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Re: Voulme sockists/dealers? posted on 2006-06-06 21:35:44

What's wrong with Volume bikes?

Re: barspins posted on 2006-06-06 21:35:01

[url]http://www.pedalbmx.com/forum/index.php/topic,12876.0.html[/url]

thats from kind of a ways back, but I believe its thorough.

hope I helped!

Re: Back in the scene, just ordered bike! any Experience? posted on 2006-06-06 21:25:52

yeahhhhh funtionbmx pegs!

I was deadset on getting the Sinus frame...and a Federal Hamilton fell into my lap for near free. I even love coffee, and it comes in Coffee Pearl? too good to be true? the specs. seemed right on.

I would say you got the best complete out right now.

Oh, and I remember you I_live_in_a_house! Do you remember me? You always talked about spastic inside fork-wheelies. did you do any today?? :-)

Re: Handlebar Material posted on 2006-06-06 21:20:46

they use what the call T-45 heat treated 4130 cromoly if I recall correctly.

basically just heat treated cromo. (but with serious attention to detail, welded meticulously by skiller workers in a small shop in even smaller batches!)

Re: Fire Hydrants and Steamrollers posted on 2006-06-06 21:18:37

I assume when you say steamrollers you mean forwards. not backwards (...fork wheelie :roll: )

the backwards ones you just grab the seat in a fork glide and mess around to find a balance point.

forward is a bit more tricky. especially for me... as my stance makes it difficult.

but to get into them you must first learn half-lashes. stand on either the left or right side of the bike, depending on how steamrollers feel comfortable for you. I do steams fwd with right hand on seat, right foot on peg, but I throw the half-lash from the left side, so I catch it and then quick switch feet. this is a problem you can avoid in the early stages by learning on the correct side! (In my defense, my set-up makes barflips easier.)

keep your weight forward in the half-lash. It shouldn't take a KICK to get the frame around. You are more or less leaning the forward so the frame would want to tip anyway, and giving it a small push with your back foot to speed things up. Doing the whip slow makes your balance point transition from behind you, to next to you, to in front of you too drawn out. make it a bit quick. I catch the seat in the back, but alot of the older guys like to grab the front of the seat. It looks painfully awkward, but it is an easier place to grab (at least after a half-lash) so experiment to see which way fits you best. at this point you are essentially doing a steamroller!

keep a leg off to balance. the back wheel shouldn't really be very high off the ground. the balance point is actually quite low. keep your waist centered over the axle, with your arm holding the bike up.

when you start falling alot, you'll realize the easiest way it to push the bike forward and out from under you, landing with both feet on the ground and the seat still in your hand. falling like this not only saves you from road rash, cuts, and scrapes, but it keeps you from unnecessarily adding wear to pegs, seat, grips, etc.

good luck!

Re: questions about sarvet bars posted on 2006-06-06 21:06:48

did u mean .625" :-D

I don't have the sarvet bars, but I know people with them. theres no real sharp corners, and with the amount of sweep on those bars, your wrists are happy. however I don't like the looks, or that much sweep on my bars (it affects some of my tricks negatively)

I ride the Suelo 9-butted bars and love them.

Re: Anyone else kill seats? posted on 2006-06-05 18:35:32

I JUST bought an Intac post like a month ago, so I'm not buying a Macneil combo just yet. I think the hemmerhoid is my answer. I might actually dremel the sides to be smoother and then file it.

Re: 180's posted on 2006-05-31 19:37:12

I just learned how to 180 2 months ago, haha. it's one of those things I never really bothered with. but I guess as a flatlander, and not having a definite stance/pedal position, learning them opposite wasn't that hard. I just started doing half-cabs...sooo much fun. once you learn them, they're easier than regular 180's.

not trying to be harsh, but if you bunnyhop the same bronco style/level pull up style...I don't think your hops are too high. once you get good at hopping, you don't do it anyother way. I've hopped3 boards like...4 years ago 'bronco' style. I prob. couldnt do one the other way...it just doesnt work in a way that gives u an advantage for height.

Re: whoppers? posted on 2006-05-31 19:31:12

bahhhh I'm learning that. switch footed megaspin-whopper-megaspin. we can have an e-competition as a means of me pushing myself harder so I stop whining. (that is if you haevnt landed it yet.)

damn trick scares me to death, i broke a spoke aiming for the peg one time and just landed sideways and fell real hard. usually the peg stabs me somewhere on the leg as it comes around.

Re: Mukiflat frame... posted on 2006-05-31 19:28:29

I'd break it.

Re: how to remove a stripped bolt from evolver posted on 2006-05-31 19:25:32

I'll go out on a limb and ask, why wouldn't you run an evolver in the front?

they have a lower stack height and decently strong springs (at least a little more so than a fiesta/hombre)

and it's just a brake. We flatlanders like that lower stack height for some tricks like circle-k's, scuffing wheelchairs, etc, where you might just end up kicking the brake itself really hard...get scared because something unexpected happened, and bail on something thats easily avoidable. :-(

Re: Anyone else kill seats? posted on 2006-05-31 19:20:20

I actually don't hate the hemerhoid seat, I just don't see it as ideal for flatland riding. Its big, not too comfy really, and the underside sticks out far enough to catch your knees. I think I'll get a Pr1mo Gripper and modify it with a dremel.

Anyone think the flatland seat market could be a LITTLE bigger? theres sooo many duplicate seats for street/dirt riders...flatlanders have very few options. but we have alot of stems, forks, pegs, etc. and seats are the kind of thing that can cross over to be used by anyone really. :?

Re: Your Tire Pressure... posted on 2006-05-30 04:11:30

I run 110psi, front and back, as well. Odyssey Frequency-G's (1.85") I like it better that way.

My friend that does more scuffing tricks runs lower pressure, it fits his riding style. turbines and spins feel horrible with less than 90psi. Like...I honestly won't be able to do most of my tricks.

Re: AND 88 or Fly suelo? posted on 2006-05-29 23:09:52

WTP and Fit don't make flatland stems, or anything close to 35mm reach.

Turndowns and Lookbacks don't really put stress on a stem. Nose-casing a jump might do something, but turndowns and lookbacks just turn the stem freely, they can't damage them. I might be puzzled if u said it withstands full speed curb endos or gap to toothpicks or something, but yours we're just bad examples.

I also recall hearing the Suelo stems strip easily, but thats typically the riders fault.

I like the feel of a mid reach stem, and am buying the 88 AND stem soon. I ride the original 88 stem now, I've just had it for 3 years and am sick of the polished alloy. :-P

Anyone else kill seats? posted on 2006-05-29 23:01:49

Okay...yesterday my KHE Watanabe seat split down the middle BETWEEN the rails. What the hell?! I heard of the rails piercing through the back, but this makes no sense. the thing should be thicker I guess.

I rode an 88 seat before this, and the rail did pierce through the back of the seat.

before that I had a Velo 'Flatland Saddle'. the grips ripped off and a rail twisted.

Thing is, I'm not hard on seats! (at least it doesn't seem like it!) I'm more of a frontwheel rider. I do gyrators, stick-bs, try time machines, and do rope-a-ronis here and there, but I set the bike down pretty cool if I fall. I don't throw my bike, and I don't drag my seat on the ground doing Upside Down Wheelies or anything either.

Pr1mo Hemmerhoids/Balance seems too wide and lacking in what I like in a seat, but I guess they're the most durable ones, as I know many people with them. I've heard of 99ers breaking often, And I dislike how they feel. If i was to cut the nose down a bit, it would be bearable I guess.

Anyone have an opinion on current seats? anyone ride the macneil or steroid for flatland?
reviews? I need a new seat, and I don't want to break it in a few months.

Re: Wrist Pain.... posted on 2006-05-29 22:33:45

My wrists hurt sometimes after real long session, some tricks put alot of pressure on them. eventually your body will build a higher tolerance to it. its perfectly normal.

Re: Pedal BMX Online Flat Comp posted on 2006-05-26 13:26:26

Now I actually think its interesting. I would send in a vide if I could figure it out.

Re: Bands like UnderOath posted on 2006-05-26 11:06:31

Underoath is very much not hardcore. they could be post-hardcore. they don't have breakdowns. he sing/screams. and they're lyrics don't speak of hardships, friends, or other things like that. that and my sister likes them.

And besides spelling, Unearth is NOTHING like Underoath. Unearth is a bunch of dirty metal-core dudes that shred guitar, and somehow went maintsteam-ish. I don't think post-hardcore bands play guitar solos, finger tap frenzies, and throw jagermiester (sp?) into the crowd.

Seriously, the perception of hardcore has lost SO much that it sickens me. this new Bedlight for blues, bullet for my valentine, fall of troy stuff makes me want to strangle people. It sounds like jumbled garbage. PIG DESTROYER makes more sense than some of that nonsense, and he most screams about rape, torture, and necrophilia.

Hardcore has little side things (which annoy me, but in a sense make things easy.) theres posi-core, 'tough-guy' hardcore, straight-edge hardcore. these are all minor variations to the same concept. POST-Hardcore isnt hard. its soft. it should be called soft-core. ahhh

scene kids!!!!!! :evil:

Re: Voodoo Jam Floor posted on 2006-05-25 21:31:56

get that real thin styrofoam lining you get with Pergo click-together laminate flooring, and then lay some plywood.

Re: sharp pain in my left shoulder blade posted on 2006-05-25 21:29:08

how does your bike weigh 45lbs?! Its hard to make a bike that heavy.

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