Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

need a new skewer, somebody tried to steal it and bent it.
sorry shit phone picture

Just pop down to condor with the old skewer, thats what I did when I crashed and bent the skewer on mine. Its only the axel spacers that are a bitch to replace.

When I was about 15, my 14yr old brother decided to play around with my bike a bit, I didn't know until I went down to the local trails, jumped the first section as usual, only to see my front wheel disappearing off down the trail without me. (he'd undone my skewer)

And then there was pain, yeah I remember... pain, and blood, lots of blood, as I'd used one palm as a brake and promptly lost half the skin on it.

Little bastard.

Someone nicked my front skewer last year - it was a fraught 3mile ride home trying to work out whether to put extra weight up front so the axle wouldn't pop out of the fork-end, or to lean back ready to poke a wheelie when the wheel fell out. Extra weight seemed to work (even over speed ramps)

I haz a freecycle front skewer if you want?

I'm OK thanks, I had a spare one in the shed.
After that I switched to these for bikes that get left locked up in public

Yeah, I got Pinhead skewers on the other bike.

Tempted to get some Atomic 22 bolts for the fixed, but they is just so bloody expensive.

TM, please by a sled tandem. i'll ride it with you

how would you go downhill brakeless? can you even skid on a tandem?

^^ Only one way to find out! :D

TM, please by a sled tandem. i'll ride it with you

I'm all tapped out at the minute unfortunately...

how would you go downhill brakeless? can you even skid on a tandem?

Hills schmillz.... I ain't fraid no hills... Can't stop, don't want to...

no need to stop if you can find the traffic-free path.

if the cranks are spinning at the same pace surely skidding is just a piece of cake

It'll be hard work though with all that weight on the back wheel

Except you'd have twice the weight meaning the tyres would have more friction to the road surface, not less.

But you'd also have more momentum, so skidding not impossible... stopping is another thing entirely though!

I'm all tapped out at the minute unfortunately...

put it on your list after the lo-bro

oh, forgot to add trollface.jpg on my post. Well, I gess skidding would be doable but extremely hard.

I reckon with my 16 stone on the front and spotter's 7 on the back, mad whips skids would be easily done.

Can you imagine how scary it would be to be a stoker during a tandem whip skid

Would be totes maze.

We could get a tag along for XH....

Would be totes maze.

We could get a tag along for XH....

he can drive behind on his mini quad

possible re.

^ That's some 12/13/14 year old kid's from Melbourne.

Ah, well that makes sense.

newsa more deep and less spokes