Tricks bike advice

thinking about building up a tricks orientated conversion out of a piece of turd roady frame (yet to buy).

so 650 front wheel, 48/20 or similar ratio

question: to stick a bmx style stem on, do you need modern forks/ headset... how does this work?
are there just two styles, one where the clamp goes around the pipe protruding from the headset; and the other traditional stem that inserts into the headset?

any advice greatly appreciated

yarp

Get a quill to A-head converter... About 10GN...
From here http://www.cyclebasket.com/products.php?plid=m9b0s402p0 or Condor have a black Deda for £14.99... Make sure they give you the right size, they gave me the wrong one which I then had to shim... Cnuts!

Have you thought about buying one of these.

http://www.fitbikeco.com/completes.html

You can do tricks on it, and you won't look so ridiculous

Have you thought about buying one of these.

http://www.fitbikeco.com/completes.html

You can do tricks on it, and you won't look so ridiculous

oh yeah i see what you did there. tricks... bmx... silly...
is building up a fixie specific to doing tricks going against some weird fixed gear rule?

Keep a 700 in the front and run a fork that is long enough to allow you to bar spin (I presume that is why you want a 650).

650=less toe overlap

oh yeah i see what you did there. tricks... bmx... silly...
is building up a fixie specific to doing tricks going against some weird fixed gear rule?

im not one to judge.

oh, and its worth mentioning that the strenght of a BMX style stem will not benefit you in anyway if you are clamping it onto a AHEAD coverter insterted into your standard quill set up. it will just way more, and if anything, be weaker.

oh yeah i see what you did there. tricks... bmx... silly...
is building up a fixie specific to doing tricks going against some weird fixed gear rule?

Nah, not against any rules...

But being a bmxer, I just think that trying to emulate (lame) bmx tricks, on a bike that was designed to go around velodromes, is a bit wierd.

nice fork, looks a bit like a BMW gangsta.

Where from?

correct!

stick them in your current ride = bar spins and no overlap

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where from? dunno

http://www.brooklynmachineworks.com/

£175..... and a two month wait....

and they have a uk sight
http://www.brooklynmachineworks.co.uk/

Just you wait and see...

wait and see what?

£175..... and a two month wait....

and they have a uk sight
http://www.brooklynmachineworks.co.uk/

just for the forks?

What cunts.

I cant think of any other frame a 1 1/8 steel fork would match well with either. Would have to get the whole frameset. They build up nice though, bombproof yet somehow still light.

Look abit like an mtb though with the sloping top tube and the oversized tubes.

hi i just put a bmx stem on my fixed today! its and old road frame and i just got those quill stem converters you were talking about it works absoulutely fine just had to get a few spacers and i reckon it looks pretty cool!!

Nah, not against any rules...

But being a bmxer, I just think that trying to emulate (lame) bmx tricks, on a bike that was designed to go around velodromes, is a bit wierd.

i use to think the same.
180 over a few stairs, bar spins or backward circles? get a bmx!

but perhaps you have to misuse something in order for it to evolve, right?

i am 1,93 meters, my bmx bike is way too small (still have the one from when i was 9), but for tricks i recommend either a trickframe and fork or at least the fork, normal road or pista forks break pretty easy when you land something a bit wrong

So yeah, sorry to bump up this thread (wont be if I get an sweet answer)
But I do tricks, I also ride to college and muck around on my breaks with my bike and stuff.
I dont feel confident enough with riding brakeless on roads in traffic and stuff, I do when tricking because of bar spins and shit. Lately I have just been taking the break on and off when I want to trick but this takes time and it leaves me hardly anytime to have fun.

Does anyone have an alternative to taking the break on and off when wanting to trick?

Disc brake, cable run down through the centre of the headset using one of those hollow nuts.

So yeah, sorry to bump up this thread (wont be if I get an sweet answer)
But I do tricks, I also ride to college and muck around on my breaks with my bike and stuff.
I dont feel confident enough with riding brakeless on roads in traffic and stuff, I do when tricking because of bar spins and shit. Lately I have just been taking the break on and off when I want to trick but this takes time and it leaves me hardly anytime to have fun.

Does anyone have an alternative to taking the break on and off when wanting to trick?

if you read the scissor thread there are a lot of people discussing deep-drop brakes and hollow expander nuts and all that malarkey

you could also get a MKE Bruiser fork (and I think others) that have AD990 brake mounts, again with the cable through the fork as per BMXes.

I have the 14 bikes fork, and screwing the top hat nut onto the little thread that the brake spindle dives is a nightmare!

I good magnetic allen key set could speed things up.