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What's Been Goin' Down...

Brian Deegan and etnies team manager Matt Chapman are going out to California Speedway for the Busch Series Ameriquest 300 this weekend to hangout with NASCAR driver and huge Metal Mulisha and etnies fan Carl Edwards.

Last week Deegan was out in Wisconsin testing a short course off-road truck with Baldwin Racing. Deegan plans on racing a CORR race this September in San Diego with the team.

Todd Potter landed his first ever backflips last week!

Trigger Gumm and Seth Enslow are out at Pastrana’s casa practicing backflips into the foam pit and within the next couple days they are hoping to have it down on to dirt.

The Hayden bros lead Supersport.

etnies road racers dominated last weekend at Virginia International Raceway where Roger Hayden took the win in Supersport just a split second in front of his brother Tommy Hayden who took second. Tommy has a huge 31 point lead over second place Roger in the series points, and Roger has a 30 point lead over his next competitor. Looks like the Hayden’s are going 1-2 for the Supersport championship!

Roger followed up his win in Supersport with his best finish of the season in Superstock, second place. Roger is in fourth overall with one round to go and has an outside chance of a podium if all goes well.

Jake Zemke got second place in Formula Xtreme and is sitting in first place for the championship by only five points. He has been trading wins and second place finishes back and forth with his rival Miguel DuHamel the whole season. If Jake wins next week he takes the championship, if Miguel wins he takes it. Talk about down to the wire, damn!

A couple weeks ago the Amateur National Championship was held at Loretta Lynn’s and Nico Izzy was clearly the dominant 85cc 14-15 rider, scoring a win in moto 1 and 3 but bike problems in moto 2 cost him the championship. Nico destroyed everyone in the Supermini class in which he took the championship.

etnies Girl rider Sarah Whitmore won the women’s title after sitting out last year due to an injury.

Mike Brown may not be on the US MXdN team anymore but you can still support Brown by buying one of the original Team USA t-shirts still featuring Brown (already a collectable), or you can support team USA in general and buy the updated Team USA T-shirt. And if you’re over the whole MXdN drama like I am then check out the etnies online store cuz you know we have the best shirts everrrr, minus the drama. Either way you’ll be stylin’.

Potter Learns Backflips!

Well after the Dew Tour in Portland last week Todd drove up to Spokane, Washington with Ailo Gaup from Norway to film for Pastrana's new movie, the Nitro Circuis 3. Todd hung around for a few days and got in some good riding and footage for the video, including some rock-solids, cliffhangers and KOD's off a 150 foot kicker!

After month of failed attempts and eating shit (which is well documented in the new Metal Mulisha video) Potter sacked up this week and pulled his first ever backflip to dirt. It was off a comp ramp that was jacked up in the front and dug into a hill so it was like a steep step up. It took a few tries of going over the bars and looping out before he finally pulled it (without a rear fender!).

Todd is doing a show in Fresno right now but will be taking his new found flipping skills to the 75' ramp at Deegan's next week. Good luck and congrats Todd!

Passed Out Wookies

Found this Wook passed out in the back yard.

Don't know what a Wookie is? Neither did I, until I found this Wookie web site and realized that real life Wookies live, smell bad, get loaded, and pass out among us everyday.

Mike Brown Out For The MXdN

Big Brownie and little Brownie were up on the podium quite a bit in the first part of the season.

Mike Brown was invited to ride for Team USA at the Motocross des Nations this year, which was a huge honor and a dream come true for Mike. Until yesterday when it was announced that Brownie would not be riding for his country at the MXdN and have to sit out the legendary race. His results lately have not been quite as good as the first part of the season so the tough decision was made to change riders. The whole deal sucks for Brownie.

Check out the press release for the details and check out the open letter from Ricky Carmichael about the whole situation.

In support of Mike Brown

and his team and his fans, etnies and Thor are giving away an autographed Mike Brown Thor jersey and a pair of etnies to the author of the Best Comment In The etnies Moto Blog through next week. So blog your hearts out and win an autographed piece of history and some etnies.

WTF?

This Weekend In Moto

Twitch took third place in Freestyle at the Dew Tour this weekend on the IFMA style, tight indoor course. No 100’ dirt jumps this time, just the old 75’ ramp, turn, 75’ ramp, turn, 75’ ramp…etc. But Twitch killed it as usual with some no-handed to no-footed flips and nac heel-clicker flips. Twitch is sitting in second place overall for the Dew Tour championship.

Twitch Wallpapers

Todd Potter also made it out to Portland to try his hand at the contest, but during practice he ate shit pretty bad, knocking himself silly and spitting up blood. Potter lied to the medical staff and told them he felt fine to ride even though he couldn’t even see straight. He rode the prelims but didn’t quite make the finals. He did pretty well considering he doesn’t even remember riding the prelims!

The MX Nationals hit up a pretty wet Broome-Tioga track in NY this weekend where Josh Grant put in another solid ride in the 125 class, racking up a 6-5 moto score for sixth overall on the day. Josh is now fourth in the points race just 15 points back from Short in third and 21 points back from Alessi in second.

Kelly Smith earned is best overall finish so far this season in seventh and Brownie went 8-8 for eighth overall on the day. With Chad Reed out for preventative maintenance on his body for the ’06 supercross season, Travis Preston was the front runner for etnies in the 250 class taking the seventh overall spot. Preston has been on it all season with solid results and a couple fourth place finishes which put him fifth in the season points standings. Two rounds left and it’s anyone’s game in the 125 class and who knows, maybe we’ll see 250 podium from Preston, he’s due. Next Week: Steele City

Josh Grant, Kelly Smith, and Mike Brown battle for possition and end up finishing in this order overall.

125cc Overall

1. Mike Alessi 1-1
2. Broc Hepler 3-1
3. Andrew Short 4-4
4. Grant Langston 2-7
5. Ivan Tedesco 7-3
6. Josh Grant 6-5 etnies
7. Kelly Smith 8-8 etnies
8. Mike Brown 11-6 etnies
9. Jason Lawrence 5-13
10. Davi Millsaps 10-11

250cc Overall

1. Ricky Carmichael 1-1
2. Kevin Windham 2-2
3. Ernesto Fonseca 8-3
4. Michael Byrne 4-6
5. David Vuillemin 9-4
6. Robbie Reynard 6-7
7. Travis Preston 5-8 etnies
8. Nick Wey 8-9
9. Ryan Hughes 15-3
10. John Dowd 11-10

Best Comment In The Moto Blog Contest

UPS girl just might bring the etnies right to your doorstep.

The etnies moto blog is now unofficially the easiest way on the web for you to earn free etnies with the new Best Comment in The Moto Blog contest. Every couple weeks or so at least one, if not more, of the best comments in the moto blog will be awarded with etnies kicks and/or random goods from No Fear, Metal Mulisha, Fox and whatever other companies send us junk to give away.

This will be an on going deal so basically, I, the moto editor can and will give out free etnies anytime I see the best comments everrr. So we want to hear what you have to say, get interactive, have fun, meet UPS girl and win free etnies!

Shotgunning Red Bull

You have a real problem when you’re shotgunning Red Bull because pounding the 8oz drink the normal way is not fast enough. Seek help bro, you need it.

Photoshopped etnies Photos Competition

Congrats to Tam Mullen on spotting the imposter in the wallpaper. Everyone knows c00ler was too busy on the pot to go and watch Step Up. Good job Tam, you win free etnies and a pair of fox knee pads!

Just some of the goods that clutter the etnies office that we need to get rid of.

Tam won the first round hands down by finding c00ler's face in the new Deegan wallpaper, kind of like Where's Waldo? We have decided to continue randomly Photoshopping weird sh!t into etnies wallpapers and photos in the etnies blog and photo galleries. So if you are the first to spot an altered photo and call us out on it in the blog you will win something sweet. Note: It will never be as obvious as the last one because Tam got it way too quickly! It'll be a little more low pro, I may warn you about it or it could just randomly appear, so keep your eyes peeled and you could win some free stuff.

We have a ton of fox pads and gloves to give away, endless amounts of etnies, and No Fear stuff is on the way, plus even more goods in the near future. Always make sure to use your real email if you plan to collect.

etnies that want to be on your feet!

Fresh Desktop Wallpapers and Free etnies!

We have seven new etnies wallpapers from X Games of Chad Reed, Twitch, Deegan, Johnny Murphree, and Chris Fillmore. That’s one wallpaper per day for a whole week! Or maybe one wallpaper per week for seven weeks! Way cool, right? But wait, there’s more....

Be the first to point out the altered wallpaper in the blog and win a free pair of etnies and a set of fox knee pads (be sure to use your real email address if you ever want to see a prize!).

Good luck.

Next Stop: Dew Domination!

The third stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour is coming up this weekend from Portland, Oregon. Now that Twitch broke his second place streak last week in X Games Best Trick and knows the taste of gold, look for him to come out and stomp everyone in Freestyle on his way to the overall Dew championship. Also making an appearance will be Todd Potter, fresh off a full summer of demos, practicing and drinking, he could make a strong showing this weekend. Twitch and Potter have some new tricks that are insane!

Current Standings

1. Kenny Bartram 163
2. Jeremy Stenberg 150
3. Mike Mason 104
4. Travis Pastrana 100
5. Ronnie Faisst 96
6. Drake McElroy 84
7. Dustin Nowak 84
8. Brian Foster 71
9. Beau Bamburg 69
10. Ailo Gaup 63

TV Times
19-Aug 12:00-1:00 AM - USA network
20-Aug 2:30-4:30 PM - NBC
20-Aug 12:00-1:00 AM - USA network
21-Aug 2:30-4:30 PM - NBC

Straight Outta Compton!

Trife!

etnies are the shoe of choice for the homeless on the streets of Compton. See how well that Lo Cut 2 matches the Docksider he's wearing on the other foot? And the no laces thing...that's gonna hit big in '06. You heard it here first.

Spring Creek MX National

Josh Grant

This weekend we get back to the roots of motocross with the AMA Motocross Nationals from Spring Creek MX Park in Millville, MN. No more jumping over man-made, made for TV obstacles like last week’s X Games. That was fun and all, but now it’s back to the real deal, outdoor motocross!

Brownie

Our boy Reed is out for the rest of the season after getting surgery to take some hardware out of his wrist. In second place and not too far behind leader Ivan Tedesco, Mike Brown is still in the hunt to win the 125 championship as a privateer. Josh Grant is also right there in the mix in fourth place, only one point behind Mike Alessi in third. But the battle for third won’t be easy by any means. Positions third thru seventh are separated by a mere twenty points and any one of those five riders can win races. At this point, with only four races remaining in the season, a moto win or a DNF can make or break you.

Check out the Live Webcast and Live Timing if you can’t make it out to the races this weekend.

Now that the Tour de France is over we get motocross back on OLN. Here is the TV schedule for the remainder of the moto season....

• 8/13/2005 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Thunder Valley, Lakewood, CO - 250 cc
• 8/18/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Thunder Valley, Lakewood, CO - 125 cc
• 8/20/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Washougal Motocross Park, Washougal, WA - 250 cc
• 8/25/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Washougal Motocross Park, Washougal, WA - 125 cc
• 8/27/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Spring Creek Motocross Park, Millville, MN - 250 cc
• 9/1/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Spring Creek Motocross Park, Millville, MN - 125 cc
• 9/3/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Broom-Tioga Sports Center, Binghampton, NY - 250 cc
• 9/8/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Broom-Tioga Sports Center, Binghampton, NY - 125 cc
• 9/11/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Steel City Raceway, Delmont, PA - 250 cc
• 9/15/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Steel City Raceway, Delmont, PA - 125 cc
• 9/17/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Glen Helen Raceway Park, San Bernadino, CA - 250 cc
• 9/22/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Glen Helen Raceway Park, San Bernadino, CA - 125 cc
• 9/24/2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Hangtown Motocross Classic, Sacramento, CA - 125 cc
• 9/29/2005 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Hangtown Motocross Classic, Sacramento, CA - 250 cc

Chad Reed Out For The Outdoors

After taking bronze at last week's X Games Supermoto event, Chad will be on the sidelines for a little while. He will be out the remainder of the outdoor national season due to surgery he underwent to take out some old hardware in his wrist. Chad is set to be back and better than ever by the US Open in October of 2005, and ready to take back the Supercross title in 2006.

Eye Candy!

Imagine you're at work right? And when you walk around the office you get to look at girls like this right? You'd like your job. Here's two hard-working and blonde etnies ladies at last week's US Open. Enjoy.

New Photo Galleries!

All new Photo Galleries from X Games are up in the 'extra' section now. Best Trick, Freestyle, Step Up, Supermoto, random shit...we got it all.

X Games Supermoto

Reed pulls a huge holeshot and leads the first five laps.

Johnny was on his game after relaxing in the etnies motorhome before the race.

Supermoto was bad ass this year, all the big dogs came out including etnies riders Johnny Murphee (dirt track racer), Steve Drew, Chris Fillmore, and Factory Yamaha's Chad Reed. The race was one hour, which translated into about 40 laps, with one mandatory pit stop/tire change half way through on a technical course with about half street and half dirt.

Chad Reed took the holeshot and lead the race for about the first five laps until fellow Factory Yamaha teammate Doug Henry passed Chad for the lead. Henry checked out and won the race by over ten seconds, while Reed and McGrath battled the whole race for second place, or silver. McGrath made a huge pass on the down ramp stick and Reed rode to a Bronze Medal.

Congrats Chad on the Bronze Medal!

Steve Drew clears the big step over.

Check out the etnies X Games Supermoto Photo Gallery.

X Games Supermoto Results

1. Doug Henry
2. Jeremy McGrath
3. Chad Reed etnies
4. Eric Bostron
5. Kurt Bicoli
6. Benny Carlson
7. Chris Fillmore etnies
8. Steve Drew etnies
9. Ivan Lazzarini
10. Johnny Murphree etnies
11. Mark Burkhart
12. Travis Pastrana
13. Darryl Atkins
14. Eddy Seel
15. Micky Dymond
16. David Baffeleuf
17. Jeff Ward
18. Gary Trachy
19. Juergen Kuenzel
20. Mouse McCoy

Twitch Got F'd Out Of A Freestyle Medal?

Twitch claims it after his BF to side saddle landing off the 80' ramp jump...wouldn't you?

Maybe since I work at etnies I’m a little biased, but from what I saw (which was everything) there is no doubt that Twitch deserved a medal in Freestyle. Maybe the judges had one too many Mountain Dews to pay any attention? At least they were awake for Big Air. What do you guys think?

But first check out the etnies X Games Freestyle Photo Gallery.

Deegan Steppin' Up

Deegs clearing 28'

Deegan was invited to both Step Up and Big Air at X Games, but elected to sit out of Big Air due to his recent injuries. Brian did ride Step Up, and he put in a strong ride despite his bike setup problems that arose during practice only minutes before the event. Deegan’s mechanic made several trips back to the pits to change both the front and rear sprockets, but it still wasn’t right.

The etnies cloud art specialists took to the skys to support Deegan at Step Up.

Deegan decided to use his practice bike instead of the West Coast Choppers bike, which was setup a little different. Deegs cleared the first round height, but was eliminated along with Ronnie Renner in round two at 31’. Brian was over it, "I'm coming off a pretty gnarly injury, F#$% IT, I'm stoked to be back on a dirt bike."

Check out the Step Up Photo Gallery!

Twitch Wins Big Air GOLD!!!

Twitch stole the show with his whiped backflip no footer to 1 hander lander. Twitch's smooth as hell tripple combo off the 90' dirt hit, which only he and Faisst flipped, was more than enough to beat out Pastrana's backflip saran-wrap to no hander lander off the 75' ramp and Adam's semi-weak 360. This is Twitch's first ever X Games Gold, we'll see if he earns a second gold Saturday night in Freestyle.

etnies' newest pro, Nikki Danielson, took seventh in his first X Games!

Twitch gettin' ready for gold in practice

The winning jump...

winning jump....see the arm coming in to the shot?...

The winning jump...all arm, no Twitch....I about threw that jack ass off the mega ramp. The next frame was all arm...sorry guys.

Nikki warmin' up the bike for his run.

Nikki's flip nac

Deegs was on hand to support the troops while waiting on the scores

Twitch wins Gold!

X Games Freestyle Practice

The first round of X Games freestyle practice went down this afternoon. The course is sick with a couple pretty big dirt hits, the standard ramp hits, and a wall ride! Twitch said he was pretty pumped on the course and he was flippin' everything like it was nothin'. This is gunna be sick. Check back for an update and photos from the first big air practice later today.

The freestyle course

Twitch's backflip whip

etnies Blitzkriegs the US Open!

Damn right, we invaded the sky too!

Last weekend, etnies made a little trip to the US Open in Huntington Beach. We thought you'd like to see some photos from the event.

Skaters sometimes go to surf events.

Stencil mayhem.

This is where people lined up to win buttloads of free etnies stuff.

This dude has the love.

Deegan was there, being suave as usual.

Metal Mulisha and the etnies RV.

I think this is an "artsy" shot of the stencils.

Washougal National

Travis Preston

Chad Reed crashed hard last Thursday while practicing at Glen Helen and had to miss last weekend's Washougal National. Reed suffered a concussion in the fall and did not get a doctor's release to attend the race. The only etnies rider in the 250 class for Washougal, with Reed being out, was Travis Preston who took seventh place with a strong 5-8 moto score.

In the 125/250F class Amsoil Chaparral Honda’s Josh Grant was right there battling in front after very good starts in each moto. Josh ended up fifth overall and Boost Mobile Yamaha of Troy rider Danny Smith rounded out the top ten.

125 Overall Results

1. Ivan Tedesco (1-3)
2. Andrew Short (2-2)
3. Broc Hepler (5-1)
4. Davi Millsaps (6-4)
5. Josh Grant (4-8) etnies
6. Paul Carpenter (9-6)
7. Grant Langston (3-26)
8. Robert Kiniry (14-9)
9. Jason Lawrence (8-15)
10. Danny Smith (11-13) etnies

250 Overall Results

1. Ricky Carmichael (1-1)
2. Kevin Windham (2-2)
3. Ernesto Fonseca (4-3)
4. David Vuillemin (3-6)
5. John Dowd (8-4)
6. Michael Byrne (6-5)
7. Travis Preston (5-8) etnies
8. Nick Wey (7-7)
9. Ryan Clark (9-9)
10. Matt Goerke (10-11)

ROAD RACING
FIM MotoGP Series
German Grand Prix

1. Valentino Rossi
2. Sete Gibernau
3. Nicky Hayden etnies
4. Max Biaggi
5. Alex Barros
6. Shinya Nakano
7. Marco Melandri
8. Colin Edwards
9. Loris Capirossi
10. Makoto Tamada

What Happens In Vegas...

The Desert Assassins went to Las Vegas this weekend with the goal of winning in three different classes at the SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Cup presented by McGraw Insurance. Thursday was press day and the Pit Crew Challenge where the Desert Assassins' wrench monkeys took the fourth place time for changing four of their 35” Yokohama tires on the #16 Desert Assassins, Lake Elsinore Casino, Cabo Wabo Trophy Truck.

The first day or racing saw Cameron Steele, who assumed driving duties for all three classes, winning his heat races in both class 12 and 1/2 1600 which prompted the IRL style victory doughnuts on the infield for the 8,000+ fans. The trophy truck had some mechanical problems in the heat race, got spun out in a tight corner in the first lap of the main and on the last lap, while making a comeback into the top four, the rear end of the truck clipped a cement barrier on the pavement portion on the 1.5 mile track, causing the right trailing arm to break, a FOX bypass to bend and a whole lot of other damage.

The new school redneck swimming pool.

Thanks to Timmy and Deckman for making the long drive all the way from Vegas to the San Clemente race shop and back for the spare parts, and a big thanks to the crew who stayed up all night working on the truck while the less responsible ones stayed up all night in town working on a buzz.

Race Day two was hot! I pulled up to the track Saturday expecting to see everyone working on the cars, but instead I stumbled upon a true redneck experience…a pick up truck swimming pool filled with half the race team and a couple hotties to combat any possible gay misconceptions. In 110 degree heat it turned out to be the best idea everrrrrr, until BR turned the water yellow. The crew must have seen these rednecks geniuses and been inspired. As the weather got cooler with night fall, the racing heated up for main event where Cameron won a 1/2 1600 heat race but had some mechanical problems in the main. In trophy trucks Cameron Steele and rival Rob MacCachren were by far the fastest. On the restart of the trophy truck final it was Cameron out in front with Rob close behind until Rob dropped out of the race and another red flag came out, causing yet another restart. Cameron was up front for the restart with Marty Coyne and Scott Steinberger just behind him. In one of the hair pin turns Coyne pushed the Desert Assassins #16 truck and made the pass, then had a hard bump from Jesse Jones which spun him for the full turn around. Cameron finished in fifth in trophy truck. The team deffinatly had a target on its back after all the trash talk and nerfing, but that's racing.