Products: Frames, hubs, stems, bars, softgoods, and more from good folks like Kink, Odyssey, S&M, Profile, Colony, and others. Sweet, sweet BMXness.
Diversions: DVD reviews on 7 new vids from companies and local crews.
Bio - Eric Litchenberger: Same guy who is on the cover. This kid may be the brakeless, pegless rider right now. He has double tire ridden down (and up), and grinded some of the craziest rails imaginable and is one of the most chill dudes you will ever meet.
Focus: Eric Ream, Mike Spinner, John Jennings, Sandy Carson, Brian Hunt, Russ Barone, Drew Hosselton, Augie Simocini, Eddie Cleveland, Matt Beringer, and Ricky Bates make up the section that will soon become a 13-year-old kid's bedroom wallpaper. Thirteen full pages of awesome action photos.
Letters: Six kids write us letters and one of them walks away with some sweet new parts from Fit.
Ten To End - Jimmy Levan: Metal, brah! The rock 'n' roll legend...er...BMX rider/company owner gives his answers to our 10 questions.
- Features -
Recreating Rad!
Chad Johnston and his wife got to ride in a modern-day recreation of the famous high school dance scene from the movie Rad!. And luckily for everyone, Jeff Zielinski got to shoot photos on the production day. Sweeeet.
If I Wasn't A BMXer... Props Road Fools Rock N' Roll Tour 2:
Check out the bangers from the trip brought to you in a different light. And by different light, we mean bullet points written by Ryan Fudger.
First Times With Brian Foster - 35 Firsts
With A 35 Year-Old BF may be old enough to be your father, but he will still kick your ass out of the gate, boost higher than you out of any quarter (and with more style, too), and has more variations at the trails than you'll ever have. With that said, this living legend talks about the first time he...insert 35 interesting topics here.
Quest For The Holy Rail - Who's Counting Stairs?
A whole article about the art of launching yourself down handrails. Yep, it includes Brian Kachinsky. And yep, one of the photos is BK on the ground...
Homage To Old School
Shad Johnson shreds an old, pink GT in a fullpipe and reminisces about the olden days.
Cover: Ride BMX Magazine - Issue 139 - December 2007 - Eric Litchenberger - Precision 180 credit: Jeff Zielinski
Paul's Boutique receives RIDE BMX magazine real fast. The December issue arrived this morning and I was going to do a review on it before the people at RIDE BMX themselves. A quick check there and I saw that they had already done the update on the new issue. Well, makes my life easier as I'll just copy the content from there. Anyway, the new RIDE is out and it's the last one in this format. New size next month.- Departments -
Up Front: This month RIDEBMX has some bizarre stories from Corey Martinez, the DL injurty report, plenty of fine print, and sponsor changes and shake-ups.
Pro Q&A - Jamie Bestwick: Jamie answers questions about frame sponsors, going huge, England, contests, bright colored bikes, and even makes a Chuck Norris joke.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.