With the 2013 Texas Toast Jam less than 10 days away, Odyssey decided to drop a little hype video (like everyone isn’t already losing their minds excited) to remind everyone that it’s coming. Check out a few quick clips of Chase Hawk from last year! I can’t WAIT to get on that plane down to Texas.
Product: Odyssey – Wrenches Tripod Seat
Here’s one I spotted over on The Merged that I’m sure you guys will like. Here’s a more detailed look at the new Wrenches tripod seat from Odyssey that we got a preview of at Interbike. How good does that seat look?
Product: Odyssey – Big Logo Hawk & Ross Tires – Out Now
The Chase Hawk and Aaron Ross signature tires from Odyssey are now available in the new BIG LOGO sidewall versions. Get all the details by clicking here!
Product: Odyssey – Sweepstakes Bars – Out Now
Looking for some new bars, but you want something with a little more height? Odyssey just released their new Sweepstakes bars for you to check out. These bars are made from multi-butted 41-Thermal heat-treated 4130 chromoly and come with a rise of 9″, a width of 29″, 10.5-degrees of backsweep and 4-degrees of upsweep. These bars are available everywhere Odyssey is sold now!
Interbike 2013: Odyssey, Sunday, G-Sport and Fairdale
I made my way on over to the Full Factory booth to check out what Odyssey, Sunday and Fairdale had going on. If you have been paying close attention to what these guys have going on, I’m sure you have seen a good amount of this since they’re really good about keeping people in the loop through their sites and social media, but there were a few surprises! Let’s do this!
Insight – The Tripod Seat System
BMX is pretty unique in the sense that it’s always evolving and re-inventing itself. The bikes from 10 years ago are pretty much polar opposite of what they are today. Complicated things have been re-designed and made to be lighter, stronger and easier to install and maintain. Everything on a bike has been tweaked and changed to make it better, sometimes multiple times.
In the past decade, we’ve seen seats go from railed to the very popular pivotal style. I remember thinking how simple the design was and that there probably wouldn’t be much you could do to make a seat more simplistic and cleaner…
Well, I was wrong. A little over a year ago, David from Fly Bikes introduced the tripod seat system and like a Colorado wild fire in the middle of a drought, we’ve seen this new concept take off with more and more brands starting to offer their own version of the seat and post design with no signs of slowing down any time soon.
We were really curious to know what the story was behind this system, so we caught up with the brains of the operation, David Quesada, to talk a little bit about how this all came about. Let’s see what he had to say…
Odyssey – Calicrewzin
Odyssey just dropped this banger of a video from their team trip around California they took recently! Aaron, Gary, Broc and Grant all kill it on some dialed spots and they look like they had a super good time doing it. Hit that play button and enjoy!
“Join Aaron Ross, Gary Young, Broc Raiford, and Grant Germain on the most cliché of California trips. The vibe may be chill, but the spots and riding did not disappoint.
Huge thanks to QBMX for helping make this trip happen and to CRANKY’S, INKY’S and THE SECRET bike shops for having us over.
Filmed and edited by Walter Pieringer.
Music by 2Pac and Shaw Blades.“
No Flatland at Texas Toast
Well here’s some surprising news I didn’t expect to see. It looks like due to some uncontrollable circumstances, the Texas Toast Jam won’t be able to do a flatland contest. Check out the official word from Odyssey below… I can’t imagine this couldn’t be resolved before October.
“Due to circumstances beyond our control, there will not be a flatland event at Texas Toast this year. We’re all a bit torn up over this decision, but here’s what’s going on…
We thought we had a new venue sorted out for Toast that would have given us more room and we have planned from the beginning to include flat. However, due to some city red tape that venue fell through just recently. Luckily we were able to work out a deal to have Toast at the same lumber yard it was at last year. Since the city of Austin is seeing explosive growth right now the lumber yard is busier than ever! It is literally packed with lumber and building materials. The warehouse we used for flat last year is going to be off limits to us. Although it seems like hosting a flatland contest would be the easiest of all events (with no ramps to build) it actually can be quite challenging to find good flat ground. The lumberyard really has no alternative space that we could use for flat. We had considered doing an invite only event in between the ramps on the street course but that seemed to be getting away from the original idea of Toast. We want everyone to be able to have fun and ride. Flat on the street course would mean minimal practice for the riders and only a select group of folks would even get to ride (because the street course is so busy with street).
This massively sucks for us at Toast since NORA CUP AWARDS will be held in conjunction with Toast. We are bummed to potentially have the top 5 nominees for Flat in town and not have a venue set up for them to ride. Again, we are very sorry for the news.” – Odyssey
