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The American Bicycle Association hosted the Sooner Nationals in Guthrie, OK. The racing at the Sooner National event was second to none! ABA BMX stepped it up in the track department and Billy Allen built a very challenging track to kick off the season. This was the second PRO Series event of the year and Guthrie has become one of the PRO Riders favorite stops on the tour. Guthrie has some of the best dirt in the country, the Arena is HUGE and there's always a sweet PRO section. This year saw two hip jumps added into the 

We do receive loads of e-mails from people who want us to link to their site. It might be a new website, a new video, a new magazine, whatever. We made a list of requests so you can kill some time if you have it available. Some of it is better than others but what is cool to you, might not be cool to everyone else. Are you ready for this?

-REDLINE’S NEW RACE RIG HITS THE ROAD FOR 2008 Even with a gimped-out driver, the brand new REDLINE Race Rig will be on the road and hittin’ up all of the major BMX events throughout the year … well, except for those big ones in China. Look for Redline’s new 32-foot trailer at an ABA or NBL national event near you;

Name: Rob Darden
Age: 26
Hometown: Greenville NC., USA.
Sponsors: Ogio, BooKoo Energy, Team Blowin' it

Frame: Haro Convert
Fork: Premium 

The first round of the UCI SX series just finished. Latvian One Bicycles rider Arthurs Matisons took the win beating the four Americans (Robinson, Brown, Bennett, Cisar), Willers, Jiminez Caicedo and sole Dutch finalist Arno Kanis. The indoor race was shown live on Freecaster.tv and Naran and Sergio Layos took part of the BMX dirt jump entertainment. Naran received a trophy for some reason, I guess the crowd judged the dirt jump event and double

If you're waiting for tonight's Supercross BMX race and have some time to kill, you might want to read about the Olympic programs that some of the countries are putting on. Over in the USA a complete replica of the 2008 Beijing Olympic BMX track was built in Chula Vista and the top USA riders have a cabin close to the track where they can live in and live the BMX life towards the big day in August. The track was opened by some US Cycling bigwigs and BMX legends like Toby Henderson, Eddy King, Stu Thompson, Dave 

B on tha lookout 4 Ur show on EXPN Action Sports and EXPN Radio within tha next few weeks. Here's a few shots @ tha NEW spot of my old ramps @ Giant BIKES Wharehouse.

Rick Thorne
Biker in Black

We're at the 6th Friday of 2008. Time flies when you're having fun. Here's the BMX news of this week, all in one update. -We had several Bike Checks up this week. The ones of Ruben Alcantara , Dylan Smith , and Mike Miller were ultra popular. Do you check their bikes?

-The 2008 UCI BMX Supercross series is kicking off this weekend in Madrid, Spain. Freecaster.tv, the ones who brought you a live report from Estonia, are going to bring you live coverage from this spectacular race.