Bart de Jong
We've arrived in 1991 with the FAT-issues. #21 has 104 pages and includes all stories from my first trip to the USA. It was the best. For years I'd been reading the American magazines and now I was there, in San fucking Diego!
Before I had put my bike together Vic Murphy called to see if I wanted to go ride some street. Hell yeah! 20 minutes later Knock knock, who's there? Vic Murphy, Pete Augustin and Kaarlo Wik.
Damn, is this for real? I hurried getting the re-welded HARO Master together to hit the streets. Wow, this was good! Places visited were Mission Trails (daily session?), Ron Wilkerson's spine vert ramp, the San Diego Home Ave ditch, Imperial Ditch, backyard pools, rode some flatland at Mission Beach, went to the Nude bowl, the 2-HIp meet the street in Palm Springs, Balboa Park, a ditch in LA, the DirtBros mini, and much more. It was a great time and you can read about it in this issue.
But there's more. Interviews with Alexis Desolneux and Eng San Kho, reports on the FAT-JAM, a trip to Longjumeau France, UK KOV report, KOC report, the Lageja '91 comp and of course free stickers and stuff.
Go back in time, when riding real street was just being developed by the DirtBros.
BdJ
Julian Molina stole the show last year at first Rumble In Richmond. When we decided to bump him to the Pro team, we knew delivering the surprise at this years Rumble was a no-brainer. Event hosts Rad Share, are bolstering the future of BMX by building a sense of community, promoting safety, and helping to empower the next generation of riders all in the name of fun and we back that! Without further ado, here's the Rumble In Richmond experience with GT.
Už to bude nějakou dobu, kdy se nám podařilo s větší částí party vyrazit někam dál na trip. Poslední roky cestování moc nepřály a tak není divu, že jsme všichni byli řádně natěšení.
For round 2, Chris "Crash" Kelecy steps up to another @GTBMX Freestyle Pro Ratty Maty for something quite different!
BUTCHER JAM 2022 – BMX PARK FINALS
Backflip Barspins macht man anscheinend zum Schwungholen und Frontflip Nohander sind der neue Double Tailwhip: Beim Dirtcontest auf dem Butcher Jam 2022 wurden Banger im Minutentakt rausgehauen. Alles Weitere erfährst du in unserem Video aus dem Schlachthof BMX- und Skatepark Flensburg.
BMX Magazines are hard to find these days. Besides the rare special issues once a year, there's not much to flip through. PULL Magazine seems to appear on a regular basis still and you can enjoy the hard work that goes into each issue from you computer screen also, free of charge. The latest issue has an interview with Ava Corley, the 2021 National Number one Amateur girl who wants to stick to BMX to be the next fast female rider coming out of the USA. The magazine has 108 pages and on page 24 you can find the race report of the Cajun Nationals held in Louisiana.
Kevin Peraza's signature model Mongoose gets reviewed and on page 56 the Warwicke Scholarships get explained further. See where the $50K went. Page 62: Dixieland Nationals, georgia. Page 72; Fraser Valley Nationals, Canada.
Page 80 shows Laura Smulders (NED) in the lead at the Legacy Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma and also the Florida SCR Battles receive some coverage in the June issue of PULL magazine.
Besides the articles there is tons of info on standings, schedules, points etc. based on the American BMX Racing season.
On any given day, you can find 9-year-old, Alex Lantigua, ripping his local skatepark, charging full speed on his Performer 16. Not far behind, his little sister, Lilah, is cruising on her Performer 14.
Let's start this review by a quote from Vic Murphy who was a regular contributor to the FAT-'zines back in the day. "I ride to get better. Not to get money. Not to impress anyone. Not to improve the environment. But just to see how good I can get riding from one place to another. Some people don't understand me. Well, I don't understand them. Ride to death." Vic Murphy. D.B.I. Issue 20 of FAT-'zine came out in the fall of 1990 right after we had finished another FAT-JAM (report in #21). We traveled around in the summer and visited the World Championships in Trier, a few VANS shows in Germany, went to the ECC in Slagharen, and we had a few lakejump sessions when it got really hot.
Interviewed people this time were Jason Jessee, Joop "Sloop" Smulders, Raymond Tabak, Frank Schnuetgen, and Dan Hubbard. We also had reports from the UK King Of Vert, a street jam in Aalborg, Denmark, the 2-Hip comps in the USA, and a full report from the contest in Cologne, Germany.
It's the first issue on the new typewriter so you can actually read the 'zine.
Enjoy.
BdJ
Check it out: FAT-'zine issue 20 (1990)
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.