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Nate Wessel had his knee surgery a couple of weeks ago. He was recovering and staying at Scott Powell's in Cleveland, so Nate invited me to come hang and cuddle. So I spent a few days in Cleveland just chillin, watching movies, old skate videos, some video called Whiskey 2. Eating at fine Mexican restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory, and oh yeah, home cooked food from Powell. Nate is doing well and is excited to have the surgery done with and looking forward to getting better. On his down time from building and riding, Nate will be busy riding beavers instead of his bike and working on his signature Failure frame. 

-The season hasn't started off well for Haro's Peter Geys over in Belgium. Here's the update from Peter himself: Hello guys I’ve got more bad news from the doctor! I’m having a crack at a tendon in my left shoulder and I need a surgery on it. Because I broke 2 ribs and my collarbone on January 18th in Barcelona, Spain, they need to wait 3 weeks longer before a surgery is recommended and than it's going to take a few months before I can start riding again, bummer!  Get well soon Peter.

-Daniel Dhers has been spending winter in a warmer climate (Brasil) so he can still ride. Daniel wrote a report for the HARO Bikes website so check it out.

-Michael Sommer won his first flatland contest of the year. [url=//fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1297]Circle Cow - Servon, France.[/url]
-Scotty Cranmer and Paulie Lange are coming into town next week for some photo shoots. Poster coming soon. Remember the stunt work Scotty did last year for a upcoming movie? Movie is called Stick-It.  [url=http://touchstone.movies.go.com/] Click this link to watch trailer. [/url] Not sure how cool the movie will be.... but at least it will have some legit riding.

KINK BMX are doing live audio of the Toronto Metro BMX jam finals on Sunday! They will have info up on their site today, but Sunday from 1.30-4pm Eastern Time everyone can listen. People will just go to the kinkbmx.com site and click on the link to listen. Who's going to win this one? Gary Young? Josh Harrington? Dave Mirra? Dave Osato? You will be the first to know if you tune in.    www.kinkbmx.com

-Tobias Wicke....currently getting away from the bloody cold Berlin winter by passing his days with Hannu Cools (now also being helped by Etnies) and some Carhartt and Redbull 'industry types at Woodward East.....is also well on with testing his brand new signature bar. For an idea of how that's going to ride, think Cologne bar with some new technology and a unique 13butted design used only by wethepeople, stronger than the rest where Tobi (and you) need it most.

-We're currently working on some very limited and unique frames for a well known UK and definately old school wethepeople dealer. We'll let them supply the details on that one. But as a clue...there will be just 25.

-Metro is coming up, I'll be there myself and both Dave Osato and our new Canadian rider Sam Lowe will be riding.

This Sunday, 5 March, the Orange 2006 Jam will take place at Ricardo´s and Björn´s Vertramp in Rafelbunyol, Valencia, Spain. It´s no highly-paid-pros-only comp. Just us and our friends having fun at our vert-ramp. Everybody who loves riding vert is very welcome!
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We don't really speak Spanish over here at FATBMX. We can order a beer at the bar in Spanish but that's about it. We received this flyer and info (in Spanish) from Lalo Paredes. After taking a closer look at the flyer we noticed John Heaton, Viki Gomez and Vladdie on the contest flyer. Hey wait a minute, I took those pics! Blatently stolen from FATBMX.

Competidores confirmados de Puebla, Cancun, Campeche, Tabasco, Veracruz... Si puedes avizar de tu llegada, seria mejor para buscar algun alojamiento... 

Yo dudes went Orlando, Florida 2 ride/host tha Tony Hawk Grand Jam inside of Universal Studio's 4 2 dayz, it was tha bomb, we sold out of 3-4 thousand a day, we had moto, skate, bmx & my mouth. Keep rippin' & thanx 4 tha support!
Much luv,
Thorne
Biker-N-Black

Paulo Charaba is keeping things alive in Brasil. He's putting on two more contests in March of this year.

It's flatland time on 18-19 March and the street/park contest takes place on 25 and 26 of March. The park set up can be viewed by clicking on the flyer on the right.

Expect to read a report of both contests here at FATBMX.com. If you need more info now, go to www.abbmx.com.br

Mutiny are having a couple of video premiers at the end of the month. The video features riders like Morgan Wade, Joe Simon, Brandon Hoerres, Matt Roe, Neil Harrington and Vidal Vigil.  On February 24th you can visit Undercover skatepark, 4 Seasons, Sixth Avenue skatepark, Mesh skatepark and Empire BMX. Next day it's Goods BMX in Oregon, Dirtwood Bike & Skate park, Hardcore Sportz, Gordy's Bike Shop and Disabled Bikes. The last day of the premier series will be the 256th. You can go to Tri City bikes to check out the Mutiny vid.