DIGBMX ISSUE 57; LESSONS IN FUTILITY? What's inside?

Feb 28, 2007

Written by Bart de Jong

Read 4157 times

Winter is a drag. Round these parts, it's too cold to step outside and walk down the street for a Vitamin Water, let alone drag your bike outside and try to get any riding in. For the past few weeks, the temperature hasn't really gotten above freezing, and aside from a few days spent inside, riding BMX has been pretty hard to come by. So we're not motivated to even step outside already, and to add insult to injury, we've gotta struggle to find the motivation to produce a BMX magazine amid these circumstances? (For those of you with real jobs we're obviously kidding about that last part).

But, there's still a lot of great stuff going on out there so we took what we could get, buckled down and got on with the winter, producing issue 57 somewhere along the way. It's done now and ready for consumption. Here's some of what you'll find in there:

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Real life with Paul Horan

DIG THIS: The BMX Frat House, Estonia Simpel Session Repo, Luc-E, Eastpak in Greece, Steven Hamilton's Bike(s), Micreation Company Policy, Chase Dehart

VIDEOSTORE: Reviews and interviews with Joel Moody (editor of the new Empire video) and Richard Rowlands (editor of the new Attila vid)

A STUPENDOUS 14-PAGE VAN HOMAN INTERVIEW!!!

RE:SEARCH AND DESTROY: with Owain Clegg

FRAGMENTS: Ross Tanner on a familiar "out"ing.

TRAIL DAYS: A 12-page photo essay on trails in the Northeast US, with real-life green leaves on the trees.

ALL SORTS OF ROADTRIP ACTION, INCLUDING: Austrians in Bulgaria, Superstar, Federal and Fly

LOW PROFILE: Jeremiah Smith, Tommy Curtain

ONE ON ONE: Two of Corey Martinez's boys go head on.

UNSOUND: Gallows: this is hardcore.

BACKCHAT: Joe Rich

But that's not all. Along with issue 57 is a free DVD. And not just any DVD, it's the brand new A Bike Co. roadtrip DVD, featuring Mike Osso, Big James, Bob Scerbo, Paul Horan, Tom White, Edwin Delarosa, Tyrone Williams, Vinnie Sammon and a host of other Animal riders on the road through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

So yeah, a magazine to keep you stoked on riding while it's too cold outside, and a brand new DVD to watch when there's no riding to be had. Let's just pray for Winter to get done fast so we can step outside and not freeze to death. Til early Spring, fare well....

Dig 57 is available mid-February in the UK and by mid-March elsewhere.

From Dig's myspace