With Robin Bourhis and Clement Carpentier.
Surprise surprise! A printed magazine in A5 format. Brough to you by the folks of Freedom BMX magazine. It sure was nice to have a printed BMX magazine in hand. It doesn't happen too often any more unfortunately as DIG, RIDE, Freedom, Soul, Cream, RIDE UK, 2020, all stopped producing them on a regular basis. The Freedom BMX Athina 'zine came to life as the trip to Athens with the SI BMX crew resulted in too many good photos not to use. Responsible for that was Merlin Czarnulla who lugged around his camera gear for a week to capture the riding from Jan Mihaly, Eddie Baum, TomSchorb-Mergenthaler, Fabian Bader, Lukas Häusler, Robin Heiderich, Christian Heger, and Adrian Warnken.
It happens more often that a trip deserves more than a video, social media posts and a website report. A 'zine is a nice touch, but somebody has to pay for it. Sport Import footed the bill but they got 9 full pages of ads of their imported brands in return plus all the coverage was of their team riders. Nice trade-off.
52 pages of high quality paper in full colour. Times have changed from the 'zine days in the '80-s when it was hard to make a photo look good on the xerox machine. A welcome change no doubt. If interested, contact Markus Wilke at Freedom BMX or better, SIBMX as they'll have some extra copies laying about.
I hope everyone is safe and well at home during this really difficult time. A couple of people shared the idea to post the first ten clips on one edit to look back over, and during this lockdown period. I have plenty of time to kill, so here are the first the clips that started back in January of this year.
Name: Tyler Horness
Age: 26 on April 5th
Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Houseofwheels indoor skatepark, Hazel eyewear, Jonessoda, and Killemallbmx because they hook me up with deals!
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: House of Wheels
-BMX video: federal BMX Mark Love
-Web video: Anything from Cory Walsh
-Food: Pizza
Thanks everyone for the countless good sessions! Thanks to everyone who still rides trails and goes out in the woods to pick up a shovel!
Cap sur le Maroc, nous sommes parti en road trip dans quelques endroits mythiques de ce beau pays: Marrakesh, les Montagnes de l’Atlas, Ouarzazate, Zagora, Tamgroute, Agadir et Taghazout.
We built a few jib ramps and had a session on them.
During the summer of 2015 and 2016 we filmed a buch of stuff and made it into a full lenght video. Section of Redbelge.
A short video from my stay with the PS Homies and Friends in Barcelona. The crash at the start was heavy - glad Mauro was okay. Thanks for letting me hang out with y'all! This was a blast.
Before Covid 19 hit the streets, last sesh at Spin skatepark with Arnaud P Paquin, Justin Hughes, Marc-Andre Bellemare, Vlad Poloukhine, Gab Pintal Follow all the boys on social media we post clips @importedbmx insta page.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.