Brooklyn Machine Works

Doesn't make sense as MTB were almost as skinny as road rims in the old days.

pads toed in?

Skinny road rims and V brakes have a tendency to squeak a fair bit. I think Tim had the same issue when he ran that set up for a bit. It doesn't seem to be a problem with miniV though. I gave up trying to sort it out as the brakes felt shite with drop levers anyway. maybe get a Mini V on there?

yeah. i reckon the ceramic surface doesnt help tbh. although it has largely worn away now

this could be an idea

You mean anodised? Ceramic is pretty hard to wear away.

open pro CDs. they are second hand and have seen a lot of use, there is still no silver showing mind

Huh, now getting confused, CD is some kind of special coating, but not ceramic?

(just notice they still do CD in 2016).

sorry I am wrong, they arent CD, they are just ceramic. i always thought CD meant ceramic but a quick google says that isnt true

Looks like your beautiful works of art just got a little rarer.

http://www.handbuiltbicyclenews.com/c33-tubing/142-true-temper-to-discontinue-bicycle-tubing-line

are brooklyns even made out of true temper?

fuck worrying about brooklyns though, what on earth is the entire american BMX world going to do about this news, true temper ox was their blood line

For real. S&M and FBM n such are gon be stuck

Brooklyns are made from Super Therm, which is made by True Temper, and yeah, gonna hit BMX world hard. Hopefully there'll be enough demand for another manufacturer to pick it up.

Déjà vu? Isn't this why they stopped making V2s, because of the tubing on the seat stays?

what about standard, they started this shit

i thought v2s were just 4130?

From their blog re the V2:

True Temper "Supertherm" butted, air-hardening, tubing is used for the top and down tubes on the Gangsta'. These tubes are made in the U.S.A. and are used on almost all high end BMX frames these days. The chainstay and seatstay tubing of the frame is custom drawn and butted to our specs.

The V1 fork legs are seamless, cold-drawn, 4130 "ProMoly Streamline Tubing" made in the USA by Plymouth Tube Co.

so the tubes for the v2 were made in the US then shipped to the far east? Sounds suspect to me tbh

I think this was the arrangement

Yeh that doesn't make any sense

@timbre mate, whack up pic of your ltd V2 tubing decal please before the tinfoil hats start coming out.

v2:

source:
http://brooklynmachineworks.blogspot.fi/2010/11/gangsta-track-framesets-in-stock-and.html

@Antidotes yeah it looks like that ^

As I wrote, tubing info came from the old BMW blog and I highly doubt that they would make such a claim if it wasn't true. Regarding why the V2's were made in Taiwan, one doesn't really have to know all the details about the tubing to safely assume that the main reason was $$$, shipping bulk back and forth on a freighter isn't that expensive, it's the labor rates that add up.

Anybody ridden all three G-tracks?