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This month’s issue of Ride BMX is packed with awesome features, including a tribute to Mike Tag, Red Bull’s Ride & Seek trip, Kink in Thailand and Korea, The Deadline video, Matthias Dandois, Seth Kimbrough, and more…

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First Words
Editor in Chief Keith Mulligan reflects upon the late and great Mike Tag. RIP buddy!

Start
“DGAF” Dan Norvell has no doubt done a lot of no-handers in life time, but probably none in a place as strange as this.

-Frame: Fly Trueno frame 20.6
-Forks: Fly Agua 32º
-Headset: Fly
-Stem: Fly central
-Bars: Fly Trueno
-Grips: Fly Sergio's
-Bar ends: Fly plastic
-Brake lever: Fly when I run brakes
-Brake cable: Fly when I run brakes
-Brake caliper: Fly when I run brakes

Name: Nate Richter
Age: 21
Location: Long Beach California
Sponsors: Cult
Hookups: Animal, Quintin Co.

Nate Richter is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is recently spending time in Long Beach California to spend the summer riding and seeking out new opportunities…

-Frame: FIT Aitken S4"
-Forks: Odyssey 41 Thermal Race
-Headset: Demolition
-Stem: Colony Guettler official
-Bars: FIT Mac
-Grips: ODI Longnecks
-Bar ends: ODI
-Brake lever: Odyssey Monolever Small"

-Frame: Failure Ginja Ninja prototype (soon to be out)
-Forks: Snafu pickle
-Headset: Failure
-Stem: Snafu vst
-Bars: Failure behind bars
-Grips: Odi long neck
-Bar ends: plastic Odi
-Chain: Shadow half link

Another cover for photographer Vince Perraud. This time it's the cover of Freedom BMX magazine from Germany and it's Alex Valentino doing a one-hande flattie in Spain. Can't go wrong with a table on the cover so it's FATBMX approved. What's inside this time? A bunch of contests. Really, contest and jam reports with results in a magazine. For real. I believe there's a place for event reports even in the digital era as long as the writing comes from a good angle and the pics are good. Freedom's got you covered and reports about the Simple Session, the 20Inch Trophy in Innsbruck, Bikestation comp in Braunschweig, Muenster Beat City Jam, Zuppermarket jam in Trier, PreParty jam in Bielefeld and also the OUR HOUSE JAM which basically was a (factory) media event to score magazine coverage. Freedom (owned by Factory Media) gave it 5 pages. But next to the event reports there is a bunch more. 100 pages total. Trip reports from Stereo and Carhartt, Bio's with David Bombosch and David Peuse, product pages, photo gallery,

Frame: Cult Death Row 21″
Bar: Cult Death Row 8.65″
Fork: Shadow Vultus 026
Stem: Shadow Ravager Top Load
Headset: Shadow Corvus
Pedals: Shadow Ravager Alloy Sealed
Grips: Shadow Trey Jones signature 138
Seat: Shadow Trey Jones Penumbra Series Solus
Cranks: Cult

We were asked by Feedback Sports to try some of their products, a Work stand and a Display stand. Since we have a BMX bike shop it was the best environment to test. 

Feedback Sports Pro Elite Stand:

This very nice looking Work stand in anodised red aluminium is very light and a welcome tool in any bikeshop. It unfolds very easy and set up will take only a minute, so far so good...the problem we had with this stand is the big tripod in the bottom, good for stability but we were tripping over the legs whole day. It can't be set up to solve that problem cause there always will be one leg in the wrong way, we have different models with a steel ground plate and one with two legs that doesn't have this problem so its certainly a design problem. 

You have probably already heard about the new BSD Any Which Way video. It's mainly a street video which is filmed during a series of road trips last year. It was filmed throughout California, Arizona, France, Barcelona with a park session at Scotland's Unit 23. The video is Edited by Dave Sowerby and features riders as Kriss Kyle, Tony Malouf, David Grant, Alex Donnachie, Dan Paley, Jason Teet, Reed Stark, Antony Lille, Chris Brown Naliz and more.

The world premiere of Any Which Way took place at the Simple Session film festival in Talinn, Estonia. It's a 33:55 minute DVD with bonus clips which I can say isn't disappointing at all.

Jake Seeley has been riding and testing out a new frame for Sunday called the Broadcaster. This bike works so well for him that they are giving him a signature colorway and maybe something else. More information coming later, but for now check out all the detail shots of his bike.

Jake Seeley Broadcaster Parts List
Frame:  Sunday Broadcaster 20.75″