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Bling Bling

Damn, James has style…..

frame-Standard 250s with gyro tabs welded on (black paint with gold metallic flake)
fork– Custom Odyssey race fork w/990’s
bars– Civilian
stem– Elementary w/tabs 18 carrot gold, ti bolt
headset– solid needle roller bearing
gyro– Odyssey GTX-R
levers– Odyssey Monolever(front,rear)
saddle– Odyssey Marcell (kevlar)
seatpost– Ti Alone
clamp– Odyssey Mr. Clampy 18 carrot gold
rims– Odyssey Duralectra black
F hub– G sport marmoset ti bolts
R hub– Odyssey cassette rear 36 rhd(ti axle and nuts/ 10 t driver)
spokes– Alone
sprocket– Super star prototype
cranks– Odyssey 41 thermal cranks 18 carrot gold(ti axle,ti bolts)
chain– Standard byke co
pedals– Odyssey JC mag sealed
brakes– Odyssey evolvers 18 carrot gold
Brake plate– home made
pads– Odyssey 1×4
tires– Odyssey Frequency G (20×1.85) back/ path (20×2.1) Front
pegs– 4 Odyssey Ti Pegs
cable– Odyssey short G3 upper/Brakeline 1.8 front/linearlower
grips– Odyssey team
barends– Odyssey barcaps 18 carrot gold
Ti bolts-SGP (levers,stem,evolvers,marmoset,post,clamp,cranks,chain tugs,london mod)

Thanks to Tim Byrne for the spray job,Des John at micro finishers for the gold plateing,Steve Green for the Ti bolts, SBCDESTROY, ODYSSEY, PADDED CELL.YEAH!

If any of you guys have ever ridden trails in PA, then you know how amazing they are. The popular “NAM” trails were plowed a little while back, and now “CATTY”, the new spot that the Nam locals have been building are at risk of being plowed also.

Go here http://www.sickethenyou.com/ and click on “SAVE CATTY WOODS” and sign the petition to help save the trails.

BMX needs you. Now is the time to step up.

Brandon Turner scored the cover of Plus this month with a mean turndown in the northwest. There is also a mini bio and a nice 2 page pocket air shot that looks wildly similar to the Vermont sprocket ad that also featured Brandon.

Speaking of Vermont sprockets, due to popular demand, we now have them in 25 tooth. They will be shipping out this week.

Head on over to http://www.fitbikeco.com/home.html for some footage of Mike Aitken.

Coincidentally, Aitken is tentatively slated to drive the Odyssey car in the Kink demolition derby.

Matt Beringer and Gary Young will also be there on behalf of other companies.

Watch out.

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The KINK crew was kind enough to set up a Demolition derby for the BMX community to get together and crash into each other. Looks and sounds like fun.

Odyssey is already signed up. More info soon.

New ish

We are constantly trying to improve all of our parts, and the INTAC is one that has gone through a lot of changes. New guts, One Piece post, and now the newest mod..shorter. It may not seem like a big deal but we figured 99% of the riders weren’t using the super long post we were providing. If some of you don’t need to bust out the hacksaw, it was worth it. These are from our newest shipment, which are already at distributors/shops.

MMM pretty..

frame– Kink Freebird 21″
fork– Odyssey Urban Camo Race(w/some custom teal)
bars– S&M Slam(Orange)
stem– Elementary
headset– DiaCompe
levers– Monolever Medium
saddle– Odyssey JR saddle(Custom SAMPLE for KC)
seatpost– Intac
clamp– Kink
rims– Odyssey 7KA 36 hole
hubs– Odyssey Vandero front. Odyssey Race Cassette rear
sprocket– 30T Kink featherweight
cranks– Odyssey 41 thermal cranks
chain– generic
pedals– Odyssey Jim C. signature Urban Camo
brakes– Odyssey Evolver
tires– Odyssey 2.12 Dirt Path (F) 1.85 Path (R)
pegs– no pegs
cable– Odyssey Glow in the Dark Linear Slic
grips– Rob Tibbs
barend– Kink Light

Bike Summer Kickoff Party
Come party in Santa Monica if you like Bikes.
We will be riding there..

http://www.bikesummer.org/2005/

So Anthony Cico, Afro Pat, Jared Souney and I are riding(actually Jared left his bike and brought his camera’s) this tranny damn somewhere in Northern Ohio.
Cico says it might be a bust and takes some photo’s of it to show the rest of us to see if it’s worth the drive and risk getting busted.
We all thought it looked fun and in such a small town of the side a harmless rode. What could go wrong?
We all hop over the signs and start riding it. Cico snaps his chain and takes it during his first run. He leaves to walk back a mile were the truck is. While Pat and I ride it, it’s steeper than we thought and the run up is uphill. Still it’s fun and exciting. Cico comes back with a new chain and cranks a turndown first hit. His feet pop off and he takes it even better this time. After about 45 minutes (that actually flew by) there’s 3 cops looking at us.
The rest of the story is probably similar to what everybody else has experienced. After dodging having to stay in Ohio for an extended week for my court date, we got off with a $145 tickets. The cops were actually as cool as they could be with out breaking the law(because we know cops don’t do that, right?)After being escorted downtown to pay our fines we had pizza and laughed alot about the whole deal. The last names of all 3 officers were really hilarious. I had officer Careless.

Rules are Rules

Dam

Damn

Pay the Piper

Stay tuned for the Photos that Jared Souney shot.

Congrats to Mike Aitken on getting the cover of this months RIDE BMX.

And before we get bombarded with emails, we do not make a chain.