News Bike Checks

Chase has a bike check on Ride BMX. He’s running a sweet new Odyssey prototype stem. Check it!!!

Jim C has a pretty sweet bike check and photo gallery up over at ESPN. In it, he talks about his 24″ Model C and what it’s like riding it and switch back and forth between the 20″.

I know you ride your Sunday cruiser more than a regular 20″ bike nowadays. Is there a specific reason for this? To be honest, I go back and forth between the 20″ and 24″ throughout the year. I run a BMX bike company, so I should have experience in both bikes. Before I started riding this bike in October, I rode my 20″ for a whole year straight. For me, it’s difficult to switch between the two just because the 24″ makes the 20″ feel small. The main reason why I ride the 24″ is that I like the idea of taking something you already know how to do and making it different. It’s like riding bigger stair sets or steeper rails, you want the challenge of taking something you already know and making it different or more difficult.

Click HERE to check it out.

If you own a cruiser and want to upgrade your wheelset, make sure to check out our Hazard Lite 24″ complete wheels, spokes, rims and tires!

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FRAME: Fit Wifi, 20.25″
FORK: Fit Shiv II
BARS: Fit Skyhighs
STEM: Fit Aitken
GRIPS: Fit Tech
BARENDS: Parends
HEADSET: Sealed, Low Stack Height
SEATPOST: Convertible
SEAT: Aitken, Railed
PEDALS: JCPC
CRANKS: Twombolts, Prototype
SPROCKET: 28t, Prototype
CHAIN: Bluebird
TIRE (F): Aitken, PLyte, 2.25″
RIM (F): G-Sport Rollcage
HUB (F): G-Sport Marmoset
TIRE (R): A.Ross, PLyte, 2.1″
RIM (R): G-Sport Rollcage
HUB (R): G-Sport Ratchet, 9t
BRAKE: Evo II
LEVER: Monolever, Trigger
CABLE: Linear Slic Cable

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Our low stack height headset and Linear Slic Kable

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Twombolt Cranks, Burlington Sprocket and JCPC Pedal

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Aaron Ross Tire, Evo 2 Brakes and Bluebird Chain

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Aitken Saddle

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Monolever (Trigger) and Linear Slic Kable

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Tabes for Babes!

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Long Live the Abubaca!

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Ladies and Gentleman, Thomas “Ohio” Perry has recently built up a new and improved two wheeled vehicle. This magnificent machine does tables, abubacas and manual 180s with ease. It also utilizes our latest Teal Kit, along with a couple new prototypes… Click around the flipbook above to eyeball it in all its glory.

Stalk him on the internet:

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http://tomisthinking.tumblr.com

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Here’s Justin Simpson’s latest ride. As an added bonus, there’s even some riding footage thrown in at the end!

Watch the vid and then say hi to him on Twitter @JShemidragon!

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FRAME: Cult Bad Boy
FORK: Classic Race, CS2
HEADSET: Odyssey Sealed
BARS: Lumberjack
STEM: Prototype
GRIPS: Adam Banton 2
CRANKS: Twombolt, LHD, 180mm
PEDALS: Twisted PC
SPROCKET: C-512, 30t
CHAIN: Bluebird w/Halflink
TIRE (F): Aitken, KLyte, 2.25″
TIRE (R): Aitken, KLyte, 2.1″
RIMS: G-Sport Rollcage
HUBS (F): Vandero 2
HUBS (R): V3 Cassette, LHD, 9t,
PEGS: JPeg Lighter
SEAT: Aitken
POST: Convertible

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It’s been a while since we last did a bike check with Chase Hawk. His bike is orange these days and loaded with our latest stuff, including his new signature sprocket! One other cool thing to note about Chase’s bike is his drive-train is manly! 180mm Twombolts, 30t C-512 sprocket and a 9t cog on his V3 Cassette. His bike is setup for speed and blasting high.

Hoang has a new bike check over at ESPN. Click HERE to check out his current zombie slayer.

Hit up his photo blog, Life of Leisure and then follow him on Twitter.

Here is Tom Dugan’s latest ride, courtesy of PropsBMX.tv.

Jimmy Levan has a new bike check over at ESPN. Peep it!

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FRAME: Fit S4 Aitken, 21″
FORK: Fit Blade Lite
BARS: Lumberjack
STEM: Fit S4
GRIPS: Fit
LEVER: Monolever, Medium
CABLE: Linear Slic Kable
BRAKE: Evo 2
CRANKS: Twombolt
PEDALS: Trailmix
SPROCKET: Fit Tri, 28t
CHAIN: Shadow
TIRE (F): Aitken, Knobby, 2.125″
TIRE (R): Aitken, 1.9″
RIMS: Seven K-A, 36h
HUBS (F): GSport Marmoset
HUBS ®: GSport Ratchet, 9t
PEG (F): Hoffman, Aluminum
PEG (R): Shadow, Steel
SEAT: Aitken, Pivotal
POST: Fit

MODS: I cut my bars 1/2 inch per side

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I watched Anthem 2 last night and was blown away with Aitken’s part (and the whole video for that matter). It’s unreal how much style and power than man has. Literally not a minute or two after, a text from him comes in completing the parts list for the bike check you see above.

Anyway, he’s been making some progress in his road to recovery and though he’s not back to 100% yet, he was firing out some style over the dubs in Beringer’s yard when we hung out with him last month! He even clocked some clips for an edit we have in the works.

He likes his bikes long and low with a little harder gearing (28/9) right off the bat. Here’s his most current bike, which happens to match our latest semi-matte teal color kit.

Follow him on Twitter.com/nightwolfSLC.

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FRAME: S&M Dirtbike, 21.25″
FORK: S&M Pitchfork XLT
STEM: S&M Redneck XLT
BARS: S&M Beringer Bar XLT
GRIPS: Beringer w/flanges cut off
BAR ENDS: Home Made
CRANKS: Twombolt, 175mm
SPROCKET: MDS, 28t
PEDALS: JCPC
RIMS: G-Sport Rollcage, 36h
HUB (F): G-Sport Marmoset, 36h
TIRE (F): Aitken, P-Lyte, 2.25″
HUB (R): G-Sport Ratchet, 36h, 9t driver
TIRE (R): Aitken, K-Lyte, 1.9″
BRAKE: Evo 2
GYRO: GTX-R
LEVER: M2, Medium
CHAIN: Shadow
PEGS: JPEG Lighters
SEATPOST: Generic Pivotal
SEAT: Shadow
SEATCLAMP: S&M

MODS: Sharpied the hubs on the lathe downstairs. Grinded my rear dropouts to make it 13.65″ or so. Cut and grinded my inside sprocket guard so it’s only using the three nuts and bolts on the down side of where the sprocket is for left foot forward. Replaced the barrel adjuster nuts on the Gyro cables with the presta valve tube things they use to keep valves through the rims on ten speeds with. Cut my bars a little bit (25.5″ Wide). Shuffled some pedal pins around. I replaced the brake shoe allen heads with old school round head brake shoe nuts cause the allen head things sometimes meet my ankles.

There are still a couple things I want to do to this bike that I’ve been slacking on. I mostly just wanted to get a new bike that wasn’t as shiny as my chrome and gold bike that I was riding for a long time before I crashed this summer and had to take a couple months off. I’ve been having a lot of good times riding this bike in the last couple months… it’s sweet.

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This is Matt Beringer’s latest ride. There are still some little mods he wants to do to it here and there but for the most part, this is it. We shot the bike check when we were filming in SLC earlier this month and Matt’s currently on his way to San Francisco to get some more clips. Jimmy Levan will be in attendance as well so Bay Area, watch out!

Follow @odysseybmx and @odysseyvan on Twitter.