BMX - Bike Checks

Since my mtb hasn't came yet I guess I should post up my bmx stuff to make you guys with nice bikes laugh. Yes they are both very old school and waaaaaaay out of style but it's what I started with and I don't see any reason to change it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/S4t4n/DSCF0080.jpg
frame: 98 GT vertigo
fork: 98 GT
bars: Dyno 4 peice(now dyno air 2 peice not pictured)
stem: old school DK polished freestyle stem
seat: GT freestyle OEM performer
cranks: old one peice chromo
pedals: GT platform
chainwheel: old school odyssey black widow 43t
freewheel: 13t acs clawz
hubs: 3/8th black mohawk(yes very old school but damn they are smooth)
rims: single wall wienman 48 hole
tires: mongoose labeled kenda target cheapos

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frame: 83 Diamondback Viper
fork: 84 swine
bars: 4 peice dyno
stem: spin tech old school
seat: GT bmx circa mid 80's
cranks: one peice chromo
pedals: wellgo(mks graphite knockoffs)
chainwheel: proneck 45t
freewheel: acs 16t
hubs: dunno look decent
rims: sumo 36 hole
tires: dry rotted gumwall GT logo tires

Haha. Those are a bit old school. You should restore them to their prime just to have a kick with it.

Haha. Those are a bit old school. You should restore them to their prime just to have a kick with it.

That was the intention with the 83 viper but the frame is too rusted to bother and the other parts on it were trashed except the rims and stem. I stripped all the parts off and was gonna fix it up but I just decided there isn't enough there to do a serious resto. But I have been contemplating rebuilding it for fun and taking it to my local bmx track to see how fast it would be. The GT was gonna be my daily rider but the bike is just too old school for me to do any serious tricks on it for fear of it self destructing. You didn't tell me to lower my seat?

old bikes are meant to have the seats up high. i like the bikes but i would not freestyle on them in fear of self destruction. too much rust=unsafe.

old bikes are meant to have the seats up high. i like the bikes but i would not freestyle on them in fear of self destruction. too much rust=unsafe.

GT is totally rust free and the DB only has cosmetic rust. They aren't really good for freestyle due to the scrawny 1" theaded headsets and 3/8" axles.

they are nice for light riders because they are usually light.

Mmmmmmm chrome.

a brass wire wheel will clean that chrome up really nice

a brass wire wheel will clean that chrome up really nice

Nah it's pitted to the metal. I tried to clean up the fork with oxalic acid but it only got rid of all the rust and left the bare metal behind. Even if I could get the rust off the frame it would still need rechromed due to chrome just being plain old worn out. The nickel top plate has worn threw on the top tube and it no longer looks chrome up close. Thanks for the advice though!

iwantakona (http://www.bikeforums.net/member.php?u=90269) where do you live?

iwantakona (http://www.bikeforums.net/member.php?u=90269) where do you live?

Williamsburg virginia why?

Williamsburg virginia why?
my step dad owns a chrome shop and i get it for free!

the thread bites. face it.

Deal with it. It's just a thread where people post up their bikes.

this one sucks. for real. just put kinetics back up.

This thread has no point. Everyone should just post up their new rides on the old thread when they get a new bike. No need to have two threads. It's forum clutter.

Yeah, that made absolutely no sense. Seriously, stop your complaining- it's only a thread. Bringing back the other thread will do absolutely nothing. Just post your bike checks and stop your bickering.

its an old pic but it will work, its a little more beat up now and has different tires but thats it:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/boohoo583/My%20Bike/MVC-002S.jpg

This thread has no point. Everyone should just post up their new rides on the old thread when they get a new bike. No need to have two threads. It's forum clutter.
Agree-age.

Maybe you should just give in Gunz...

Haha I well don't see the problem in the new thread. Sorry but all your bothered about is being the person who wrote the thread Kinetic

I'm pretty much over it now. Now i just dog him for fun!

Now we just need people to post up their bike checks.

My parts still haven't come in from three weeks ago... so no bikecheck for me yet. They are also sending the wrong seat post so I may have to go elsewhere.

what seatpost? i just got the macneil pivital, but i only could get the og cause thats all the shop had.

I wanted the Macneil Stump and they are trying to get me to buy the regular Macneil because the guy at the shop doesn't know what he's talking about and he thinks they are the exact same thing. I'm probably going to order the Animal post from Dan's since it is the exact same thing as the Stump except a little cheaper and has an Animal logo on it.

wow some people are stupid. i bought my rims and thought they were double cause they said. sucks.

A seat post is a seat post. Let's be serious here. If you need pivitol they are pretty much all the same give or two a few ounces and shapes. And regular guts are all pretty much the same nowadays. You kids are silly.

There's a bit of a difference between a normal pivotal post and a pivotal stump post.

Not that a hacksaw cant fix.

Also, my 1664 post and aitken seat are lighter then most pivotal combo's anyways.

No, the work to fix a regular Macneil post to make it into a stump is absurd because you have to file the whole top. I'll probably end up ordering the new Animal seatpost.

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Still need to get a chain device and she'll be done.

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reppen the 90's i think its a 96 or 97 mongoose menace with the no brakes upgrade lol

holy crap! that chain is super loose. looks rusty too. best upgrade you can make.

WTP, your wheels are too big!

And so are my brakes, bars and everything else on that bike :p.

Also, i'm running pegless on the MacNeil just to **** up the frame so I can get a new one. Even though the rear triangle is twisted isn't enough of a reason for me.

If you wanted to mess up the frame, wouldn't using pegs do that just a wee bit quicker? Or are you trying to do pegless grinds? Your frame is nice- I wouldn't ruin it.

So picked up these two today, first real jump into bmx...

both Haro backtrail X1s...the black one is in need of just a little tune up, and the blue needs alot more(including the obvious tube up front).

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http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8485/bluesmallyg4.jpg

holy crap! that chain is super loose. looks rusty too. best upgrade you can make.


its only loose cuse i threw the tire on for the picture, it was off cuse it was torn, and not rusty, just way dirty from the DJ's

that black backtrtail was a score. nice tire on the back of the blue one.

Oh man same year as my old X1!

If you wanted to mess up the frame, wouldn't using pegs do that just a wee bit quicker? Or are you trying to do pegless grinds? Your frame is nice- I wouldn't ruin it.

Pegless grinds, and my frame is already twisted.

Also, **** three piece hubs, I destroyed my front hub so bad tonight the bike is barely ridable. Time for a new front wheel.

What did you to your front wheel? Did you try pegless smiths?

Ate **** on a rodeo grind X-up beerman style.

so what kind of condition are you in?

pissed, horny, hungry.

In that order.

that means you mean you didnt get too hurt. today i tried a 180 on a 16 inch and the axel went into my ankle.

I landed on my ass pretty hard, but it's fine.

Ate **** on a rodeo grind X-up beerman style.
I want to see a video of that. I forgot what they look like.

Youtube has a good one.

I also broke my hub tonight, like, made it un ridable and had to call a ride.

What did you to your front wheel? Did you try pegless smiths?
One of the guys i ride with does alot of pegless stuff. He's fairly smooth so he usually get 'em on his dropouts and doesn't kill anything. I just think he should get some pegs and cut them down a bit.