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As we all know Stephen Murray is hurt and health care in America is expensive to say the least. To help him out Cory Nastazio held a jam at his trails in Tehachapi, CA with all proceeds going to Stephen. I was told that the cost of Stephens wheelchair is in the region of $23 000 so every dollar counts. Nastys trails are big. Real big. I saw James Foster take it hard twice but he kept on going and gave the crowd a wind shield wiper. Parslow, White, Lavin, Fuzzy were all there making for a great night of dirt.

The REMAX Fieldcontrol just ended and it was 3 days of pure riding and fun. On Friday we had a riding sesion till 00.00, and the folowing days it was time for the contest.
Both days were very good on riding quality and atmosphere, thanks to the riders that give there maxium and the audience that showed up.
The party at Saturday night was crazy, you should check the photos, but beside that you can see a lot of krazy stuff happened.

With a sold out Joint inside of the Hardrock cafe in Las Vegas, the BMX community got together for another Nora Cup party. 2000 people made it in and there still was a line outside of riders who wanted make it through the door. 2007 was a good one. Many people came over to see who won the Nora Cups this year. Or maybe it was the 1987 - 2007 Skyway Recreation gathering hosted by Mat Hoffman, the Stephen Murray benefit PK Ripper Raffle or Mini Kizz that got them there. Maybe they just came to party.

10 Days ago we were at the finals of the Toyota Challenge Dew Tour in Salt Lake City. We just got our pics back so we started scanning them so you can see them here on FATBMX. Lame excuse. Glad that camera spits out digital images so going to the local photo shop and then scanning picture by picture is a thing of the past. How can we be so late you ask? Good question. Without further delay we bring you the Park photos with some captions that sums up our time at SLC.

1080-s, double loops, frontflip tailwhips, 720 tailwhips, no-foot cancan flairs, and double frontflip attempts. Yup the level was high. Here's an official press release as well with some comments from the riders and the results and standings. We still beat the magazines didn't we?
BdJ

The small and peaceful village Leende got woken up ferociously last weekend. After the German Red Bull Backyard Digger series, the diggers did their work at the first of three stop of the Dutch Backyard Digger events to create the perfect dirtspot. An impression of a laid back Sunday afternoon in Brabant, Holland. Leende? Never ever heard of it! Brabant is quite a far ride from Amsterdam. Well hidden behind an innumerable amount of B roads, roundabouts and ultra slow tractors we found the village of Leende.

If there was one rider that flowed the vert ramp in SLC it was Jamie Bestwick. He simply ruled that giant vert ramp from left to right. He went all directions, traveled alley-oop style and had so much flow it was unreal. He almost wouldn't need any variations to win the vert class, just watching him ride you know who's the king. Simon Tabron finished as runner up riding with a fractured hand. He was in plaster off the ramp but he took that off when he got closer to

Planning of the 2008 King of New York at the Mullaly park is already in progress and you can expect some big changes for next year. The 2007 version was a good one and you can watch a killer movie by hitting this link.

The B.O.K was in one word amazing (this how this article starts every year and it’s true again). With Mischa FSO and Herm on the mic You know there would be a lot of crap talking and joking around. The finals went off with Frank Elshof, Daniel Wedemeijer and Tim Frijters in the top 3. Big 720 transfer tries from Daniel (worst slam), a whip to fuf on a way to ghetto subbox and 720 air tries from Tim, and a backflip transfer from Dranky.

The always stylish Amsterdam boys Virgil Perssad and Maityn with the long last name were rocking the park with big inverts, lookbacks and turndowns.

In spite of perfect autumn sunhsine outside, the Tretlager BMX Hall (Emmering/ Munich) was packed when the Local Support contest started and hyped up the riders for a big show. 19 teams and 57 riders - of which the youngest ones were only 10 years old - including many locals, but also teams from all over Germany and even Austria came to shred the Street Challenge. The final was full of action and finally won by ‚The Stevens’ followed closely by ‚Bodo’s Angels’ from Oldenburg. The winning team of Craig Stevens, Simon Stevens and Volker „Stevens“ Wildner took along the 4000 € T-Mobile support for their BMX spot in Dachau/ Munich.

A local rider, Rafael Adam, received the T-Mobile Wildcard for the best . He convinced the judges (including former BMX pro Benny Korthaus) of his riding style and now starts directly at the Street Session Finals of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds held on October 13th in Berlin. This gives him the chance to compete with international top riders like Ben Wallace or Alessandro Barbero.

The dirt part of the Dew Tour was pretty sick. Fuzzy and his crew had brought in the premiere dirt and it was good. The course had a drop off for a start where some people did a little variation before hitting the first big set. After that three sets of big hips followed which made for a good course. The crowd during prelims and the finals was big which added to the pressure for the riders. The comp was held at night when the win had slowed down. The generators that provided energy for the extra lights were more poluting than anything I've seen. They even warmed up the Friends and Family stage with black smoke. A big difference between the Dew Tour and European events is that it was not posible to drink alcohol during the contest in the crowd. Some backpack beer runs and Rockstar drink bottles helped out during the dirt finals. The sign said: "Alcohol Violators Will Be Ejected" but if there's a will, there's a way. The State of Utah is kinda strange when it comes to drinking anyway with their maximum of 3.2% alcohol in beers and membership rules for the clubs which have to close at 1am on every night. It was definitely not the favorite state of the Hardcore Drinking Team.