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-Mirraco “CHOCOLATE” frame 21″
-Mirraco forks
-Mirraco M3 pedals
-animal edwin grips
-animal piff bars
-animal jumpoff stem
-animal prototype GLH tires- 2.10 front, GLH 1.95 back
-animal kush seat 

It's the Roadtrip Issue and everything in this magazine is connected with grabbing your bike, some mates, a vehicle and getting out on the road and living life. RIDE UK has the big trips from FBM, Props Rock N Roll Tour 2, Federal, Movment, Superstar, Hot Wheels, Simple, Colony, Steve's Greyhound Bus trip round the US, a guide on how to do your own roadtrip, and an A-to-Z of Roadtrips by our man Rhys. - if F is for FatBMX, F is also for...

F is for Faffers
The bane of my life. Once labelled by others as a "Monkey", a minor faffer because of naivety and lack of life experience, I saw the power of the darkside of faffmeistering. Luckily I got my act together and now my blood boils at a time-wasting airhead. Always that bit longer getting breakfast, queuing in petrol stations, leaving the skateparks, coming back from a wander at a previously unvisited street spot and that's by the time you finally get them out of bed and on the road! 

Yes, le soul pastis issue is out, issue 51 with big respect to trail digging on the cover and a lot of frenchies inside :

-FRENCH JAMS: Alex Dropsy’s new backyard, twenty jam in the center of middle age, Patrick Guimez’s lords of dirt, Mosaic street party in Paris.
-GREG MASSON: just look at this, bus to nosepick…whip footjam!
-VAR SCENE LOCAL: featuring the French Californians
-INVASION AROUND BALTIC: French vs scandinavian
-RACING SUPERCROSS IN CHINA
-ST MARTIN’S JAPANESE: flatland from Paris to Flatground
-PDS CREW: between race track and trail riding
-HOW TO BUNNY BUS: with no seat
-BIKE CHECK: Julien Leyreloup with the new Superstar
-NEWS from Switzerland and Belgium, from the local scenes too
-POSTER with BIBI and GREG MASSON

Frame: Lofi wethepeople  
Forks: Helium wethepeople
Bars: Helium wethepeople big bar
Grips: Mike Brennan wethepeople
Brake lever: Colony (gift from Clint)
Brake cable: wethepeople
Brake: Dia-Tech magic

Paul's Boutique receives RIDE BMX magazine real fast. The December issue arrived this morning and I was going to do a review on it before the people at RIDE BMX themselves. A quick check there and I saw that they had already done the update on the new issue. Well, makes my life easier as I'll just copy the content from there. Anyway, the new RIDE is out and it's the last one in this format. New size next month.

- Departments -
Up Front: This month RIDEBMX has some bizarre stories from Corey Martinez, the DL injurty report, plenty of fine print, and sponsor changes and shake-ups.

Pro Q&A - Jamie Bestwick: Jamie answers questions about frame sponsors, going huge, England, contests, bright colored bikes, and even makes a Chuck Norris joke.

Frame: Mirraco Blend
Fork: Macneil ID
Bar ends: Profile
Grips: Animal Edwin
Levers: Odyssey
Cable: Dragonfly
Bars: We The People 

There are some things in life that are too good to be true. I consider Rebelyell a part of it. I'm happy that it has made to the third issue and number four is on its way. Sweet. You see, in this world of money, money, money it's hard to make a full colour quality magazine. Rebelyell is quality, is full colour and somehow they have survived this far without many advertising dollars. The companies that do advertise deserve some respect. Let's just name them for the sake of it: Armadillo, Terrible One, Demolition, Mongoose, Haro and Backbone. That sums up all the full page advertisers of Rebelyell and we're sure that editor Chris Pollack isn't driving a Porsche because of it. Rebelyell deserves support from companies such as Volvo, Gucci, Nescafe, who are used to spending big bucks on quality magazine advertisements. Rebelyell should be available in book stores as it's thick, has the best photos and is stylish. Almost too good to be true for a BMX mag.

Frame: 2008 Mongoose Shield
Fork: Odyssey race
Bars: Animal
Bar ends: ODI
Grips: Edwin (Shadow?)
Stem: Superstar
Rims: Odyssey, 2nd hand off Skier Jay in Utah!
Hubs: Profile mini, Ti axles
Tires: Primo Comet
Sprocket: Wethe people 25t
Seat: SDG, 1 piece seat and post, lighter than a Euro!
Cranks: Profile 175mm
Pedals: Wellgo Magnesium with Ti axles
Extras: Ti 9t driver, all brake mounts cut off, Fit chain tensioners, Mongoose super light seat post clamp, 5050 sticker,
Weight: 24pounds!

If you're a fan of Flatland BMX, then you've probably heard of the ELEVATION flatland events that take place in Houston, Tx every year. Birthed in 1999 by event promoter and flatlander Hector Garcia, this series has helped promote and push flatland for the past several years in the U.S. It's through the experience of promoting Flatland and the ELEVATION events that Hector and Dunamis Media bring a unique product to the table. "EVENT", a new book/manual has just been released and is now available to anyone interested in promoting and organizing their very own freestyle BMX event. 

Sixty is an unusual number. In human terms, turning age 60 is usually symbolic of nearing retirement, and you start getting all sorts of discounts on everything from airline tickets to bus rates. In magazine terms, it's not nearly as symbolic as an issue 50 or even an issue 100, but in this day and age, it generally does mean that the magazine has been going for a fair bit of time, which is certainly the case with Dig. We're not going to have a party, expect praise from the anyone, or tell ourselves that we're awesome. We're just gonna get back to what we've always done and start work on the next magazine.

For now though, we present you with Dig BMX Magazine Issue 60. It's packed with everything listed below and is our fist issue ever on re-cyled paper. Go get it, stay young, and sit tight a few years for issue 100....