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Pat Casey makes the cover of the new BMX Plus! magazine. The 17 year old American has had a good year. He got around a lot and was in Europe for the third time last weekend. But that's not it, next weekend Pat will make it to The Netherlands for the rebeljam. Tricks like this flipwhip help him get in the picture and landed him on the front page of BMX Plus! But what else is in the January 2012 mag?
-Vote for your riders of the year and win a Kink bike
-Morgan Long gets put on the spot
-All the 2012 products from Interbike
-The 2012 Freestyle buyer's guide
-WOF. Skinny jeans allowed.
-NBL grands from 1984
-Free Agent Lodus test
-Warriors of Wood event. Where's the crowd?
-2011 NBL Grands
-FIT Inman bike test.

-Frame: Dk flux frame
-Forks: Dk alpha
-Headset: Vocal bmx
-Stem: Demolition top loader
-Bars: Vocal XL
-Grips: Odi longnecks
-Bar ends: Odi
-Brake lever: Odyssey m2

A Buyer's Guide is great for someone who wants to buy a new bike or part. It's great for a company to be involved because you will reach people who are looking for a new bike or part so they are your potential customer. Factory Media thought it was time to do a product guide in Germany as one of the special issues for 2011. The first one, which showed up this summer, was a How-To issue for the riders who are starting out. Now they can do some shopping with the 148 page guide in hand, just in time for the holiday season. Over 200 complete bikes made it in as well as 1000 BMX parts. A boring job for the Freedom crew to make the magazine, but if it strengthens the BMX scene, everyone will win.

From what we understand the Product Guide will be available at the newsstands from November - January 2012. It will set you back € 3,90 for a copy of the first Germany BMX parts guide.

-Frame: Felt Bikes FranchiseKiller 21"
-Fork: Odyssey R25
-Bar: Felt Bikes Wheelie Bar
-Stem: Felt Bikes FB Stem
-Crank: Felt Bikes Ballpark
-Sprocket: Felt Bikes Spacely
-Seat and seat post: Felt Bikes
-Gyro: Odyssey GTX
-Lever: Odyssey Monolever medium

It feels like we're going back in time. Riding to the BMX track sitting on a Kashimas hard plastic seat was never fun on the way back. Flite made some checkered seat covers to ease the pain. The Elina seat was a bit wider but still hard as a rock. Then I switched to the Odyssey Cobra seat for the longest time as it was comfortable. Then came the real sofas but they weighed a ton. Next trend, back to the skinny hard plastic seats but since they're rough on the ass after a full day of riding and hanging

Name: Navid Saleki
Support/Hook-ups: Jungle Rider, Valleyside Distro, Childstore

Frame: Ground tactics by Jungle Rider
Forks: Scorpion
Headset: FSA
Stem: Suelo v2 35mm
Bars: Mk Ultra 8’’
Grips: Bizhouze ’’Gym’’grips
Bar ends: Precision products steel
Brake lever: Odyssey monolever medium
Brake Cable: cheapest no name brand
Brake caliper: none
Brake pads: Fly bikes
Rotor: none
Chain: KMC
Sprocket: United squad 22T
Cranks: KHE Hidenburg 2pce

The 2012 Mirraco EDit comes with a 20.5" Top Tube and is one of the affordable complete bikes that you can take to the streets. For $ 359.99 (in the USA) you get a whole lot of bike. It's got a welded seatclamp, mid BB, 2 tube cro-mo frame and 6mm dropouts. The fork is a tapered cromoly one, the cranks are three-piece VISE ones in black and it's got a 9T cromo 1 piece driver in the back and 25T alloy sprocket in the front. The bikes comes in three colourways: Flat Black, Flat Grape and Flat Sand.

Yes, it’s hard to divert your eyes away from the coolest looking grip ever! OK, maybe not the coolest but they are available in a rainbow of colors and will stay securely on your bar thanks to the alloy lock rings and end caps.
-Kraton Rubber with Nylon Inserts
-Aluminum Locking Collars and End Plugs
-135mm or 155mm Lengths
-Yellow, White, Green, Blue, Pink

Chris Janis makes it on the cover of the new DIG. Shot at Catty Woods, PA. by Rob Dolecki. What else is new for issue 85?
FRONT END REGULARS:
014 IN MEMORY: Brian Barnhart pays his respects to PA trail rider, Nick Fetchko.
016 IGNITION: Ruben Alcantara and the true story of the lost bowl.

DIG THIS!:
026 GULLY SPEAK: David Leep breaks down the Gully Factory language barrier.
028 VIDEOSTORE: Dominik Woozy on life at the Carhartt Apartment.
030 REPO 1: Devon Denham heads to the Snakepit with Misled Clothing.
032 REPO 2: Andrew White with weekend tales of Hurricane Irene, BMXFU and a shady interaction in a Long Island Alley. 

It's appreciated when magazines go out of their way to shoot a covershot. This one was taken by Walter Pieringer and is more than just a photo of a guy jumping a bike. It's Hoffman Bikes rider Ben Hennon doing a superman over his boss Mat Hoffman himself doing a burnout in his 1976 Lincoln Continental with a ramp attached to it. The move has left some black marks on Mat's driveway but the story behind that is well worth it. Time to frame that photo and put it on your wall.

Issue 158 (!) of RIDE UK will have the following articles:
-BSD in Toulouse, France
-14 bikes tested: complete nightmare
-Tubeless in BMX?
-Alex Coleborn one year on
-Nathan Williams poster
-Pedal To the Metal Hoffman story