August 06 news

Barletta in Sidewalk.
Check out the August Sidewalk with a sequence of DuFFS pro Louie Barletta from the recent Crossfire Southbank Jam. In case you haven’t seen it, here it is.

Duffs on fire at Newquay Boardmasters
A few of the team made their way down to Newquay for this year’s Boardmasters event. The boys took apart in most of the demos on the Eastpak mini all week, plus skated the huge vert ramp. In fact Munson and Carl were actually down there to build the beast. The street comp went down 1st and Adam Carl and Ben all managed to get in the final’s, with everyone killing it! Adam ended up in 3rd closely followed by Ben in 4th and Carl ended up 8th. Overall the Duffs squad were on it as ever.

Built to Destroy II
Some of the team are off to see Aldo and the boys over in Holland once again for a Built to Destroy Tour for Document mag. The article should be out not long after; you will get the low down 1st here! Look out for footage and shots really soon.

Moleys on fire!
Phil Aller aka Moley has been killing it lately on the comp scene he just got 3rd in the comp at Newquay and 3rd overall in the series taking away a cool £2000. Also he killed it at Nass with 4th in the street and 5th in the spine comp. Then took 5th in the Bmx Masters Braun spine comp in Germany. Good work Moley!! Plus, the boy got this months Ride cover, check it out!

Big Push issue out.
31st of August sees the new Big Push issue of Document hit the shelves, keep ‘em peeled for that. Carl Wilson is featured heavily in the Death section and Paul “Man” Silvester filmed, edited, and appears in the third foot section.

Cattle on the case.
John Cattle had baby boy recently, he started to come on the 5.6.2006 so we thought we would have a 6.6.6. baby, but little bugger stayed in Fran for 50 hours so ended up coming on 7.6.6! John has also recently started a skate company called Wight Trash, with boards produced by Death. The team is sick with Greg Nowik, Bod, Flynn Trotman, AVI, Myself and some other little rippers from the Isle of Wight. Greg Nowik’s TURD board in production, and should be here next week and finally copies of viewfinder#5 should be in the shops by end of month.

MTN bike News.
News just in - Tom Dowie (Team Identiti) crowned 4X Youth
Champion at National Championships. DuFFS Team-Mate Pat Campbell-Jenner 4X was Junior Runner-Up at National Championships. Tom is now the 2006 National 4X Youth Champion and also has a healthy lead in the NPS 4X Youth standings. Team Identiti/ DuFFS rider Rory Backshell just broke his collarbone. After only just recovering from his broken arm Rory has added to his ever-growing list of injuries with a broken collarbone sustained at his private trails. Get well soon mate, and good work boys!!