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  • I'm gonna pick your post apart but purely for the sake of the discussion.

    You say you like that you can run the seat slammed but still do sitting down and flat ground tricks, how does that differ to a small frame with an extended seatpost?
    Some might say a smaller frame with an extended post kept the frame out the way and made certain tricks easier.
    Surely it's the placement of the seat that's important for the sit down tricks and general rideability of the bike but that seat is what makes the bike harder to tuck up under you like a bmx.
    You say you like the tight back end and steep head angle for wheelies and nose tricks. What would you say if I told you that in flatland bmx where the bikes spend most of their time on only one wheel, steep headangles and short back ends were considered de'rigeur a few years ago but more recently these things have been slackened off because it's been found that a bike that's easy to get onto the front or rear wheel is not easy to keep there and that a slacker head angle/longer back end creates a larger balance point?
    Is a sturdy trick bike really lighter than a mid level bmx? ( i say midlevel as it's possible to build ridiculously light bmxs but they won't be very sturdy and it's equally possible to find cheap bmx's that weigh around 40lbs)

    ahhh no problem guys, i love a bit of banter me ;)

    seat being slammed = much less likely to break when landing 180s, as you land in your seat hard to pedal fakie, also much easier for nice high bunnyhops. i hate high seatposts sooo much.
    as far as steep angles go, i love twitchy bikes. even if slacker angles make balancing easier to maintain, i hate the way it feels for general riding....
    my bike is lighter than a mid level bmx :) i know because a guy in my lbs got the scales out to try and prove his bmx was better than my esb
    40lbs?!?! my bike weighs 19lbs, and thats with 2.1 tyres and a bmx drivetrain!
    besides, weight has dick all to do with this argument really, as i wouldn't buy a bmx regardless of how heavy/light/amazing it is, as i simply dont like riding them.

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