Fixed Freestyle Set ups

i think i will take one pair primos from my older bike next.
love that grind guard.

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Need to stick yourself on the list then dude!

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread26287.html

sure, check post nr 52, i am on ;)

need more pictures on this thread! I need to get some ideas for my new cutter :)

Buy a cutter?! Are you buying it as a complete or just the f+f?

just the frame, the V3 in 'cyan' hopefully get it early next week. I've got another bike which i'm stripping basically and putting most of the parts on the cutter. DP18's with a stripped rear hub so i was thinking of getting one of those disc hubs off velosolo. Apart from that i just need a fork which i'm still thinking about.

I'd go with the disk hub being a great idea. I don't know why more people don't run the disk hub conversion cogs. You can get SS jump bike rear hubs with a 120mm spacing to run a fixed on the disk side and a ss on the other. The cogs hold without any chance of slippage whereas on my normal threads I have that slight niggle in the back of my mind that the cog could slip and send me flying.

For forks there are quite a lot of options. I run a DMR Trailblade dirt jump fork. They're pretty heavy (around 1.4kg) but they're absolutely bombproof. It depends what style you want and what material you want to run. If you want light and strong, but don't mind having a very stiff front end, then you could go with some aluminium 26" trials forks.

Yeah i used to run a DMR revolver rear hub - shits on any fixed offering out there

Good call vinyl!

I always thought the disc hubs were a great idea. The velosolo ones get built to the spacing you ask for so you don't need to mess around with that. After stripping my hub by rushing and not tightening the lock ring enough i'm a bit wairy of them, i know i shouldn't be but like you said it will always be in the back of my mind that it will slip. Ideally i want the Fu Manchu fork but everywhere in the UK only has green at the moment. Identiti Park fork was my second option but aparently the steerer is quite short and only just fits on a 56 frame. DMR's are looking like the best option at the moment, do they throw the geo out much?

Well I run mine with a 26" wheel so the geo sits about where it would have been with the original fork and 700c wheel. You can expect the front end to go up by the difference between a 26" wheel and a 700c wheel, so around an inch or two. I would say that if you're going to run this bike as a freestyle/tricks bike then you'll have no trouble with it. It'll just slow the steering down a little, but after a couple of weeks it'll just feel normal to you.

I think i'm gonna wait and see when i get the frame. Get the measurment of the head tube then find out the steerer length on an identiti. The a2c on them is only 425mm (i think) so they are only 5mm higher than than fu manchu. I wanna do this bike properly, the past two 'projects' i've done have been a pain in the arse, mainly because i didn't think when i got the frames. The Cutter will be used for the odd barspin or keo(when i learn them), general messing about but still want it as a solid day to day bike aswell.

My cutter is now on back order untill August 12th, originally i would have got it today latest but now have to wait until the 13th earliest until i'll get it! Gve's me more time to wait for other colours of the Fu Manchu fork to come in i guess..

hey james, do you have a demolition crank on your cutter?
did you cut the spindle? looks like it will be very wide on the cutter even with spindle cut to maximum.
any idea for a shorter spindle?

nah I got profiles, i'm gonna take a look at a shorter axle, removing the external dusts covers then maybe whacking one of these things on, should keep the chainline good :)

@CrazyJames

I went to shop14 yesterday and got those forks you reccomended, last white ones in stock which was lucky. They weigh about the same as the frame but they look good. The clearance is really tight and i've only tried it with 23's. I was gonna go up to 32's but i don't know if it's gonna fit. Cheers for the advice.

also could anyone recommend some decent 32x700c tyres? Not too expensive if poss. Cheers.

you already checked the frame if a 32er tire would fit? i dont think so!

on a V3? i thought they had solved the problem of not being able to fit bigger tyres? What would be the max then?

vittoria radonneur, continetal top contact, schwable marathon?

nice one, i had seen the radonneur ones i'll have a look at the others, cheers.

what size tyres (width) do you guys run on the 'trick' style bikes? the 23's i have at the moment which i tried looked stupidly skinny with the chunky jump forks, i still want it to be relatively quick on the roads so don't want something with huge tred.

i prefer 23 to 25c tires.

bigger tires are the first step, freewheel is next ;)

i feel 23 is far to thin, 28 is a nice compromise but i personally prefer to go wider.

Skinny tyres for tricks are shit, only good for normal riding, you want 28 at a minimum, especially if you wanna start doing wallrides and jumping off of stuff.
But really you want 32c+ up back and around 35c+ up front, steer clear of schwalbe marathons as for some reason they are taller than most other tyres (maybe due to the puncture protection later).

Porter, with regards to those forks you got, you may need to file down the inside of the fork crown a little, but they clear 32c no problem.
I have a 38C schwalbe marathon plus on my front wheel right now, which means I could clear a 40c normal tyre quite comfortably, after filing them down a little.