Nick Hantosh, the editor of Bikes and Blades , is a very interesting person. He was born in La Grange, Illinois on Halloween of 1995. Now he’s thirteen years old and BMXs. The reason he is qualified to write the magazine is that he BMXs. He uses the parts he reviews and does most of the tricks he explains how to do. He’s been riding bikes since he was four years old, when he first rode without training wheels. A few months after he turned six, he moved from Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, to Brookfield, a town not too far from Cicero. When he was eight years old, he watched his 14-year-old brother Ricky doing BMX and Nick liked it. Although Nick was too young to do most tricks, he still tried riding ramps, banks, and quarter pipes. When he turned nine, Ricky gave him his first real BMX bike, which was a custom

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Last December, four-time X Games BMX Street Gold Medalist Garrett Reynolds parted ways with longtime bike sponsor Premium, and for the past seven months, many of us wondered what Garrett's next move would be. Potentially, he could have had his... Also, here's a little BMX factoid to prove to everyone how much of a loser I really am. Blackout is run by the good folks at Kink BMX, who once employed the likes of " Nowhere Fast " legend Dave Young on the Kink team. But yesterday, through their newly created Fiend Twitter account , Fiend debuted their new frame, and the news that they would be exclusively distributed in the US by Blackout Distribution. The Kink Fiend. Fiend's first frame should be available in late-August, and top tube sizes include 20. Nothing more than a mere coincidence, but I need somewhere to boast about my useless BMX knowledge. Garrett and Fiend's first frame is American-made (at Solid), with a sturdy overall weight that comes in just under five pounds.

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