With 92 pages we were allowed to call this a double issue. Most 'zines at that time did not have more than 48 pages and FAT was establishing a name for itself in the underground BMX media world. Mat Hoffman made the cover and rightfully so. He had just performed a trick in Bercy that noone had seen before. A backflip on a quarterpipe! And not a low one either. Way out of the top of the Coca Cola quarter pipes. Sick!

We're getting more American stuff in the 'zine so from now on the FAT issues should become more interesting for our American visitors. Ralf Maier and Frank Schnuetgen did a Cali trip in the winter of '89/'90 and showed what it was like down there (page28 - p33). Vic Murphy wrote a story about the 2-HIp comp at Trend. Mark and Chris Noble sent some Cali stuff from their trip and we also had an interview with 2 Hip announcer Kevin Martin. The other interviews in the double issue are with Klaus Dyba, Thomas Fritscher and Patrick

van Wolferen. We sat on our asses too long and had collected lots of material for this one. Divorze posse live, Lageja '90 contest report, a Life's a Beach, Ack 'zine and SKY HI sticker, contest info, 'zine reviews, Stokebros, Mookhoek mini, rad-lame list, Tropica DM, Skatehouse visit, Zoetermeer spot, BMX crosswords, ......

You know what the best part of it is? You can see it all by flipping through the pages. Right here.

BdJ

Check it out: FAT-'zine issue 17-18 (1990)

Previous issues:
- FAT-'zine issue 16 (1990)
- FAT-'zine issue 15 (1989)
- FAT-'zine issue 13-14 (1989)
- FAT-'zine issue 12 (1989)
- FAT-'zine issue 11 (1989)
- FAT-'zine issue 10 (1989)
- FAT-'zine issue 09 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 08 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 07 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 06 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 05 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 04 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 03 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 02 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 01 (1988)
- FAT-'zine issue 00 (1987)

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