Yeha, i knew what you were talking about, but is it really going to give me more "torque" or breaking power? I mean my brakes work pretty was as they are...

My only rule for breaks: I have to be able to stop in the middle of a rythmn section.

Maybe. Less friction because it wont rub as mutch.

Plus it will look alot better having the 2 cables parallel horizontally.

Brake, not break. You don't want your brakes to break on you.

Opps.

Yeah maybe ill try it, i like my bike looking clean and simple...

Post an "after" pic please.:)

It wont happen until either my brakes slip or i snap a cable, becuase i dont touch my brakes i let one of two people (amazing at doing brakes people) at the local bike shop do it. I HATE working on my brakes.

If you only need them to stop in the middle of a rhythm section, why don't you work on them yourself? It's not 'rocket surgery'...

None of the 'hood kids want me doing anything to their brakes because they say mine work too good. I don't think there's a such thing as brakes too good.

I rode this racers bike at the local track once, it was scary how good his breaks worked...

Picture this:
V-Brakes
Chrome rims
Simple green SMOTHERED
Sanded hell rough
AND Really good brake shoes that were hella tacky.

I pulled them and almost flipped over his bars.



And i just hate working on my brakes.
Everything else i do myself, except breaks.

Brakes are my favorite thing to work on for bikes.

I have the brakes off my bike ATM, and I like it so far, but I haven't decided if I'm going to take the brakes off my new bike when I get it or not. Gyro setups tend to look pretty messy, but at least you can barspin and still have brakes.. but you can stop fine without brakes and I like riding without them better.

I don't think mine looks messy. Not as messy as a rediculously long brake cable (which for trail riding is dangerous).

Care to explain that? Or why you'd need a long straight cable in the first place to do barspins or whips?

not that long though. my friend can spin his bars round 4 times (well he cant...but if he wanted to its long enough).

being able to do that 4 times = ridiculously (sp?) long

Speaking of spinning the bars, me and my frineds hit up Minneapolis street(in Props VM 57 I think), and I decided to all the sudden get my 180 barspins down. It made me laugh.

I see alot of pics with huge loops of cable projecting forward from the bikes.

If I had that on the trails I ride, I'd get hurt everytime I go out.

Seems like a personal problem to me. Maybe next time, you shouldn't generalize that as being dangerous for anyone riding trails, but simply as dangerous for you.

I've had to help quite a few kids to a paved road after tree limbs snagged cables so they can be hauled away to a hospital.

I care not to chance it.

Ever heard of "pruning"? You might want to do that if people are flying right into tree branches.

I do regularly.

But new trails pop up all the time...(heavily wooded area)

My Fit

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...o/IMG_0542.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...o/IMG_0541.jpg

i like it...real clean

any specs?

nice breaks
im assuming mostly street?

its not spelled 'breaks'...please stop spelling it like that. its spelled 'brakes'

i got a f3 and i wanna get a new frame what good frames r out there n wat should i look for?

You should learn to spell first. This is not AOL.