BODO

Bodo Hellwig from our german distributor SPORT IMPORT has a little interview on FATBMX. He is the Odyssey purchaser at Sport Import and does a great job.

Check it out BODO INTERVIEW

Odyssey Spokes

These have been out for a little while, but we don't remember telling anyone.

Odyssey spokes.
Specialty Grade, Stainless-Steel.
Black or Silver.
Available now in 182/184/186/188
One package contains 50, 14 gauge spokes and 12mm Nipples

Handy-dandy little chart on the packaging helps you figure out what size you need/can use with most Odyssey/Gsport hubs and rims.(this can easily be used as an estimate for many other rim/hub combos)

RANDOM

NEW RIDE:

See whats in Gary Young's ipod.
See whats on Jimmy LeVans bike.
See Matt Beringer on the subscription page.
See a plane flying over Adam Banton.

Product:

Limited Edition kelly green linear cables out now.
LHD G-Sport Monkey and Homer hubs.
M2 levers.

Hope everyone had a happy turkey/tofurkey day.

Fort Contest

Ryan Sher X KC Badger

The Fort Contest in Arizona went down this weekend, and it went pretty well.
I missed the Pro Dirt because I had to go to Target to buy bandages and first aid supplies for some stupid rider who went down. Pro Park went down full of riders you have never heard of but were killing it. I will hold back from a description, and hope AZ locals, riders and spectators will tell you what they thought.

Dirty Dan turned 18 and had a great time doing so in AZ.
Happy B day Dirty.

Gary, that guy is good.

www.woozybmx.com
or
freecaster

Woozy had this up with Gary. Speaks for itself.

Inter-Office News.

We're all pleased to welcome Ben Ward as Odyssey's newest R&D employee. Ben will be working with us to take our new products from the concept stages through to full on production. As a long time Portland resident, he'll have to adjust to the constant sunshine and terrible traffic. I recommend sunglasses of some kind, and a Sirius satellite radio.

Be sure to say "hi" to Ben if you see him at your local skatepark.

Thanks for reading.

-- Chris

PS: Jim Bauer will take you on a virtual tour of the Odyssey office via the Ride US website. Head over to bmxonline and check out "Wednesday's How To".

Defgrip V2

You may have never heard of Defgrip, but Defgrip V2 is out now. You better get on it, or you will really be behind.

www.defgrip.com

SOUTH AFRICA UPDATE

Jon from EMPIRE CYCLE SUPPLY in south africa says:

"The trip is going awesome and we just got done with the comp on the weekend. Mike won Pro Street, Matt got second, and Ruben got third.

Mike also won the high air contest. He aired just over 10 feet out of the 8 foot quarter".

There you have it. Congrats!!

New RIDE.

The new Ride has surfaced and it looks like everyone ran a Matt Beringer ad this month, which is awesome. Ourselves, S&M and Orchid all ran Beringer ad's. sweet.

Jimmy Levan, Adam Banton and Jim Bauer all have shots in the issue as well. congrats to those guys.

More Mike

Speaking of Mr. Aitken, when he gets back from South Africa, he will get to see his most recent sample of his new seat. Hope he doesn't mind if I ride til till he's back.

Mike also won the Road Fools internet vote spot (along with Ryan Sher) to go on the next Road Fools. Its what you've all been waiting for. I'm sure Mike and Ryan will shred like they always do. Congratulations yous two.