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Old 08-10-11 | 01:08 AM
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Trick Gearing?
Anyone know a rear cog that would make my front 48 tooth east to trick with? so i could wheelie easier? i already run a 18 on the rear cog but it isnt enough. anyone know what gearing the macaframa guys use?
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Old 08-10-11 | 01:22 AM
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Trick gearings are miniscule... 48/21 does not even come close. Also I heard it helps to be super buff to wheelie easier and bar spinz for dayz.

Macaframa guys run 51/14. Which tells me that you have to HTFU.
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Old 08-10-11 | 01:31 AM
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well i can wheelie my bike, just not easily. idk how the gear thing works tho. the bigger the rear the easier it is to pedal? or the front? care to explain? i know i sound stupid, but i JUST started working on my bike. ive been riding it for 6 months but now im bored of just riding around
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Old 08-10-11 | 02:44 AM
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i have rode for 6 months. and can wheelie just not easily. look up keo curry. whats his gearing!?
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Old 08-10-11 | 03:07 AM
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Read what Sheldon Brown has to say about gear ratios and gear inches. If I were you I'd swap out the chainring for something much smaller, 42 or 44 tops. Bigger cog, too; 19 or 21. (44-21 would be great of you plan to skid a lot; research "skid patches").
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Old 08-10-11 | 09:04 AM
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all of the guys in the movie macaframa are running pretty high gear ratios. a "trick" ratio will be a LOT lower
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don't listen to them bro just get aerospoke in the back and spynergy in da frunt bro bar spinz like wow bro get your dick wet like wow bro
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i dont feel like dropping 600 bucks on rims. sorry.
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just run the biggest chainring and the smallest cog you can get your hands on. and they have to be njs.
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don't listen to them bro just get aerospoke in the back and spynergy in da frunt bro bar spinz like wow bro get your dick wet like wow bro
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that would be harder to pedal. im not stupid. nice try D o u c h e F a g
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that would be harder to pedal. im not stupid. nice try D o u c h e F a g
Are you sure?
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Originally Posted by tbailey538
that would be harder to pedal. Im not stupid. Nice try d o u c h e f a g
b u t y o u a s k e d w h a t t h e m a c a f r a m a g u y s r o d e. C a n ' t t a k e t h e t r u t h h u h ?
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Then grow some ballz and HTFU
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Originally Posted by Tbailey538
nice try D o u c h e F a g
Is that a new conjunction? Shouldn't it have an apostrophe?
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It's a compound word like cowboy or crankarm. No apostrophe.
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