Bart de Jong
Everyone and their uncle needs a backpack at some point. It's the easiest way to carry your pads to the park, the easiest way to carry a laptop and a camera plus that extra rain jacket in case the clouds are getting real dark. Backpacks have so many features, from special cable holes for your headphones, drink holders, key chain hooks and extra straps on the outside to carry a board or an extra light stand. Every backpack differs, that's why FOX has so many to choose from in 
So that’s the end of the 15th edition of the Vibrations Urbaines in Pessac, France. An excited audience has been able to watch banger tricks especially during the finals. Like every year, the riding level was impressive for both categories, am and pro. We've gathered a photo gallery with captions from the VU crew which we're showing here on FATBMX.
RIDE UK celebrates the release of their 170th issue. Every completion of a mag should be celebrated as lots goes into each issue. Especially if you have so many pages to fill. Getting the ads in on time is already a challenge but then thoughts need to go into filling up the content. The 170th issue that will come out next week has a.o. pages on:-The Vans rebeljam in Tossa de Mar
-The Texas Toast event in Austin
-Team Profile in Bilbao
-The Dub Crew in Barcelona
and of course loads more as a regular issue of RIDE UK has over 150 pages full of BMX.
Alex Kennedy gets the cover with a sequence shot which starts off with a smith grind, to feeble to toboggan off.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.