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The Lounge / Re: Riders you pay attention to this day age
« on: May 11, 2015, 07:29:21 PM »
Pat Quinn

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Sell and Swap / Re: BEWARE MY BLUE BROTHER!!
« on: May 02, 2015, 11:36:55 PM »
What do you know......  Mr. CashBMX has all but vanished all together from his normal outlets for trying to hustle and scam people to pay too much for used bmx parts. 

Being shady must have backfired on a player.

and by "Being shady must have backfired on a player." I'll just assume you won the knife fight and hid the body.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 24, 2015, 02:09:36 PM »
Certainly does, I;ve had my marmy for like 5 years now without issue. I usually ride pegs and use knight hub guards.

Yeah I had a marmoset for a looooong time and only ditched it because I found a hub that had steel guards (Daily Grind). Poor decision on my part. I had Knight guards on it and it made the hub spin poorly sometimes, but I knew it was most likely the guards fault and not the bearings/hub on the marmoset.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 23, 2015, 10:41:07 PM »
I nwas looking into the difference between marmoset, and simian. seems simian has better hub guard option if that's an issue.

It certainly is an issue, as I really wish there was a 4130 guard option... but that's not happening so now a baby marmy is on it's way to me! Before anyone says "Get a Daily Grind hub, they have steel guards" I did have one, and it was cool until the bearings were absolutely worthless after only about a month of riding.

on which hub? The marmoset?

I was wishing that the Simian (or baby marmy as I referred to it because I was unsure of the spelling of the Simian hub name) would have 4130 guards.
The bearings on my Daily Grind hub blew up in about a month.
Hope that clears it up.

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The Lounge / Re: Middle name my child.
« on: April 22, 2015, 10:58:48 PM »
Slambone is a strong name.

Slightly off topic, I know a person who's real birth last name is Sackrider.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 22, 2015, 10:56:46 PM »
I nwas looking into the difference between marmoset, and simian. seems simian has better hub guard option if that's an issue.

It certainly is an issue, as I really wish there was a 4130 guard option... but that's not happening so now a baby marmy is on it's way to me! Before anyone says "Get a Daily Grind hub, they have steel guards" I did have one, and it was cool until the bearings were absolutely worthless after only about a month of riding.

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everyone saying just to suck it up or "its just bmx anyway" is blowing my mind. There is not any excuse for parts being way off spec in general, but the fact that it is custom and cost him at an absolute minimum $550 makes it way worse. If you spent that much money on a TV and it only played in black and white, would you just shrug it off? Of course not. Some of you make it sound like he's complaining about a cup of lemonade being too watered down from a 1st grader's drink stand in the summer time. You guys must have some nice jobs to be able to drop $550 and have it not matter what you get in return. I love Standard and I think Rick is super rad, so it bums me out to hear this story. Of course there is always two sides to a story and the truth most often lies in the middle...

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 19, 2015, 10:09:45 PM »
Antigrams and Simians and the New clutch hub all have angled flanges. All wheels have angled spokes so angled flanges are better. If you cross-lace then ideally you want them even more angled, not straight...

I hope this helps.

:)
G.
That makes sense. I just thought it may have been some angle optimized for a traditional lacing pattern etc... figured it was worth checking.
Sounds like I'll be placing an order for a Simian this week... Thanks!

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The Lounge / Re: Things to look forward to this year
« on: April 18, 2015, 06:37:40 PM »
I'm looking forward to my knee being good again and getting back into shape after becoming a blob with this ACL surgery stuff.

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The Lounge / Re: New Random Thoughts Thread
« on: April 18, 2015, 06:35:08 PM »
Did Bush do 9/11 or was it the Illuminati? Why did they even detonate the explosives in building 7? Did someone nudge the bottom by mistake?

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 18, 2015, 08:00:52 AM »
The Antigram uses the same bearings that were used in the Vandero2, whereas the Simian uses the same bearings as the Marmoset. I remember quite a lot of people complaining about Vandero2 bearings, although I assume the large majority of the hubs are doing fine. Still I would go with the Simian personally.

Good to know. Yet another reason for the G-sport!

Are you going for a Antigram rear wheel? Because that would tip my vote to the Antigram because matching wheels :) 

It's in the running, but I can get a good discount from another brand, so I'll probably go that way.

I can't imagine the angled flanges will cause problems with cross lacing seeing as the Gsport Ribcage rims are designed specifically with cross lacing in mind. I have ribcage - marmoset front wheels on 2 bikes and they're tits!
I don't think I knew that the Marmy had the same angled flanges. Thanks!

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The Bike Shop / Odyssey Antigram vs G-Sport Simian front hub
« on: April 17, 2015, 06:38:54 PM »
It's time for new wheels, as I sold my old crusty wheels during my time off with ACL surgery. I've narrowed it down to these two options. I'm a heavy grinder sort, so I value them having good guards and both seem pretty quality overall. In the past I had marmoset hubs and they held up great. If you have any suggestions, I'm open to hearing them.

As for now it's these 2 though. It's only $10 difference so I don't really care about that. with only 1.5oz between them, that's not a big deal either. Naturally I wan tot go with the G-sport, since it's the modern marmoset, essentially. Is there any reason to go with the Odyssey, if money and weight are out the door? Does one's guards sit better by the hub or anything? Like the old knight marmoset guards were nice, but the vandero 2 guards from knight were spaced too far away and could hang up on stuff.

The G-sport has angled flanges. Could that be any sort of problem for cross laced rims?

Thanks.

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The Bike Shop / Re: New coasters (wtp + profile)
« on: April 16, 2015, 09:39:30 PM »
word on the street is that there is another company about to get into the non-clone coaster game... but could still be a few months out. It's an exciting time for non-backpedalers.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Standard
« on: April 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM »
I feel like it's a very slow moving trend right now but hopefully it keeps going. Remember when they came out with the Bullitt frame? It was drastic and got a lot of attention. I think Standard needs another frame like that to get some more people interested. Like maybe a 12.8cs, 76ha and 11.00bb or something. Just something wild. Because even though it's american made and have higher than average quality tubes and everything else, I think them being generally the same for years and years makes them easy to over look with you have all these other brands with new frames every year and rainbow/splatter/neon paint options.

That geo sounds yucky.
It's a bit much for me, but it would get attention. I think the low BB thing needs to be looked into more though. I noticed in some custom frame articles it seems a lower than average bb is a trend. I once rode a bike that had a 11.25bb and it felt great! 11 might be too far but I don't really know.

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The Lounge / Cheap Bob Bars!
« on: April 04, 2015, 04:51:18 PM »
I recall a few people saying how they were looking to scoop some OG Bob bars up when they could find them, back when some Ride UK (I think) article popped up about them. Well, it's your lucky day. $35 at J&R http://www.jrbicycles.com/animal-bob-scerbo-4-piece-bars

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