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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.

A little video with some contest info from ESPN

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!!!

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!

I don’t really know how Fairdale is sponsoring the Texas Toast Jam, but because I’m organizing it I’m saying we’re a sponsor!

Got a little news update for you…

Texas Toast Jam is coming up May 27-29. Dirt registration is starting to fill up so hurry up and register here:
dirt registration.

We just added Fox, Subrosa, Shadow, Tree Bikes, Blacken and KVRX 91.7 to the event sponsor list. So glad to see BMX pulling together and pitching in to make sure we all have a fun event.

Confirmed royalty VIP guests to the event are Mat Hoffman, Mike Dominguez, and Brian Blyther. We heard Ron Wilkerson, Dave Friemuth and The Lord Voelker may make it as well!

All the best pro riders will be here to shred the dirt jumps and street obstacles. Darryl Nau of Blacken is heading up announcing duties with assistance from FBM’s Steve Crandal. Darryl is also using his considerable party skills to set up some epic after parties. Ringmaster Leland Thurman is now directing the action at the Gauntlet of DEATH. Watch riders brave its treachery and take on a 48 foot long dragon!

I need help running the event and building dirt jumps and ramps, please email me to volunteer: fairdale@odysseybmx.com.
Find all the information you need for your trip here: http://www.odysseybmx.com/texas-toast-jam/

I’ve been sooo busy working on organizing the Texas Toast Jam. Hope you’re all coming out!

Registration is now live and there is a lot of info on it.
http://www.odysseybmx.com/texas-toast-jam/

So one day Aaron Ross strolled into the OTX office and asked if I would paint a picture of what I thought was going on in his brain. Keep in mind this was like 2 days after he walked in the office and said he wanted to jump down a set of stairs with 50 gallon drums of orange soda exploding underneath him. It was too good to pass up.

The soda thing actually happened. And so eventually I got working on the painting.

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Its been a bit sparse over here on the updates hasn’t it? I guess we are in sort of a lull at the moment. Fairdale Parsers are being built as I send this text over the interweb and there’s just not a whole lot new to update til they get closer to arriving. I guess I got a new Skate-rack prototype but I want to get it just a little more dialed in before I show it to you all.

Other then that I’ve been starting to work hard on the TX Toast Jam contest that Odyssey is putting on. I’m not sure it was a good idea to have the arrival dates for the Fairdale bikes be the same day as the big contest I am running! Anyway, there is an official website for the contest now that will be periodically updated. Keep a tab on it if you can. Texas Toast Jam web page on Odyssey BMX.

One issue with Fairdale Bikes is that I’m not really sure how we will sell them. All I really know is BMX and a lot of BMX shops don’t carry road bikes or commuter bikes like ours. I’ve been really thinking about what we should do with marketing.

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Production samples of the Fairdale Parser’s have arrived. The bikes will not be available to buy until sometime around May, but bike shops can pre-order them now if you are interested in reserving one from the first batch.

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I’m going to help organize a BMX jam here in Austin.

Mark your calendar! We will post way more details over on OdysseyBMX.com as we work them out, but expect dirt, street obstacles, and way more. Should be loads of fun for everyone! Or at least, thats the point.