Bars, Grips, and Tires?
 

I had the money to order a new bike today, so I went into the shop and it turns out that Eastern is sold out of all of the Janes and Ace of Spades's. Sucky. I decided I didn't want to pay the extra for a Fit Flow, plus I wanted to support the local shop and not buy it online, so I decided on the Specialized Fuse III. Ordered it, should be here early next week. :)

Now, my question is, since it cost less than I was prepared to pay, should I just do some upgrades right off the bat? I was thinking of getting Odyssey Path tires, maybe a different one in front, and ODI Longneck's, and possibly some Odyssey Civilian bars because the digital camo ones look sweet in the pics I've seen :D
Are those choices good? I live on a dirt road and will be doing some dirt riding, but also hopefully a lot of street and park.

Or I could always put the money towards a fisheye. Who knows.

Unless you have people lined up to buy the non used parts you would be replacing of it right away, then I wouldn't upgrade it right away. Just ride them out untill they all die, then replace them. Put your money in the bank untill then also.

Yeah... that'll happen. :rolleyes: :D

Well, I have a feeling the stock grips aren't the greatest, but I might be wrong. My friend would probably want the tires though. I'll see how they feel at least. And I know I want some Jim C's for it, but I might just use the ones on my current bike for a while.
The bars I know I don't need, heh.

And the money will go in the bank.. until I find something I want :D

Grips- I would reccomend Odyssey Matt Beringer
Tires- Fly or a Maxxis M tread in the back and a maxxis holy roller in the front (i liked that combination too)
Bars- I dont have much experience with bars, I'm still using stock, I bought some nyquist bars to give 4pc a try, but i didnt like them.

Grips: ODI Rogue
Tires: Haro Joe Dirt
Bars: Sunday

Grips - Primo Martinez (NO Q & A)

Tires - Primo Wall or KHE not so sure about tires

Bars - Odyssey Civillian Svelte(or just the regulars)

Hmmm. What lens are you looking at?

I want to get the Peleng 8mm manual focus fisheye for starters - here's a page with some test images:
http://www.jarnell.com/reviews/peleng/tests.htm

It goes for around $200 new on Ebay, and though the optical quality is not L-series class it's supposed to be a decent lens if you don't print big (and I don't). And eventually I'd like an ultrawide zoom.

8mm is film, but L series is DSLR...so are you confirming my notion that Flim lenses and camera lenses are interchanable?

Grips --> anything that is clayton is good.
Tires, The Maxxis Holy Rollers look pretty good, i put them on the back by accident, im not sure if you can put it on the back for dirt....no dirt trails near the Bronx

These new 4 pc bars like nyquist are **** (altho i just found out there are also 2 pc nyquist bars)... i dont know what tricks you can do with such narrow width (flatland or whatever).

Get the parts. The lens is cheap and gimmicky. Better to hone your skills than jump on the trend bandwagon.

Bars: S&M Medium Lt or Slams
Grips: Primo V (best grips ever.)
Tires: Odyssey Dirt Path front, and Path rear (I want those new Aitken tires, when they come out)

I was referring to the focal length, not the size of the film. An 8mm fisheye is designed to project a circular image onto 35mm film, more or less. On a crop sensor, it's not a circle but it still has dark edges that need to be cropped, and/or un-distorted out. Plus I only have a still camera, no video. L-series is not only for DSLR's, it's Canon's pro series of lenses. Pretty much a guarantee you'll get great optical quality with any L-series lens, but you'll pay more. Plus you get a lot better build quality and focusing. In fact, all of the L-series lenses are designed to be used with film cameras or digital. The EF-S series of lenses are digital only, and 1.6x crop EF-S mount only (Rebel, Rebel XT, 20D and 30D).

I guess I'll be getting tires and grips at least, and possibly another set of Jim C's. I run holy rollers now, and they're OK, but I'd like to try something different.

That is correct. You can easily tell what series a Canon lens is by the ring at the front (red line, gold line or no line). L-series are the topline pro stuff and have a red line on them. The big focal length L-series are the long white lenses you see at sporting events.

For instance:

http://consumer.usa.canon.com/app/im...lu_586x225.jpg

I would love one of these:
http://consumer.usa.canon.com/app/im...su_586x225.jpg

Or even the 400, but the 300 2.8 is only 3 grand. So affordable!
(lol)

I used to have those bars...

Hmmm. My slowest lens is an f2.8. And yeah, my video camera used L series lenses too. Canon goodness. Spend on your bike, and save for better photo gear.

True that.

I just steal/borrow my parents camera, i would never dish out that kind of money for one when theres is good, and most of my freinds have nice ones...

Nice. What's your fastest lens?
My slowest is 5.6 at the long end (kit lens, which I rarely use) and fastest is the 50 1.8. I do have a 2.8 telephoto though, it's definitely worth the weight for when the light is fading.

With dirt, you need deeper tread than Ody Path tires. The Dirt Path's tread isn't all that great either.

I'm not going to be like my friend and run tires that resemble the tires from a $50 Walmart mountain bike, and have my idea of fun be sliding around and laughing at how much of a skidmark I can make because of my crappy treads. I want something that actually hooks up on pavement and metal half pipes, and I'm not going to be riding on mountain bike trails or sandy motocross tracks. Going to make trails in my backyard, but they are going to be packed in pretty well.

I have the 50mm 1.8, every thing else is 2.8 zooms. 24-70, 28-70, and 70-210. Lens speed isn't always key in low light. You need to bump up the ISO. No sense freezing action and having no depth of field.

First of all, the Joe Dirts DO work supurbly on pavement. It's a great all around tire.

Second, I didn't mean you must run Joe Dirts, just use something with a little more tread depth even IF packed trails will be ridden.

Third, being a semi soft tire, Joe Dirts should be great for metal.

Joe Dirt tires are the best all around tire I've ever used. Far from being crap.

I wasn't referring to the Joe Dirts actually, should have made that more clear. When you said deeper tread I thought of the tires my friend runs, which after looking at the picture of Joe Dirts, have a lot deeper tread and look uglier than those. I'll consider them, thanks for the info.

Heh, I see what you mean. The focus is pretty hard to get right with moving things at 2.8, I have a lot of respect for sport shooters that shoot big lenses wide open all the time and still get the shots. Is the 70-210 you have a Canon or a Tamron? I have the Tamron one that I bought used a while ago.