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-Frame: Mongoose Shield
-Forks: Shadow creeper lite v3
-Headset: wtp
-Stem: Shadow strike front load
-Bars: Subrosa pandora
-Grips: ODI longnecks these grips last forever
-Bar ends: not sure
-Brake lever: n/a

-Frame: Proper TTL 21.2"
-Forks: Odyssey Race
-Headset: Odyssey Internal
-Stem: Proper Front Loader
-Bars: Proper TTL
-Grips: Fly Ruben
-Seatpost clamp: Built in
-Seatpost: Ilegal
-Seat: Ilegal Pivitol

-Frame: Ilegal V4
-Forks: Odyssey Race Fork
-Headset: FSA
-Stem: Profile Acoustic 53
-Bars: Ilegal Tres 8.25
-Grips: Odyssey Griswald
-Bar ends: Plllllastic
-Brake lever:  -

Bruno Hoffmann on the cover! Yeah. How many 16 year olds do you know that got a legit cover of a BMX magazine? Congrats Bruno. Issue 132 actually came with a Ride To Glory DVD. A mag + Free DVD should do the job covering their own event. Read all about it, and then watch it on your telly to get the full picture of the following team on the road: Vans, Odyssey, Shadow, wethepeople and Profile. But there's more, loads more. 180 pages of BMX in total + a giant Diamondback pull-out poster. Costs for all this is $ 8.50 USD. Here are a few of the extra's of # 132: 24h of Liam Eltham, Top 5s with Scott Ditchburn, Cicles and blanks with Owain Clegg and Jason Phelan respectively, Crucial BMX, Pedals in the spotlight, Aaron Ross' Sunday Funday bike check, Bruno's bike gets inspected, there's a P5 Jam report, 2 Bio's with Martyn Tambling and James Harrison. The Park Warden goes to Dean Lane, letters get answered by Rhys McFleece and the Final frame is for Paul Ryan.

What does it take for someone to pick up BMX? Maybe it's just a little book like this. Sharlene McGilvray got the job done and the booklet includes interviews with Sifiso, Teagan O'Keeffe, and Jonnathan Chislett. You guessed it, it's a South African publication by Shuter & Shooter. It basically explains what BMX is all about and touches subject such as:
-Getting started
-Gate starts
-Berm tactics
-The Track
-Bike set up
-BMX language
and the rules.
It's got contact info to the local tracks too so this will only help getting

BMX is starting to get old enough to bring out history pieces like the Stompin' Stu DVD. John Swarr and Mark Eaton, producers of the award winning Joe Kid on a Stingray movie, decided it was time for BMX legend Stu Thomson to get his own version of it, focused on himself. Now Stu Thomson is an icon in BMX but there were never really any crazy stories around the man. He was a professional BMX racer in pure form. Did not blow his winnings on drugs and fancy cars and telling from the crib he lives in currently, he invested it pretty well. But there is life after BMX and Stu became a Sherriff. But we're not going to give away all the good stuff from the documentary, you better get a copy for yourself. Parano Garage has them in stock so hit them up.

Bonus features of the DVD include: Stu's attic, Stu on jumping cars, The history of the Motomag by Skip Hess, Pool & Sharks Hoody Hoo, The Duke of Oakley, The history of Redline by Linn Kastan, Stu's signature STR-1 Bike, East vs. West and the History of the Redline

-Frame: WETHEPEOPLE LO-FI V2, 21.25 TT
-Forks: WETHEPEOPLE HELIUM
-Headset: WETHEPEOPLE
-Stem: WETHEPEOPLE SUPREME
-Bars: WETHEPEOPLE HELIUM MAGNUM
-Grips: SLAP SHOTS
-Bar ends: SLAP SHOTS
-Brake lever: ECLAT SWIFT

-Frame: Redline Device 21"
-Forks: Macneil
-Headset: Redline
-Stem: Odyssey
-Bars: Redline Flight bars
-Grips: Animal Edwin grips
-Bar ends: Beringer home made 

The September - October issue of Cream came in and as usual it's got a unique cover. I actually talked to Morgan Wade about it last week in the USA and he informed me that it was actually a photoshopped cover. You see, Morgan and his wife Natalie are actually just standing in a studio making funny faces. They were later pasted into the final result. Noone got hurt. Sorry to spoil that. Here's the contents list:
-King of New York
-World's 2009 Cologne, Germany
-Big in Bavaria, Munich
-Lords of Dirt, Tosse
-Coco Zurita interview
-Frenchys web tour
-Riding at Neverland

In the USA (mainly) it is a problem for bikes to ride all (public) skateparks. By calling them skateparks, we're actually helping the anti-BMX community with their jihad against BMX. They have actually started to call them skateboard parks now but we're not going in that direction. From now on we're going to use the name Action Sports Park to allow more people to use the facilities. That includes that wheelchair rider in Vegas that does handplants in 14 feet deep bowls. View the Pro Park pics by clicking READ MORE.