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AZflatlander Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 560 Location: Phoenix, Arizona	Date: 2006-01-30 18:40:50 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	Do you think adding a top tube platform would benefit riders since the style of riding is in transition? Transition meaning that the old school tricks have made their way back like the martti and jumelin tricks. There are so many tricks that were taken away due to the absence of the platform- who knows what else could be invented? What are your views on the top tube platform? Should they make a come back? Are they useful? Back On a Mac!
pwh4130 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 935 Location:	Date: 2006-01-30 18:49:44 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
pwh4130 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 935 Location:	It depends on your style. It is necessary for only a few tricks. Most young guys have never had one so they won't even be able to offer an opinion. I learned to live without it but I don't think it would be bad going back as long as it was well designed. There's no excuse for being a dickhead.
rully Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 1469 Location: Bali	Date: 2006-01-30 19:04:31 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	platforms are made to make tricks on frame easier. now if we can do them hard way, i think there's no need to add platform. besides, they're heavy aren't they? :) laters
midwestside Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 604 Location: Greensboro, NC	Date: 2006-01-30 19:32:07 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	Coming up in the era that I did, Framestands are an integral part of The freestyle bike. hehe, Just some old sentiment. I kinda missed out on the evolution of midschool frames and am not exactly sure when the platform got dropped. I do remember this bikeshop was selling GT shows in the mid 90's and I rode around on it just for kicks thinking how weird that it didnt have a platform and how tiny it was. I couldnt do jack on that thing. I like my new school bike I have right now, But there was just something about My old gt freestyle tour with the platform that I miss alot. So much that i just bought a sugar baby setup off ebay Just to have an older school bike, with a platform and mounts, for decades.....yeah!!!
infamous3140 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 3110 Location: Cleveland OH area	Date: 2006-01-31 04:57:06 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	I wouldn't mind more frames coming with the option but it would be too expensive to offer either/or, and the lack of interest in platforms is the reason new frames don't have it. I actually had to give up on framestand dork wheelies because it hurt my ankle/foot, and I bet if I had the platform it wouldn't have been so uncomfortable. Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
bullyhotrod86jh Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 663 Location: qld, Australia	Date: 2006-01-31 06:09:58 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	hey this may sound stupid but any of you older guys got clips of people doing frame stand and stuff using the platform. As i havent seen any tricks using them only, pics of bikes sitting arond with platforms never ridden and have wonderd what they were like.
Dead Sailor Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 765 Location: Tampa	Date: 2006-01-31 06:15:49 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	i think u need to go get urself a copy of the Dorkin' box set im too young to know what the plataforms were all about, but im into the oldschool so id like to see one made just for kiks
pwh4130 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 935 Location:	Date: 2006-01-31 06:49:05 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
pwh4130 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 935 Location:	When I last had a platform I liked to do backwards framestands and the infamous furillo spin (do an endo while standing on the platform and when you roll back you carve a circle and spin the bars standing straight up). Chase swears by the platform but then again, I don't see too many guys riding like Chase. Framestand mega spin to decade to framestand megaspin etc. There's no excuse for being a dickhead.
D Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 1021 Location: Echo Base	Date: 2006-01-31 07:56:38 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	framestands MIGHT make double decades easier, I'm not sure though. I can do them on my Pony just as easily as I could on my EP, but these days I'm just as likely to just jump back to the pegs instead. I do miss framestand megaspins, there are a few other tricks that are a bit easier with a framestand, but I'm not sure that I miss it all that much. Most tricks you can find a way to make them work without it. Paul Osicka killed the framstand as a required element when he designed the Tao. Only Chase and a few others are keeping it alive. What I'd like to see again, if for nothing else but a laugh? A double top tube frame! Yeah, I know they are technically weaker and have a host of other problems, but double decades are a breeze on an old school Haro Master. There's sooo much room! Then again, how many other people besides me still do double decades, or even have back brakes? Lets see....me, Kent, Brett....that's all I can think of.... : ( well it was good to be young once.... -A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. -Jebediah Springfield
nor-cal-flat-since-1984 Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 675 Location: northern california	Date: 2006-01-31 08:34:07 Topic: PLATFORM OR NO PLATFORM?
	platform 4 life
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