FATBMX Your Online BMX News Resource Since 1998

The Shadow X Vans collection represents the partnership between two like-minded companies coming together to embrace and promote the lifestyle and unbreakable free spirit within BMX. Vans brings authenticity, heritage, and a long history of embracing BMX to this partnership,  while The Shadow Conspiracy bring s a modern BMX style, true passion, and a shared design aesthetic. The shoes have a timeless look - yet still meets the performance demands

DIG MAGAZINE ISSUE 80
001: Ruben Alcantara and his 3rd DIG cover, Fuengirola, Spain. Photo by Ed Docherty
014 Ballbag: Salt makes a comeback.
020 Ignition: Life in Stereo. Don’t judge a book by its cover…
028 Head First?: Why are we still not wearing helmets? A selection of riders including Van Homan, Tom White and Mike Taylor share their thoughts
030 Accelerate: Eric Bugbee puts a BMX movie back on the big screen. You’ll never see more ‘RAD’ references in one issue…
038 Videostore: The Gully Factory interview.
026 Repo: Jimmy Levan and the Forecastle music fest.
040 Anthem 2: A collection of classic photos (and more) shot over the past three years during the making of Stew Johnson’s recently

Doing little side projects is always fun. Usually they go in the direction that the person running the program is into. This time it's BMX. With Mike Emde over at Carhartt, he got the company to do a few BMX parts. From plastic pedals to grips to bar end plugs. Not that Carhartt is aiming to be a bike company, but it shows their love for

It might not officially be out yet but Steven Cisar made the cover of the February 2011 issue of BMX Plus! magazine. The contents list looks like this. Next to the regulars (like Mailbag, Ask the BMXperts, Tech Tips, Inside Scoop pages, Riding Tips, How-To's and more) the new issue has the following to offer:

BMX PLUS! MAG February 2011:

-Learn Fastplants with Kevin Porter
-2011 Race Bike buyer's guide
-The Dew Tour Finals from Las Vegas
-UCI Supercross World Cup
-The World's lightest production frame

Support the mags, get your subscription at: www.bmxplusmag.com

Name: Nik Ford
Age: 27
Hometown: Stratford upon Avon, UK.
Sponsors: Diamond Back European PRO team, Affix Products, DuFFS Footwear, Nueu Eyewear and Entity Boardsports

Frame: Diamondback NNY - 4130 double butted, 20.5 toptube, 14.5 rear end

You know what sucks? getting a flat. What also sucks is getting a ticket because you don't run any lights on your bike. Welcome to Carhartt, the cool clothing brand makes some awesome little products on the side, like innertubes, good mini floor pumps and lights for your bike that you can put in your backpack and take out when Mr. Policeman asks for your lights. It's better to spend your

Last issue of this year and also the last LOVEBMX issue ever. What is in the last issue with english translation?
- editorial
- Ladies and gentlemen...CAMILA HARAMBOUR! (huge interview with great BMX girl)
- reports: Red Bull Flamenco Flatland, 100ka One jump jam, Red Bull Trick or Treat
- Who?! Jakub Trojan (Czech BMX rider)
- Who?! Tomáš Vejmola (Czech flatlander)
- BMX school street: nac nac
- BMX school flatland: mccircle
- Stylecheck: Mongol

Beyond these reading, you can watch nice photos or splash in our archive of old issues. Where? LOVEBMX.CZ And new magazine with BMX corner you can find here bstrds.com

How things have changed. We used to be able to write reviews of magazines that showed up here, but now you can usually see a preview with part of the content online so writing a review doesn't make all too much sense. RIDE UK have now even released a pre preview post where they're showing off the cover featuring Alex Coleborn. We'll put our magnifying glasses on and try to read the subtitles that are listed on the cover to see what's inside the new issue:
-Alex Coleborn: interview
-Leon Perkins: interview
-Carb loading in Korea: Tom Dugan, Nathan Williams and Aaron Ross
-Joe Fox: Man of the smoke
-Bad Voodooooo: Kert & Raigo
-BSD: Low key in the biggest way

The team over at FOX is pretty amazing. They've got Drew Bezanson, Chase DeHart, Pat Casey, Chase Hawk and Scotty Cranmer to name a few. But they also support some BMX girls out there like Aurélie Duculty and Holly Bendall. To see what clothing

If you are a girl and you ride, a lot of the times you have to work with the products that BMX companies offer. Not all of the time they cater to the womens market. It's tough enough for a BMX company to sell enough products to the boys to scrape by that specific colours or models for girls never get made. At Nike 6.0 they've got the possibility to make products that are of a similar quality of the boys, but do have a colourway that suits the ladies better, or a cut that is made specifically for the girls out there.