Original photograph of Steve Douglas at Raging Waters was by Luke Ogden. The credit has been written on by hand. I assume we must have forgotten to have it typeset: at this time we were setting type direct from disk (which involved learning codes which make raw HTML seem easy). We dropped the disks off at the typesetters late at night and collected the finished galley output the next day. So if something was wrong, or missing, we frequently had to adapt and make do.

At this stage there was still a fair bit of BMX content, and also the dreaded scooters.

Features

• Ears Extra 5
  ESA Series, Preston
• Raging Waters 8
  The hottest ramp in the world
• WORDS WITH Mike Canning 16
  Mad ramp ride mellows out
• Lucian Hendrickse 22
  Talks like he skates: hard and fast
• Checking out: Pacer Street Scoot 33
  Look at these
• Win a Scooter 37
  Take one home
• Holeshot IV Preview 40
  Who’s coming

Departments

• Ears 4
  Good news and bad news, but plenty of it
• Xs 7
  Homeboy Craig
• Cartoon 13
  A timely tale
• Skate How To 45
  No handed bone-up from Shane O’Brien
• Letters 46
  Mix it up
• The Wall 51
  Snowboards, bikes and esoteric messages
• BMX How To
  Lincoln Blacksley’s Double Fire Hydrant to G-Kruze 52
• Where? 54
  Skateparks, ramps and street spots: latest update

Contributors

• Alex Baldock
• Bod Boyle
• Paul Browne
• Phil Burgoyne
• Steve Douglas
• Paul Duffy
• Jeremy Fox
• Shane O’Brien

Cartoonists

• James Watmough
• Sketchy

Nick Philip was the Assistant/Editor designer. His influence shaped the whole magazine and there will be more about that in due course, I hope.

Billy Brown and Andre Jacobson sold the advertising
Keith Miles was production manager
Ben Lewis of Deltamere Ltd was the publisher