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Going through all my TX Toast Receipts and I think this is my favorite. Our princess from the Gauntlet of Death course. Whew….. I can’t even begin to write about the TX Toast Jam yet. Lets just say we’ve finished cleaning up. On to sorting through the receipts and sorting out my life now. Odyssey BMX has a good bit of the great coverage consolidated under the Texas Toast Jam tag here: http://www.odysseybmx.com/dailyword/tag/texas-toast-jam/ All I can say is that I am blown away by all the positivity around the contest and am already thinking about next years!  

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  We’re getting the contest site ready and finally got an official schedule going.   Texas Toast Jam Friday is practice for dirt, curved wall ride and rail jam contestants only. Saturday 11:00AM – 1:30PM Gauntlet of Death 1:30 – 2:30PM Dragon Slayer Practice 2:30 – 3:30PM Dragon Slayer Best Trick 3:30 – 8:00PM Gauntlet of Death reopens 3:30 – 4:30PM  Leap Frog Beard (Bunny Hop) Contest 5:00 – 7:00PM PRO Dirt Qualifying 7:00 – 8:00PM PRO Rail Jam Best Trick Sunday 11:00AM – 2:00PM Gauntlet of Death 12:00 – 1:30PM Longest Icepick Grind 2:00 – 3:30PM PRO Curved Wall Ride Best Trick 3:30 – 4:30PM Gauntlet of Death reopens 4:30 – 6:00PM PRO Dirt Finals Fox’s Gauntlet of Death First person to make it through this death defying obstacle course wins a treasure chest of prizes. Everyone who makes it through gets something. Runing all weekend, free to enter with entry and waiver, donations to benefit Mike Tag suggested. Odyssey’s Dragon Slayer Best Trick. A winner take all best trick contest on the ferocious Odyssey Dragon. $300 Bounty and prizes, free to enter with entry and waiver. Oakley, Failure Bikes, Austin Facial Hair Club present the Bearded Leap Frog Contest. This bunny hop high jump contest is winner take all for highest hop. Free to enter with entry and waiver. Winner gets $100, one of a kind hand made Oakley trophy and Failure Beach Cruiser. Sunday Bike’s Longest Ice Pick Grind Challenge. Whoever can do the longest Ice Pick Grind on Sunday’s 100 foot long rail wins $250 and prizes. Free to enter with entry and waiver. Empire BMX’s Pro Curved Wall Ride Best Trick Contest. Do the best trick on Empire’s step-up curved wall ride and win $500 and prizes. $10 to enter. Van’s Pro Rail Jam. Whoever does the best trick on Van’s handrail wins $700 and prizes. $10 to enter. Odyssey Presents Pro Dirt. Pro’s compete for a $12500 purse. 1st place wins $5500 (thanks in part to a $2500 bonus for the winner from Fox) 2nd place wins $3000 3rd place wins $2000 4th place wins $1250 5th place wins $750 Spectators $5 per day, or $20 for both saturday and sunday and get a free Texas Toast T-shirt.

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A little video with some contest info from ESPN

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First photos of dirt being built. This the roll-in , first roller and the lip for the skipper set that leads into the big sets. Stoked!!!

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Hey, Yes we got a new website going. Simple, informative right? Got some news on the Fairdale Bikes Skaterack. It will be arriving sometime toward the end of May/ early June. Pretty stoked on the thing and its a really simple easy way to carry a skateboard around with you on your bike. In simplest terms its a skaterack pannier and works just the same way a pannier bag might hook on to your bikes rack. If you don’t have a rack on your bike you can find a cheap one for under $25 usually that will totally work fine. If you remember our original design for the skaterack it had a skaterack built into an ordinary rear rack but we found that would be very expensive to the customer and limits the use of your rack a bit (made it hard to put bags on the skaterack side). This new rack is so light and so simple and will be inexpensive as well. Clip it on, drop your board in and roll. Take it on and pop it on a different bike if you want as well.   We’ll keep you updated as we know more about exactly when bike shops/ skate shops will have this rack for sale.    

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This is a study on the different ways that animals jump. Well, a study if I ever actually bothered to watch how animals a jump. This is a study of how I imagine animals might jump drawn while watching TV.

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You may remember many months ago on this blog we posted our Probably-Going-To-Patent Nose Manual Helpers. Thankfully we will (probably) patent these things since amazingly in the last 2 weeks two different people followed through with our design plans and actually built the things. The first attempt was delivered via Twitter from Mr. Wallride Guy. He said this ended up being a pretty painful endeavor, but you may notice not he did not clearly follow our blue prints. The next day though we received these from Mr. Sam who lives somewhere cold. Being much truer to our original concept these ones are actually stated to help learn nose manuals. Sweet right! Thanks Sam for the surprise prototyping!

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The physics of ice cream hunting.

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