Not everyone has the opportunity to ride their own bike at their own skatepark. When you are young, you can use some help. Jens Wittmann and his crew set up a day for the kids to learn how to ride and how to skate.

20 kids in the age of 7 - 14 showed up last weekend in Dessau, Germany and received tips from the pros and got to use proper bicycles and safety gear. They all went home stoked and the next meeting has already been planned.

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Mirraco rider and BMX store owner Nigel Sylvester is putting on a jam in New York on 30 August next. The event is called the Queens Bully BMX Jam and it starts at 12pm. Nigel and his crew have gathered some money and BMX products to give out to the top three finishers.

Everyone who enters gets a free T-shirt, there is free food too. Pre registration and sign-in starts at 11am. 92-29 Queens Blvd., CU-4 Rego Park, NY 11371. Or send an e-mail to: queensbully@formatny.com.

AST Dew Tour-Wendy’s Invitational Results Sunday, August 24, 2008 Portland, Ore. BMX Park Finals

1. Daniel Dhers, Venezuela, 93.83. 2. Mike Spinner, Miami, Fla., 92.67 3. Rob Darden, Greenville, N.C., 91.33. 4. Steven McCann, Australia, 90.33. 5. Dennis Enarson, La Mesa, Calif., 89.33. 6. Ryan Nyquist, Los Gatos, Calif., 89.17. 7. Anthony Napolitan, Youngstown, Ohio,. 89.00. 8. Diogo Canina, Brazil, 88.00. 9. Craig Mast, Champion, Ohio, 87.67. 10. Garrett Reynolds, Toms River, N.J., 86.33

BMX Park Points

1. Daniel Dhers, 300. 2. Mike Spinner, 245. 3. Rob Darden, 195. 4. Steven McCann, 193. 5. Ryan Nyquist, 191. 6. Dennis Enarson, 155. 7. Garrett Reynolds, 146. 8. Craig Mast, 146. 9. Marcus Tooker, 129. 10. Ryan Guettler, 124

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Pay one, get three free. It does not really work like that but issue 149 had four double page spread advertisements featuring Mirraco riders. It kicked off by the Mirraco ad on the inside cover where Dave Rytell goes bananas and bunny hops a wall onto a floating dock 12 feet below. Ryan Guettler gets a Vans and a Boost mobile spread (where you at?) and Dave Mirra does a bike-flip in the DC Shoe Co. ad.

If you want to check it out, it’s the October 2008 issue of Transworld’s RIDEBMX.

Results Dirt
1. Luke Parslow
2. Cory Nastazio
3. Corey Bohan
4. Dennis Enarson
5. James Foster
6. Ryan Nyquist
7. Rob Darden
8. Cameron White
9. Ryan Guettler
10. Steve McCann
11. Diogo Canina
12. Chris Doyle

The Dew Tour series continued with the Dirt qualifying competition on Thursday where Mirraco rider Ryan Guettler finished second in a strong field of invited riders. The top 9 from qualifying meet up with last year’s top three for an amazing battle. Let’s hope Ryan does great there too. If not in Dirt, Ryan will also ride the Park competition just like Dave Mirra, Alessandro Barbero and Mike Laird who received a wildcard.

Dirt Qualifying Results (Top 9 Move to Finals):
1. Cory Nastazio - 93.50
2. Ryan Guettler - 92.50
3. Diogo Canina - 92.50
4. Steven McCann - 91.67
5. Rob Darden - 91.33
6. Corey Bohan - 90.67
7. Chris Doyle - 91.17
8. Dennis Enarson - 90.50
9. Luke Parslow - 90.50
10. Nate Berkheimer - 90.00
11. TJ Ellis - 89.83
12. Brandon Dosch - 89.17
13. Allan Cooke - 88.83
14. Adam Aloise - 88.33
15. Scott Wirch - 88.33
16. Anthony Napolitan - 88.33
17. Colin Mackay - 86.67
18. Chris Gerber - 86.50
19. Morgan Wade - 86.50
20. Jeremiah Smith - 86.33
21. Charlie Bowers - 85.17
22. Brad Gethard - 82.33
23. Joey Marks - 81.67
24. Brian Hunt - 81.67
25. Jaie Toohey - 81.33
26. Kyle O’hara - 72.00
27. Josh Hult - 70.33

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The new issue of RIDE UK shows a new double page 6.0 spread advertisement of Mike Spinner while the latest issue of Cream magazine (France) shows a double page spread of Nigel Sylvester in the Nike 6.0 ad. The boys are getting some mad coverage because of NIKE. Sweet guys, sweet.

They’re wrapping up filming for the NIKE video at the moment where each rider part will be featured on a different website. Nigel Sylvester’s part has been booked by FATBMX.com. We will let you know when it’s up and running.

The magazine might have been out for a while but we had not mentioned to you yet that both Mike Spinner and Ryan Guettler are all over the magazine again. Session as a report about the Monster BMX Games and also an article about riders who have been pushing the sport with tricks that had not been done.

Both Ryan Guettler and Mike Spinner are riders that do contribute to the trick book on a regular basis and get some respect in issue number 4.

A good thing about being a pro BMX rider is that you get asked to do demos. At demos you can usually ride at 80% and the crowd loves you. As long as you do a 360, tailwhip and backflip, you’re their best friend.

It helps if the set-up is nice and if the crowd gets into it. If that is the case, the level will go up to 95% or even higher depending on how good looking the ladies are that are watching. Mirraco rider Jean-Marie Beartsch recently did a demo in Switzerland but if he hooked up we do not know.

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German Mirraco distributor La Finca have teamed up with Zwanzig Zoll BMX magazine for a New Subscription give-away. Each new subscriber to Zwanzig Zoll that fills in the form, that is on page 57 of their current issue, has the chance to win a Mirraco Black Pearl 2 complete bike.

Costs for a subscription are only 10 Euros for 4 issues including postage. It is like entering a lottery where you will receive four issues of Zwanzig Zoll plus you have a chance to win a brand new Mirraco bike.

For full details check out their website: www.zwanzig-zoll.de

The AST Dew Tour, the world's premier season-long action sports tour, today announced the winner of the PlayStation Pro Moment Award from the Right Guard Open. Voting began on Monday, July 21, the day after competitions ended. Fans could view the videos at AST.com or on V CAST Videos from Verizon Wireless and vote online at AST.com or via text on Verizon Wireless until Friday, August 15.

Fans selected Mike Spinner as the winner after he performed a quadruple tailwhip in competition during the BMX Park Finals. Spinner placed second in the competition.

"I'm really psyched on winning the PlayStation® Pro Moment from Cleveland. I've been thinking of the quad whip for a long time," said Spinner. "The Dew Tour is awesome for us riders, because it gives you five month to progress your riding and show off new tricks. PlayStation® has a big part in that progression because they reward people for doing tricks for the first time. It's really cool to get credit from the fans for a trick you've worked really hard on."

Spinner faced stiff competition for the PlayStation® Pro Moment Award. The complete list of Pro Moment nominees includes:

· Cameron White (BMX Dirt), distanced himself from the competition when he landed his signature barspin backflip to tailwhip to secure the win.

· Shaun White (Skateboard Vert), completed a frontside rodeo board varial to stalefish, which earned him his first win of the season.

· Paul Rodriguez (Skateboard Park), performed a switch kickflip backside tailslide which catapulted him to a first-place finish in the Finals.

· Simon Tabron (BMX Vert), landed an impressive no-handed 540 to barspin, but stiff competition gave him a fourth-place finish.

· Mike Spinner (BMX Park), pulled the first-ever quadruple tailwhip in BMX competition, marking a milestone in trick progression. He finished second to Daniel Dhers.

Spinner wins $5,000, a PLAYSTATION®3 and a library of games to reward his skills. Online polls open on the Monday following each event.

Further, Spinner will select his favorite amateur trick from the PlayStation Rising Stars presented by Woodward. The talented amateur selected will win a PSP® and library of games. But that's not all; their video will also be displayed next to the pro's at AST.com and on the PlayStation Network.

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Check the Dave Mirra Trailer on the DC website. Rally, street, skateparks, interview. Syracuse, NY.

Take me to that movie!

Not only Ryan Guettler made it in the August/September issue of Cream but Dave Mirra, Nigel Sylvester, Mike Spinner and Maxime Charveron as well. We can use the love over there in France and it is always nice to get some. Thanks to Cream. Here are a few copies of the photos of issue number twenty nine.

More info on the magazine can be found by clicking HERE.

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Last weekend, in Sibiu, the cultural heart of Transylvania, the crème de la crème of romanian BMX-ers gathered for the scene’s first street BMX contest, under the X-Cup label. The venue of the event was the marvellous Sub Arini park of the city, where the organizers prepared a delicious street spot, containing various stairsets, some rails, different length ledges and an array of gaps. More than 1000 specatators came to witness what was about to become an amazing competition with a vast range of tricks, some of them never seen before in Romania.

Mirraco rider Alin Moldovan stood out of the crowd and destroyed the entire location properly: perfect 360 gap over the small ledge at the dome, tailwhip and 180 barspin upwards off the long ledge, feeble to barspin-out at the big grindbox and various other tech-combos worth mentioning. Alin also pulled what would’ve been the best line of the contest, with a bunnyhop barspin over the marker-tape, a 360 over the following 9-set, manual down the aforementioned ledge and a bunnyhop to tailwhip at the smaller ledge, by the streetrail.

Speaking of the streetrail, Alin owned it, by double peg grinding it second-try, and left it abused, as he should. Mr. Moldovan decided it was time to spice things up and raise the bar, so he stuck a pretty clean tailwhip at the impressive 9-set, which gave fellow riders some trouble, and shut down the competition hereby. Alin was crowned winner of the day, as expected, and walked away with the prizemoney and his friendly smile, probably thinking about the party that was due that night.

With friendly greetings from Romania,

Maximilian Munteanu

Romanian Street Movie

It was Mirraco rider Mike Laird who got the advertisement in the new BMX Plus! issue doing a 180 whip off a skinny ledge. The issue also has an article about getting sponsored. They asked several brands how they approach the subject and this is how Mirraco’s Jim Ford responded:

“All of the topics are important. The current Mirraco team covers all the bases and has a good mix of riding skills and personalities. Not all of our team members are contest riders, but they all have riding skills that translate into TV coverage, video parts or magazine coverage. Some have tattoos, some have lots of gold medals, and some don’t have any medals. The point is, we’re looking for diversity, not clones. When we come across someone with the potential to develop into a team rider, we’ll flow some product and see how things go. If a spot opens up on the team we’ll probably pick a flow rider who best fits the spot that’s open.” 

La Finca distribution will be showing the 2009 Mirraco bikes at the Eurobike trade show in Germany next month. The booth number is B4-201. Make sure you stop by if you are heading that way.

Trade show info:

International Bicycle Trade Exhibition

September 4 - 7, 2008 Friedrichshafen, Germany

Thursday - Saturday: Trade visitors only!

Sunday, September 7: open to the public

New Opening hours:

Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday/Public day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Hey Guys! Well, it was X Games time and I had just come off a big crash in Cleveland- slammed my head, knocked my teeth out and had to get stitches in my face. I went back to Greenville, but instead of sitting there not riding- I jumped in a van and headed out to California with some friends from Australia for X Games 14 in LA.

Going into it I didn’t know what to expect with the super park course, but when I got there it felt like a course I would ride back in Australia. I wasn’t too psyched that it didn’t have obstacles to show crazy tricks on, but the format was more my style and I was psyched on it. Growing up, I always watched X Games, you get to see which kid was doing the newest craziest tricks.I was just psyched to be there again!

Next on the program is to head to the dentist to get my teeth fixed which is awesome- I hate smiling right now! After that, I head back to Greenville to keep riding my bike. It’s really hot out there, so I have to deal with that which is no fun. From there I head to Portland for the next Dew Tour stop.

Check back in with you all soon!

-Ryan

For all the myspace addicts out there or for those who like to check in from time to time, we want you to know that we’ve got a Mirraco profile up as well. With daily (photo) comments, messages and friend requests it shows that people are on myspace 24/7.

We recently added some more pictures to the myspace profile so make sure you check that out next time you’re checking your myspace.

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Frame : Mirraco / Blend 20.75

Fork : Odyssey dirt classic

Bars : SHADOW

Grips : DUO

Bar ends: Fly/plastic

Stem : SHADOW

Detangler: SNAFU Head set: FSA internal
Brake : FLY

Lever : ODYSSEY

Cables : SNAFU

Pads : FLY

Crank : PROFILE RACING 19mm ti spindle

Bottom bracket: Mirraco 19 mm

Sprocket : SHADOW 30 tooth

Chain : MECHANIK

Pedals : FLY

Front wheel:

Rim : FLY

Hub : DEMOLITION

Spokes: 36

Tire : KHE 1.95

Tube: Dans comp lite

Back wheel:

Rim : FLY

Hub : DEMOLITION

Spokes : 48

Tire : KHE 1.95

Tube: Dans comp lite

Seating:

Seat : ODYSSEY

Post : SHADOW

Clamp : SHADOW

We showed the Mirraco M3 grips a few weeks ago. They come in White, Black, Light Blue and Grey. But we have not shown you the  Burgundy color of the M3 grips yet. Maybe these are the color grips that you have been waiting for to complete your ride.

You’re asking if they are any good? Good enough for Daniel Dhers to ride to Gold at SuperPark at the most recent X-Games event. Contact your local Mirraco dealer to find out how much they are. Use the Mirraco dealer locater to find the closest dealer to your home.

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