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Death row? Water buffalo.

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****** Update: REALLY!! Far too many people are leaving annoyed comments. C’mon… It’s a joke!!!! It’s photoshop (and purposely bad photoshop!! I mean, a 130lb lab on a saddle bag?) No dog was ever even lifted off the ground. We love dogs here. Always have, our office is full of them. We understand our photo is out in the wild confusing people we promise it was all done in good fun and none of our pets were ever even a little bit annoyed by the photo shoot (let alone actually installed on to bicycles). There’s no way that this would work in the real world of course!      There’s always been a battle between man’s two best friends… his bike and his dog. And until now there has been no perfect solution for attaching a dog to a bicycle. Borrowing on the success of our Skaterack and looking for a superior solution to carrying a dog with a bicycle (better then a basket or trailer) Fairdale has been hard at work {today}. Using the existing parts from the Skaterack we simply modified the simple pannier mounting system. With this simple system a dog can be supported on the rack with ease. The dog is positioned behind the pedal stroke of the rider for maximum heel clearance. Most any dog or CAT can be carried with ease. The design is NOT breed or even species specific.Our tests have had equal success with raccoons to turtles. Note: Larger dogs may create some pedal stroke issues for riders with larger feet. Look for the Fairdale Dograck alongside the Skaterack at your favorite bike or pet shops. Happy pedaling!

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I was looking around today for cool ideas and found a few that really deserved to be brought together. We could just be happy riding around on a plain old normal bike or we could invent something totally sweet! F-1 bikes are so ready for a comeback. Can Fairdale make them please please! Imagine Crabon Fiber® fairing paired with wheel discs! It could be amazing. I actually witnessed one of the few F-1 races at a NBL national BMX race at Waterford Oaks, MI back in the 1900’s. I wanna’ say Tinker Jaurez won just prior to taking over mountain biking. It was so weird. People racing around haybales in a parking lot with oval sprockets. This guys got Penny Farthing shoes! An obvious natural progression from penny loafers I guess. Testing samples in Sydney & China 2009 from Chariot Skates on Vimeo. Off Road roller skates skis? I actually used to work at a cross country ski rental place when I was like 13. I remember using something sort of like this that was some early version of a summer time cross country ski. Kind of fun and the advertising media show clear babe getting potential. Did I ever tell you about the time I was at a dirt jumping comp in Australia and there were off road roller bladers hired to jump the jumps? It was carnage!!! Snakeboards! Shimy, shimy and shimy for speed! Get razor-scootin! I know, I know.. razor scooter killers! I guess this is kind of like riding a rolling stool around? I’m kind of into surfing on a remote control car. Seems like a pretty cool thing to do.  

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I know not everyone lives in Austin or gets to ride 3 miles of the 9 miles to work on a quiet bike path along a river, but I sure am grateful I do! Just had one of those days where I can’t understand why anyone would be in a car… well, that and my car broke down again and was towed away. I need a better dog carrying solution. I’m thinking it might time for some kind of cargo bike… or hell, we made a skaterack… maybe some kind of dog rack?  

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Jim Bauer is a man of many hats. Known for daredevil pro BMX riding, creative designing (for Odyssey, Sunday and even Fairdale), snazzy dresser and being an all around cool dude. Here he bombs his custom Fairdale down a hill in Long Beach that is so steep its illegal to ride a bike down it. He even gives his Parser’s Kevlar belted Continental tires a good test when he monster trucks through a broken cracked up part of the road at top speed. Jim has done some of the scariest things ever on a bike. This Jeff Z photo is from Ride. Always looking for new ways to see things Jim Bauer completely customized his Fairdale Parser in copper… came out pretty didn’t it? JB’s one of a kind custom Fairdale sits on the end of the Fairdale line just to show off a bit.  

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Prolly is Not Probably has an exclusive little sneak peak up of our new 1×10 bike. Check out this post to learn more about it. I’ve been riding the bike around over the last couple days and I am soooo stoked on it. Came out awesome and is great fun to ride. We got a few little tweaks to make on some little things (cable routing mostly) and we should be able to get this thing into production for  release early next year.

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The North American Cycle Courier Championships were held in Austin this past weekend. I spent the weekend out at the races trying to understand what was going on and enjoying the fun. Hern was in town to race and stayed at my place. He was super cool to hang out and seemed to really enjoy the races and riding BMX around town too. This is him in the video below… [Can’t get this thing to embed, check video HERE] For some reason this video reminds me of a quote I heard from a musician whose name I can’t remember. “Its easy to play hardcore with a bunch of amps and pedals and electricity amplifying you… its a way bigger accomplishment to make hardcore with acoustic instruments where its just you and the guitar.” I don’t know… maybe that doesn’t really apply here… but I think idea of pedaling the miles to the skatepark rather then showing up in car is pretty hardcore.   Sweet flyer! So, the race. I found it all a bit confusing. All these dudes in messenger backpacks pedaling to little tents to get fake packages. At some stops they made you lock your bike up (or someone would drag it away and hide it) and others you had to run through tires. The confusing part as an uneducated spectator was that everyone was on different patterns so you really couldn’t tell who was in the lead or have any clue when the race might finish. The good part was that everyone seemed to be laughing and having fun. For a “Championship” race it was happily not very serious. The start for the finals was pretty funny to watch. They lined everyone’s bikes up on the track and then made them all run in those silly little clippy shoes, grab bikes and then launch into the anarchy of a mass start. Tyrone (9th street OG), Ryan Corrigan and Sara were hanging out watching with me for a while. I think in this photo Monty is summing up the weekend for most of the attendees… it wasn’t so much about competitive racing… it was more about having fun with messenger bags and beer.        

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After many moons at sea Fairdale Bikes have landed on new shores. Australia has received their shipment (Australian people go here: BMX International). UK is covered by IMG (get a Fairdale through these dudes in the UK).  

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Tomorrow I am touring Austin trying to nail down next year’s venue for Texas Toast Jam. We’re thinking the event will be in spring sometime but no date is yet confirmed. It is happening though! The big question is what will we do this year? Like, for real, what the hell are we going to build this year? I have no clue. You guys got any ideas? The good thing is that with Ryan Corrigan heading up building stuff we know anything is possible. Check out some of the amazing coverage from last year’s event all gathered together: http://www.odysseybmx.com/dailyword/tag/texas-toast-jam/ And what people were saying about Toast jam: “Having a blast… don’t want the weekend to end.” Scotty Cranmer X-games gold medalist/ Champion of FOX TX TOAST Gauntlet of Death “Best contest ever” Gary Young World Champion Street Rider/ 1st place pro dirt TX TOAST “I have seen the layout for the Texas Toast Jam, and it is a GAME-CHANGER. GOODBYE INNOCENCE, GOODBYE HOPE. THE TEXAS TOAST JAM COURSE WILL FILL YOUR HEAD WITH DEMONS.” Empire BMX “I know the comp scene might be a little stale as of late, but that’s sure to change in the coming months, thanks in part to the Odyssey Texas Toast Jam.” ESPN “Texas Toast has come and gone, and I really can’t think of a single thing that could have made the weekend better. Any expectations about the Odyssey BMX sponsored and Taj Mihelich organized event were certainly blown out of the water and there is no doubt in my mind that this was one of the best BMX events I’ve ever been to in my life.” DIG BMX MAGAZINE PHOTO ABOVE: Chase Hawk in one of my favorite photos from last years jam by Devon Hutchins.

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