New 'How To' section
Sometime in the New Year there should be a new addition to the site in the form of a how to section. We've got some good ideas on how it's going to work and hopefully there should be some humor involved.
In the meantime keep checking back and look out for the new section

Loophole Competition
Cheers to everybody that took the time to enter the Loophole competition that has been running. The competiton has now finished and the winner is:

David Harris

Prizes will be dropped in the post on Monday.

Jam at Derby Storm
I received an email the other day about a jam that Fraggle is putting on at Derby Storm sometime earlyish next year...

"alright suckas...early days i know but i'm organising a jam at derby storm skatepark...should be happenin in march or sumink...maybe even earlier dependin on how slack i choose to be in the next few months!!! i wanna do a spine comp amongst other things...its not goin to be another derby jam hopefully sumink different...wanna try and sort some bands out in the evening but that might not happen, we'll see!! as i said its early days but i'll keep all of ya posted on the details...any support would be splendid and it would be good to get as many people there as possible even though alot of people hate the grim north!!! so spread the word mmmman!"

Look out for more details soon.

Avairy Hill Trails plowed by Tom James
Devastation! How ignorant and arrogant can you be. Greenwich council has just plowed what was thought to be the safest trail spot around "AVAIRY HILL". Even though it was 'given' to the local riders with all the local press involed about two years ago they didn't even attempt to consult or warn them that they were going to be plowed but went ahead with it and left a note saying that the uni needs the land and its supposed to be ok because there are two new shite kiddy parks in woolwich. I mean what the fuck kind of substitute is a pre-fabricted badly layed out kids skatepark in the windiest position in greenwich borough, full of 5year olds and their parents for a space to be able to build and ride your own trails away from the cunts that woolwich council breeds in its estates?. Pure stupidity. If anybody empathizes with our situation and you should do if you ride bmx please send letters of complaint to greenwich council. I will try to find a relevent email adress to sent hate mail to and draw up a pertition to try and get the council to leave what we build from now on and maybe if we push hard enough and publicise it enough get some diggers down to repair the damage they've done.

If anyone can help or has been in a similar situation and gan give advice on how to handle this send us an email to impgysm@hotmail.com

Tom
Photo of local Alex at the trails

Simpel Session Winter Bash, Estonia
I'm very glad to announce that our next event - Simpel Session 04: Winter Bash is going to happen on 9-10 January 2004! (it's going to be our 5th event, so a birthday contest). It's going to be indoor. The contest is going to happen on 9-10 January in Tallinn (the capital) Estonia in the biggest indoor hall in the Baltic States called Saku arena.

We're building new skatepark speccially for this contest (40x60m large) and we're also bringing here Red Bull Kibg Size vert ramp from Austria. We're running BMX skatepark comp and vert jam. The prize purse will be 4000 Euros for BMX park. Of course there's going to be a nice afterparty and all the things like that.

For the up to date information check out the festivals website: www.simpelsession.com (best acomodation, riders updates, park plans, last years pics and videos and more)

Many riders from all over the world are interested to visit Simpel Session Winter Bash 2004, so expect to meet here many faces from various places:) Some countries from where we expect riders: Germany, Austria, Canada, Denmark, USA, UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Baltic States and more. Some names: Dave Osato, Zach Shaw, Tobias Wicke, Jamie Bestwick, Markus Wilke, Kye Forte, Markus Hampl and many others.

To read about previous Simpel Session in Tartu, click here

Photos from last years event:
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Risto Kalmre

New Article
There is a new article added to the site, it's kind of an update/follow on to the Birmingham Scene check and was written by Andy Lewis. Go via the direct link below or through the articles section.

Birmingham Scene Update by Andy Lewis

Federal Bikes - Via News Letter
Here is some info on Federal Bikes products taken from their new news letter, if you want to read the whole thing, click on the link below.

The new grips are now available. A new team tyre is in the works called the Traction, available in 1.95 and 2.10 sizes. The new replacement back pack is available in black or grey, medium sized and has a mesh compartment for pads. In the works is the new frame featuring an internal headset, Euro BB, seat stat brake mounts and sizes of 20", 20.75" and 21".

Click here for the full news letter, it contains the low down on the products mentioned above and what the team has been upto.

Life Cycle Skatepark Questionnaire
As previously mentioned on the site, the wheels are in motion to try and get an indoor skatepark built around the Dartford area of London. Do your bit for the project, take a few mintutes out and fill in the questionnaire.

Clicking the link opens up a word document which you can then save / print / fill in etc.

Life Cycle Questionnaire

For more details, email the project directly

Site updates
The links page has been updated with a bunch of new stuff and there are a couple of new wallpapers. One of Kye Forte and one of Graeme Hardie.

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Open the relevant size and do the usual process...

Dirt Video Premier - Via Press release
Get your diaries out and make the date – Thursday DECEMBER 18TH, BOURNEMOUTH – for the Dirt Video Premiere Party, for the southern shandy-drinking lightweights – THE CONSORTIUM BAR awaits you and your friends for witnessing The Video Of 2004... A killer video, cheap drinks, and a great venue...

See you there,

Mark

Click to view the flyer

Harvington Skatepark, Beckenham
Looks like the salty old woman who lives next door to the skatepark finally got her way. The park is closing down and is currently being transformed into a huge pile of wood, ready to be burnt.

Leicester Edge Skatepark Jam - From Andy

"Got another jam at the edge skatepark, leicester planned for 24th January 2004. The last one was so well received we operated over our legal capacity limit (alright, it's not much, but packing over 120 riders into a 5000 sq ft warehouse seemed crazy at the time!)

Incidentally the Leicester City Council have just given us permission AND funding to hold a festival/jam day at our inner city BMX track/trails this Summer...cool!"

Click to view the flyer
www.edgeskatepark.com