R.a.D Magazine was a British skateboard magazine published between 1987 and 1993.<\/p>\n
The magazine evolved out of the BMX magazine, BMX Action Bike<\/em>, survived for a few tumultuous years and then blew to bits. <\/p>\n When R.a.D was sold to a new publisher, the team who produced it decided to strike out on their own. They produced three issues of a new type of magazine called Phat<\/em>, which got caught up in an explosion of outrage about teenage culture and was pulled off the shelves. R.a.D itself fizzled out after a while and the title was swallowed up as part of Sidewalk Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n This site is dedicated to R.a.D Magazine in the crucial years up until 1993.<\/p>\n The plan is to re-publish each magazine, a page at a time, until the whole lot is here. In some cases I have access to backup disks containing the original text, but in others we will have to make do with just scans.<\/p>\n