RIDE BMX July 2006

May 03, 2006

Written by Bart de Jong

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RIDEBMX is a monthly magazine. That means that pretty much every 4 weeks you can pick up this mag and get informed about the latest in BMX land. Their myspace site is already lacking. For the last couple of issues I was able to pull down their contents list but the latest issue they've got listed is the May issue. This means I've got to come up with shit myself for another review of another issue. The July issue can be displayed by retailers until June 13th. That's another 6 weeks that you have to find this issue on the shelves at the newsstands. Hmm, what's in it? The Up Front section has all the news from a couple of weeks ago. You probably already read it on FATBMX. Chase Hawk is on Lotek while JPR is still working on getting the Caste prototypes into production. A couple of riders pick their favorite photo from previous RIDE BMX issues. Jamie Bestwick answers all your questions. Rooftop talks about his i-pod just before he enters the Gumball ralley as Tony Hawk's co-driver. We've heard Elvis (SkinDaddy) was given a Porsche too to race the yuppie race. If that's the case, we'll probably be able to give you a few backstage stories when the world race is over.

There's a pull-out poster of Allan Cooke to put o your wall. Posters usually cost a lot more than the issue itself ($ 3.99) but you gotta live with the folds.

A bunch of products get reviewed, the Steve McCann bike gets an 8.0 in the bike test section, Ryan Barrett talks about his bike set-up, Private Property is about the Warehouse in NY. Road trip: 10 pages. No brakes, no pegs, no fun? talk about it with Crisman, Hoder, Schwartz and Cleveland, they'll tell you different.

A guide to Road Trips possibly has some good tips for you. We say, just go and learn from experience. Focus has some razor sharp digi pics that probably don't come from your 2.1 megapixel Dimage X21. DC helps decorating your wall with a poster of Mirra on one side and Bohan on the other. Dave Belcher gets a BIO so does Kurt Rasmusson. Both riders have shown up in recently released DVD's. Need buttons? Contact Corrigan. Learn half-cabs for $ 3.99 (study the sequence). There's some weirdo on page 132 and that's the end for the July issue. Now go find it.

BdJ