they've got a band called Say Vinyl that wants to play and they've got a few pallets of Lost Energy Drinks that they need to get rid of).  etnies riders that will be attending are: Kurtis Elwell, Ruben Alcantara, Sandy Carson, Morgan Wade, Danny Hickerson, Aaron Ross and Taj Mihelich.  Sounds like a good time to us.

The BMX Flatland World Circuit kicks off this weekend in Tokyo, Japan. It's the first round of three contests that will use a ranking system to announce the Flatland rider of the year 2007. More info on the first leg below:

2007 Eastpak presents Round 1 KOG Tokyo
-Date : 2007 April 22nd
-Location: Tokyo , Asakusa, ROX3 super multi court
-Entry on the site: AM8:00 to AM 9:30
-Entry fee : Pro 10000 yen, Expert 8000 yen , Novice 3000 yen
-Train : Get off at Toei-Ginza line, Tawara-machi station. 5 minutes walk to the venue.