Here's the thread you've all been waiting for. With your imagination and some real world physics. What would you build into a bike, bmx or otherwise if you could.

Since I get busted on for the supension thing, I wont get into that. Another guy got harped on for wanting disk brakes ona BMX bike. Even though it's unessesary, I think it has a cool factor.

So here's my dream bike. A light 22" BMX bike with 2 inch travel stiff suspension with disc brakes, and rear hub with 5 speed internal gears, shaft drive. Carbon fiber frame, bar seat post etc. 1.5in tires. Oh, an cool stickers too, so the kids don't think it sucks.

Here's the shaft drive.
http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/info/reseller.php

What's yours?

super fast pegs, freecoaster with no play that will hold up to street, lightweight.

my dream bmx, kink freebird, primo powerbites, ody rims, eastern pedals. diatech brakes, a chris king casstte/headset, carbon fibre headset spacers:), profile chainwheel, primo stem, thomson post, industry seat, hook worms.

you can only do so much to a bmx, it isnt like mountian biking or road biking. but that is what i would like to have as a bmx.

my bike is just how i wanted it, and i paid damn near nothing

*Frame would be an Odyssey prototype, with 9 butted 41 thermal seamles air hardened 4130 chromo(if thats possible). With seatstay brake mounts, mid BB, internal headtube, and small drop outs. Odyssye butted race fork, Odyssey bars, Odyssey 41 thermal cranks, Proper Magnati hubs(rear hub has a TI 8T driver). Knight titanium bolts on anything and everything, Mosh seat, Odyssey Jim C pedals(sealed), double buted spokes on grind side front and rear and TI spokes non drive, Odyssey prototype titanium gyro, Redneck XLT stem in blue, ummmm...and I can't think of anything else.

*No order

Cmon, D R E A M!! :) Imagine even more that is available now. Think: Helium filled frame.

Cmon, D R E A M!! :) Imagine even more that is available now. Think: Helium filled frame.

He's a thinker! Add that helium to my Odyssey frame, and note that every part on my list is 41 thermal, and/or 9 butted. :D

*Frame would be an Odyssey prototype, with 9 butted 41 thermal seamles air hardened 4130 chromo(if thats possible). With seatstay brake mounts, mid BB, internal headtube, and small drop outs. double buted spokes on grind side front and rear and TI spokes non drive,

*No order

odyssey will never make frames, and the mixed spokes would make a crappy wheel

odyssey will never make frames, and the mixed spokes would make a crappy wheel

When I win the lottery i'm gonna give em' a couple million to make me a frame. C'mon you're spose to be using your "imagination"!

I like how you say "when" i win the lottery, and not "if". Pretty confident there eh?

I like how you say "when" i win the lottery, and not "if". Pretty confident there eh?

Yup, it's just a matter of time.

haha, nice.

I'll have a titanium frame built one day, just because. It will take a lot of design work to get the frame strong in all the right places. I'll get cranks and bars to match. For color, I'll get some custom hubs made. 14mm hollow axles, Alpine 3 spokes. It's hard to dream, when all it takes is some imagination and cash.

I already have have it, but im still addin parts as I go.

Your Specialized?

Your Specialized?

Yeh, for the most part.

Perhaps you should aim a bit higher. Unless mediocrity suits you.

When I win the lottery i'm gonna give em' a couple million to make me a frame. C'mon you're spose to be using your "imagination"!


why do you want an odyssey frame? they have no experience with frames. Is it the 41 thermal strong/light thing that appeals to you? if so, just buy a light frame , because you will have lotto cash to replace it

why do you want an odyssey frame? they have no experience with frames. Is it the 41 thermal strong/light thing that appeals to you? if so, just buy a light frame , because you will have lotto cash to replace it

YOu gotta represent ODYSSEY!!! Just kidding. Yeah, i'd probably get the LAF, and just give a million to every good bike company just because they've brought me so much joy in life...*wipes away tears*

Then i'd give atleast another million to Steve Crandall(+pluss the million to FBM)just to see what he would do with it, he'd probably buy the worlds biggest beer can or something crazy like that.

s&m LAF
30-10 gearing
cf stem spacers
new pitchlite forks
primo hollowbites with ti spindle
oddy cassette with ti 10t driver and ti spindle
primo hulahoop chrome (36h)front & rear(48h)
oddy vandero
oddy jc mg pedals
shadow conspiracy 1/2 link chain
revenge da kine grips
slambars
redneck xlt stem
s&m mainline 2.125 tire front & revenge 1.95 rear
fit seat, thompson post, fbm clamp

hey, i know its overkill, but if its a dream, it may as well be superlight.

s&m LAF
30-10 gearing
cf stem spacers
new pitchlite forks
primo hollowbites with ti spindle
oddy cassette with ti 10t driver and ti spindle
primo hulahoop chrome (36h)front & rear(48h)
oddy vandero
oddy jc mg pedals
shadow conspiracy 1/2 link chain
revenge da kine grips
slambars
redneck xlt stem
s&m mainline 2.125 tire front & revenge 1.95 rear
fit seat, thompson post, fbm clamp

hey, i know its overkill, but if its a dream, it may as well be superlight.


i could beat you .




bullitt frame (i already have)
Beringer LT bars w/longneck grips( i have the old ones.)
purple jumpoff stem( i already have one. #69. my favorite number)
Profile mini SS front, mini cassette SS rear w/10t 36h
midway rear 7ka front, marwi spokes spraypainted various colors.
41 thermal dirt fork w/ 14mm dropouts.(already have one.)
profile euro crank(already have one)
25t tree sprocket( already have one)
old odyssey jims beam seatpost, S&M seat(already have the post and i have the old, bright yellow seat)
any clamp
3 animal pegs.
jim c unsealed pedals.
shadow chain (i have one)
glh tires

my bike is my dream bike.
i used to make 1500$ bikes on danscomp just for fun but now that i bought parts in stuff for my bike i couldnt be any happier, untill christmas of course when i get more parts

alright now this has gotta be my dream bike if i had a unlimited budget.
Clint millars new signature frame the milllar lite (intergrated headset))
the new sunday forks which are the sme as thermals but made by new rider comany
sealed magnesium hamilton pedals
chrome profile racing cranks selled bb with titanium spindle
the animal jump of stem with titanium bolts with the new wtp helium bars.
EDWIN GRIPS REPRESENT
Capital macneil seat, seatpost combo ( fbm clamp)
the new fly rim with a SS hub for the front and a profile SS cassete with a 7KA rim with titanium axles front and rear. oddysey dirt path and path tyres
primo j lever with oddysey linear single cable with fly brakes and kool stop pads
a kmc chain with a shadow half link put onto a tree sprocket. the hub would have a titanium driver and i would rub 28-10 gearing. yeh i think i covered everything and this bike would be the prymest bike eva

I'm just going to put on my flame-proof suit and wait for the Northern hemisphere to wake up.

I'm not asleep yet, but I'll save it for when I'm at work later tomorrow/today.

front and rear and TI spokes

you'd kill TI spokes....titanium is pretty strong but has no bend strength.

you'd kill TI spokes....titanium is pretty strong but has no bend strength.

what

I believe that he meant that ti spokes don't have the tensile strength of steel spokes; while they may be lighter, steel spokes are still much stronger, at least for the higher-end ones, such as Marwi or DT Swiss.

you'd kill TI spokes....titanium is pretty strong but has no bend strength.

Please explain.

I believe that he meant that ti spokes don't have the tensile strength of steel spokes; while they may be lighter, steel spokes are still much stronger, at least for the higher-end ones, such as Marwi or DT Swiss.

That makes slightly more sense. I don't know about Ti's tensile strength (particularly with application to spokes), since Ti spokes are well beyond the 'point of diminishing return' and I don't mess with 'em or care that they exist. As far as stress/strain curves and fatigue life, Ti is *way* above steel, though. In terms of strength to weight ratio, I think Ti probably beats out steel even in tensile strength, so the failure is simply in making Ti spokes that aren't *too* light to be both stronger and still lighter than steel.

I take the enlightened words of Tight Setup Tom Williams and G-Sport George French as the words of Krishna and Shiva alike, so what they say is bond. And their bond states, explicitly, that quality steel spokes are less likely to snap like string cheese than titanium spokes, which will cost you an arm and a leg for not all that much weight savings in the first place.

Tight Setup will rawdog your ladies, gents.

Titanium spokes are perhaps the single most impractical choice anyone could make. You can't use aluminum nipples with them, so you end up with brass nipples. Hardly worth the expense at that point. Might as well stick with DB stainless spokes with aluminum nipples, and for weight savings, use carbon fibre headset spacers.

Please explain.

i think beerman already did

I take the enlightened words of Tight Setup Tom Williams and G-Sport George French as the words of Krishna and Shiva alike, so what they say is bond. And their bond states, explicitly, that quality steel spokes are less likely to snap like string cheese than titanium spokes, which will cost you an arm and a leg for not all that much weight savings in the first place.

Tight Setup will rawdog your ladies, gents.

I'd just as soon take the fact that even deep-pocketed gram-grubbing neurotic roadies prefer stainless to Ti spokes as a sign SOMETHING'S not right with them. :D

I'd just as soon take the fact that even deep-pocketed gram-grubbing neurotic roadies prefer stainless to Ti spokes as a sign SOMETHING'S not right with them. :D

Hey, we don't even have them on the tandem.

well id only run Ti spokes if they were free or payed for cause wat there asking for them is a bit hefty

well id only run Ti spokes if they were free or payed for cause wat there asking for them is a bit hefty

Free crap is still crap.

http://www.progressiveboink.com/b/images/100film/65.jpg

well this is wat my job got me after alot of saving up
06 FBM capone excalibus forks with lifetime warranty flys 3 amigo bars, odi grips, elementarty stem, j lever revenge brakes (linear cable). wtp ti bar stops, profile cranks(Ti spindle) sealed mg cielencki pedals. tree sproket, macneil OG seat combo, FBM clamp, shadow Ti lite pegs, LHD profile mini hub ti driver & axle on a 7ka rim and a proper magnatanium hub wiht hazard lite on front normal spokes(doesntbotherme), oddyesey path tires, khe collapse chain, kink chain tensioners . and THATS wat 6 months work get u so for all u slackers out there who liek riding! get a job

i own my own dream bike thank you.... and i dont need to imagine it i can ride it when i want so technicly its a reality bike.

first off BUMP...second off....


Frame:Take Ivy 20.75
Fork: Odyssey Race or Dirt butted
Stem: Redneck XLT
Bars:Slams or Medium LTs
Grips: Primo V
Headset: FSA or Solid
Barends:Kink Light
Cranks: Profiles Deluxe w/Ti spindle
Pedals: Primo Balance Mg Sealed
Sprocket: Five BMX 30t (local company in VA/MD)
Chain: KMC 510 or Shadow 2
No chiantensioner
F Tire: Primo Dirt monster 2.2
R Tire: Primo Wall 2.1
F rim: Primo Balance 36 Black
R rim: Primo HulaHoop 36h chrome
F hub: Profile Mini or Primo Low 3/8
R hub: Primo Mix Cassete w/ ti 11t driver
Spokes:DT Swiss in black
Pegs: if any...animal or Poverty
Brakes: Fly
Brake Cable: Nokon in Black
Lever: Primo J
Seat: Fit or Macneil SL
Seatpost: Fit or Macneil
Clamp: Premium or Profile
2mm stem spacer, slammed seat, all black parts and metallic green frame...
YEAH!

A set of wings and helium filled bike tubes would be nice.