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The sun's out, and it's actually hot. Time for some shorts. How easy would this world be if a human didn't need more than some shorts and a T-shirt. Day in, day out. I'd be down for that. Makes life a lot easier. Unfortunately life isn't like that where we live, but it's got some hot days. On those days you need some shorts. DC have got a full collection of just shorts. Need some?

The Albion Issue 9 is now available to view online and download for free. Issue 9 Features:
-High & Bound - United x Eclat Photogallery
-No Saint - Chris Mahoney
-History Of Street - Walking To The Beat Of Your Own Drum
-Live Free Or Die - Clint Reynolds
-Off The Grid - Russ Barone
-A-Town Trash - Always Trashy, Never Classy
-Devotion To The Cause - Inside Zeal Distro

-Frame: Freeagent Lodus
-Forks: Fit
-Headset: Fsa
-Stem: Freeagent
-Bars: Fit sky highs
-Grips: Odi staystrong
-Bar ends: Odi
-Chain: Shadow
-Cranks: Profile
-Bottom Bracket set: Stolen
-Pedals: Odyssey
-Seatpost clamp: none
-Seatpost: Freeagent
-Seat: Premium pivotal
-Front tire: Maxxis
-Front rim: Alienation

-Frame: S&M Randy Brown 21
-Forks: Total lime light
-Headset: FSA
-Stem: Profile Push
-Bars: S&M Grand Slam XLT
-Grips: Fit tech
-Bar ends: Fit
-Chain: Shadow
-Sprocket: S&M
-Cranks: Fit
-Bottom Bracket set: S&M
-Pedals: VP69
-Seatpost: Fit
-Seat: Fit
-Front tire: KHE Dirt
-Front rim: Gsport Bird Cage
-Front hub: Profile Elite

The Talk Of The Town is the theme of the latest RIDE UK magazine. They're at an amazing #177 for this one and they're catching up with riders who are in the picture where they live. For several and different reasons people keep talking about these riders so it was time to dig a little deeper into the following dudes:
-Cory Nastazio
-Corey Bohan
-Lahsaan Kobza
-Leo Forte
-Morgan Wade
-Sean Sexton
-Lima
-Pete Sawyer
-Chris Childs
-Mike Curley

A pre-sale of the photography book "Manual", created by almost 40 riders-photographers-friends of the international trails bmx scene (France, USA, Poland, Belgium, Australia, and more). ABOUT THE BOOK « Manual » is a photography book telling stories about good guys who grew up together (or not) around a passion: digging jumps, going fast and flying high with their bikes. Even if sometimes they don’t know each other, all the contributors have put all their efforts to catch rare moments and

-frame: st martin aj foot jam 2013
-fork: st martin aj fork 2013
-bar: st martin aj bar 2013
-stem: superstar 49mm custom paint
-grips: odi soft
-pegs: st martin
-seat: st martin aj 2013
-crank: st martin splined 155 mm
-sprocket: st martin splined 26 t

-Frame: FBM Custom Steadfast
-Forks: S&M Pitch Fork
-Headset: S&M
-Stem: S&M RedNeck
-Bars: Nate Williams Hershey Bars 8.8's
-Grips: Demolition
-Bar ends: Beringers
-Chain: Shadow
-Sprocket: Tree

If you want to change things up on your bike it can get costly. Especially if you realize that you don't fancy the colour you originally picked. How will that orange frame look with brown parts? What if I had green rims on my purple bike? Wonder no more as Thomas Walentin has made a BMX-Colour-Editor, based on Flash, which gives you a near photorealistik view on the colorscheme that you have in mind. We fired over some questions to Thomas and here's what he came back with.