-New Products: Seats, pedals, cranks, grips, frames, bars, and more…New products never get old! (It’s a play on words…get it?)
-Soft Goods: New threads from brands like Animal, Nike 6.0, Stolen, S&M, Osiris, Fox, and more… -Diversions: Corey Martinez talks about the songs from his video parts over the years and FU4, Still Here, and Pro Town: Greenville all get reviewed.
-How-To: Grind Handrails With Brian Kachinsky. Brian Kachinsky is definitely no stranger to handrails, and in this month’s how-to sequence he explains how to do double peg grinds so you can learn, too. -Focus: Tom Dugan, Dan Southwell, Biz, Chad Miller, and Lee Dennis all get in bangin’ new photos this month.
-Bio: Shawn Swain Here’s your into to a street shredder from Canada that rolls with the BMXFU crew. -Letters: Ryan tries his best to stay positive and be helpful in the answers to your letters this month. Key word being, “tries.”
-Finish: Tate Roskelley One of the most creative pro riders out there today finishes off the issue by filling in some blanks for us about his frame, tricks, filming, being scared, and more…
- Features -
-Automatic Eviction - The Birth, Life, And Death Of The Kink House After the Kink team moved into a house in Long Beach, California, they thought they had it made…and they did…until they were evicted. Here’s the story of their shortened stay in Socal.
-Laws Of Motion - Understanding The Physics Of BMX There’s a ton of science that is involved in BMX that none of us ever really think about, so Jeff Zielinski helps break down some of the laws of motion using a handful of awesome action shots to demonstrate.
-America’s Finest - A Marine, A Police Officer, and A Navy Corpsman Men known as “America’s Finest” aren’t what you typically think of when you imagine BMX riders, but remember…it takes all kinds. We interviewed three guys who wear their shin scars proudly under their uniforms.
-Panamoka - Dirt Lives On Long Island Long Island, New York, has a long history of trails, and this month Keith Mulligan took a trip back to his home state to get a look at what the scene is like these days on the island."
The mags always seem to come out at once. 3 previews/reviews today and we also got the 150th issue of Ride UK in the mail. Here's what you can expect from the May/June issue of RIDEBMX:- Departments -
-First Words: You mean to tell me different people have more than one perspective on BMX? Well I’ll be damned…
-Start: Loofa spins the Bs down a ledge he has walked past thousands of times. Hats off to the recent graduate!
-Up Front: Sponsor Block, Injured List, and Fine Print…the month’s news in a nutshell.
-Pro Q&A: Rob Wise From wearing bandanas and having tattoos to growing up Mormon and everything in between Rob Wise answered all the questions you guys asked him here on the site.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.