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Twitch's Daily Habit

I think this is a little old (right around Dew Tour season last year) but none the less, it's Twitch on Fuel TV and that's like way cool. Check it out on iTunes and get the video on your iPod!

Fuel TV Daily Habit - Twitch (.mov 43 MB)

iTunes

Jim McNeil Sweeps X Games Qualifier

Over the weeknd in Las Vegas, Jim McNeil swept both nights of competition in Freestyle at the "WFA Grand Prix of Freestyle Moto-X", AKA X Games (kinda) Qualifier. McNeil also won Best Trick on Saturday night. So, if I'm not mistaken (which I probably am) McNeil should be automatically getting an invite to X Games next year! Hopefully.

Congrats Jim!

Friday Night Freestyle
1. Jim McNeil etnies
2. Mike Mason
3. Jeremy Lusk
4. Beau Bamburg
5. Adam Jones

Best Trick
1. Blake Williams
2. Jim McNeil etnies
3. Adam Jones
4. Beau Bamburg
5. Mike Mason

Saturday Night Freestyle
1. Jim McNeil etnies
2. Mike Mason
3. Beau Bamburg
4. Drake McElroy
5. Jeremy Lusk

Best Trick
1. Jim McNeil etnies
2. Adam Jones
3. Beau Bamburg

Rock the VOTE!

If you haven't already, make sure to vote for your favorite photo in the etnies/Racer X Photo Contest.

And check out more very nice entries like this in the photo gallery.

Jim McNeil Wallpapers

Two new etnies wallpapers of Jim McNeil are waitin' for ya over in the wallpaper section. Check it.

etnies NYC article!

Check this one out...a story on the etnies building in NYC. Good stuff, good stuff!

Todd Potter Wallpaper

Check out the new Todd Potter Wallpaper from X Games earlier this month. Although Potter didn't actually ride in the X Games, he did ride the freestyle course for an ESPN Mag photo shoot and the Pay-per-view Moto Madness thingy.

XR50 Dude

Photo: Shambla

Found this guy charging on an etnies-decked-out XR50 on Flickr photos tagged with "motocross". Rock on dude!

Photo Contest Gallery

All the photos that we received from the etnies/Racer X Photography Contest are now in the Photo Gallery for your viewing pleasure. Check 'em out!

Have you voted for the winning photo yet?

Racer X Photo Contest Online Voting!

The crew at Racer X have picked out the Top 11 Photos from the thousands of entries we received, and now it's all up to you to check out the photos and VOTE for your favorite one. Remember, the winner's photo will get a full spread in the December issue of Racer X Magazine (plus a ton of etnies junk!), so there is a lot on the line!

If you didn't make the finals, well, we're sorry, but at least you can check out yours and every other photo from the contest in the Photo Gallery! Thanks for entering!

The deadline for voting is 11:59 pm on Wednesday, September 13. Good luck to the finalists.

Now Go VOTE!

Brett Metcalfe on Cover of TWMX!

Boost Mobile/etnies/Yamaha of Troy's Brett Metcalfe is on the cover of the next issue of Transworld MX! Nice!

Broome-Tioga

Tim Ferry
Photo: TWMX

Congrats to all the etnies guys on their performance over the weekend at Broome-Tioga. Tim Ferry, Nick Wey and Travis Preston took the 5th, 6th and 7th place spots while Mike Brown rounded out the top 10.

The series takes a 1 week break and will be back September 3 at Steel City.

Now go ride your dirt bike!!! Braaappppp

Trigger Gumm World Record Jump Video

Remember Trigger Gumm's World Record jump attempt/World Record huge crash from last month? What am I thinking... of course you do!

Well, we put together our video footage from out there in Oklahoma and now its here for you...

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Or get it the old fashion way and download the .mov (6 MB) and store it with your free internet porn collection. Either way works just fine.

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BrianDeegan.com

The surgery photos are crazy!

Go to briandeegan.com and take a look at Deegan's video update about X Games and a ton of other good stuff.

Spring Creek = Mud Creek

Josh Grant with a couple holeshots.

The first round of motos started off quite nicely in Spring Creek over the weekend. Josh Grant pulled the 250F moto 1 holeshot and held off the pack for a few laps before being pushed back to fifth place. The following 450F moto 1 saw etnies' Travis Preston taking fifth place with Mike Brown close in tow for eighth.

The second round of motos was a totally different story as Spring Creek quickly transformed into Mud Creek with torrential downpours making the track a sloppy mess. Josh Grant again took the 250F holeshot but, with the sloppy track, he had a few problems and finished in tenth for sixth overall. Mike Brown was right up front with RC on the start of Moto 2 and just missed the holeshot by a hair. Mike got fourth in the muddy Moto 2 for fifth overall, his best finish on the 450F this year. Congrats!

Mike Brown
Check out the Racer X Wallpapers from Millville over at racerxill.com

450 Overall Results

1. Ricky Carmichael 1-1
2. David Vuillemin 7-2
3. Kevin Windham 9-3
4. James Stewart 2-11
5. Mike Brown etnies 8-4
6. Travis Preston etnies 5-6
7. Josh Demuth 12-5
8. Kyle Lewis 10-9
9. Davi Millsaps 4-19
10. Chad Reed 3-27
11. Ryan Clark 16-7
12. Nick Wey etnies 13-13
13. Michael Byrne 6-26
14. Timmy Ferry etnies 34-8

Scope the Josh Grant Racer X wallpapers, too.

250F Overall Results

1. Broc Hepler 3-1
2. Andrew Short 1-3
3. Mike Alessi 4-3
4. Ryan Villopoto 2-7
5. Matt Goerke 10-2
6. Josh Grant etnies 5-10
7. Ryan Dungey 8-8
8. Danny Smith 17-5
9. Paul Carpenter 15-6
10. Brett Metcalfe etnies 11-13

New In the Online Store!

The Rico belt!

Check the etnies Online store for all new Fall apparel and accessories!

Deegan's Best Trick Run

We put together a couple video clips of Deegan's X Games Best Trick runs with some Angel of Death in there just 'cuz we're pissed off like that. Congrats on pullin' off another 360!

Deegan Best Trick Run (.MOV (7 MB))

X Games Moto Photos!

Check out the new Photo Gallery for everything that was happening in moto all weekend at the super mega eXtreme Games.

X Games FMX Final

etnies' Jim McNeil was one of five riders to make it to the Freestyle finals at X Games this year. Qualifying fourth, McNeil knew he had to step it up to pull off his first X Games medal. Jim did just that. Huge flip whips, perfectly executed KOD's, no-footed nacs, and what looked like a no-footed can to KOD, were all nuts. But Jim's flip tricks are what separated him from the pack. Backflip seat grabs and seat grab Indian airs (no one else was doing that shit!), flip nacs, no-handed flips and backflip Cordova's!!!

Front brake standing burnouts are hard to do.

Talking to Deegan afterwards, he said he thought McNeil got shafted by the judges and deserved a better score. "He was taking more risks than anyone out there," Deegs said. Personally, I agree. You can't really argue with the General now can you?

But everyone else was on their game, too, and threw down some solid runs. In the end the judges placed McNeil in fourth, just .80 of a point behind the Bronze medal position. Congrats Jim and great job! Next year it's on!

X Games Moto Best Trick!

Jim McNeil - Backflip Seat Grab Indian Air!!!

I'm speachless. Tonight was the best X Games Moto Big Air/Best Trick (whatever ya wanna call it) everrrrr. There were so many mind boggeling tricks being pulled it was hard to keep track of. Obviously, Pastrana's double backflip is the craziest thing ever done, period. Congrats to him. But from there it was anyone's game...

etnies' newest rider, Jim McNeil, had a bag full of tricks that could, and probably should, have landed him a medal this year. The judges didn't see it that way, though. Whatcha gunna do? Considering all that was happening, fifth place is like a win. Congrats Jim!

Deegan was riding big air, also. With some solid flip whip combos Deegan landed himself in eigth place. Jesse James of West Coast Choppers and his hot movie star wife Sandra Bullock were hanging in the Mulisha corner for the finals. I tried to get all paparazzi about it for a lurker photo, but all I could manage was a shot of Sandra's head. I just might have to sell it to STAR Magazine for some big bucks!

Tonight was crazy. Hopefully the next couple days can live up to this... cruise back to etnies.com for all the photos and the full rundown.

McNeil pullin' some digits...

The "other TP" hangin with Deegs after all is said and done...

Full photo galleries, video and more later in the week....

X Games Freestyle - Thursday Practice

It's the second day of practice and everyone is going off! This years Freestyle contest will be like a 90 second best trick contest the way things are going now. Flip nacs, flip no footed cans, flip cordovas, flip seat grabs, flip superman's (no grab... straight up superman!), flips over the gnarly 110 foot ramp-to-dirt (Adams flip cordova'd it!).... too much stuff to name off right now. Make sure to tune in and watch on TV. And come back here for more photos and junk.

The course...

110 footer...

Jim McNeil was killing it during practice as you can see from the flip cordova!!!

Twitch cruised out with the fam to check everything out. He's still in casts but he should be outa the left cast in a couple weeks and the right will be off a few weeks after that... Next stop: Destroying Winter X!

Todd Potter isn't riding X Games, but ESPN did hire him to do a photo shoot for some promotional BS. Some extra cash and a chance to session the freestyle course sounds like a damn good deal to me!

Step up practice was supposed to go down tonight but McShowtime and others didn't like the landing very much so it's going to get changed a little. Deegan didn't get a chance to hit it, but it's no biggy since it will be all different tomorrow.

More to come tomorrow... but for now, it's party time!

X Games Moto Event/TV Schedule

X Games starts up tomorrow! Brian Deegan and Jim McNeil will be out there representing for etnies in Step Up, Freestyle and Best Trick. Twitch wont be riding due to his big crash at the DEW Tour a few weeks back where he broke both legs.

If you can make it out to LA for the event make sure to come out and support the team. If ya can't get out there make sure to watch everything on TV.

Live Competition Schedule

Thursday, August 3, 2006

• 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Moto X Freestyle Practice - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil

Friday, August 4, 2006

• 10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Moto X Freestyle Practice - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil
• 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Moto X Best Trick Practice - STAPLES Center - Brian Deegan & Jim McNeil
• 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Moto X Best Trick Finals - STAPLES Center - Brian Deegan & Jim McNeil

Saturday, August 5, 2006

• 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Moto X Step Up Practice - Home Depot Center - Brian Deegan
• 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Moto X Freestyle Practice - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil
• 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Moto X Freestyle Finals Part 1 - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil
• 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Moto X Step Up Finals - Home Depot Center - Brian Deegan
  

Sunday, August 6, 2006

• 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Moto X Freestyle Practice - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil
• 1:45 p.m. – 3 p.m. Moto X Freestyle Finals Part 2 - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil
• 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Moto X Madness* - Home Depot Center - Jim McNeil

TV Schedule
DATE/TIME - NETWORK - EVENT

• Thursday, August 3 - 12 Midnight - ESPN2 - X Center
• Friday, August 4 - 9 p.m. - ESPN - BMX Freestyle Vert and Moto X Best Trick
• Saturday, August 5 - 9 p.m. - ESPN - Moto X Freestyle Finals Part 1 and Moto X Step Up
• Saturday, August 5 - 12 Midnight - ESPN2 - X Center
• Sunday, August 6 - 3 p.m. - ABC - SuperMoto, Surfing and Moto X Freestyle Finals Part 2
• Sunday, August 6 - 6 p.m. - PPV - Moto Madness and BMX Big Air
• Sunday, August 6 - 12 Midnight - ESPN2 - X Center

All TV times listed are Eastern Time (ET) and subject to change.

And make sure to check back here for daily updates and tons of photos!!!

Garland's freestylemx.com Tour Update

Derek Garland has been on tour with the Boost Mobile/FreestyleMX.com tour all summer long. We haven't heard from Garland for a while and thought maybe he went MIA in Butfuk, Tennessee with a traveling donkey show or something. But it turns out Garland is doing just great!...here's what he had to say:

"The Boost Mobile tour continued this last weekend in Maine. We did shows in Bangor and Presque Isle. We got word from the locals that the only thing to do in Maine is get drunk and have sex...so we went with that --garlandfmx"

Sounds fun, keep us updated on anything new!

Josh Grant Second OA @ Washougal

Congrats to Josh Grant on a solid ride this weekend for second overall in the 250F class! Moto one saw Grant taking second place, just 2 seconds back from winner Andrew Short, but over 25 seconds ahead of the next closest competitor! In Moto two Grant stayed consistent and, even after a small mistake, held on for third place and second overall.

Also, Timmy Ferry had one of his best showings of the season with fourth place in Moto two and fifth overall! Travis Preston was right there in the mix, too, with sixth overall, going 6-5.

Braaaapppp!!!!

Photo: TransworldMX

AFI Contest Winners!

Congrats to Donna fom Olympia, Washington for being the Grand Prize winner of the AFI Giveaway. She won herself an autographed AFI CD set and free etnies gear. Runners-up were Christian from Dearborn Heights, Michigan and Yeonsil from Dunnellon, Florida. They both nabbed themselves some free etnies. Congrats, y'all. Thanks to all who entered. More contests to come!