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 11th July 2008 | #1 |
 | Tricks bike advice thinking about building up a tricks orientated conversion out of a piece of turd roady frame (yet to buy). so 650 front wheel, 48/20 or similar ratio question: to stick a bmx style stem on, do you need modern forks/ headset... how does this work? are there just two styles, one where the clamp goes around the pipe protruding from the headset; and the other traditional stem that inserts into the headset? any advice greatly appreciated yarp |
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| 11th July 2008 | #2 |
 | Get a quill to A-head converter... About 10GN... From here http://www.cyclebasket.com/products.php?plid=m9b0s402p0 or Condor have a black Deda for £14.99... Make sure they give you the right size, they gave me the wrong one which I then had to shim... Cnuts! Last edited by teenslain; 11th July 2008 at 10:20.. |
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| 11th July 2008 | #3 |
| | Have you thought about buying one of these. http://www.fitbikeco.com/completes.html You can do tricks on it, and you won't look so ridiculous |
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| 11th July 2008 | #4 | |
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is building up a fixie specific to doing tricks going against some weird fixed gear rule? | |
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| 11th July 2008 | #7 | |
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 im not one to judge. oh, and its worth mentioning that the strenght of a BMX style stem will not benefit you in anyway if you are clamping it onto a AHEAD coverter insterted into your standard quill set up. it will just way more, and if anything, be weaker. | |
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| 11th July 2008 | #8 | |
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But being a bmxer, I just think that trying to emulate (lame) bmx tricks, on a bike that was designed to go around velodromes, is a bit wierd. | |
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| 11th July 2008 | #13 |
| | where from? dunno http://www.brooklynmachineworks.com/ |
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| 11th July 2008 | #17 | |
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What cunts. I cant think of any other frame a 1 1/8 steel fork would match well with either. Would have to get the whole frameset. They build up nice though, bombproof yet somehow still light. Look abit like an mtb though with the sloping top tube and the oversized tubes. | |
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