A scientific theory must be testable.
It must be possible in principle to prove it wrong.
Experiments are the sole judge of scientific truth.
Is it true that Liquid frames rule on the trails?
Check out this old photo of Jeremy from Liquid Bikes testing a Liquid Feedback frame prototype.
I think we have the scientific proof right here.
Science can be fun.
Dear Fit CR24,
We had a good run.
Two great years.
In 2009, you caught my eye with your old school chrome frame. (I later found out you sometimes sported a badass black finish too…something that just added to your allure.)
Underneath that old school flair though beat the heart of a feisty new-school cruiser.
You liked it when I played rough with you. Always coming back for more.
As the seasons changed, so did we.
You could tell there were new competitors for my attention.
Not one to back down, in 2010 you hiked your bottom bracket to keep my interest. You knew it was all about the ride and this change made things more interesting and fun. It looked like you and me were going to make things last.
Sure, there were things about you that irritated me. You constantly “gave me the gears” with your rear cassette, hub issues.
But we made it work.
Buying you a few new things at the bike shop seemed to keep things good between us.
I thought we were going to make 2011 the best year ever.
Then suddenly you were gone.
I looked through the Fit catalog hoping for a sign, a note, anything….just something saying where you had gone.
But there was nothing.
Now all I have are these pictures of you.
Sure, take the year off…find yourself.
But let’s meet up again…say at Interbike next year…and see if we can’t make this work again.
The classic tabletop never gets old.
At the trails, off a curb or at the skatepark…it’s all good.
Wayne Keller with a cool sequence shot of a skatepark table.
To see the tabletop sequence in action, check out the last few seconds of this vid.
The super-long hang five that starts the vid is pretty impressive too.
To see what else Wayne is getting up to check out his blog, carrot-bag.blogspot.com.
Hot damn!
Kory Drake with a clicked turndown.
Just a little inspiration for y’all as we head into the weekend.
Photo: Shelby Gibbs
For more info on Kory and how he sets up his ride, a Liquid 24″ , check out Liquid Bikes (where this photo ran first).
DK bicycles looks like it might be taking a cue from the world of 24″ freestyle bikes and raising the bottom bracket on its new 2011 race cruiser to 13″ (that’s at least an inch higher than a typical race 24 frame).
In a recent thread on Vintage BMX, a DK rep explained the reasoning behind the shift:
Cruisers have always been built with a ratio that was based off of 26″ bikes (which is what cruisers used to be) this bottom bracket is 13″…so check this out:
The professional frame has an 11.4″ bottom bracket height, that is with a 20″ wheel (so that means UNDER the drop out there is 10″ of wheel, plus the tire, since the other 10″ of the 20″ wheel is above the dropout and irrelevant to the bb height.). This cruiser has a 13″ bb height, so that is 1.6″ higher than the 20 inch professional, but with a 24″ wheel, there is 12″ plus the tire under the bottom bracket. That’s 2 inches more than the 20″ frame, so in actuality, this bottom bracket isnt that high, since its only 1.6″ higher than a frame that has 2″ less wheel under the bottom bracket.
According to the DK guys on the forum thread, the new 24 is supposed to handle great (with a 20″ feel) and be easy to manual.
Other specs on the 2011 DK race 24 are:
Certainly an interesting departure from your typical race cruiser geometry.
Will this be a game changer in the race community?
I’m pretty curious to see if other manufacturers follow suit.
Editor’s note: the BB height on the production model was lowered slightly to approximately 12.5″.
Seems like only yesterday that I started this little site about big wheeled BMXs.
Looking back, I’m stoked on how far it’s come.
Not a day goes by that I’m not learning something new or smiling (or laughing out loud) because someone posted a great comment.
You guys make it all worthwhile.
Cheers to you.
Update: A new picture courtesy of the “art department”, Andy D.
Sunday sent over some pics the other day of the new Wave-C frames they’re testing out.
While not a huge departure from the existing Model-C, it does have the wave top tube (that we’ve seen in earlier photos) and hollow dropouts with chain tensioners.
What’s changed/improved
Have to say, a longer top tube and the ability to run the back end shorter is a pretty big selling point for this frame. Not to mention the extra strength afforded by the wave tubing.
Production colors are probably going to be black and a light blue.
If the color in these pictures looks familiar to you, you might be a flatlander. It’s actually the same one used on the Odyssey Flatware frame (and just being used for the prototype/test frames).
What people bring to the table can have a big influence on a situation.
For instance, when you bring a Sledgehammer to the table, you might just end up with a great trails photo.
Like this one.
Buddy with a big Texas table aboard his Volume Sledgehammer.
Photo by CMC
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