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BMX Action online are having a 1970-s photo competition on their website. It features some great shots from the early days of American Bicycle Moto-X. From sidehacks to the Bonsai track, from Ditch riding to fly out jumps. JT sent us a few samples that we had to use here on FATBMX to give you an idea on how much BMX has developed since the early days. Next time you think your bike is rubbish, look at the vehicles that these guys had to deal with and the terrain they had to conquer.

The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, today announced a multi-year deal with the Eurosport group to provide a live international feed of NBC telecasts during AST Dew Tour event finals. Twenty hours of live television and 20 hours of highlights programming will broadcast each season to approximately 112 million homes in more than 50 countries. 

Banksgiving, a 4 stop grassroots BMX and Wake event series, hit Tom’s River New Jersey last Saturday with stop # 1, hosted by Garett Reynolds in his backyard. Around 150 kids from all corners of NJ, NY, and PA made the pilgrimage, including pros Brian Foster, Scotty Cranmer, and Van Homan. Banksgiving ran from 12-5pm, and it was nothing less then the best backyard session ever. The idea was simple. Create a unique place for riders to shred, offer a heap of free food and swag, and provide a free day of pure BMXellence. 

Yes, le soul pastis issue is out, issue 51 with big respect to trail digging on the cover and a lot of frenchies inside :

-FRENCH JAMS: Alex Dropsy’s new backyard, twenty jam in the center of middle age, Patrick Guimez’s lords of dirt, Mosaic street party in Paris.
-GREG MASSON: just look at this, bus to nosepick…whip footjam!
-VAR SCENE LOCAL: featuring the French Californians
-INVASION AROUND BALTIC: French vs scandinavian
-RACING SUPERCROSS IN CHINA
-ST MARTIN’S JAPANESE: flatland from Paris to Flatground
-PDS CREW: between race track and trail riding
-HOW TO BUNNY BUS: with no seat
-BIKE CHECK: Julien Leyreloup with the new Superstar
-NEWS from Switzerland and Belgium, from the local scenes too
-POSTER with BIBI and GREG MASSON

Getting enough vert riders together for a proper halfpipe contest is not an easy task. Especially not one weekend before the last round of the the Dew Tour. But some riders came out of the dark (it was Zach Shaw's first contest of the year) and some used it as a trial contest going into the Dew AST finals (Chad Kagy). Throw in the mix Europe's top dogs and the Mancuso - Zurita duo and you've got one hell of a vert contest anyway. The LG ramp was taken out of the warehouse and with a roll in on each side it provided a good ramp for the big bucks competition. Simon Tabron was favorite going into the contest but how well had Chad Kagy recovered from his collarbone injury?

The vert contest was a straight head to head contest. There was no pre-qualifying contest where riders were added to the field. A total of 14 riders battled it out in round one. 7 moved on and one "Lucky Loser" got voted in via a Text Message contest.

When Felt Bikes sends in a new Scotty Cranmer video we're always on our toes. This one is amazing again. It starts off by people putting a bunch of pallets in front of a dumpster to create a ramp to get on top of that thing. What goes down on the other side you have to watch for yourself.

4Down's monthly Giveaway is up on the 4down site, and this time one lucky person from the UK can get their hands on Corey Martinez's UK Ride! It has only been ridden a handful of times, and all the winner needs to do is throw on some wheels and they are good to go!
If you know where Corey is originally from, you're half way there.

The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, wraps up its third season, Oct. 18-21, with the PlayStation Pro at Orlando’s Amway Arena. The five-city tour also includes stops in Baltimore, Cleveland, Portland and Salt Lake City. This year, 150 professional action sports athletes across the globe are competing for the Dew Cup, awarded at season’s end to the athlete with the highest number of points in each of the six disciplines: skateboarding (vert and park), BMX (vert, park, and dirt), and freestyle motocross.

The Tour’s current points leaders include Bestwick (BMX Vert), Daniel Dhers (BMX Park), and Ryan Nyquist (BMX Dirt). Among the athletes to watch as the 2007 AST Dew Tour season heads into its critical fifth and final event are: 

Alex Baret over at twenty Bikes in France informed us about their new video project "nowhere to ride" with Niclas Cambon around amazing places. The video will be online in 2 weeks (on twentybikes and freecaster) but for the moment you can check the Twenty site to get an idea of what kind of places that Nicolas has found in order to film some exclusive clips. It's simply too easy to say you've got nothing to ride and hopefully this project will open your eyes next time you're going to the grocery store or you're in the bus on the way to school. Seek and you will find.

T-mobile held three events this year. All of them involved BMX in one form or an other. The last event of the year in Berlin involved park and vert. The park section had ten invited riders who were automatically selected for the head to head contest. One rider (Rafael Adam) had pre-qualified through a special contest and three riders (Harry Main, Sven Lehmann and Luke Padgett) qualified on Friday for the main program.