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The Bike Shop / Re: Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..

« on: February 02, 2016, 09:27:04 AM »

secondly, people very seldom rave mad about how good a product like cranks are. it's like I.T. and electricity

Aint that the damn truth.  I work for an event IT company, and when everything is working fine, nobody thanks us, but when the internet goes down somewhere people freak the hell out.

I feel like Odyssey get's the same wrap.  Anytime anyone breaks an Odyssey product it's like they go right to the internet to complain about it instead of hitting up warranty.  You end up with like 10 people breaking Odyssey cranks that all go online and complain and it makes other people think that they're shit, when there's probably an absolute shit ton of people like myself that have had no problems with Odyssey cranks.  I've smashed the shit out of 1 pair of wombolts that I have and they're still kicking way better than my old rickety Primo Hollowbites. 

I really wish that George could post Odysseys warranty/return rate on the wombolts/twombolts/thunderbolts line of cranks.  I bet that it's pretty damn low. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: 24" bmx frames?

« on: February 01, 2016, 02:25:35 PM »

How much money are you looking to spend, and what kind of riding are you looking to do?

CMC has got some awesome references there for you to take a look at, and I suggest reading them all.

I'm a cruiser fanatic.  I'm almost at the tipping point of having done more handrails on my cruisers than on my 20inch bikes.  24's are so much fun when you've got them built right to suite your style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gdHoYBWVgk&feature=youtu.be

I prefer the higher bottom bracket on the Sunday cruisers, but if you're really tall (I'm about 5-11), then you might like the lower bottom bracket heights on the S&M and Fit cruiser frames, or possibly a Liquid if you can find one anywhere.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2

« on: January 21, 2016, 09:14:46 AM »

Good looking rig Seth.

I'm very tempted to snag one of those sprockets in 28 for my 22. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Does no one make <25t sprockets anymore?

« on: January 16, 2016, 10:10:33 AM »

I'm glad to hear it's re-ignited things for you.  I've always loved seeing your bike checks, and it looks like this bike will be no exception.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Does no one make <25t sprockets anymore?

« on: January 15, 2016, 08:50:26 AM »

It might be the only 22 with a coaster though.

Not quite....



I've had a coaster on mine since day one with it.  Glad to see someone else joining the 22 revolution!  I know what you mean about feeling cramped on a 20 now.  My 20 has a 21.5 top tube and it still feels small to me.  I feel like I can hop my 22 and 24 so much higher and much more controlled.

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The Lounge / Re: you bunce of old *****

« on: January 14, 2016, 09:53:36 AM »

I turn 32 at the end of next month.

It doesn't feel right at all.  Seriously, I feel like I'm perpetually 27 now.  Except that I own a house and have practically adopted my girlfriends kid.

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Bike Gallery / Re: OG Stranger

« on: January 13, 2016, 01:35:20 PM »

I'm not normally into bikes with colored tires, but this one just kind of works.

Love me some long top tube bikes too.  I'd ride the shit out of this thing.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Does no one make <25t sprockets anymore?

« on: January 02, 2016, 09:13:08 AM »

I found an animal in 23, I guess I will go with that.

This is what I was going to suggest!

I have an animal 23 tooth on one of my cruisers with 23/9.  It rides pretty good.

*I will 2nd the wish of having more 10tooth options for modern freecoasters.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2

« on: December 29, 2015, 08:45:42 AM »

Yeh, that bike is pretty good looking in my opinion.

I would ride the shit out of it if the drive and peg sides were flipped.

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The Lounge / Re: Tracing 'stolen' PC files

« on: December 29, 2015, 08:32:38 AM »

I work doing Sales/Account Management for an event IT company, and it's absolutely ridiculous the amount of information our nerds can pull out of a network.  Seriously, we can do things like track down to a couple feet peoples movements with our WiFi networks, even if they aren't signed into our network.  Once people sign in we can see all the data they push over the network like pictures and stuff. 

We choose not to do a lot of the things we could because it just seems skeezy, and we don't really have the time for most of the stuff outside the footfall analytics for major sponsor locations when they're paying for it.

How do you guys do your file storage?  Are you sharing it through something like DropBox?  There's some settings in there that might have given her away. 

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Sell and Swap / Re: Fit Dugan frame nearly new, Mutiny, Cult, Odyssey

« on: December 11, 2015, 11:16:26 AM »

PM'd on seat/post and compression caps.

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The Lounge / Re: This is the video part of the year

« on: December 11, 2015, 11:14:35 AM »

I really like Demarcus Paul. He's the last dude on this.

http://youtu.be/f_p33-lyWaA

Demarcus is one of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of riding with, let alone just in general.  The dude is just awesome.  I got to ride with him several times back when I was in college in the middle of nowhere south Georgia in the town of Valdosta.  When I met him, his bike was absolutely falling apart.  Like, I think he had an unsealed 48 hole front wheel with a 36 hole cheap Odyssey rear wheel that must have been missing 6 spokes, and a Euro BB that fell to pieces when I took his cranks off.  It amazed me how good he could ride that bike though, and he always had a smile on his face.  It's really cool to think that he took the risk of moving to California and that it worked out for him. 

I saw him at Interbike a couple of years back when he was riding for Freed, and he immediately came up and gave me a big smiley hug.

That Kinked rail he Icepicks up is just ridiculous.  I don't think I've ever seen an edit where someone goes up a rail that long, let alone ice's it.   That over smith slide on the bank to rail is just awesome too. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: New things I noticed.

« on: December 09, 2015, 09:57:19 AM »

Yeh, those bars taper to 7/8ths at the grip area so you can use a standard lever.

I was really bummed that they didn't stay 1 inch.  My hands are getting old and a little big larger grip would be nice.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Lone star

« on: December 01, 2015, 11:35:11 AM »

Freestyle!!!

I love that there's people out there still riding 4 peg, 2 brake, gyro'd bikes.

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The Lounge / Re: Pretty sure I've invented this trick...

« on: December 01, 2015, 11:33:53 AM »

Whiplash grind.

I remember seeing someone trying this in an old props inside a skatepark at a jam.

I don't think whoever it was pulled it, though, so you might be the first to actually pull it, which in my book means you get to name it.