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And, hopefully unrelated to the above… got this in the mail today. Photo of me from 1995 on the cover of a zine from 1999. Dreadlocked and Hoffman superforked.

Just kidding about that title, but I did win a skateboard design contest over the weekend for the No-Comply skateboard shop here in Austin.

Guess you could buy one from these guys if you were in the market for an army of bunnies.

http://www.nocomplyatx.com/

All right! I got the zines done and ready. I also ditched the T-shirt idea in favor of a hat. I am still going to make some Fairdale T-shirts, but for the sake of the zine package a one size fits all hat is so much easier.

Ahhh… but what kind of hat is it?

Its probably not a coonskin hat. But it shall remain a mystery unless you order one.

So here’s the deal; if you would like just the zine you can go ahead and mail $3 to Fairdale and I will send you one out by mail.

If you would like the ultra exclusive limited edition mystery Fairdale hat and zine package then send a money order for $15. You should make that money order out to our host site Odyssey BMX as they handle all the money. Hopefully I’ll be able to add a credit card purchasing option too.

Mail to: Fairdale,  4204 Manchaca Rd,  Austin, TX 78704

Please note: If you are ordering outside of the USA you should email me because shipping will be more and we’ll have to figure that out before I can send it.  Fairdale@Odysseybmx.com

$3 for a zine.

$15 money order made out to Odyssey BMX for a zine and limited edition Fairdale mystery hat.

Mail to: Fairdale,  4204 Manchaca Rd,  Austin, TX 78704

If you are lucky we didn’t make the mystery hat a sumo wrestler!

Any questions feel free to email me: Fairdale@Odysseybmx.com

Not much here in this post, just this elephant guy blowing bubbles.

I got zines in stock! 68 pages of  Fairdaleness and whatever I wanted to put in there. Now I don’t really know what to do with them…

Working on a t-shirt to go with them that I can sell as a package deal. Few more days and I’ll have this figured out.

I did get a Fairdale T the other day, but it has actually nothing to do with this website. Its a highschool in Kentucky or something. You can get all kind of custom school t-shirts from this website: http://www.prepsportswear.com/

I’m still quite a fan of the Michigan school who’s mascot is a the Nimrod.

Some funny Odyssey bootleg T’s too.

With today’s street riding reaching never before seen bike demolishing levels Fairdale is here to help. Hub guards are an old stand by for protecting hubs against street riding abuse, be what about spoke nipples? Just like human nipples spoke nipples can be very fragile.

Introducing the Fairdale Nipple Bra.

Using a light weight combination of soft cotton and lycra this protective bra can keep your spoke nipples in perfect condition through even the roughest riding conditions.

Small elastic straps hook around the rim and underneath the tire making the bra very difficult to break free.

Still only in the prototyping phase is the valve stem athletic supporter. Once the design is finalized we promise to deliver a fail safe means of protecting your valve stem.

This was in a bicycle magazine and it has me very puzzled.

I’m sorry to say that whenever anyone talks about their meat stick sponsor I start giggling. Maybe its too many years as a vegetarian and I’m just not comfortable with those words, or maybe its the sense of humor of a 14 year old, but “meat stick” is funny.

On Transworld BMX’s site today they posted two different meat stick related articles. First a Ball Park Frank bike check and then a press release about the Matador™ by Jack’s Link’s™ Bold Bull Ride™ at the Wendy’s™ Invitational Dew™ Tour. That’s a mouthful of sausages right there! I can only imagine that BMX riders are going to be bouncing around on a gigantic bucking hotdog trying to keep their energy drink sponsor in camera frame. Its a funny time in BMX (for those of me who find meat stick sponsorships so entertaining).

Now granted this event is for charity and its always a good laugh to watch your friends falling off a electric bull. I’m not knocking the fun that will be had. In fact I find it that much more amusing that meat sticks are involved. I don’t think you could say anything relating to the subject at hand without me smirking… “you’re best friend choked to death on a meat stick.”

I was thinking about some other events they might have for charity, like the above hot dog bobbing contest. That would be pretty cool for BMXers as long as they are going to be  dry humping a mechanical bull for wads of processed meat money anyway. I heard about this one game called “hide the sausage” too, but I’m not exactly sure how to play that one.

I was also thinking that some our soon to be patented Fairdale real-live sausage grips might be a good way to really connect with the sponsors and get it out on to the competition course (and most importantly in front of the TV cameras).

And of course its only a matter of time before these hot dog sponsored guys get paid enough to ride in their company’s mascot uniform. Any publicity is good publicity right?

It would be amazing really… front flips look so much like an attempt to bite a weenie anyway… why not add some flair to it and do it dressed in a wiener costume?

I’ve been working on a zine the last few days. Hope to have it finished this weekend.

Can’t say there is a whole lot of point to it, but its fun to make something that is going to be put on paper rather then your computer screen.

Got all this crap to go through and lay out… I’m very interested to see what I can come up with.