Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:45am PDT

Interbike Highlights

By: Teddy Parker

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These interbike things... I say no more...

the S&M and Shadow Conspiracy rail jam went off pretty hot. Hoder was there! All kinds of spins and whips and grinds and I believe I saw a 180 fakie tire ride down the rail... or something... WTF? Peep Jake Seeley's LUC-E too...

This year we got what we damn well though we would... LIGHTER, CUT OUTS, CNC'd, SHAVED DOWN, TAPERED, LESS, TRIMMED, HOLES, STRIPPED, PLASTIC, and of course MORE COLORS.

ODI grips was there with their new colorful grips. Colorful grips. The one cool thing they did do was plastic bar plugs with the ODI logo that runs through the entire bar plug so the ODI logo never scratches away. Cool idea.

Sunday Bikes (moving to Texas in the next month I believe) is also doing some moves on their products. The third wave frame is going to feature some cool things like the all wave tube. Not just the downtube anymore. The brake guide channel in the wave tubing. And the removable brake mounts on the new Sunday frames will be a flush design so you don't have those knobs sticking out when you're brakeless. I like that. They also jumped into complete bikes this year. Wait for those hot nuggets...

Odyssey BMX, always known to blow minds at interbike, does it again. First of all the tall bike is always a fun feature. The fire engine red show bike displays the latest colorway from them. Straight red. Their new seatpost is a pivotal/railed post where you can use both and have a little pitch or tilt or whatever to your pivotal seat, and it can also change your Ian Schwartz frame into a railed post if you made a mistake of a purchase! They also have Aitken pivotal seats and some new sprockets flying around for flatland. Their flatland company FLATWARE has a frame going out alongside their twombolt driven sprocket...

WeThePeople's new welds and dropouts scare me. That's okay though. They should be team tested and proven,etc. Eclat has so many colors for every part my eyes started to hurt looking at their cool hubs. KHE released one of those all in one seat and post jobbies for Daniel Dhers called the Pluma that doesn't look half bad. I bet it feels real bad though. Maybe.

Cinema wheel company finally came out alongside companies Verde and Duo. Verde has got the complete bikes and parts rolling as usual, as does Duo.

Primo bit a bullet of some kind and released things in colors. Their crakns in colors! And their new hub, flangeless! I dunno guys. Cardinal released their frame and some bars by BOY I suppose. Pretty cool I suppose.

Subrosa released the new double top tube Pandora frame and their Hold On stem. As well as their amazing line of complete bikes. Shadow released a freecoaster for Karl Poynter. Should be cool!

Eastern released their new Journey frame and their new high end complete bike, THE BOSS. Tree Bicycle Co is doing a LOT with wheels and designed some amazing new straight pull hubs with straight pull spokes.

S&M is really jumping on the trendy train with the WTF ("wave of the future") complete bicycle. It's so shaved down looking it scares me. New hub by S&M on it and all kinds of design alterations that would make any street riding trendster proud. Check out their flatland bars and their shorter link chain that looks dialed, strong. They also had their funny BIG BARS there. Check the gallery. The new Fit Eddie frame with the F-IT brace is looking hot, and chrome.

Mutiny released the LUCKY STRIKE frame. And blah blah blah... Animal and Metal had their "MOBILE BOOTHS" and Sean Burns is the funniest, greatest man in BMX. Animal has white wall tires (for Tom White) and new wheels and an all-in-one tool you want in your tool bag. FlyBikes has dropouts similar to WeThePeople and the seat and post combos similar to many other people. But not really. Their's is different so make sure to check it out. Kinda better I think.

Demolition takes a page out of Tree's books with the spline drive sprocket, F1 style.

Go to RIDEBMX.com or VITALBMX.com to view videos and photos of everything.

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