The Southern Hemisphere is facing winter at the moment. Winter sucks. But 2020 magazine tries to help you get through it. The Australian BMX magazine just came out with their June issue. June is usually the start of summer for us, but not for the Australians. You can imagine that the June issue is packed with events that took place over the '06/'07 Aussie summer. It has Colony's NZ tour, the Morrisey-Crisp trip to X-air, a report on the PMP trails (so dialled), the Red Baron Challenge, Zombie Hop, Rignwood openings, Jay's Jam, Tim Hales day, Kurri Kurri comp, Erindale drunk/ride fest, O'Town report, Colonizing China report by Clint, Metro Jam in SIngapore, Cooma Breakout and much more. The Australians seem to be into jams don't they? When Dave Dillewaard, Colin MacKay and Corey Bohan visited home over the winter (their summer), they did a trip to film for FuelTV. Senad Grosic (Austria) joined them. The Shitluck van made it to Australia.
Rebelyell have managed to get on top of my favorite BMX magazine list within publishing only two issues. Damn it's good. It's way more than a magazine. It's more of a book that you find at a book store than a BMX magazine that you find a the newsstand. The quality of the paper and the pictures is great and the layout fits well. When people look for a stylish magazine that gives them a feeling that BMX is more of a lifestyle than a sport, look no further, it's RebelYell. They've done it.
New Era caps are all the craze at the moment. The fitted hats are of high quality and they can pretty much do whatever they want with the cap designs. It has endless colours, different print possibilities, different stitching, you name it. When New Era asks you to design a signature hat you have to start thinking what you exactly want.
RIDEBMX gave away some of the tricks you could expect in the Grounded DVD. Paul received the mag mid-May so we had to wait for three weeks to see that gnarly Ruben wallride in motion. Just as nuts as the photo. What else is in the latest issue of ride?
Frame: Mirraco Blend 4lb. 10oz.
The Grounded BMX dvd had its premiere in Aarle-Rixtel last Sunday. With OJA all set up for the premiere with a bigscreen and all that, the people who did show up were absolutely ready for it.
Mike Martin designed the ’08 GT Power Series Ultra Box 2 (AKA The UB2). The bike in the photos weighs in at 21.9 lbs. and the frame weight is 3.2 lbs. The geometry is the same as the Ultra Box XL which has a 21” top tube, 74 degree head angle and 14 ¼” min. chainstay length.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.