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King of the Lookback.  I remember tutorials in the magazines and just laughing like I knew better than to even try that shit.  That black chrome was fucking BAD ASS.

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On 6/1/2024 at 12:22 PM, troph said:

 

Probably a quarter mile or so actually.  We’d ride from left to right on this orientation down split rail parkway to the curve (red circle).  We rented a house around the curve before hillside oak lane. Blue circle was the area I could roam without supervision - although now I think about it I could ride up to the movie theatre too to play video games. So lake creek to just before 183. That pool at Anderson mill park is where all kinds of shit went down. 

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you and i probably passed each other on our bikes a million times.

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On 9/5/2024 at 8:42 AM, Mittens said:

If you dig flatland freestyle, there's an event coming up soon here in Austin:  https://www.facebook.com/events/818913480191718

Killer event!  Hung out w/ some crazy talented dudes, ate some tasty free tacos and saw some mind blowing tricks.  There should be a longer vid at some point w/ some more of the best trick contest, but these were the 3 winners.  White t-shirt guy is an engineer at NASA!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1434588840549436

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That’s a gyro and it allows the bars to spin without restriction of the brake cable.  So when freestyle guys are doing all those bar spins, their bars keep spinning. 

 

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When I was 10, I decided to try my hand at BMX racing.  I went out to the track for a practice run and had a good time.  I signed up for a race.  Next thing I know, my old Mongoose's front tire is resting on a rail and I'm crammed between all manner and means of total redneck kids who are about to eat my lunch.  The kid next to me mocks, "Nice bike."  The gate goes down and I come in dead last.  It wasn't for me.  But I feel like I turned out better for the experience.

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7 hours ago, Mittens said:

Weird...not sure why that link isn't working anymore...  Still active and public on his page.

do you have firefox? it blocks facebook by default iirc.

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12 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's going on with that brake apparatus?  I missed most of BMX, but am pretty familiar with bikes.

 

11 hours ago, Mittens said:

That’s a gyro and it allows the bars to spin without restriction of the brake cable.  So when freestyle guys are doing all those bar spins, their bars keep spinning. 

 

That is the bane of my BMX existence. I keep getting bikes with them and I can't get them to work for jack, so I pull them off and run regular cables.  F Gyro Oryg Gyro2.... 

And F this thread for reminding me that I have a GT to build and need to find some original mongoose forks from the 80s or I will be made fun of at a swap meet. 

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