RideBMX posted an incredibly awesome desktop wallpaper of Ryan Nyquist dipping a one handed 360 at the Salt Lake Dew Tour. Go download it!

A Vital BMX Power Hour is only supposed to take one hour, but Ryan Nyquist’s ended up taking over a month of work. Based on what he got done, it looks like it was well worth the hassle. Watch it!

Corey Duffel, Caswell Berry, Shuriken Shannon Taylor Bingaman, Chad Bartie and some others will be making some appearances in the Sacramento/San Jose area. Hope to see you there.

Thursday November 19th

Surf & Skate
www.surfandskate.com
7411 Greenback Lane
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
(916) 721 5000

Friday November 20th

Good Times
www.goodtimesonline.com
156 Mill St
Grass Valley, CA 95945-4702
(530) 272-7751

Saturday November 21st

Metro
www.metroskateshop.com
1120 Contra Costa Blvd
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-2343
(925) 363-7440

Sunday November 22nd

Skate Works
www.skateworks.com
2855 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 247-5283

Arnette and Vital BMX have teamed up to give away a trip to Greenville, NC to ride with Rob Darden and his friends. Watch the video below and click here to enter the contest!

Darryl Tocco?

We just got an update from our Portugal distributor about this past weekend’s BMX Freestyle National Championships.

The last stage of BMX Series by Eastpak – BMX Freestyle National Championship, happened in the 24 and 25 days of October in Santarém – Festival Bike. 70 Signed riders gave their best to raise the last points in game. Beside of the best national riders, some international riders showed up, increasing level and the show!

Saturday was eliminator day, beginners and amateurs. There were no time for pro eliminatory, but we had a little peak of what we would expect in the next day!

Sunday started with the beginners finals!. 3rd Place Luis Umbelino from Torrer Vedras, in 2nd Hugo Jordão from Alqueidão. The 1st Place went one more time to João Vale from Leiria. In Amateur, in 3rd place Pedro Dias from Torres Vedras, 2nd Alexandre Rodrigues from Portimão and 1st place to Diogo Santos from Casais da Serra.

In pro category the podium was dominated by the international riders. From Madrid, Sergio Layos took the 3rd place, in 2nd went to another Spanish, Daniel Penafiel from Burgos winner of the last two finals of BMX Series. The 1st place went to England, Anthony Watkinson from Liverpool.

About the Portuguese riders the best Pro. rated was Pedro Seca From Portimão, fallowed by Daniel Serra from Amadora and Jean Silva from Leiria.
We saw a little of every trick, a double tailwhip, a tailwhip-to-nosepick from Anthony Watkinson, backflip-superman from Daniel Penafiel, whip transfer downside from Sergio Layos and a 360 barspin in the Spine from Pedro Seca.

And the 3rd stage elapsed like this. The 1st stage was in Caldas da Rainha and the 2nd in São João da Madeira. The local and date of the trophy delivery to the national best rated riders will soon be announced.

The Bmx Series by Eastpak have the sponsor of Eastpak and the support of Redbull, Osiris, Odyssey, Fitbikeco., MutantBikes, Academia dos Patins, C.M. das Caldas da Rainha, C.M. de São João da Madeira, CNEMA, Apameta and Fox. The Media partners are Freecaster, Zona Radical, Vespa Produções, SoulBMX and photobmxmag.

Marcus Tooker and Rob Darden recently went on a Haro/Premium trip to Charm City Skatepark and Groove Merchants BMX Shop. Check the video!

The Del shoe is now available. Get it!

Just received word from Stu.

“There was a contest last Saturday in Kristiansand Norway. Came in 1st. My homie Benson got 3rd . Pretty sick.”

I couldn’t find anything about the contest, but while looking i found this 10 tricks I’ve never seen before. Check it!

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ESPN took a look at a few pairs of Osiris Shoes from the new line that have been popular amongst BMX riders. They were stoked on everything and wrote a nice piece up on their site. Go read it!