Also, add us on Vimeo and YouTube if you’re on there. We’ll be uploading random clips there for your viewing pleasure. Case in point: Dakota Roche Clip.

This was their first day ever riding a sidehack and attempt number 2 on the ramp. Their warm up to this basically consisted of riding around in circles at the bottom.

Odyssey BMX is proud to announce that we will now be available through Full Factory Distribution in the states.

In addition to Seattle Bike Supply, Quality Bicycle Products, Custom Cycle and J&B, Full Factory will be available to further assist dealers with Odyssey, G-Sport and Flatware product lines.

Please visit Full Factory for more info.

Check out Dakota’s bike and watch him shred some spots. He definitely has one of the largest hops in BMX. The rail he slides and hops over in this is tall!

If Godzilla was to attack San Diego, what front brake related trick would you want to do on his face in order to save the city? Either an ET nosepick dremel to the groin or a top side cancan nosepick karate kick to the dome.

Do you and Dirt Ron have front brake battles? We actually unite our powers like wonder twins, but it’s more of a holy experience, like that scene in karate kid (pick any one of them).

You put together a video for us a while ago, how’s the editing board been treating you? It was super fun to play around with Final Cut. That was my first stab at it on my own, with some scrap clips i had from the past few months of riding… I’m looking forward to working with it again, but that requires more clips to be filmed and logged… in progress!

What parts do you go through the most? Grips and pedals for sure, though I’ve eased up on the pedal grinders and these Olastic grips seem to be staying in shape.

Is there anything you’re particular about on your bike as far as setup? Basically everything, but I really like to experiment with different setups (2 pegs, 1 peg, 1 brake front, 1 brake back, stem lengths, seat heights, etc). My bike is basically a transformer with an identity crisis, but in the end, I always seem to come back to a brakeless ballerina bike.

I’ve been told your alias is Ohio, which leads me to believe you’re from there. When did you move to sunny SD? Do your friends back home call you Diego? I’ve lived in San Diego for a few months shy of 2 years now and it’s been an adventure. I am originally from Cincinnati OH where a number of people call me a number of things, but I don’t think I’m spanish looking enough to have heard Diego.

Tell us a little more about Awkward Words. A few years ago I started a blog that was essentially an outlet for me to doodle and share my weirdness with whoever might be curious or bored, so of course I put it on the Internet. Speaking of which, it could use some more attention these days, too busy riding!

What’s going on here: tumblr_kv6d1gEQH91qaaocio1_500.jpg This is actually pretty out of character for me, since i usually draw more basic, cute stuff, but this is one of Ron’s monsters that I drew my own version of because I thought it was so insane and I was extremely hung over after a night at his place and in need of a distraction for my bruised brain. As for what is actually going on, it’s a magician monster stranded on an island puking all over his own eyeball while solving a rubics cube and conjuring a rain storm

If the Red Power Ranger walked up to you and asked, “Yo Tom, how you do them manual lines so well?” How would you respond? I would probably slap him in the face and ask him where the green ranger was. The green ranger was Tommy, definitely the most badass. He had his own power zord, which was a dinosaur. Plus he was the mysterious loner, so bonus wolf points… or i would just give him some spare change: 1h9jxd.jpg

Are there any projects that we should keep an eye out for? San Diego BMX is reuniting in a furious blaze of glory so watch out for revival of America’s finest city in the bmx scene… other than that I’ve been getting more into shooting photos lately, so hit up tomisthinking.tumblr.com if you’re ever bored online. That and awkwardwords.tumblr.com are my two blogs at the moment, so I’ll have to get that stuff some more updates soon. Peace, love and 69.

Check out this new edit from Cult featuring Dakota Roche shredding the Fullerton Park!

This is rather amazing. Fat Tony from Ride BMX walks you through Terry Adams’ crib to give you a very thorough tour of his dialed house. The dance moves alone makes this video worth watching and there’s plenty of additional insightful clips and flatland links thrown in for good measure. Hit the full screen button and turn the HD on, you’re in for a treat. It’s kinda like a mix between a cloud and a muffin.

Also, keep checking back ’cause there’ll be a new video of Jimmy popping up soon!

While a lot of kids these days are going out and trying on the tallest, largest bars, you actually trim yours down. What’s the width on your bars and have they gotten wider at all throughout the years or are they still partying like it’s 1999?
My bars are cut down about an inch on each side. So yeah, they are narrow for the N.W. However, I must admit, they are wider than they were when I moved here 5 years ago.

Aside from trimming the bars, are there any other things about your setup that you’re particular about?
Just that it’s running solid. I’ve been riding too long to have a slapping chain or loose… anything running shitty.

You’re known to have done some of the biggest gaps in BMX. When it comes to jumping long distances and dropping from great heights, is there a specific geometry you’ve grown to prefer?
I’ve always been a 74% or 74.5% head tube guy. My rear end is 13.75″ and works great. I think landing those gaps you mentioned is just knowing the balance of your rig. You have to know when to drop your back wheel to land, as well as a steady trust on your frame and parts knowing that nothing is going to explode.

Ride BMX just put a bike check up with one of our favorite riders, Dakota Roche. He’s rocking the new Cult frame and fully stocked on G-Sport and Odyssey components.

Greyboy and Truly have a bike check up on the Ride site, along with an interview about Impakt Sidehacks and an online version of their Sidehack Love article from earlier this year. Constantly carrying 315lbs plus the force of landings and grinds, these 3 wheeled cousins can take and handle a lot of abuse. Check out the bike check to see what type of parts they’re running on it!

Check out this video Q&A with skateboarder extraordinaire, Chris Cole. You can get to know him a little better through some reader questions from ActiveRideShop.com. While watching, you may recognize those wheels he’s lacing up and playing around with!

We have a new batch of t-shirts floating around out there in retail land! They’re not in our online store yet but they will be soon. In the mean time, hit up your local shops or mail orders to get some new threads!

You may have noticed on Adam Banton’s last bike check that he has a 3/8″ axle listed for his Ratchet hub and JC has one on his bike too. These aluminum axle kits are available now and come with spacers which helps fit the hub to most 14mm dropouts. If you’re looking to shave some weight or maybe even just clean up the look of your bike with our Volcano Bolts, this kit would be a great upgrade for your Ratchet. Hit up the mail-orders or your local bike shop to get your bike on one.

Jim Cielencki has a Bike Check up on the Ride site. After going brakeless for a bit, he’s back to running stoppies again. Find out what else is on his bike and why by clicking the photo above!

Gary Young picked up a new frame sponsor pretty quickly and he’s now officially on Sunday Bikes! JC put up a bike check for Gary so head over there and check it out.

From underwater flatland to high-end watch catalogs, Terry Adams has a way of finding himself in some interesting photo shoots. If you pick up the latest Invicta Watch Group catalog, you’ll find Terry modeling their Outsider watch and chillin’ with his ride.

The new Ride UK is out and to go along with this issue is a copy of the Ride to Glory DVD. Not only that, but they’re also putting out wallpapers for each team that was on the trip! Click the photo above to download ours!

A huge thanks goes out to Rob at CM Speed for doing the welding for us!

How can it take so long to make a bolt? If we’d been happy for the production ones to be machined from bar stock like the prototypes (and to be similarly expensive) then it would have been a lot quicker, but instead we decided to invest the time and effort to make a forging tool to give the part a better grain structure and to get the price down. So here they finally are.

G-Sport Volcano Bolts:
» 3/8″ diameter
» 24 threads per inch
» 6mm allen key socket
» 24mm diameter “volcano” head.
» Recommended tightening torque, 35N-m.
» Maximum tightening torque, 50N-m.
» Minimum tightening torque, 20N-m.

The shank is one inch, or 25.4mm long, and the top 5mm are left unthreaded to optimize the fit in the dropout. This design will still fit a 3mm dropout thickness with the Marmoset Hub because the axle threads are inset 3mm to help locate the bolt and minimize the risk of cross-threading. The head is 7.5mm tall, giving the bolt a total overall length of 33mm.

The weight is 25.8g or 0.9oz each, compared to 35.6g or 1.25oz for the regular 35mm long shank, 17mm hex-head Marmoset bolt. So a pair will save you less than an ounce (which unsurprisingly, isn’t what they are intended for).

To be clear, these bolts are NOT designed for use with pegs. Check the condition (and size) of your Allen key before tightening. Rounded keys will damage the hex, and eventually removal will become difficult. Do not force damaged bolts into the hub axles. You will damage the axle threads and/or helicoil.

Volcano Bolts are compatible with many female axle hubs, here’s a brief list:
» G-Sport Marmoset – YES
» G-Sport Monkey – YES
» G-Sport Fat Shaft MkII – YES
» G-Sport Fat Shaft (1995 onwards) – YES
» Odyssey Vandero 2 – YES
» Demolition Mary-Kate front – YES
» Shadow Raptor Front – YES
» Colony Clone Front – YES

And hubs they WON’T fit:
» G-Sport Fat Shaft (1994 -1995) – NO (M10×1.0)
» Profile Mini Front – NO (3/8×16T)
» Madera Pilot Front – NO (3/8×16tpi)
» Fly Bikes Front – NO (M10×1.0)
» Eclat Teck front – NO (M10×1.0)
» WTP Supreme Front – NO (M10×1.0)

The man behind G-Sport; Mr. George French, shredding good and proper like it’s 1993.

A few things about this video:

1.) The intro is pretty cool.
2.) I’d be scared to be one of those kids pushing up against the rail for Mike to grind on.
3.) He’s riding with a tweaked wrist and killing it.