Defending Dew Tour champs Jamie Bestwick (BMX Vert), Cameron White (BMX Dirt) & BMX Park runner-up Mike Spinner headline the ’09 Monster BMX crew!
CORONA, Calif., (June 17, 2009) – Monster Energy’s roster for the upcoming Dew Tour opener, Chicago’s Nike 6.0 BMX Open, reads like a Who’s Who? of legendary BMX talent, all of which would end up in the BMX Hall of Fame should they ever build one. Names like Mirra, Bestwick, Guettler, Spinner, White and Cranmer – which stand alone to a BMXer like “Renaldo” does to a soccer player – will all be running the iconic M-claw logo this summer, beginning with next weekend’s (June 26-27) huge send-off to start the competition season.
The Chicago/Nike opener is unique in that it is purely BMX. No skate, which is a first for the Dew Tour. So added to the usual Vert, Park and Dirt event will be Street – making the weekend of June 26-27 pretty much the biggest BMX event in the world outside the X Games this year.
“I definitely feel this is a defining moment for BMX to stand on its own,” said Bestwick, who last year won four out of five Dew Tour BMX Vert overalls to win the Dew Cup, an unprecedented fourth-straight Dew Cup (the most in AST Dew Tour history) for him. “New city. New format. New fans. And all-new tricks for ’09. It’s going to be awesome.”
Added defending tour BMX Dirt champ, Monster Energy’s newly-signed Cameron White: “Dude, it’s gonna go off! So many guys are looking forward to this.”
As with Bestwick on the Vert ramp, White is the man to beat on the dirt jumps spanning the U.S. coast-to-coast in five Dew Tour events over five months this summer/fall. He says he’s coming back with some new variations on some of the tricks that won him the ’08 overall Dirt title, stuff worked on throughout the winter at his home in Australia. “I’ve got a big dirt jump set up back at home, along with a foam pit,” said White. “I put a little bit of time into the foam, mixed up my game a bit and want to come out with some tricks that people wouldn’t usually expect from me. Change up the image a little bit, few different stunts. Feeling confident for the year.”
Both Bestwick and White’s arch rivals are comic book-like. Chad Kagy is good enough to beat Bestwick – and did last year at Portland, Ore., - and White’s nemesis’, TJ Ellis and Dennis Enarson, are high on the list of numerous athletes White says can drop in and win Dew Dirt.
Running the M-claw and fitting that nemesis role in BMX Park is Mike Spinner. The likeable easterner did everything he could to topple Park’s Superman, Daniel Dhers. The two combined on a rivalry similar to that of Bestwick and Kagy – elevating the BMX Par
k competition bar to incredible heights along the way. And Spinner’s pumped on ’09 and getting things rolling in Chicago.“It’s crazy right now. Daniel Dhers is the best park rider in the world,” said Spinner. “He’s super, super consistent, has the tricks and knows how to put it all together. With me, when I’m riding, it’s about doing tricks that nobody else has done. I’ve done the 1080. I’ve done the quadruple tail whip – and I’ve put them in the same run. But I tend to slack on the little things. So this winter that’s all I worked on. Fill the gaps, come on a little bit stronger and, hopefully, take one down.”
Add to t
he Bestwick/White/Spinner mix the greatest freestyle BMXer ever, Dave Mirra, and multi-event Dew Tour winners Ryan Guettler and new M-claw runner Scotty Cranmer, and the Monster Energy BMX crew looks to have an unreal shot at some serious hardware next weekend in Chicago!For more on the Dew Tour hit up: http://www.allisports.com/tour/4450/overview
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