Exactly what I was thinking. A 90kg muscle bound BMX racer clearing 20+ foot doubles (hitting lip when goes bad etc,.) is putting more strain on the bike than a typical barspin off a kerb!
Question: What do you think puts more strain on a bike, a fixed gear freestyle rider jumping down a 6/7/8 set of stairs, or a bmx racer landing smoothly into the downslope of a 20ft double, there are many fixed freestyle riders doing a lot more than doing a barspin off a curb you numpty, ever heard of SuperTed, Odge, Oscar etc etc etc?
For the record I weigh 100kg, I ain't no skinny bitch hipster, and I have broken a shit load of parts in my time.
Before I finally upgraded everything I could possibly upgrade on my previous bike to bmx parts, then I stopped breaking shit, thats a good enough excuse for me to not use anything less than the strongest parts I could fit (bmx/street mtb stuff), to avoid having to continually replace things again in the future.
I didn't break anything on my bike after I upgraded it to this spec.
EA70's are more than strong enough enough for downhill.
All you freestyle fixed guys are mental to think you need freeride/dh/bmx strength components
Oh really.....maybe me and a few of the other guys who ride are mental (well I don't ride fixed freestyle anymore i've drifted back to the bmx/mtb world), but maybe thats why we need that kinda strength in our components, because they/I are doing shit on fixed-gears that other people are doing on bmxes, the kinda stuff that would snap the shit out of crappy aluminium bars, xc, or race components.
See my above comment I think I am more qualified to comment on this than anyone else who has responded so far :)
Question: What do you think puts more strain on a bike, a fixed gear freestyle rider jumping down a 6/7/8 set of stairs, or a bmx racer landing smoothly into the downslope of a 20ft double, there are many fixed freestyle riders doing a lot more than doing a barspin off a curb you numpty, ever heard of SuperTed, Odge, Oscar etc etc etc?
For the record I weigh 100kg, I ain't no skinny bitch hipster, and I have broken a shit load of parts in my time.
Before I finally upgraded everything I could possibly upgrade on my previous bike to bmx parts, then I stopped breaking shit, thats a good enough excuse for me to not use anything less than the strongest parts I could fit (bmx/street mtb stuff), to avoid having to continually replace things again in the future.
I didn't break anything on my bike after I upgraded it to this spec.
Oh really.....maybe me and a few of the other guys who ride are mental (well I don't ride fixed freestyle anymore i've drifted back to the bmx/mtb world), but maybe thats why we need that kinda strength in our components, because they/I are doing shit on fixed-gears that other people are doing on bmxes, the kinda stuff that would snap the shit out of crappy aluminium bars, xc, or race components.
See my above comment I think I am more qualified to comment on this than anyone else who has responded so far :)