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How she sits right now. Finally got the double guard for my MDS (not in pic), sprocket stalls are my jam.

real nice. what was the first song?

Fixed my voodoo monstrosity as gears are just not for me. Still needs a lot of things*, but that can wait will student loan comes in

*BB, urgently. bearings so dead it wobbles about 3mm either way despite the cranks being tight
tyres, probably something 40ish, semi-knobbly
grips
shorter stem
saddle
wheels eventually as these are outrageously shit and i've already buckled them just riding over roots in bushy park

other than that, she's dead good fun. ratio as about right for mild offroad i find so i'll be sticking with it.

rebuilt rear wheel with silver spokes to match the front. first time I've actually had 48 spokes in my rear wheel in about 2 years. I give it a week...
put my gland back on NDS on the rear, need to find a way to mod my alloy ratchet guard to run them both.

I've U'dTFS and can't find the answer to my question:

Will SKS Longboards fit on my Large 2012 Pompino frame running 32c Paselas, and if not, which SKS 'guards will give me the best coverage?

I had longboards on my large pomp (bathroom blue) with 32 randos at various different chainstay lengths. no problem at all. IIRC they're specced at 35c max, but I would imagine it would be pretty tight on 35c.

longboards on same frame/fork with 28c marathons here

edit: welp, I was wrong. Longboards apparently go up to 45m (see below)

scrap that.

had a much better idea. will get a bolt on disc cog for my voodoo with front disc brake.

Just had a look now, putting the wheel the wrong way around in the drops (assuming rotor = cog sorta thing) the chainline don't look too far off.

So once I place an order with velosolo (19t cog, 42t chainring) it should look like this

but with less cables and sprockets.

Quick post work session from the park yesterday.

switch footed funsies.
http://web.stagram.com/p/689872116150349843_416276451
switch op feeble, switch feeble easy 180, switch 360

Aye, get that a lot. Just can't be doing with low seats.

I actually raised it as it's my only rideable bike at the minute and I need to get to work tomorrow, and even with the seat as it was I still got sore knees. Put it up so I could get better leg extension and it's surprisingly fun to ride so it's staying.

Raised/levelled my saddle because it makes pull up bar to manny easier. and because i can. and sit down wheelies are the best.

18cm of post on show, level with crossbar. dreamy.

Very nice. I take it you race?

Yeah. It's been the topic of many sessions over the years. who will hit that bloody rail first and instead of being any one I expected it's Pablo the bloody posh whipper snapper from Richmond!*

Yes! I knew a full length would be out somewhere. Now you've posted Voices I'm debating whether or not to actually go to the pub..

*No discredit to the lad. Just a running joke, despite riding together a fair bit "my lot" always have what can only be described as playful hatred towards the murky boys

I "rawed" my bike today. And by that I mean I spent twenty minutes with some course sandpaper rubbing the paint/rust off. I haven't got any clear coat so it'll only rust again, ah well. I think she looks pretty cool in raw(ish)

Yes! This came up on my Facebook earlier. Impressive stuff.

That last rail Pablo hit is insane in real life. Just by Kingston Bridge/John Lewis. Wild wild rail. Since I started riding, and every time I cross that bridge (usually twice a day) I think "Man, I would love to see someone hit that rail" but I never thought it possible due to the road being rather busy and the big curb/barrier in the way.

Yeah Murky are good, blog over.

Whilst I'm here I might as well (re)post some of my favourite bmx edits I've seen recently/past few years/some years ago.

AV EDIT on Vimeo

I think my favourite thing about this is the song. It is different to most bmx edits but it's dope. And shoutout to fellow fat bmxers obviously..

Fathead Retribution Edit on Vimeo

First introduction to the life of Fathead. Nuff said.

A Tape - Fenix Bikes - London/2011 - Viki Gomez & Phil Dolan Flatland Session on Vimeo

Had a flatland stint a few years back and still try the odd steamroller these days. This edit is insane, and James Smith knows how to put a song to an edit.

George Dossantos and George Kastrinakis - Manmade BMX DVD on Vimeo

2004 Manmade DVD, split George D/George K section. KILLAH.

Summers Gone But Not Forgotten on Vimeo

Newcastle. Good to see some of the older folk (nsf2 era) still riding, namely Marc Bell, Mousey and Olly Olsen (forever my favourite nsf3 day in day out section)

Sean Hoskins (In The Life) - YouTube

Sean Hoskins section in In The Life. Classic Fugazi* and a cliffhanger to rail line. *Song was also used in the trails section in Props 2002 european summer tour to my memory.

And I'll leave on Joe Cox's Vimeo channel, as he's upped most parts from both Voices and TWW. Always worth a watch. It's a nightmare Google Video went down as I've not been able to find a full length version of Voices since, arguably the best BMX video to come out of UK ever.
http://vimeo.com/user441577

Yeah that's fair enough I guess, I'm sure if I gave it a to for a few weeks I would get used to not having a seat between my knees at all times but I can't barspin unless I pinch with my knees so as it stands the post shall aha

Pretty sure the only way to run a primo balance is at an obscene angle!

Never understood integrated seat posts, was so glad it never became a standard/more common as someone who runs 2 large caveman fists worth of post!

primo balance? used to rock a railed one before i made the switch to piv. and but the pivvy one was just not the same.

dunno about you but every time I ride someones bike with a low saddle that's large I find myself catching my ankles/shoes on the saddle as I pedal, shit sucks.

bmxed: Yeah that's Greycourt school round Ham way. Free as a bird on the weekend, never been busted. There's a couple curved wallrides there too but I'm terrified of them.

Thanks man. It's weird how despite having taken many long breaks from bmx since they were all filmed, even today my style (or severe lack of) has not changed one bit. Guess I'll never change ahah

Went down (new) kingston today and hurt myself a lot learning crankish slides. Now I need to find a nice flat rail to mess around on

Down

This started off as more of a front pedal feeble till I got the bottle to drop the front wheel over to make it more cooler. worst ever was front right peg catching at the bottom and sending me over the bars.
tl;dr crank slides are fun

Up

(100000000000000 attempts this took, kept on dropping the nose too early as I lost speed and came very close to head butting the handrail to the right [my left])
Apologies for butchered instagram pic, there is gopro footage of this (and me falling off too many times) which I will try and get a hold of

Ta! Actually learned a new trick today, half arsed crank slides/bb killers* on ledges, pic and maybe footy later

*euro bb, left cup began to unthread itself! Nightmare

Aimed at my fine self? Trick bag is small, but I like to think what I can do I can do well.

#ialsoknowsponseredridersbraggingtime

Only edit I've ever been in and it's 4 years old LEAN STREET PUTTING IN WORK on Vimeo
. I'm the fat one with the two red tyres (48 homer to supra e rear with 36t tree guard sprocket! Ya dun noe)

Still ride with this same folk, except we're now MUGLIFE rather than lean bmx, but who knows. Maybe one day we'll make mug life t shirts like we did lean ones. All Kingston area.

Edit, just found this edit I didn't even know existed. All filmed at kingston skatepark (RIP) Sam Baker and Mark Carroll Lost footage of old K-Town park on Vimeo

Aaaalso found this, self filmed edit from a couple years ago Untitled on Vimeo

Having just watched all of this, it would seem that as my hair has fallen out and my weight has increased, I have gotten sufficiently worse at bmx ahaha

I would if I ever got it on film, which potentially might happen today. Pretty much all I do is bars on banks and ride foot high ledges whilst trying to use curbs as transitions like chris carter

Wouldn't say I'm getting consistent with it, but it's definitely fun to give it a go. Especially switch footed spins.

The 180 challenge is always fun. Regular 180, then opposite 180. Then switch foot regular 180, and then the hardest is the switch foot opposite 180.
Indian givers count, obviously.

I still think one of my favourite things is just riding a flat bank and doing bar spins. Regular bank bar, opposite bank bar (spin and throw oppy), then top side bank bar (opposite spin, regular throw) and then if you're feeling flash an opposite topside (regular spin, opposite) throw. And of course the bars fakie. Bar spins make my world go round.

for realz. I went through a stint of running left pegs only (despite being left foot foward, I grind goofy) to beef up my oppo grinds and since all I do is grind it worked a treat.
Now rather annoyingly the only trick I cant do both ways is pegs to over, which I can only do "opposite", on the left. Ballache but oh well it's still fun

Switch foot grinds are my new favourite, that shit is way fun

^4 pegs is best pegs

oppo grinds are weird but you'll get there, soon enough it won't even be opposite it'll just be natural both ways. then you can start playing with switch stuff..

This is my new monstrosity which involved combining one 19" Voodoo Wanga MTB Frame, and a 19" Voodoo Marasa hybrid.

The result is 1x9 SLX/Deore set up. 11-26 casette and 32 ring up front, tektro hydros, 700x32C rando tyres and a lot of ugly nippy fun.

only real plan is to better secure the rear brake hose as she rattles like a bitch and switch it to flat pedals for pub mode.