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If you've had a hard time getting in touch with Mr. Nastazio these days, your not alone! You might try calling the house around 7:00am, it may be the only chance you have of reaching him before he's out the door headed for his trails. He has also been making weekly trips to Woodward West, which seems to be his home away from home nowadays. Then on weekends its a good bet you can track him down at TJ's in Vegas. Somewhere between riding and traveling from one spot to another, Cory has managed to squeeze in time to finish the design on his signature sunglass with Spy Optic. Excited about the finished product, Cory and the designers at Spy have put over a year into the design and concept. 

30 May  - Dave Vanderspek (+28 October 1988) 1964
1 June  - Marvin Lotterle 1977
1 June  - Bruce Crisman 1979
3 June -  Bob Kohl 1970
4 June  - Scott Powell 1971

Lots of events are cancelled for this weekend because of the bad weather forecasts. As a BMX-er you know that the sun is always shining in Aarle-Rixtel so get yourself over here on Sunday 28 May for the Laarbeek Ramp Tour. Basically it's an event for all local riders but everyone is welcome. It's free to enter and we'll ride 4 mini ramps in one afternoon. Transport between the ramps isn't further than 4 kilometers. Call [url=http://www.paulsboutique.nl/modules/news/]Paul's Boutique[/url] for more info or hassle Mike Smits on his mobile: 06-25335547. Starts at 11:30am in Mariahout.

The folks at Mutiny collected some prizes from Snafu, Etnies and had a Morgan Wade frame to give away. Instead of answering a simple question, the folks at Mutiny took it a step further. Write a rap, perform the rap, film the rap and send it in. Here's a list of 4 entries that are all pretty funny and worth checking out. In the end, the Morgan Wade Mutiny frame went to "The Banz".

 [url=http://www.mutinybikes.com/video/rap5.mov]John Jennings[/url]

[url=http://www.mutinybikes.com/video/rap3.mov] Keith Harrington[/url]

[url=http://www.mutinybikes.com/video/rap1.mov]Jay Simmons[/url]

[url=http://www.mutinybikes.com/video/rap2.mov] Andrew "The Banz" Ybanez[/url]

Eastreet are organizing their first event which will take place in June, the 24th to be exact. The location will be at Basse Ham (57), near Thionville, near Luxembourg. The spirit is basic: Riding, riding and festivities or as their flyer says:

Beer, Barbeque and Riding.

Contact Eastreet's manager

THIERRY TILLOT
304 rue de l'hôtel de ville
54200 Ecrouves
France

Or go to the [url=http://www.eastreet.fr.st]Eastreet website[/url] for more information on the skatepark and flatland jam.

Normally it's fans asking an autograph of vert rider Tom Stober but while at a party in Brasil, the Woodward regular got to meet his lifetime idol Bono from the band U2. The drinks he had already in him, gave Tom the courage to walk up to Bono to have his arm signed and his picture taken with the Irish pop star.  In the next bar Tom wanted everyone to know that he had met Bono and showed his autograph to everyone. But was it really Bono?

We are a bunch of Bmx Riders from Oeiras/Lisboa-Portugal. We are trying to save one of our favourite, and oldest (+/- 15 years) places to ride in Portugal. The Pool is nearby some buildings and at night a bunch of drunk folks make a lot of noise and smash some bottles on the ground. The people who live by complained to the City Hall and they tell some lies...saying that no one rides the place anymore... and now they pretend to demolish the Pool and replace it with a garden... So we started a movement to show to them that the pool isn't the problem and the garden is not the sollution... but some better night lights, a timetable and a fence, maybe help to stop the "late night noises".

Austin Coleman from Los Angeles graduated a little over a week ago and can finally spend some time on his bike without worrying about school. Needless to say, he's pretty stoked on that. It will be the first time Austin hasn't been in school in almost 18 years! Coleman went to the University of Southern California (USC) and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Policy, Planning, Management, and Developement (emphasis Urban Planning) and a Minor in Business Administration. What does that mean? Austin: "I could technically become a scientist, and/or real estate developer but I'm pretty psyched right now on having the time I've always wanted to ride bikes." 

- Oregon city park-check
- Hip line-check
- Good pop-check
- Good tuck-check
- Hands off-check
- Left hand on-check
- Right hand.....RIGHT HAND!!

I ended up doing a big elbow drop straight to flat, shattering the most ironically named bone in your body (funny bone?).

The Date has been changed to Saturday 8 July 2006 due to bad weather forecast.

On Thursday 25 May the Red Bull Garage Punx street jam will take place again at the Parking garage at the Hinterhof (Cologne, Germany). Together with the Cologne locals a jam and street course will be set up in a very punk way.