US residents can now purchase our shirts and zip-up hoody at the Odyssey Online Store!
We’re sold out of the Dak shirt and Bear Table shirt on our end but mail-orders and shops might still have them if you’re interested in getting one.
Products
→ SHIRTS: Available Online!12.15.2010
→ Contest: Win a signed DAK shirt.12.7.2010
***CONTEST OVER. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO EMAILED IN***
Want to win a signed DAK shirt like the one above?
We have the following signed shirts available:
1- Small
2- Medium
2- Large
1- XL
All you have to do is answer the following questions correctly, and email your shirt size and answers to:
contests@gsportbmx.com
What town does Dakota call home?
What Mexican food spot does Dak frequent often?
What other sport(s) does Dakota mess around with?
USA only. First come first serve.
→ WHEELS: Andrew Jackson11.23.2010
We just built up these wheels for Andrew Jackson. They’re Birdcages laced onto Marmoset and Ratchet hubs using our Taper-Hex Nipples!
→ Jeff Zielinski & the DAK shirt11.19.2010
We’ve all been friends with Jeff Z. for a while now, so it was only a matter of time before one of his rad photos ended up on a shirt. That shirt is the current “DAK” shirt featuring Huntington Beach’s Dakota Roche.
We asked Jeff to write a few words behind this photo. Read on:
I actually shot this tooth hanger with Dakota on two different occasions. The first time we shot it, I met Dak at the spot along with Robbie Morales, Chase Dehart, and Chris Cole…yup, the pro skater. The crew was hyped and it was looking like it might turn out to be a pretty productive day, and as usual, Dak was ready to shoot almost as soon as I got there. I went back to my car to get my gear and my trunk wouldn’t open! Unlike some cars, there isn’t access to the trunk from behind the seats, so I tried the keyhole on the trunk and locking and unlocking the power locks what felt like a hundred times—then I resorted to kicking the trunk out of frustration because the damn thing was definitely not opening.
Eventually, Dak just wanted to get it over with so they could film it, so I ended up shooting it with Robbie’s prosumer DSLR. Although using someone else’s camera doesn’t feel as weird as riding someone else’s bike, his camera still felt way too light to shoot such a heavy move.
After Dak pulled it, I immediately left to find a locksmith and I called him (Dak) from the car and asked if he would mind re-shooting it. Like the champ he is, he was totally down for it, so we went back a few weeks later and shot the photo how I originally intended to shoot it—with a Hassleblad 501 cm, 80mm lens, three strobes, on Fuji Provia 100F 120.
- Jeff Zielinski
The G-Sport DAK shirt is available now at shops & mailorders. Dealers feel free to call 562-623-9995.
ALSO, we will be doing a giveaway soon for some of these shirts signed by Dakota, so keep checking back.
→ Available Now: Mint Ratchet Hub10.26.2010
Our Ratchet hub is now available in Mint! As an added bonus, you can also get matching Odyssey Hazard Lite rims and Vandero hubs with it too!
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→ Sneak Peek: The Birdcage10.12.2010
Someone told me a few years ago that there was nothing new left to do with BMX rims, yet since then we have gone on to do quite a lot of new stuff, and here’s an example of the latest. At first glance the Birdcage looks like a fairly conventional “aero” style rim, but there is more to it than that. The first clue comes from the name; birds have hollow bones to save weight whilst retaining as much strength as possible, and the Birdcage rim has a hollow bead for the same reason. The rim’s hollow bead is still big and chunky to help reduce the chances of pinch puncturing or flat spotting the rim, but by creating a tiny hollow cavity inside it we can also keep the weight right down.
→ 2010 Interbike9.24.2010
VItal BMX stopped by the Full Factory Distribution booth and did a spotlight on all the stuff we have on display. Enjoy!
→ New Beartable shirt by Tom Perry9.20.2010
Tom Perry is a man of many talents. He’s a shredder on the BMX mobile and a professional doodler, as evidenced by his Awkward Words blog.
Tom Perry recently cooked up the graphic you see above (bear doing a tabletop) for the current line of G-Sport softgoods, which are available now (full preview coming soon). Tom wrote up a quick blurb on how the shirt came to be, so read on….
An homage to one of the original G-SPORT designs (mean polar bear doing a mean turndown), Jim (Bauer) asked me to draw up the artwork for this shirt based on some of my artwork I post on my doodle-blog. Specifically it was a kangaroo with boxing gloves I had doodled for him, check the site archive…
I started by sort of replicating the original bear turndown in order to understand how a bear might look on a bmx bike, but we both agreed that it needed to be more of my take on a big awkward bear doing awkward twisty stunts and less of a retro remake. What better stunt than a tabes, right? So I doodled around with some different bears getting wicked and shortly came up with what you now see on the Beartable shirt. It was originally to be a polar bear but Jim went ahead and colored things up a bit which actually turned out pretty cool…
Anyways, I am always psyched to see my doodles end up on shirts, though I’ve never been much into the whole printing process, so there has yet to be an actual Awkward Words shirt… But companies like Lotek, Avenue Garments, Albe’s and now G-SPORT have all represented some of my artwork on t-shirts and I’m definitely stoked on the idea. Looking forward to more doodles, more requests, maybe more shirts? (Here’s looking at you Defgrip!) Check the blog and hit me up!
-Tom Perry
Photo by Hoang Tran.
→ Shipment: Volcano Bolts8.11.2010
We just received a new shipment of Volcano Bolts. It works and looks great on the pegless side(s) of your bike.
→ Clear Plegs7.15.2010
Since we launched the Plegs back in 2007 a lot of people have given them a try. Some have found them fast some have found them slow, some have found they can grind surfaces that were previously too “sticky” for steel and some have found that they can ride parks that previously didn’t allow pegs (or even bikes). Some have loved the differences and some have hated them. But we have always said that it was a product that we wanted to continue to develop and improve.
The latest Plegs use a new formulation of polymer that is harder and longer lasting than the original grade, and of course replacement sleeves are still compatible with original cores.
You can get them in Clear or Clear Black, which is basically black except it now uses the same polymer as the clear Plegs.