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midwestside:
Brian,
How does that OG performer ride with zero forks? I'm pretty sure those old performers had like 72-73 HA.
Just wondering how mixed school bikes ride? and do you prefer them to modern setups?
tod miller:
--- Quote from: midwestside on August 17, 2009, 07:43:20 AM ---Brian,
How does that OG performer ride with zero forks? I'm pretty sure those old performers had like 72-73 HA.
Just wondering how mixed school bikes ride? and do you prefer them to modern setups?
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I asked this same question in the post he made about his bikes.
http://www.global-flat.com/smf/index.php?topic=28718.msg251794#msg251794
brian84corvette:
hey mid west side -
I am not super crazy tall, but if I stand strait up im 6 ft.
I basicly dont like bikes with less than 13.25 for the rear triangle measurment
and thats realley impossible to find in todays flatland frames.
when I kick / scuff the rear tire my leg constantly bashes in to the back of the seat of a bike with a short rear triangle. even 13.0 feels short for me.
so to combat this issue I have, I used to run my seat post mini lay back style
so that the seat is facing fowards to give me more room out back to kick on the tire
with out hurting my legs.
but
now that im learning more things, I need front room also.
so the mini lay back style of seatpost does not suit my riding now.
nore is it conducive to tricks like hang 5 or cliffhanger for me.
this pic is showing me in cliffhanger on a 1985 skyway street beat frame.
the rear end of this bike is sweet with the platform. its hard to tell from the pic,
but when in cliffhanger with this frame I can sit down a bit on the rear seat stays
and its a nice comfy spot to be in, vs new frames with short rear triangles = a tire going up your ass crack - not exactly the best feeling in the world especialy when falling on this trick.
since this frame is 18.5 top tube it should feel short right ? not so tho
because the rear triangle is 14.25 slamed. so the over all wheel base of the bike
is still large. there is plenty of rear room on this bike, enough so that
I could actually run a mini lay back seat post if I find one in 22.2mm with micro ajust gutts.
here are a fiew more riding pix with that bike.
I did not take any good pix riding that 87 performer yet, but its nice.
I managed to pick one with a some what steep head tube angle. I got lucky I guess.
but
I find it impossible to ride with offset forks now that I have gotten so used to 0 offset.
im a 0 offset guy for life now. so to me any bike with it feels better.
midwestside:
Just traded an old crappy schwinn road bike for an 86-87 green/chrome Haro master!!!!!
Thinking of doing a mixed school bike with the help of your Headset conversion thread.
Also, I think you are dead on about longer wheelbases. I just added a couple half links to my chain to put the backwheel about as far is it can go on my Strowler.
Very stable in squeakers and my bike didn't get squirrely after trying to coast a backward hang 5 from squeakers.
I also finally decided that I am a full offset guy. I've tried to get adjusted to a minimal offset on and off for a few years. It always disappoints me, and I go back to full and it just feels easier and more relaxed.
Evil_Lincoln:
I'm giving you big points for digging out these older frames and riding them. The guy on the Tubo is thinking, "WTF is that frame, man?!" It just goes to show you, everybody is different and sometimes you need to conjure up sh!t to make things work your way. This is a good post.
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