News December, 2008

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9-T driver Odyssey V3 cassette hubs and wheels are shipping now. The wheels will be available in either hard-anodize black or chrome, and the hubs are available in black, gold, high-polished or white. The drivers will be available separately toward the beginning of the new year, and they’ll be compatible with all of our earlier 14mm cassette hubs.

Why did it take so long? Well, as I’m sure you already know, 9-T drivers seem to love eating through cartridge bearings and chains of every type. Now although we don’t make chains, when it came to the driver, we didn’t want to produce anything smaller than a 10-T until we could improve on the life of the bearings for you.

Our new 9-T driver uses a scaled-down needle bearing and bushing configuration similar to the one found on the G-Sport Ratchet hub. We’ve made the 9-T drivers at a new shop that allows us to achieve tighter tolerances, and therefore also lets us maintain a higher level of concentric precision on the pawl turrets. This ensures that all three pawls are engaging at the same time, improving reliability, and allowing for a smoother overall drivetrain.

Thanks for reading!

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Since we know you’re going to ask, 9-T drivers for the G-Sport Ratchet Hub will be available sometime in the first quarter of 2009.

The Senior Pivotal saddles we revealed at Interbike are now shipping! They come in black, red, brown, white and clear (plastic only). They come in plastic and padded versions, but if you decide to strip the padded version, you’ll find the plastic version inside!

You can check out the flipbook HERE for more photos.

So… I was browsing the Strictly Fitteds website like I do a few times a months, and I came across our “Driver” hat that we are doing with Estate LA. This caught me off guard (in a good way).

The photo in the post was one that I took with my iPhone and had uploaded to Defgrip via the Defgrip Flickr page, so this is not really an official release photo, but its still all good.

More info on the new hats and better pics soon.

Spotted this bike with the new Tanwall tires over on bikeguide. Looking good!!!

Standard and Foldable Tanwalls are available now.

Matt Beringer has a rad feature on Ride BMX where he gives you the story behind some photos.

Matt’s got a great part in the new S&M video, and that clip in the 50/50 video where over shoots his shed makes me laugh.

Matt rules!!

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One of the main contributors to our Flickr Group is Jason Eichhorst (AKA Skier J) and some great photographs of our riders always end up on there thanks to him. We contacted him last week to see if he’d be down to do a collaboration of some sort and make some of them available as wallpaper downloads. He was down and we are stoked. The first one is above and are available in the following screen resolutions:

To check out more of Jason’s work, visit FromOverHere.com.
More wallpapers can be found in the Downloads portion of our website.

EXPN just put up a kickass video of Jimmy Levan on their site. Along with the interview are a bunch of clips from various video parts he’s had over the past few years. It’s definitely worth the watch and a great way to start the week. You can watch the video above and when you’re done, you can also watch his 2003 Odyssey video part in our TV.

Holga double exposure from the Tanner Mike Aitken Benefit by brown_town

Here’s this month’s picks from the Odyssey Flickr Group. New ones seem to pop up everyday and if you haven’t done so already, feel free to join it. Just make sure to keep the photos Odyssey related and don’t post a bunch of pics that all looks the same. Pick out your favorites and share those. Thanks! View More

Gold Evo II’s, available now!

The newest batch of Plegs has arrived!

They’re available in black and white now, but what else has changed? Thanks to your feedback, our own long-term testing, and a total re-design to the injection tooling, the newest Plegs now feature a thicker cross-section at the end to extend their grinding life, and the sleeve’s plastic compound has been tweaked slightly to also improve on their overall durability. The ringing in our ears from the standardized testing hasn’t stopped. Every batch must pass on our “true-to-life” test rig or it is rejected, and this updated version has been spot-on. Also, if you have the original Pleg hardware, then the newest replacement sleeves will work perfectly.

We hope you’ll enjoy the updated Pleg as much as we do. So, let’s get back to riding forbidden skateparks, grinding the ungrindable and putting security guards everwhere a little more at ease (maybe).

We know that Plegs aren’t for everyone (and they were never intended as such), but if you enjoy the benefits that plastic can offer, then you’ll definitely want to pick these up.

Thanks for your interest and support.

Photo by Kieth Mulligan (Ride BMX)

Adam Banton has a new bike check over at the Ride website. The photos are embedded after the jump but you can read about the full details of his setup over at RideBMX.com.

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