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Ronnie Farmer on the cover, yeehaaw. While in San Diego we rode Mission Trails on a daily basis with the Dirt Brothers. Ronnie Farmer was one of them. He was born in East SD and the Dirtbrothers house was on the edge of that shady area. We have not heard from Ronnie in a while an really hope he is doing well. He sure knew how to stretch them no-footed cancans. Internet sites did not bring the news back in the day, FAT-'zine did. The Believe it, or Not!? section is huge, full of news.

We traveled to Phoenix for a Bicycle Stunt contest in our 1970 Buick Estate Wagon which had a 454 engine and was hella fast. We made it over there too.

Ronnie Farmer gets a full on interview in FAT-'zine. Maybe the only interview he has ever had. Read it.

We were doing Magazine reviews in issue 26 with Matt Pingel (BMX Freestyle magazine-Germany), Mark Noble (RIDE BMX magazine) and Vincent "Le Chien" Ranchoux of Tracks BMX Power mag (France). 

Todd Lyons scored an interview which starts on page 43. We went to an NBL national in Las Vegas with the S&M crew. Jean Paul Rogers was selling RIDE BMX magazines for some extra income at the race.

Mongoose provided the free sticker and I also went to England and checked in with a contest at the

Man, this issue is bringing back some more good memories. One of my favorite contests of all time was the World's in Budapest, Hungary. I could go on an on about it but you just check out issue #25 and read the party-part about it.

Sheps actually gets the contents page doing a nosepick with front brake. Only poor bastards that could not afford a front brake did toe jams at that time (Jon Taylor?).

When we went to the USA and there were no jams anywhere, we organized one ourselves. At Mission Trails. The Boost jam was born. We went to the KOC in Markus' van and had a blast.

From there I got a ride with Kay Clauberg in his VW Golf (4 people, 4 bikes) and we visited Tim Ruck's area (raced at Exeter's BMX track) and then went to the Rider Cup in London. More good times. Also did a trip to Malaga after the World's. Man, no worry in the world at that time.

What else can you expect this week? A Mat Hoffman interview. We are talking 1992 so keep that in mind when you read it.

Kai Uwe Lohff got an interview, we went to the Münster Monster Masterships in Germany, there's a report about a GT show in the USA, we went to a freestyle contest in Belgium, and wrapped up issue 25

Name: Aaron Haywood
Age: 25
Hometown: Manchester, England
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Still pending…

The FAT favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Has to be Graystone action sports as it’s literally a minute away from my apartment although junction4 with their new warehouse is insane!
-BMX video: Drew banzanson joyride 150 still bangs to this day
-Website: YouTube
-Web video: Harry Mainia 1 & 2
-Food: Chicken wraps or pizza

Name: Guntis Atmats
Age: 25
Hometown: Liepāja, Latvia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Rave Team

The FAT favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Rave Team indoor
-BMX video: Monster Army`s Play contest highlights
-Website: fatbmx.com to follow all the BMX related things
-Web video: Brock Horneman's Twenty14 edit
-Food: Definitly pizza
-Person on Instagram: @cobratate
-Travel destination: Barcelona
-Riders to ride with: Rave Team teammates
-Car: BMW for life
-Movie: Fast and Furious 2

Name: Ollie Bennett
Age: 25
Hometown: Saffron Walden and my local skatepark is Oneminuteskatepark
Sponsors: Demolition UK

The FAT FAVs list:

Spot to ride: Asylum Skatepark
BMX Video: Nike 6.0 the pool
Website: FATBMX of course
Web Video: Red Bull Life behind bars
Food: Pizza all day
Person on Instagram: Kevin Pereza
Travel destination: Barcelona, one of the best places in the world for BMX. I go every year.
Riders to ride with: Ash Finley, Charlie Peat, Josh Stevenson, Matt Rainbird and all the others
Car: VW caddy which I’ve converted into a mini camper for all of my BMX trips.
Movie: Star Wars collection