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Shorten Your Bike ] |
Shorten Your Bike
OK WELL THERE ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS TO SHORTEN YOUR BIKE AND ONE OF THEM ARE CUTTING YOUR BARS DOWN TO WHERE THEY ARE AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT FEELING CRAMPED OR THAT YOUR SOME DEFORMED FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER MUTANT NOT THAT BEING A MUTANT IS BAD-ASK THE X-MEN. ANYWAYS BE SURE WHEN CUTTING YOUR BARS THAT YOU HAVE THEM CUT EVENLY WITH THE OTHER SIDE AND ONE WAY TO DO THAT IS CUT THE BARS WHERE YOU WANT IT AND IT FEELS GOOD AND THEN TAKING THE CUT SIDE AND MATCHING IT AGAINST THE UNCUT SIDE OF THE BAR AND MARKING IT WITH A BLACK MARKER. BASICALLY YOU DOING A CLONE OF WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY CUT WHICH WILL GIVE YOU AN EVENLY CUT BARS ON BOTH SIDE AND MAKE SURE ALSO YOU CUT THE BARS EVENLY ACROSS ON BOTH SIDES AS GETTING YOUR BAR ENDS ON A UNEVEN CUT BARS ARE A REAL BITCH AND BELIEVE ME, YOU START HAVING PROBLEMS IF YOU HAVE TO START CUTTING IT OVER AND OVER AS THERE IS AN INDEFINITE THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG.
OK OTHER WAYS TO SHORTEN YOUR BIKE IS USING A SHORT STEM AND SOME OF THE SHORTEST STEMS AND ALSO HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE LIGHTEST STEMS IS THE DIG-IT MACROSS STEM AND IT HAS A REAL SHORT REACH ON IT AND DONT KNOW OF ANY OTHER FLATLAND STEM THAT IS SHORTER THAN THE MACROSS. YET ANOTHER SHORT STEM AND ALSO A LIGHT STEM IS THE BRICKHOUSE STEM WHICH IS JUST A BIT LONGER THAN THE MACROSS AND FINALLY THE LAST REAL SHORT STEMS OF THE BUNCH WE WOULD RECOMMEND IS THE DIG-IT PENEZEK STEM WHICH IS THE LONGEST OF THE THREE BUT WITHIN GOOD LENGTH OF BEING A SHORT STEM. THE OTHER WAYS TO SHORTEN YOUR BIKE INCLUDES PUTTING YOUR SEAT ALL THE WAY UP FRONT ON THE RAILS TO WHERE YOUR SEAT IS ACTUALLY THE MOST FOWARDEST POSTION AND THIS WILL CUT THE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR BARS AND SEAT AND SOME DONT LIKE DOING THAT AS IT CRAMPS THEM BUT OTHERS LIKE A SHORTER TOPTUBE AND THAT WOULD BASICALLY MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
OK WHEN TALKING ABOUT SIZE IN HANDLEBARS THE YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT BARS HAVE THE LOWEST CROSS BARS FOR THOSE JUMPING TRICKS OR THE LOWEST RISE AND THERE ARE SEVERAL REAL LOW BARS TO LOOK AT AND THEY ARE THE GRAVEYARD T.I. BARS, ARES SPAN Q BARS,THE VENUSIA FLATLAND BARS,KHE PHIL DOLAN BARS AND GT FLATLAND BARS. YOU TAKE YOU PICK AS THEY GO FROM 6.5 RISE FOR THE VENUSIA BARS TO THE GRAVEYARD T.I. BARS AT 7.0 AND IF YOU WANT A SMALL AND COMPACT SETUP THEN THE VENUSIA BARS ARE THE LOWEST BARS OUT THERE AND THEN NEXT IS THE ARES SPAN Q BARS AT 6.75 RISE. IT DEPENDS HOW LOW AND COMPACT YOU WANT TO SETUP YOUR FRONT END AND I KNOW ALOT OF RIDERS GO FOR THE LOWEST RISE AND CROSS BARS AS POSSIBLE.
A NORCAL RIDER NAMED PETE BRANDT DOES SOMETHING THAT FEW DO AND THATS PUTS HIS PEGS IN THE PEG BOSSES OF THE FORKS AND HE HAS SAID IT FEELS NATURAL AND HE WANTS A SHORTEN FRONT END AND HAVING THE PEGS FURTHER UP ON THE FORKS SHORTENS THE FRONT END OF HIS BIKE AS HE HAS HIS FEET UP FURTHER ON THE FORKS AND THE GOOD POINTS ON THIS IS THAT THE AXLE GETS STRIPPED LESS OFTEN, LESS STRESS ON THE FRONT WHEEL AS YOUR NOT PUTTING YOUR FEET ON THE AXLE WHICH PUTS PRESSURE ON THE WHEEL, AND IF THERE IS LESS PRESSURE ON THE WHEEL IT SHOULD ROLL BETTER SHOULDNT IT ON THOSE FRONT WHEEL STUFF. THERE ARE SOME BAD POINTS ON PUTTING YOUR FRONT PEGS ON THE FORK BOSSES, OFCOURSE YOUR HAVE STRIPPAGE OF THE PEG BOSS AXLES,AND ALSO FINDING THE RIGHT BOLT TO FIT ON THE FORK BOSSES IS ALWAYS A HASSLE. THERE IS ALSO THE FACT YOUR PUTTING PRESSURE NOW ON THE FORK AND FORKS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO BEND OR TWEAK OR CRACK TIME TO TIME IF YOU DONT HAVE A GOOD FORK AND FINDING A GOOD FORK THAT IS LIGHT AND HAS A GOOD RAKE AND HAVE PEG BOSSES IS VERY HARD.
OK I HOPE THIS HAS HELPED IN SOME WAY TO MAKE YOUR BIKE MORE COMPACT AND SMALLER AND WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO LIGHTEN YOUR BIKE THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE A PRETTY SMALL AND LIGHT BIKE TO FLATLAND ON AND THIS MAKES ALOT OF TRICKS EASIER TO DO. NOW GO OUT AND RIDE..................
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