January 2006 BMX Plus! magazine

Dec 04, 2005

Written by Bart de Jong

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Raul Reez gets the cover of the January issue doing an X-up stall from a bank onto a rail. Inside Scoop gives away December B-day dates. Here are some of them: 7th: TJ Lavin and Dave Osato, 11 Sean McKinney, 19 Kevin Robinson, December 29 DMC and 30 John Parker. Congrats to all of them this month. The Inside Scoop has loads of funny pictures that would not make it anywhere else in the mag. We love pics with funny captions. A lot of people seem to write in at BMX Plus! telling from the Mail Bag and Ask the BMXperts pages. Dennis McCoy (DMC) receives a well deserved pro interview. He's been a pro BMX rider for 20 years and at age 38 (he'll turn 39 later this month) he's still rocking. That great house he's living in is well deserved. Mucho Respect. The FIT Pro Complete Bike gets tested and receives a great review. A Wall tap how-to follows with Colin Mackay. BMX Plus! loves Buyer's Guides and they've got one in the January issue of 2006 Dirt/Park/Street bikes. 19 pages of bikes and info foy you to decide what to buy next. Poster = Porter. Hang it on your wall. Race fans are not fogotten with a report on the 2005 NBL Grand Nationals. Pro Bike review: Jamie Bestwick's signature GT. Tested: Josh Harrington's signature Premium Frame.

Loads of Interbike pics, a show you actually should not miss out on. Terry Adams takes care of the flatland portion and Afro Bob gets a great shot from the Dew Action Sports Tour in San Jose racing his Staats. Freestyle went down there as well and the next 9 pages fill you in on everything that happened. Tech Tip: How to make your bike lighter. Cut your bars, cut your seatpost, drop one of the chain tensioners, replace the preload fork bolt with a lighter one, get rid of the valve caps and unnecessary washers and take off the pegs you're not going to use. Total weight saved by the Plus crew: 2.1 pounds without spending a penny. Find products in Product Probe and Trick Stuff and leave it to Diogo Canina to hit the eject button on a front flip in Parting shot. The sequence is nuts, take a look at picture 9. Now you better find that issue yourself.

BdJ