BMX - Ghetto Mods for your Bike

have you done anything to your bike that is like ghetto-fied? i put pencil erasers on top of my spokes to stop them from puncturing the innertube... i just got bored of trying over and over again to build my rim right, and im gonna buy new ones anyways. so yeah, anything youve done to your bike that has made it kinda ghetto-ish???

yeah i have a one bike that i use v brakes on and every time my right foot would go up past the seatstays, the little curved metal part of the brake would scrape me in the ankle, so i stuck a twist tie on it to put it against the seatstay.

Maybe we can fight about it again(I'd prefer not), but I have rubber bands on my brakes instead of springs. That's pretty ghetto..

lol dont they slip?

Maybe we can fight about it again(I'd prefer not), but I have rubber bands on my brakes instead of springs. That's pretty ghetto..
thats not pretty ghetto, thats extremely super ghetto.

one time we wanted my friend to come riding with us, but he had broken part of his bb, and we super glued his crank on.

One time I was trying to pound out my headset cup in my frame so after trying to pound it out with a 3 pound hammer we put a pipe through the headtube in the frame and picked up the frame and banged the pipe on the ground(so that it would hit out the cups) and after 5 hits on the ground it flew up in the air and it came down after 10 whole seconds. It must have been 100 feet in the air. This isn't realy a gehto thing on my bike but it still fits in the thread.

thats not pretty ghetto, thats extremely super ghetto.
hey, i leaned it from all the richy mc.richerson woodward regulars. They're quite far from ghetto.

lol dont they slip?
they work beautifully.

Nah - I'm sure it works, it's just ghetto as he said!

I put hot glue in the back of my plastic seat. Since I do a lot of upside down tricks and rip through seats about once a month, the hot glue makes the seat more comfortable to hold and keeps it together for about an extra month or two. I ripped a padded seat in half in about 3 hours... no padding for me ever.

one time i destroyed my seat guts and the seat kept sliping to like a 45 degree angle, so i taped the front of the seat to the top tube.

I've had brake housing held together with pacing tape before, but I can't think of anything like that on my bike right now.

lol, lots of smart stuff. anyways, when i was trying to put the seat post into the frame, it wouldnt go so i had to pount it in with a hammer, the only problem being that the seat was built into the post (literally) so my friend wanted to try and broke the back part of the seat off, so we super glued it and after i went up on a curb, the back of the seat hit me and broke off and it stabbed my rear...

i now have an Odyessey Linear Slic Kable now, but when i was building up my bike bit by bit, before i had a proper brake cable, i was using three short outer cables (they were short because they were from mountain bike deraillier outer cables. And the cable itself was stuffed from getting pushed through the outers. It did work but when i did barspins, the brakes were almost locked

Haha, i don't have to worry about that. I dont put brakes on my bikes.

i broke teh thread inside my crank arm so i welded the pedal on ghetto improvisation i say

my star nut broke, so i drilled a hole through the stem and put a nut through to hold it that wierd for a while becaus i couldnt turn ihad to manuel to turn.

I almost duct-taped a thermometer to my bar but then i got a computer with a thermometer... :)

Do you ride a bmx bike? Or just your commuter?

for awhile i had cigarette filters on the end of my brake cables cuz they always cuz my legs open.

i kno some ppl who sand down the paint, to make it less attractive, also a dude who put a tennis ball in the spokes.

My rear rack is connected to the seat tube with zip-ties. My "parking brake"is a rubber band on my drop bars. My handle bar tape is thick rubber electrical tape. I repaint my bikes with matte black rustoleum, 'cuz it looks Mad Max smooth and it deters thieves who tend to go for Trek-like looks. I made my own panniers out of Swiss army surplus canvas bags, and connected them to my rack with zip-ties. I connected my front fender to the fork with zip-ties. Surprisingly, none of these things looks bad, actually, the bike looks like an A.N.T. bike now! "Ghetto" isn't necessarily a POS, it just isn't something Lance would ride. I'm thinkin' about becoming a superhero, only, instead of webs I'll have a pocket full of zip-ties.

Kris, show us a pic of your bike!

My bike isn't that ghetto, but I u-lock stuff to myself when I need to carry it home:
http://charles.loveofcolor.org/bikeforums/ulock-hold-tires.jpg
The ghetto level would have increased to maximum intensity if I had used nimble branches to tie them to myself.

might as well tape a refridgerator to ur bike...

I need to get a U-lock holder type thing for my bag.

i dont know if this is ghetto but around my house some people have 2 big a$$ speakers ( these speakers about 3 feet high and 2ft wide each ) on the back of their low riders and in the front a small radio and they ride around all day like that

i dont know if this is ghetto but around my house some people have 2 big a$$ speakers ( these speakers about 3 feet high and 2ft wide each ) on the back of their low riders and in the front a small radio and they ride around all day like that

i think i rode with that guy.... that system is loud as hell. then again, I would guess there are a few people in NYC with systems on their bikes, i know one kid in philly who hooked up living room speakers to the back of his bike as a joke.

all i have on my bmx (that everyone makes fun of when they see it) is a giant milkcrate in back of the seat. I used some pipe and metal rods and built a very sturdy (and quick release believe it or not) holder for the milkcrate. Now I use it as my (shopping bike) when I know I have to ride somewhere where the bike will probably be stolen. Since its an old mongoose frame with some cheapo huffy parts from when i was 6 years old (my first bike) i dont really care about it much. Its clattery and clangy and loud, especially when there are bottles of booze in the crate. its a fun little bike.

yesterday i tried to 180 a gap, and my front wheel didnt clear it, so i got a flat. i patched my tube with duct tape.

did it work?

yea .my tube still has all the air in it

its a stolen bike..... it couldnt get any more ghetto than that could it? unless somebody put some 28' rims on it.

the paint on one of my dynos is basicallly camo ducktape (dont ask, i got very bored one day)

I see that tennis ball thing on bikes every now and then. It's to increase momentum, right?

I line my tires with baby powder, to reduce pinch-flats.

Why did you bring back this thread? I don't understand how you can actually do that by mistake. There's just no need to bring back a 3 year old thread.

Why did you bring back this thread? I don't understand how you can actually do that by mistake. There's just no need to bring back a 3 year old thread.
Gooooood point.

Why did you bring back this thread? I don't understand how you can actually do that by mistake. There's just no need to bring back a 3 year old thread.
Word.

Sorry for my noob question but, what's the tube queensrider86 (http://www.bikeforums.net/member.php?u=22557) was talking about? WHat's it's use?Pictures, please?

yesterday i tried to 180 a gap, and my front wheel didnt clear it, so i got a flat. i patched my tube with duct tape.

I tried that once only my tire had a hole in it also, needless to say it didnt work i hit one little jump on it and it broke and bent my rim slightly but i wanted to ride lol

why! these threads come back and almost none of the people who posted ever come post anymore.

I'm still convinced that queens is Nigel Sylvester.

As am I. I miss him.

I'm still convinced that queens is Nigel Sylvester.

I was thinking this again after watching Flipside yesterday.

Ones I've seen on other people bikes. Crisco chain lube. Same chain held together by 8 masterlinks rather then buying a new chain. Metal clothes hanger bent and wraped around frame to hold the coaster brake arm on. Ducktape and an old sofa pad over plastic freestyle seat. Bolt in place of a missing pedal. Pogo stick/springer front fork. Thats all I got.

i kno some ppl who sand down the paint, to make it less attractive, also a dude who put a tennis ball in the spokes.

that would've been a good idea for my HARO F4, it was Carolina Blue, and while i was at word some punk cut the cable on my lock and jacked the bike. i did end up finding the bike, while rolling through town in my truck the other night with a friend i spotted a kid riding a familiar bike, turns out it was my damn bike. needless to say, that kid's missing a tooth

I used duct tape on my bike seat to protect it from falls when I bail (almost every trick hahaha). I took it off recently cause it looked stupid.

I tore my new GT seat from doing a wheelie and I colored it in with a black Sharpie.

I tore my new GT seat from doing a wheelie and I colored it in with a black Sharpie.
i did the same but i kinda drew on it. i drew a :)

I tore my new GT seat from doing a wheelie and I colored it in with a black Sharpie. I scratched my stem awhile back, so i colored it in with a sharpie. I felt lame.

A few weeks ago i ripped my Coalition seat on a looped-out-manual-to-ditch-bike-run-to-fall-onto-stomach. Don't forget to feather your brakes kids! Pissed me off.

1. Buy your bike from wally-mart. Break it the first day, but keep riding it anyway.

2. Find a trashed BMX in a dumpster. Ride as you found it, but remove any stickers. (This is what I did-- twice.)

3. Steal one from a white kid. Ride it where he can see you.

this is me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE