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Köln, 27. Juli 2006  Suzuki BMXMasters 2006: 440 international top riders from 30 nations as well as 12,000 spectators joined a relaxed and all around successful event under blistering heat in the Cologne youthpark from July 21 to 23. Once again the Braun cruZer Tour held a stop in Cologne with the amazing Braun Spine Ramp - the world’s largest mobile mini-ramp … One of the absolute highlights was the final in the category Miniramp Pro, which was held on the Braun Spine ramp. The competing riders gave the public what they wanted to see – BMX riding on the highest level. After several try’s Phil Aller pulled a fufanu on the backrail of the platform. Mark Webb – winner of the Braun cruZer Tour 2005 – took the first place with incredible runs and tricks such as double tailwhip tiretab or x-up flair and impressed the spectators as well as the judges. The crowd was loud and off the hook.

Braun cruZer Tour Spine Ranking:
Webb, Mark (Eng) 1000
Wallace, Ben (Eng) 990
Osato, Dave (Can) 980 

– New York, July 27, 2006 – The Dew Action Sports Tour, the pro tour of action sports, today announced the winner of the PlayStation® Trick of the Week Award from the Right Guard Open. Voting began on Monday, July 17, the day after competitions ended. Fans were able to view video clips and vote online at dewactionsportstour.com until Monday, July 24. Fans selected [url=http://us.video.aol.com/video.full.adp?pmmsid=1677763]Keith McElhinney[/url] as the PlayStation® Trick of the Week winner after he performed a front flip flair during BMX Vert prelims, the first front flip flair ever landed. McElhinney finished 16th in prelims, failing to advance to finals.

“I’m so excited, seems like a dream to actually land the trick and then to win,” said Keith McElhinney. “This is amazing. I look at all the other tricks that have won PlayStation® Trick of the Week and I don’t feel worthy. The past week and a half since landing the trick has been a whirlwind.”

A couple of days before deadline we receive e-mails from Kellie Parsons over at 4130 publishing. She kindly asks for a new FATBMX ad before the end of the week. We then start scrolling through the photo archives to find pics that would work for the ad. We come across all kind of photos that we've shot in the last few weeks and put something together. We believe that the riders we use in the ads are down with the FATBMX site and are okay with us using them in the advertisement. The ad right here is the one you will see in the upcoming issues.

PORTLAND, Maine, July 25, 2006--- NBC Jeep World of Adventure Sports (JWOAS), an action and adventure sports series, will air its next episode on Saturday, August 5 at 2:30 pm Eastern Time. Hosted by Pat Parnell of NBC Sports, the program features an array of outstanding action and adventure sports events. The next episode features: Red Bull Elevation, the world’s most progressive BMX dirt jumping contest held in Whistler, B.C. Only the sport’s top 40 riders are invited to participate and compete on this one-of-a-kind course designed by veteran rider Jay Miron. 

Arcadia, California – After nearly 25 years of manufacturing the world’s greatest BMX racing components, Crupi’s current owner Benny Joseph is ready for a change. Benny, now 71 years old will be focusing all of his attention on his other company; Mortech Manufacturing and handing over Crupi to his General Manager and good friend, Greg Swingrover. Greg has an extensive background in BMX including 16 years of racing experience. Greg is the founding “S” of S & M Bicycles, a 10 year veteran with GT Bicycles as well as working the past 10 years as Crupi’s General Manager and front man. Greg’s vision for Crupi is first and foremost to continue making the best “high-end” racing components on the planet as well as moving the company forward with newer products and perhaps adding a more affordable line of racing products. 

-Mankind is very happy to anncounce that Mankind is from now on distributed in the USA through System Cycle and in Canada though Ryder Distribution. -Further we welcome Jeff Klugiewicz and Ronnie Napolitan to the Mankind team to be our teamriders in the USA.
-BMX Masters went down in Cologne and the members of the Mankind Boyband Barry Kohne, Mark Vos, Phil Aller and Juan Ruiz were there to represent. Barry, Mark and Phil entered Pro street and Phil and Juan rode Pro Mini. Phil Aller pulled an impossible fufanu on the backrail of the platform and came in 5th place and Juan took it easy due to a hurting leg and came in 16th.

Amateurs who are going to the Rebel Jam listen up. The folks at the Rebel Jam already mentioned that they had cool prizes in mind for the Rebel Jam amateur winners in each class and they finally let the cat out of the bag. The first prize winner will receive a wethepeople frame-fork-bar set in limited edition rebeljam colors! Yup, there will only be three sets to win so the wethepeople set will be very exclusive. The lucky winners can choose which model wethepeople frame, fork, handlebar they want to get customized. Sweet or what?!

There are thousands of funny movie clips on the net but most of them are not worth putting up here on FATBMX. This one however had to go up. Burning rubber baby, burning rubber! You can find this clip in the FATBMX movies section in the left column.
 [url=//fatbmx.com/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=1&lid=8]You gotta see this[/url].

July 2006 - Denver, Co. - Jamie Bestwick, 35, of Great Britain, scored a 94.00 on his second run in the best-of-two format in BMX Vert. He moved from second to first place with the victory. Placing second was Chad Kagy, 27, of Gilroy, Calif., with a score of 92.50. In third was Kevin Robinson, 34, of Providence, RI, with a 92.25.

“To ride with 12 of the best riders in the world is awesome,” said Bestwick. “It’s been up and down all year but I knew Denver was a good city for me. It was a great city and a great crowd.”