Welcome back to the 10 SPOT! Next up, we’re proudly joined by the LEGEND Mike Aitken. Hit play to see if your question was chosen. Enjoy!
10 SPOT Q&A videos feature 10 questions for one of our team riders. Follow @odysseybmx on Instagram for the next episode and be sure to get your questions in. We chose the best ones.
Shout out to Gary Young for landing best trick at the Vans BMX Pro Cup in Huntington Beach!
Enjoy the highlight reel from Our BMX.
Congrats to our man Boyd Hilder for taking home this year’s Reader’s Choice cup and shoutout to Our BMX for keeping NORA alive!
Don’t let the title fool you – the video is not chill. Travis may be just about the chillest dude there is, but put him on a bike and he becomes a determined, fearless, and practically unstoppable maniac who’s sole focus is pushing his riding to the next level. Filming for more than three years, Travis got to be as picky as he wanted with this one, and the time and work he put in shows. Press play and watch this guy CRUSH it!
New limited edition Cyan parts in stock now for Tom Dugan’s signature Fang Sprocket and DGN v2 Stem, and Aaron Ross’ signature Boss v2 Stem.
Pairs nicely with Gsport rims and wheels of the same color.
We have a new distro for the UK and surrounding areas. Let your local shops know to hit up Back Street Distribution to get stocked up!
Adam built up a new bike that’s as unique as his riding. The top-tube’s new but everything else is still Odyssey. Hit play for the full parts list and some choice clips.
As part of our mission to make the best BMX forks possible, we continue to refine the 41-Thermal® process at all stages of manufacturing. Each step in the process is held under strict scrutiny, and we continue to examine the strength and fatigue testing methods used to evaluate our designs.
In the previous round of Stampy fork tests we blew the industry standard EN tests for bicycle forks out of the water, and yet we still couldn’t break our own fork. In fact, we had to give up after running the fork for 2,000,000 cycles and with the machine operating at its ultimate limit.
So, in order to push the tests and our forks even harder we created an updated rig design that would let us supply much more force than the last time around. With this test we doubled up the cylinders that are applying the load and ramped the force up by 25%, going from 4000 Newtons to 5000 Newtons. That’s just over half a ton! (1124 lbf per cycle). Even so, at half a million cycles we started to wonder how long our forks were going to last, and since our competitor’s forks had already been taken to failure, we decided to ramp up the load on our forks to 6000 Newtons (1349 lbf), 50% higher than the previous tests, and after over 650,000 cycles, we were finally able to break them.
It is important to note that the 41-Thermal forks not only outperformed every other model that we tested by a huge margin, but that they did so while being lighter than most of the other forks too. This is direct evidence that proper design, engineering and manufacturing are much more important factors than simply always making the part heavier in hopes of making it stronger.
When you see how hard we push to make the best forks; to make them better and better every chance we get, it is easy to understand why our legendary lifetime warranty against bending and breaking is still around 20 years after we first introduced it. And when you see the contrast between our forks and our competitors you can also quickly see why most of their warranties have long since been quietly canceled or modified with complicated terms and conditions that usually limit the warranty to manufacturing defects alone.
Feel free to contact us at stampy@odysseybmx.com with any questions you may have.
We’re happy to announce that Odyssey BMX products will now be available to Canadian dealers through Quality Bicycle Products. The first shipments with new product and some tried & true classics will be arriving very very soon, so please contact QBP with any inquiries, to order product or to sign up as dealer:
Email: internationalsales@qbp.com
Phone: (800) 346-0004
New limited edition Anodized Pale Pink parts are out now for our Litehouse Rim, La Guardia Sprocket, or our new BROC v2 Stem. Hit up your local shop, favorite mailorder, or our catalog.
