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Dannywhac:
Just seen Stogy's post that Ride BMX Mag will no longer be publishing any mags.

Although on a personal level I thought the mags content had hit the shit at around 1999 (although that's a generalisation), be a shame to see it go as it provided a lot of content for me throughout the 90's (reviews, rider interviews, jams and whacking material).

What's got me all bothered though, is are we going to hit another slump with BMX - over the last couple of years there's been a lot of shop closures/shops struggling to make ends meet, DIG's gone and a couple more mags.

Chris made a good point to me the other day; that despite the money that's been made over the last few years within BMX we've still not got any solid 'sport' recognition (other than the Olympics). He's helping organise the UKVert thang - if you ain't seen it have a look here:

https://www.facebook.com/zakflip



This isn't an 'OMG - teh BMX is fooked' post as I did quite like the last slump (90's) ; more of a what are your thoughts on the state of play nowadays with BMX. Even if you think all New School stuff looks the same and you have no interest in it, it'll still indirectly affect you when you rock up to your LBS shop to buy some innertubes or rim strips and they've closed down.

bobbbbsy:
Ride bmx became too much of a business it seemed. Lost the grass roots kinda feel/ became kinda distant. I know a lot of real headz who hate ridebmx in general for this reason but we need corporate bmx entities to push bmx into the mainstream more But obviously being mainstream has its setbacks. I unfollowed them online as they do post some right crap. they did well to last this long if you look at the demise of max power / revs / fast car etc . A loose comparison I know.

fugazi:
I would say it's the internet that has killed off the printed medium, in my eyes ride mag has been gash for years so no big deal to me really, but on a deeper level the bmx market looks to have been shrinking  for some time now, and I think we'll see more companies & shops go down before long .....
Bmx seems very cyclic sometimes, and it doesn't do any good when everyone & their dog jumps on when things are good & most jump off again when things hit a bit of a slump.
There will always be riders/companies/shops keeping things going as after the money has gone there's still the love......ride on.

rodriguez:
Sign of the times, happening with most papers and magazines ask any newsagent they'll tell you, I personally haven't bought a paper or magazine for about 14 years.

Whether or not it reflects a decline in BMX it might.

If BMX is in decline it's because of scooters, in the village were they are everywhere, there are a few kids who have BMXs but not many.

BMXs cost a fortune in comparison to scooters so the parents are happy enough to go along with it.

bobbbbsy:
some of them scooters cost 300 f ing quid  :D you can buy a decent part cro mo complete bmx for that . good enough for a kid.  :D

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