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

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.

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!

It was a tough task but we gathered up all of our favorite clips from every ODSY Vision this year and mixed it all into one action packed edit. As an added bonus, we even threw in a few fresh clips we had been saving.

Thanks to all of our riders and guest filmers/editors for helping make this video series one of the best. It’s been a great year and if this recap wasn’t enough, hit up ODSYVISION.com to get full platter.

Ride BMX tallied up the most popular searches on their site and Tom Dugan, Chase Hawk and Aaron Ross ended up in the top 5 with Dugan at the #1 slot!

Get video of yourself launching a huge 180 and then tweet it to @chasehawk512 and @cultcrew for a chance to win Chase’s personal bike.

Have you guys seen the new Empire Trailer over at Defgrip? Chase Hawk, Aaron Ross and Tom Dugan all have some gnarly wrecks in it and you can tell they’ve been putting in some serious time and effort into having dialed sections. Mark your calendars – 11/11/11 is the new Rapture.

Ride UK rarely ever puts American dudes on the cover so when this new issue with Chase Hawk popped up on our radar, we were pumped. Congrats Chase!!!!!!

Chase Hawk: Top 5 Nominee for #1 Dirt Jumper and #1 Ramp Rider

Gary Young: Top 5 Nominee for #1 Ramp Rider

Matthias Dandois: Top 5 Nominee for #1 Flatlander

Mike Aitken: Top 5 Nominee for #1 Video Part, Anthem II

Our boys are killing it in the top 5 nominations for the2011 Ride BMX NORA Cup. Best of luck to Chase Hawk, Mike Aitken, Matthias Dandois and Gary Young!

All photos from RideBMX.com.

Photo by Nathan Beddows @ Ride UK

Ride UK just posted this sick wallpaper of Chase Hawk folding his bike upside down. Click the photo to download!

Photo by Justin Kosman.

Click through the flipbook above for photos from Park and then hit up the videos below for a recap of the whole thing.

For more photos and complete results from X Games Street, visit RideBMX.com.

For more photos and complete results from X Games Park, visit RideBMX.com.

270 invert from Chase and oppo 270 lookback from Gary. Photos from RideBMX.com

Chase Hawk and Gary Young both killed in X Games’ Park Prelims and are currently sitting in the top 5! For official results and more photos, hit up RideBMX.com‘s coverage.

We’re at X Games right now and we’d like to wish all our guys out there good luck! Keep your eyes peeled for Chase Hawk, Sean Sexton, Aaron Ross and Gary Young. If you want to watch some live webcasts of the event, you can check that out by heading to: odysseybmx.com/xgames/

Also, make sure to follow our Twitter, Facebook and Flickr for random updates.

Here’s Chase’s first run from Park Prelims:

Cult just dropped this edit of Chase Hawk testing out Austin’s newest skatepark. The place looks dialed and Chase does everything in this edit from blasting quarters to lacing tech lines.

We also set out specifically to design the stem around its own unique forging blanks for both the cap and body. Forging maximizes the strength of the material, and helps keep the manufacturing costs down. Machining the same shape from a block of aluminum would be weaker, it would be wasteful of material, and the retail price would be unreasonable. The unique nature of the stem’s tomahawk-inspired front load body shape allows it to look “normal” whether it is installed traditionally or upside-down to raise the bars.

The end result is a strong, lightweight, front load stem with a series of unique features and the aesthetics that Chase asked us for.

For this episode of ODSY Vision, we bring to you our favorite clips from the Texas Toast Jam and a quick trip with George Boyd. He lives a few hours north of Austin so we met up with him a couple days prior and filmed a handful of clips along the drive.

Thanks to everyone who flew, drove, walked and pedaled to the Texas Toast Jam. You guys helped make it a good time with plenty of fun in the sun. Hope to see everyone again next year!

For a full, comprehensive look at the Texas Toast Jam, make sure to click HERE to view all of the photo galleries and videos we have gathered of the event.

Sean Sexton, Chase Hawk, Aaron Ross and Russell Barone hit up the fun and festivities in Austin’s SXSW festival. This hit up Austin’s staple spots and even managed to catch some shows in between!

Here’s video coverage of Dirt Finals from Props! Add ‘em on Facebook and Twitter if you haven’t already.

PropsBMX.tv has uploaded dirt qualifying and finals should be up late this evening. Watch and enjoy!

Thanks to a lucky pair of pants (and an unbelievable amount of skill), Gary Young took home the win in Empire’s King of the Curved Wall challenge and also in the Pro Dirt Contest! Believe it or not, this is actually the first time Gary’s ever won a dirt comp so this victory’s extra sweet. Chase Hawk got a well deserved 2nd place with over-dipped 360s that were higher than most people’s regular airs and a gnarly 180 over the last jump. Ricky Moseley rounds things off in 3rd with huge variations over every jump.

Another highlight of the night was MIKE AITKEN getting so psyched on the comp that he ended up taking a Rebel Run! The whole place literally erupted in radness.

Thanks to everyone that came out tonight!

ESPN has a couple galleries loaded up on their website from PRACTICE and DAY 1.