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Re: Shit posted on 2006-11-05 07:17:22

My squeak scoot

[img]http://stashbox.org/3340/sqweeek.jpg[/img]

Is made from the cast off parts of a Redline the company had given to a certain vert legend. Had he really given these parts a workout, Redline would probably been found guilty of negligent homicide. Just from the minutest moment he rode these the bars and forks bent and the stem let go both of the bars and the forks somewhat.

For new school stuff, the only names near this piss poor in quality would be the new hoffman stuff, but even that at least you could reasonably trust your nadz to. This RL stuff is absolute silly putty dog doo

Re: Help... posted on 2006-11-05 07:07:46

If you are doing rocket manuals from the pegs, as suggested before, only use one leg. The other leg is the weight that you need to bring up and stabilize the bike

The easiest way for me to do them, is to lean the bike slightly to the right (thats with my left foot on the left rear peg), and put my right leg behind and somewhat to the left, instead of sticking way out the right side. This way will cost you some speed, but will seem pretty stable

Once you have got these down, start learing how to jump into a rocket manual from a short regular manual

Once you have that, learn to jump back to your pedals from a rocket manual

With those two skills you can really open up a LOT of new possibilities, like bunnyhopping up a curb to rocket manual, then hopping back off to the pedals, or rocket manuals on the deck of a ramp. Jumping a speedbump to land rocket manual on the sidewalk is pretty cool

Hopping to rocket wallride is badass too!

Re: Descendents (and other punk) posted on 2006-11-05 06:21:30

Theres a LOT of overlap between "metal" and punk

Before "speedmetal" became a term for neo-classical, it was punk thru and thru, with the speedmetal name so people wouldnt take crap for listening to punk

The current, completely gay trend of having enforced rules of sucking at your instrument has no basis in traditional punk

Where would shred metal be if not for Dayglo Abortions, Adrenaline OD or the Meatmen?

Where would death metal be without the first Corrosion of Conformity album?

Fight - War of Words had Rob Halford from Judas Priest singing on it, and shredders on it, but can anyone make a claim it is not one of the best, hardest, political, hardcore punk albums ever released?

The whole venice scene could give a shit with labels and distinctions. Anyone who wanted to keep their teeth in their mouth would do well to agree with whatever these bands called themselves, whther they say punk or metal or what have you...I mean Suicidal Tendencies, Excel, No Mercy, Beowulf, Circle 1, Los Cycos, etc...

Luckily, Im seeing a lot of skill returning to the hardcore scene lately. Time to make some timeless music again

Re: Punk lyrics game posted on 2006-11-05 06:10:48

kickass! When I see "punk" written, people usually seem to mean that Brittney Spears/blink 182 pop40 crap

And here I see some FEAR lyrics posted?

Awesome!

And a dude with a circle Jerks avatar too

Re: Riding Flat and minimal street with same bike posted on 2006-11-03 23:24:35

Ive always ridden street on a flatland bike, well street and mini ramp. Mainly because I didnt care how much my bike weighed, my flatland bike was always stronger than most street bikes.

BTW I dont ride flatland at all, I just wish I could. Im only 5'9" and the shorter frames, and lower overall height with inverted stems and such let me ride a lot more precise than my burlier street brethren

Back in the day it was a TNT invert stem, SUntour with unbrake, Standard shorty, Peg Bundy's on my grind side, hand grenades on the other side, profile cranks, peregrine superpro 48's.

Later you know the 1 1/8" stem stuff where it was hard to find a low or short stem, so castillo bars, graveyard/nankai hubs, standard or homeless frame

Now its hoffman e.p. horribly welded piece of crap frame, had to toss the poorly built hoffman forks and get odyssey's, ares 4 pc no sweep bars, haro turbine POS freecoaster (at least its 14 MM), Primo powerbyte cranks, aluminum big pegs on my non grind side and haro fusions on the other, shortened snafu stem(dont ask)

Im about to lighten up and I bet NOW I will see my flat parts busting...fly suelo simple frame, KHE street geisha, odyssey bar mitzvah, suelo stem. I am thinking these REALLY light parts will probably eat it pretty quick.

But hey, maybe Ill finally start learning some flat!

Just wanted to throw my 2cents in that some of the best technical street and mini guys at least near the beginning of the new school rode flatland bikes. Im thinking Krt Schmidt and Rick Molliterno, Brian Vowell, etc...

Re: 19" Aqueduct or KHE RIP? posted on 2006-11-03 23:12:16

why are the RIP's so scarce? If its any good wont someone make more?

Re: starting flatland posted on 2006-11-03 21:39:49

Since 1990 I stopped messing around with quarter pipes on old dynos and crap, and started riding street and mini ramps, new school style on a flatland bike. Even back when the only hopeful freecoaster was a POS suntour with a standard unbrake in it, thats how I rolled.

Inverted stems, Tiny ass sprockets, big pegs

I dont see any reason the guy couldnt do flat on a decent street bike

Its definitely going to improve his street skills too.

Re: trail wrecker! posted on 2006-11-03 14:12:58

VULTURES!!!!

At the mighty Union Hills we used to have vultures...people who would circle the area waiting till the jumps were done, then dive in.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, one solution was to turn everything into doubles. That made the jumps scary enough that I wouldnt even jump them, but all the other guys were alright.

Also, build them STRONG. Once the jumps got too scary for me to jump I would tailtap, nosepick and even icepick the lips sometimes. I would get dirt thrown at me but the lips would hold up

Third, secrets are gay. You may as well put on some girl pants and 3/8 axles if you are going to have secret jumps. What do you suppose people will think of guys who go off together in secret and roll around in the dirt?
You need "insurance". Insurance means a tough little bastard kid in every age group that will wail the tar out of any miscreant that messes up your jumps. You arent likely to get enough enforcers playing secret squirrel.

Re: Dialing brakes-pro style posted on 2006-11-03 13:56:27

I note the anti-sticky substance sentiment here, but I gotta say, Pepsi!

A lot of us miniramp/spine type dudes dont ever use brakes for slowing down. We only use them to lock up on tailtaps and nosepick type stuff. Pepsi works great for this. It also facillitates communication with all the Canadian Geese at the Wedge

Here in Arizona we have no humidity and TONS of dust...choking, slippery, eye watering dust

In higher humidity places, like san diego, clean rims, seem to work SO much better! they stick as hard as pepsi rims for locking up, but also let you slow down. At least I THINK its the humidity. Even in dirt over there the brakes work better.

But here, as always, Ill keep pouring the pepsi on my rims, no matter how dialed the brakes get (it especially sucks because you need so much more spring pressure to unglue the brake pad from the rim)

Re: MEASURE YOUR FRAME & Fork GEOMETRY! (FRAME GUIDE) posted on 2006-11-03 13:40:14

this is a truly awesome thread! Thanks for starting it. I'd love to see some old school frames in here for comparison

Re: new pivotal seats posted on 2006-11-03 00:40:29

I was trying to get one of those odyssey format stems but theyre Vaporware so far... I just spent the extra money and ordered the suelo

Re: I found this on chris king site comparing integrated headsets posted on 2006-11-02 23:29:26

This paper makes some bold theoretical claims that it contradicts between the paragraphs.

The claim that an integrated bearing, not being press fit is free to move around "becuase they are not securely attached to anything" is pretty wishful speculation.

Press fit bearings can and will move around quite a bit. An integrated headset has its own press system, namely the clamping force pulling your stem towards the forks, though thats not really what its for.

Depending on how the manufacturer chose to make the inner "cup stop" the bearing could be quite well supported, which I guess gives CK a point for cxomplaining about the lack of standardization.

In theory CK's asking the question "would you rather replace a cup or a whole frame?"

But in practice what is more likely to happen? Are we to believe that a head tube which was strong enough to "stay in round" while holding both a flexible, moving, cutting, grinding cup AND a bearing wouldnt be strong enough to hold just a bearing?

I think not.

The cynic in me would say this pdf could be translated to : We cant swing the capital to tool up an integrated machining set yet

But, fortunately, I only let the cynic out when ESPN throws a car inside a ramp course and calls it "street"

Re: Dragonforce posted on 2006-11-02 23:10:04

These guys got skills

I had pretty much given up on any modern band playing worth a crap, after dealing with band after band of sissypunk idiots who practiced guitar in front of a mirror instead of in front of their amps

My friend downloaded the Valley of the Damned Video onto my PC, and I was floored

Now if only we start seeing hardcore bands that play leads again

Re: Why the hell are Chris King parts so expensive? posted on 2006-11-02 23:01:30

Theyre expensive because thats what people will pay for them.

Chris King stuff would be the minimum or acceptable quality in industries with a bigger market, like say, musclecar parts.

Their quality control insures you get a pretty consistent product every time. Theres not a bit of filing or sanding here or there, it just fits each time as well as the last time

If we were a bigger market, we'd be demanding CK quality from Odyssey prices

Look at how much we pay for Ti parts compared to other industries. BMX companies make it out like Ti is some mystery metal they discovered yesterday

Re: front brakes? posted on 2006-11-02 22:49:01

Why would front brakes make fufanu's hard? They were invented by riders with both brakes.

Re: Old school bikes in current environment? posted on 2006-11-02 22:46:30

The newest bikes are gong back to sissy strength, but nowhere near so far back as one of those collapsable big money company frames from the jersey days

Re: Petition to Dig -It... posted on 2006-11-02 22:44:47

See if you can sort thru a mess of Hofffman's. Their QC is so poor you probably will find between 70 and 80 degrees on a 75 degree spec.

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