Darryl is hands down one of the best dudes you’ll ever encounter. He recently put together this bike check with Props and to go along with it is not only some awesome riding but also roughly two pages worth of thanks to everyone who helped chip in. This is Darryl’s first new bike in 13 years and we’re proud to have had a hand in putting it all together.

Frame: FBM Gypsy (21.25″)
Fork: Odyssey Director
Bars: Terrible One 8.0
Stem: Odyssey Elementary
Grips: Odyssey Gary Young
Barends: Odyssey Par Ends
Headset: Odyssey
Seatpost: Odyssey
Seat: Odyssey Veteran
Cranks: Profile 180
Sprocket: Terrible One- Logan’s Run
Chain: The Shadow Conspiracy
Brakes: Odyssey EVO 2
Cable: Odyssey Slick
Brake Lever: Odyssey Monolever, Trigger
Front Tire: Odyssey Mike Aitken Knobby 2.125″
Front Wheel: Profile hub / Odyssey Hazard lite Rim 36 / Odyssey Red, White and Blue Spokes
Rear Tire: Odyssey Mike Aitken 1.90″
Rear Wheel: Profile hub / Odyssey Hazard Lite Rim 36 / Odyssey Red, White and Blue Spokes
Pedals: Odyssey Twisted PC
Pegs: None at the moment (but will be Terrible One)
Valve caps: Bullet shells from 9th Street’s very own Big Rob

Get ‘em while they’re ripe and juicy.

G-Sport also has the matching Safety Orange hubs and rims!
And, if you want to go all out, Sunday Bikes has a matching Aaron Ross Funday frame!

Gary Young has a bike check up on ESPN. It’s the bike he rode in the X Games and it’s all chrome! Click HERE to check it out.

One other thing that’s new in this bike check is Aaron Ross’ signature tire! It keeps the keyboard theme of all his other signature parts and the thread pattern are inverted keys which spell out some fun messages from Aaron Ross and a handful from the contest we held last year (we’ll be announcing the winners soon). Click around the flipbook above for more photos and a complete parts list!

Click around the flipbook above for the full parts list. Available now in Mint Green are Vandero 2 hubs, Hazard Lite rims, Evo II brakes, Monolever and the Aaron Ross Veteran Saddle in Herringbone!

If you haven’t seen the Triple Shot video series yet, clicking here would be a good start.

Oh and the white/tanwall Aitken Tires were prototypes at the time but they’re available now for purchase!

Above is the bike check we originally sent to Sunday!

To match Aaron’s new Funday frame, we now have our Director and Spacebar forks available in Watermelon Green. It makes for a refreshing summer treat that’s healthy and fun for the entire family. Contact your local shops and mail orders now!

Our most complete parts kit ever is here and available now. Hit up your local shops and mail-orders to turn your bike red. Check out the Fire Engine Red flipbook for a complete parts list and more pics!

Sunday posted some pics of Aaron’s Watermelon bike the other day and if you’re interested in what parts he’s running, here’s the list. Also, in case you guys are wondering, matching Watermelon Spacebars and Director Forks are scheduled to come sometime in May!

FRAME: Sunday, Funday
FORKS: Director
BARS: Aaron Ross Spacebars
STEM: Elementary
GRIPS: Aaron Ross Grips
CRANKS: Twombolt
SPROCKET: Vermont, 30t
PEDALS: JCPC
RIMS: G-Sport Rollcages
HUB (F): Vandero
HUB (R): G-Sport Ratchet w/Hub Guard
TIRE (F): Aitken, P-Lyte, 2.125″
TIRE (R): Path, P-Lyte, 2.1″
POST: Intac
SEAT: Aaron Ross Veteran
LEVER: Monolever, Small
CABLE: Linear Slic Kable
BRAKE: Evo 2

Mike Gonzalez sent us some pics of his splatter bike, decked out with some Fire Engine Red parts. The Senior 2 saddle is available now and the rest of the red will come early next year.

We have Mike on the team as our designated racer but he’s down to shred some parks and ditches as well. Check out the Swine Flu Tour for some clips.

1.) Do you do any custom modifications to your bike? A little bit. I cut a pinkies width off my bars. Took a grind wheel to the JC/PC’s to trim the pins down and took half out on one of my left sides. I replaced the stock axle in the Rachet Hub with the aluminum 3/8″ [kit]. That’s it. Small stuff, everything comes so dialed stock. I don’t touch the frame. It’s perfect.

2.) As far as the setup goes, what are some key things you’re particular about? You guys have told me I’m pretty particular, I never realized it. The flagpole seat post of mine has about a fist full of post. BARS: I run them even with my head tube (74.5), maybe a tad forward of that. BRAKES: They have to work good. If they don’t, what’s the point of having them? So I uasually have those dialed; absolute minimal tension on the springs, with Tri-flow marinated housing. Chain has got to be tight for whips. Tire pressure around 95psi.

3.) With the front brake missing in action, what type of tricks have you found yourself doing more of lately? Turndowns and trying to learn nothings. I’m playing around with some footjam stuff too. Barspins are more fun without the lever there to smash your fingers.

4.) We have you listed as a nomad in the catalog. Where are you at these days? Ah man, that was funny when I saw that! I guess it’s true, everywhere is the answer. What I do own has been in storage in SLC for the last 6 months. Since then, I did some shows in Cleveland, went to Signapore for a week, went back to Clevo & recorded a new song for my part in Eastern’s “Death of Fun,” spent more than a week in NC, VA, DE, OH, went on Mega Tour through the midwest, then finally was driving back to UT with intensions of a 1 week stop in Clevo. Well, it was too fun for one week, so it ended up being 3 weeks. I’m here now going to Ray’s MT bike park grand opening this weekend and THEN packing up and driving to UT. I’ve honestly been enjoying floating around, def been keeping busy. Really looking forward to Utah though.

5.) With fall coming to a close and winter around the corner, what’s your plan for the months to follow?
Move out of my storage unit. Haha. Move into the my friends house, Kenny Sanders, first and foremost. Snowboarding, can not wait for that. Going on Eastern’s “Inside Out” trips. For a year I’ve had an open invite to record with my buddy Jelly in San Diego and having Ray Barbee sit in on some of my new material and dance on the fret board (lead guitar). Haha. So I wanna take Ray and Jelly up on that offer soon. I plan on taking an AZ & Vegas trip for some VitalBMX stuff too, maybe even film a web vid.

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.

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 (M10x1.0)
» Profile Mini Front – NO (3/8x16T)
» Madera Pilot Front – NO (3/8x16tpi)
» Fly Bikes Front – NO (M10x1.0)
» Eclat Teck front – NO (M10x1.0)
» WTP Supreme Front – NO (M10x1.0)

We just received a bunch of new Fluorescent Yellow parts again. Aaron Ross Spacebars, Classic Race Forks, Classic Dirt Forks and Director Forks can now be purchased in the world’s most popular highlighter color.

A couple bits of Aaron related news. There’s a bike check up over at DigBMX.com and as always, you can count on it being one of the most colorful bikes in BMX. Ocean Blue and Fluorescent Pink in full effect.

His signature grip is also available in white now. If you want to treat your palms to some luxurious softness, these grips are the way to go.

If you’re looking for some white forks to match up with those white Seven KAs we posted yesterday, you’re in luck. We just got a batch of white Director Forks and more purple rain.

Speaking of grizz airs, I remember seeing a picture of Taj Mihelich doing one in a magazine a long time ago with a caption that made reference to “4 swear words and throwing a hammer” as a way of describing it. I don’t remember which issue or even the magazine it was in, but I believe it was a table of contents photo, from a DK dirt comp and he’s riding an orange general lee. Does anybody else remember this? I want to see it again.