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Golf shirt. Tennis shirt. BMX shirt.
For those of you who need to switch it up from the 5 black t-shirts you have on permanent rotation, the Bear Stripes is for you. Your mom will think you’ve grown up. (or jumped an old man for his clothes)
Represent California(or any other state that may have a bear on their flag).
Perfect sunday best, now you can worship your favorite BMX company while sleeping during services.
Throw on a tie, perfect job interview gear.
Tie a sweater around your neck, go play polo.
You have no idea the power of the “collar”
You will get better grades, higher pay, and more dates. Promise.

Light Blue in Small, Medium, and Large.
available soon…

We got a bunch of samples today. They are looking good. So far everything we got is correct. Which only means that the odds that they go into full production soon, are very good.

We will show some of them at the SubDivision BMX trade show in Binghamton, NY, May 27th-29th.
After the show Nuno and I will be going on a trails mission, so if anyone has any good spots in Long Island, don’t hesitate to tell us.

There is a contest in Arizona this weekend. You should go.

Matt Beringer was riding with the T-1 guys last week in Utah.

Ever heard of Critical Mass? Its the last friday of every month, and its a ride to promote bicycle riding and awareness. While its mostly road riders, I went to the local CM meeting spot last week and ended up meeting 3 BMXers that live in my neighborhood. Its a fun time riding in the streets usually dominated by cars. I found a ton of street spots I probably never would have seen otherwise. promote the idea of “one less car” or as FBM would put it “Blow up your car, ride a bike”.

Not so different from the last one, but the red rims looked so good, he had to send me new pics.

frame– Metal Dagger-burgundy/euro bb (21″)
fork– Odyssey Race Fork
bars– Metal
stem– S&M Redneck
headset– Chris king
lever– MX99
saddle– Odyssey Jr. Saddle
seatpost– Odyssey Intac
clamp– Odyssey, GI clamp
rims– Odyssey DURALECTRA (red) Hazard Lites
hubs– Odyssey Vandero front.Odyssey cassette rear (hollow axle/ 12t driver)
sprocket– 33T New Metal
cranks– Odyssey 41 thermal cranks 180mm (odyssey euro bb)
chain– dropbuster
pedals– Odyssey Jim C. signature (MAG/sealed)
brakes– Odyssey Evolver
tires– Odyssey Rototiller 2.2(F) 2.0 Elm St.(R)
pegs-T-1
cable– Slic Kable
grips– S&M
barends– Metal

*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#76) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK.

Someone requested that I do a tech column on head angles and steering geometry. I wasn’t sure at first if this was a worthwhile subject, after all, there isn’t that much variation available is there? Most frames have a head angle of 74 and a half! Degrees and most forks have one and a quarter inch legs with dropouts that stick out just enough to get a peg on.

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Gary Young is now a member of the MacNeil team. It became official on Saturday April 24. The entire crew at MacNeil is really excited to have him and we feel that he will fit in very well with our team. -Jay Miron

Don’t bother asking if he is still on Odyssey, he is. Its just a frame deal, Odyssey is still Gary’s parts sponsor. If I’m not mistaken, Gary will be riding the Miron frame. -Jim Bauer

Photo: Z

New stuff thats in…
Civilian Lows- 7.25 (regular Civilians are 7.75)
Limited Light Blue Linear Slic cable
Limited JC “Barney” Purple Pedals

You know that game where you do a trick, and the next person has to duplicate it or get a Letter(B-I-K-E) until you are out? Well Jay Miron is putting on a contest like that. 2 man Sub teams from the best teams around will throw down and see who is the PIG/BMX/BIKE champion. Where else than Woodward West. Gary Young and Jim Cielencki are representing Odyssey VS. UGP, Macneil, DK, Square One, We the People, Samurai, T1, Split, FBM, Federal and Primo.
Elimination rounds start on monday….

Birds, Crocs, Whiteboys, Salute to Florida.

Jim B, Mike, Tibbs, Adam and Jim C

The Captian, The Boat, The Bellyflop, The lunch, The JC

I guess we can show some riding….PEGLESS Icepick to fakie on the big vertwall. If you don’t know its Aitken, I’m not going to tell you.

If you enjoyed Gary Young’s interview in the latest ride, check out http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/features/article/0,15737,607181,00.html
for some left over questions that didnt make it into the mag.

Enjoy!!

Gary also won the recent Backyard Jam in England. Congrats.
Check back for photos.

The Roots Jam is upon us and we are leaving soon. When I get back on Monday, I will have much news. Adam and I missing our flight, rental car shenanigans, Ghetto hotel stories, probably being on Cops. see you soon