News Mike Aitken

Photo by Jason Eichhorst

Dig just put up a gallery of Mike Aitken photos. Some of them have been published in the mag and some of them haven’t. All of them are awesome and there’s even a classic no-footer in the mix!

X

The Path and Mike Aitken tire are now available in Red and Blue tan walls with 2 sizes for each set.

Path Tires:
20×2.10
20×1.85

Mike Aitken Tire:
20×2.125 (Knobby)
20×1.90

i

We just got a big shipment in and inside some of the boxes were these red and blue tires! They come in Path and Mike Aitken treads and are all decorated with tanwalls. Skid through your current set and get a new pair of these to match your Rocky Balboa shorts!

They’re shipping next week so you should be able to get your hands on them very, very soon!

Sometimes life works in mysterious ways….

A while back when 50/50 was accepting donations to benefit Mike Aitken, we had offered up our 2008 Interbike show bike (Gold Zinc S&M L.T.F. w/ Odyssey Purple Rain parts kit) as an added bonus for people to donate. Donate 10 bucks, you might win a bike that’s worth over a $1,000.00. Simple.

As time went on, people graciously donated and names were accumulated. 50/50 then gave us a list of all those names for us to pick a winner…

From there, we entered all the names into the random number generator once for every $10 that was donated. So, if you donated 30 bucks, your name was entered 3 times, and so on…

So, low and behold, John “Superfly” Skvarla ended up being the winner. I couldn’t believe it. This is crazy because I basically grew up riding with Supes, and this would totally look shady. However, it is not, and Supes won the bike fair and square, as shown in the picture above.

Congrats to Supes, and everyone who donated so generously to Mike. Over $50,000.00 was raised for Aitken.

First up is a video of Mike Aitken, smiling large, hopping curbs and pulling 180s. Its so good seeing him on a bike again. Keep up with MikeAitken.com for the latest news. Also, Vigilantia is still moving forward. If you’re interested in becoming a distributor, send them an e-mail.

Next up is Dig’s Rapid Response with Jim Cielencki. He lives in a drinking town with a football problem?!

Third is Clean Ron of Give D! Front stoppies in full effect and right when you think he’s going to throw a barspin, he’ll kick out a candy bar instead.

X

These are some custom wheels we built up for Mikey. Everything you see is available now, with the exception of the rims.

RIMS: Hazard Lite, Hard Anodized Royal Blue, Sample
SPOKES: Odyssey, Straight Guage, Stainless
REAR HUB: G-Sport, Ratchet
FRONT HUB: G-Sport, Marmoset

i

Fit Bike Co. put up a few pictures of Mike Aitken and his new bike earlier this week. To match his frame, we laced up a custom wheelset for him to roll around on. Check it out in the flipbook above (If you want to embed it and customize the width, use the button in the Flash player).

Make sure to visit MikeAitken.com for the latest updates on Mikey. He turned 26 last week and his condition continues to improve!

DOWNLOAD »

The Rollcage (RideUK:P.97)

The latest Ride UK and BMX Plus issues

We just got a couple of new magazines in the mail and inside of the Ride UK, you’ll find the two ads above. To get a sneak peek of what’s inside, hit up the jump. There are a couple “Guess Who” photos in there too.

When you’re done, head over to the magazine stands and flip through them in real life.

View More

This is a little late but it’s something we’re going to start doing each time we get a new issue in the mail. If you hit up the jump, you’ll find a mini table of contents highlighting Odyssey related pages in the magazines. First up is the latest issues of Dig and Ride (US). I believe we have a Ride UK and Cream floating around in the office somewhere but I’m having trouble tracking them down.

View More

DOWNLOAD »

Here’s another wallpaper download to spruce up your digital interface.
Photo by Jason Eichhorst.

To check out more of Jason’s work, visit FromOverHere.com.
More wallpapers can be found in the Downloads portion of our website.

Here are a couple more updates from around the web. The first one is the new Mike Aitken Vigilantia trucker hat that you could buy over at 5050bmx. You could get more info about Vigilantia and updates on Mike Aitken’s recovery over at MikeAitken.com. The second one is a KC Badger interview over at BMXUnion.com. Over there, you can learn more about KC and even check out some of his art.

Photo by Jeff Z. from RideBMX.com

Jeff Z. just posted some great shots from Fox’s Mike Aitken benefit jam this weekend and Fat just posted a video edit of the riding that went on, along with some heart warming interviews from a handful of riders. Click HERE for the photo gallery and HERE for the video.

To keep up with the latest Mikey news, stay tuned at MikeAitken.com.