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Conspiracy Theory? Ride Magazine is continuing its quest to eliminate any magazine competition by stealing from the enemy's ranks. Ride publisher Brad McDonald (pictured at right) has already kidnapped editor Mark Losey from the ranks of BMX Plus, where he was perfectly happy taking pictures for t-shirt shootouts. Now, in order to squash future competition, Jared Souney of brand new magazine Nine-Ninety has been assimilated into Ride's ranks as assistant editor. When asked about the threat posed by American BMXer magazine, Mr. McDonald couldn't comment because he was laughing too hard.

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Iowa Kid "Just Doesn't Get" Mullet Jokes Thirteen-year-old Barry Swate from Des Moines, IA "just doesn't get the whole mullet thing". According to Barry, "all of a sudden" there were numerous jokes appearing in riding magazines, videos, and web sites that make fun of mullets, which is a style of haircut Canadians call "hockey hair". "I don't have any idea what a mullet is, and nobody will tell me," he complained. "I really want to be in on the joke, but right now I just can't." The young Mr. Swate really shouldn't worry, though, since the whole mullet thing is now way past being funny.

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New Frame from Specialized Specialized has taken BMX bikes to a new level: engineers there have developed a bike with no top tube OR down tube! "We're currently producing bikes with a single tube connecting the head tube to the seat tube," a company spokesman said, "and we've even eliminated the seat tube on several bikes as well. Removing the down tube altogether was a natural progression for us." The FatBoy Ghost team model (pictured at right) will be available early 1998. Said Specialized rider T.J. Lavin of the bike: "It's real light, but it's a bitch to steer."

GT's New Big-Ass Bars GT has unveiled its first of many bike parts designed by their flatland star, Trevor Meyer. "Back in the old days I was able to run my bars at a respectable height using an ACS Rotor and a Redline Forklifter stem," said Meyer. "But since the invention of the Gyro and inverted stems, bars are WAY too low for me. That's why I was glad GT let me design my own signature bars." The bars, which are 4130 chromoly and have a rise of 22 inches, will sell for about $40. Also in the works is a companion 26-inch long layback seatpost, and later this year a top-secret complete bike code-named "The Nosebleeder".

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Hoffman Bikes Releases Special-Edition Bike Hoffman Bikes have released a new limited-edition bike designed for ramps and jumping, named after one of the all-time greatest motorcycle stunt riders, Evel Kneivel. It sports the colors of it's namesake, is pretty beefy and has a gas-tank gusset for extra strength. Commented test rider Rich D.: "Not only is it strong, but it gets about 40 miles per gallon." Not many import cars can match that, and this is just a BMX bike! The complete EK will cost about $800...$815 with a full tank of unleaded.

Random Kid Starts New T-shirt Company Bradley Anderson, a 16 year old rider from Wichita, KS, has announced plans to start a t-shirt company. "Pretty much everyone else has done it, you know?" commented Anderson. "I guess it was just a matter of time before I did it, too." Initial plans for the as-yet unnamed company are a line of t-shirts with modified corporate logos, "kind of like what Scumboy did with the Subway logo." Anderson also says that he'll eventually produce a video and — if things go well — possibly axle pegs.

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