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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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.
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.
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.
Available now are our first ever matching front and rear G-Sport Equipped Wheels; Fire Engine Red Ratchet and Marmoset hubs laced onto Odyssey Hazard Lite rims.
Here’s a print ad we ran showing off our Ratchet hub and all of the gear that you can get to go along with it.