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100 pages of BMX form issue number 137 of RIDEBMX. It's got the high quality photos as you have come to expect and a whole lot of new ads that are usually good to look at too. Mirraco's Dave Rytell whips some train tracks in San Fran, Allan Cooke does a rail to rail for a DC ad, Jimmy Levan goes crooked on a big rail in an Odyssey spread, Sergio Layos gets the etnies ad with a downside whip, Colin MacKay barspins over a fence (Haro) and Gary Young does a ridiculous ditch wall ride for a new Vans advertisement. The ads are making the mag better. Rob Wise scores his third full page with the same picture. It was featured in a French magazine, a German mag and now in RIDEBMX. Kosman shot it.

And there is loads more in the October issue:

- Departments -

Germany has two main BMX magazines. Zwanzig Zoll and Freedom magazine. FreedomBMX is already at issue number 76 and here's what's in it:
-News
-Dates
-Media
-How to build a schaufel
-PS The Champ Series
-Highway to Hill
-FISE
-Stevan interview
-People Store Tour
-Erfurt street jam
-Wiesbaden miniramp jam

The September issue of BMX Plus! felt kind of thick. But this time of the year, companies try to get their 2008 catalog in the middle of the mag to reach a lot of potential customers quickly. The company that teamed up for this issue is Diamondback. Their catalog is 32 pages thick.

This leaves 100 pages of BMX Plus! material which includes bike tests from KHE, Redline and Volume, The Props Megatour, 5 questions with Heath Pinter, Biz' bike check, the NBL Golden State nationals, KOG, ABA Nor Cal Nats, Rumble at the Coliseum, and the regulars like Tech Tip, On the Move, Moving pictures, Product Probe, Mailbag, Ask the BMXperts, Mini mart, Parting shot, Shop directory, Trick Stuff and the Inside Scoop.

It's good to see Joe Riley on the cover. What's up Joe!?

The 2007 August-September issue of Soul BMX Experience is their 50th issue. Congrats to the Soul staff to start with. The cover has a Summer feeling to it. John Garcia is looking back on 50 issues of Soul in a colourful way. There's a BIO on Anthony Abbadie on page 12 and one on Libellule on page 14. Pierre Blondel gets a full page doing a 50/50 down a handrail backward without pegs. He answers some questions too.

Recently we talked about a contest we visited in Abbeville, France. Ralf Maier brought back some memories of a trip to France that took 3 hours longer (each way) than I'd planned. This caused Paul's Army Dodge pick up truck to run out of liquid gas and it turned into a lot of stress. Ralf won some pants in miniramp and traded it with my trophy in the same class. I had plenty of those plastic cups already and thought it was a good trade. Anyway, Abbeville hosted the 10th contest and we weren't there but SOUL was. 

A free magazine? Doesn't get much better than that. Cream made a "Hors-Serie" issue with paper a little less quality but still 100 of them and distributed them in the month of July/August at several contests. Here's a little contents list of HS-#5:
-Hollywood jam
-Pascal Bacuet
-Adidas KOD Austria
-King of Paca
-Ricardo Laguna
-Superstar Chill in Montpellier
-KHE story
-Summertime portfolio
-Making of the BMX Masters
-Mirraco portfolio

RXR is revolutionizing protection in the action sports world with its exclusive patented “air shock absorber” technology. Imagine a body protector that absorbs 5 times more energy than plastic and 8 times more than foam material.

It is time for BMX and MTB riders to wear real chest-protectors! There’s no “roost” to be protected from in BMX, Down Hill or Free Ride, and the 30 year-old technology of plastic roost-deflectors do not protect as much as our RXR Protect chest-protectors. Keep your back and chest safe. Ride with Air!!

High protection, lightness, comfort and mobility are the 4 main features of the Organic and Full chest-protectors from RXR Protect. The ASA (Air Shock Absorber) technology ensures maximal body protection, high mobility and light weight, the Organic weighing 1.9 lbs and the Full chest protector weighing 3 lbs.

In case you didn't know, Zwanzig BMX magazine is made at the Mellowpark in Berlin, the same place that hosted the Rebel Jam last weekend. A new printer made it possible for the new issue to be finished right before the jam. It took only four days to get printed which is pretty quick. This helps keeping contest reports, news and interviews current and number twenty already has a BMX Masters report, Empire of Dirt report and a Dew Tour (Baltimore) report. Josh Stricker lived in Berling for a while and gets an interview. So handy when the riders come to your town so you've got time to shoot some pics and find the right time to get the inteview done.

Some articles in Zwanzig aren't too time sensitive, like the Shutter's World articles with photographers Georg Oberlechner, Chris Polack, Mr. Takeo, Daniel Kralik and Justin Kosman. 

If you're looking for a BMX race magazine, BMX World is it. The new issue just came out and here's the cover shot.
Contents:
-Matt Pohlkamp interview
-NBL Golden State Nationals
-SE 30 years of radness
-Redline history
-ABA Great Salt Lake Nationals

The start of 2007 saw the Insurgent blaze into the forefront of the Nike 6.0 stables… With hidden lacing the shoe is completely self-contained - a mesh tongue and perforations let air circulate evenly around the shoe – meaning no matter what trick you’re pulling, your feet feel as cool and smart as you look! The Insurgent, feature the infamous Nike Air cushioning unit to absorb every impact, whilst the super grip soles make sure you will never slip up again. This season will see the Insurgent in the sharpest colour ways;

FRAME: WTP Ovoid 21” very good dirt frame
FORK: WTP excalibur
BARS: WTP helium high
FRONT WHEEL: new WTP supreme front hub
REAR WHEEL: new WTP casette hub with a primo rim
FRONT TIRE: Primo dirt monster
REAR TIRE: Federal traction