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We should only have to tell you that issue #77 comes with a free DVD to make you go and get a copy of Freedom. Circle Videomagazine number three together with a 100 page BMX magazine for € 5,80. I wonder how they do it. Anyway, that's not your problem.
Here's what's in the new issue of Freedom:
-PSP The Champ series (Moers)
-Rebel Jam (Berlin)
-BMX Masters (Cologne)
-KHE tour (All over the place)
-RedBull Elevation (near the A-line)
-Flatland Bridge (Cologne)
-T Mobile Local Support (Darmstadt)
-World Flatland Circuit (New Orleans)

You might have come across Quamen bikes before if you rode flatland but now they are venturing into the street/park market with their new A-10 frame. The frames are already in production and for sale. Right now the A-10 has a 20.5 top tube but some different sizes are in the works for 2008. Along with different top tube lengths the new 08 is said to weigh in at around just over 4 and a half pounds. Here are some more specs:

BMX Plus keeps on publishing new issues month after month. They've been doing so for so long that we're starting to take it for granted what all goes into making a book on a timely basis. 100 pages of BMX with a huge pull out Steve McCann/Mongoose poster make up the November 2007 issue which has failure Chad Kagy on the cover. He rides for Failure bikes and didn't fail to cash his $ 10,000.= USD check that he received from winning the HB Soul Bowl this summer (full report in this issue).

Elevation was the DIRT event of the year and BMX Plus! was there. The flatland World Circuit is also covered as is the NBL Stars 'n Stripes race. You get it, BMX Plus covers everything as long as you're on 20 inch wheels.

2008 bikes get introduced and tested (2Hip/SE looptail) and it's time

While filming of the Megatour 7 is going on at the moment with teams riding all over Europe, we have the Megatour 6 review here on FATBMX. The concept in short: 6 teams meet up, film a bit and then they take off to do their own thing. Each team has a couple of video guys and a photographer in their van/RV and they're out to collect the best footage they can with the riders they've got on board. They're free to go wherever they want and if the team wants to go ride in the middle of the night in the ghetto, they can do so. 

Flatland riders have been considered strange individuals. They've got their own character, do things their own way and have passion. It was time for Alain Massabova to get their thoughts together in a book. He asked the top flatland riders to write down why they are practicing for hours every day to learn that one trick. The 188 page book is in French and English (translated either direction) and has tons of great photos.

The list of riders for this book includes: Bobby Carter (USA), Chase Gouin (Canada), Effraim Catlow (UK), Hiroya Morisaki (Japan), Alex Jumelin (France), Jesse Puente (USA), Luis Elías (Costa Rica), Marcelo Lima (Brazil), Matthias Dandois (France), Bram Verhallen (The Netherland), Michiel Verberg (The Netherland), Mike Steingraber (Germany), Nathan Penonzek (World), Scott O'Brien (USA), Chad Johnston (USA), Sean Lai (Singapore), Simon O'Brien (Australia), Erik Otto (USA), Alexis Desolneux (France), Steve

Premium Products has this super thin 6061 T6 aluminum pedal hitting the market in November.The pedal is 14mm at the thinnest point and 17mm at the thickest point and weighs less that 16 oz per pair. They will be available in black, brown and red anodized colors with laser etched artwork on both sides.
- Extruded and CNC Machined6061 T6 Alloy Body
- CNC Machined Crmo spindle with Micro sealed bearing / Du bushing 

If you look at the bikes of sponsored pro riders you will notice parts that you have never seen before. We noticed these pedals on Mike Spinner's bike when he was over in Germany. Mike said they were prototype pedals, have a titanium axle and are super light. They've got a low profile and have a knurled central surface. They will come in two versions; The Black Label M3 Gas pedal (with ti axle) and the regular M3 which has a 9/16" crmo axle. Colours: Raw and black. Available in a few weeks (fall 2007).

The 66th issue of Props video magazine has an international feel to it. Leo Forte (UK) gets the cover and is featured in the United Bike Co Southern road trip with Ian Morris, Ricky Feather, Caleb Kilby and the rest of the United crew. Aussies Ryan Guettler and Nick Cooper rip it up at the Brawlin' at the Belmar in Binghampton, an event that brought back fun into BMX. Props enters European soil when they made it to Devon for the Red Bull Empire of rain. Still they show an indoor session at the barn and the Decoy trails. Props made it over to the BMX Masters in Cologne for more international footage but issue 66 didn't forget the USA completely with a scene report on the Flow skatepark in Ohio and a JJ Palmere Bio.

4130 Publishing Ltd., a factory Media company, released their August issue of Moto magazine a few weeks ago. That wouldn't make it to the BMX news pages of FATBMX if there was no BMX connection in it. Tim March wrote a story about how BMX got influenced by Motocross when it first started out in the USA in the early seventies (late fifties in Holland!). And these days rider like James Stewart and Chad Reed are taking BMX skills to the motocross track. The "Old Dogs, New Tricks" article starts on page 54. Is Supercross the new BMX?