Aaron spent some time recently in his home town to relax and catch up with family and friends. Of course, he managed to squeeze some riding in as well. Here are a couple snaps from Carlos Tamez-Mendez.

Instagram has been blowing up like crazy lately and just about every single one of our riders and staff members are on it. If you’re on there and looking for some new people to follow, hit up our crew:

• Aaron Ross – @theaaronross
• Eric Lichtenberger – @ericlichtenberger
• Adam Banton – @adambanton
• Terry Adams – @terryadamsbmx
• Gary Young – @garybyoung
• Mike Aitken – @nightwolfslc
• Sean Sexton – @sean_sexton
• Justin Simpson – @justinsimpson
• George Boyd – @geoboyd
• Hoang Tran – @hoang69
• Broc Raiford – @brocafloka
• Michael Ardelean – @michaelardelean
• Taj Mihelich – @tajlucas
• Jim Cielencki – @jimcielencki
• Jim Bauer – @nameisbauer
• Nuno Oliveira – @olivejuuuuice
• Francis Delapena – @francisdelapena
• Stephen Campbell – @milktoothpaste

NOTE: The links will take you to a website called “STATIGRAM.” You can login there to follow us or do it through the iPhone app using our usernames.

Terry Adams = Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@terryadamsbmx)
Aaron Ross = Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@theaaronross)
Broc Raiford = Twitter and Instagram (@brocafloka)

Tom just got a new bike and his house just got a new pair of sunglasses.
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George Boyd just joined the ranks of Mutiny‘s pro team. Here’s a welcome edit he fired out in an afternoon. Congrats George!

Our new Gary Young inspired Metallic Silver color kit is available now!

This kit includes:

• 175mm RHD Thunderbolt cranks
• V3 9T Cassette & Vandero 2 front hub
• 36H Quadrant & Seven K-A rims
• R25 & R32 forks
• Short & Medium Monolever & Evo 2 brakes
• 25, 28, 30t Chase Hawk C-512 sprockets
• Aaron Ross Double Spacebars & Gary Young 3 bars
• Cufflink, Aaron Ross, Chase Hawk and Adam Banton signature grips

USA dealers please contact QBP, SBS, Custom Cycle, J&B or Full Factory Distribution.

International dealers please hit up our distro page.

In other Chase Hawk news, his signature Tomahawk Stem is Available NOW!

Photo by Walter Pieringer.

Photo by Justin Kosman.

Photo by Walter Pieringer.

After more than a year of ride testing and development the Tomahawk Stem is finally available at shops worldwide.

The Tomahawk is based around a list of front-load features that Chase Hawk requested and it is the first front-load stem to use convergent bolt axes for the front cap. This allows the stem to have the separate adjustability and “look” of a traditional four bolt front-loader, but with a smoother overall shape. It also eliminates the stresses associated with letting the bolt holes break through the outer face of the stem body. As a bonus, this means that the stem still looks “normal” when it is flipped to raise the handlebars.

You’ll also notice that the Tomahawk makes use of the steerer tube clamping design that is found in the Elementary stem. With this unique configuration the locking bolt for the fork’s steerer tube remains straight during tightening (rather than bending as the wedges rotate around the steerer). The stem’s fully internal clamp design also means that the back of the body can be bolt-free, and knee-friendly.

For the Tomahawk, we invested in full forging tools for the stem’s cap and body in order to maximize the strength of the material used. This stem was designed as a forging (rather than simply machining it) because forging improves a part’s strength by forming the ideal grain structure that is needed for a given shape. As a benefit, this process also means that we can offer the stem at a reasonable selling price.

• Front-load design
• Chase Hawk approved
• Converging front bolt axes eliminate typical through-hole stresses and improve the stem’s look when flipped
• Easily accessible internal clamping system
• Forged 6061-T6 aluminum maximizes strength and minimizes waste
• 53mm reach
• 9.5mm rise or 22.5mm when flipped
• 9.4 oz (266g)

Chase Hawk Bike Check (View Parts List, Photos by Devon Hutchins)

Chase’s signature Tomahawk stem is also available now.
Click HERE to watch the video & all the details.

Hi Toast People,

We’ve made the decision to push Toast Jam into the fall this year. Securing a venue for the contest has proven extremely challenging and it is just taking too darned long.

We’ll be looking to have the event sometime in the fall… maybe near Halloween?

I will update with more info soon.

Thanks much and have a good one,
Taj

Watch Hoang Tran and a couple buddies session a park in Rancho Penasquitos. Video from Vital BMX

Defgrip re-upped their Chase Hawk / Oakley promo from last year. Watch it now if you haven’t done so already.

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Download this new wallpaper from Ride BMX of Chase Hawk whipping it at the trails!

Eastern Bikes just put up this video of Adam Banton killing it on street, park and dirt. He does so many good tricks in this that you don’t see many (if any) people doing.

Click play, then add him on Facebook and Twitter.

We dropped Broc’s ODSY Vision last week and thought it might be fun to throw out some behind the scenes trivia.

• We scheduled 7 days to film this with Broc. The weather sucked for two of those days so overall, everything was done in 5 solid days of street riding.
• While getting the railhop barspin clip, the guy in the photo above rolled up to us with a companion who looked like a body guard of some sort. We originally thought trouble was brewing but as it turns out, he just wanted to ask Broc to be in his rap video. He then proceeded to spit out some rhymes for the camera.
• The ridiculously long nose manual happened much sooner than everybody expected. He almost made it all the way to the end 3rd try.
• About a week or two before filming, Broc learned crankslide to barspins. The manual to crankslide to barspin clip in this edit was his first manual to crankslide ever.
• His first nose manual to barspin was in this edit too, which he happened to fire out at the end of an icepick to manual line.
• Broc’s still in high school but has early classes and gets out at 10:37 every morning so we’d have time to film the rest of the day. He literally lives across the street from his school and I was able to hear the class bell from his house.
• He fired out his ender clip on the first day of filming. The last day was slated for “filler clips” which ended up being stuff like feeble to manual to feeble to 360 tap to tailwhip…
• Broc’s setup is similar to Aaron Ross’ in the sense that they both run pegs on the “wrong” side. At first glance, it’s easy to think they’re goofy footed. If they were to run four pegs though, it’d be even easier to think all of their grinds are opposite.

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As per Mike Aitken’s request, his knobby tire is now available in a bigger 20X2.35 size. Sounds wild I know, but it works! Click below for a comparison with the original 20×2.125 size.

Black w/ Tanwall and White w/ Tanwall coming soon!

USA dealers please contact QBP, SBS, Custom Cycle, J&B or Full Factory Distribution.

International dealers please hit up our distro page.

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We’re currently in Terry’s hometown filming and hanging out with these two. Here’s a quick snapshot from lunch yesterday. That sign is legit!

For the latest updates on twitter, follow Terry & Aaron on twitter.

Check out George Boyd‘s new ride over at Mutiny!

Check out Matthias Dandois riding a mix of flatland and street in the Canary Islands with the rest of the Vans crew.

Broc Raiford’s a Louisiana youngin’ that’s sure to make some big moves in 2012. After meeting him at Texas Toast last year, his great attitude and natural talent earned him a spot on the team. This ODSY Vision marks Broc’s inaugural video part with us and he definitely delivered. Watch it above and then give him a quick shout on twitter @brocafloka.

Special thanks to Jon Rogers, Andrew Sanford, Chase Frickey and Brandon Gauthreaux for helping push the record button and hanging out!

ESPN has a new video up of Matthias Dandois and Alex Jumelin sessioning a spot in front of the Eiffel Tower.

We’ve been in Louisiana these past few days filming with Broc Raiford and so far so good. Here’s a quick flick from yesterday’s trip to Baton Rouge of Broc fast planting over his buddy Brandon. Shout out to Jon Rogers for showing us around and helping get some extra angles. Stay tuned for more…

Terry Adams spent some time in Paris for the holidays to join in on some winter fun with Matthias Dandois and Alex Jumelin. Peep the edit above for a quick session over at Alex’s Different Character warehouse.