Euro/Interbike 2015

[streetStreet]

straight fork with pressed tubing at the bottom or something. Thats what I think when fixing the look of directors.

[JFax]

There are flatland forks thats like half directors, they bend halfway down the leg, weird.

[Stoked]

New shadow jcpc.  I guess the metal core makes it unique.  E13 did this year's ago.

http://bmxunion.com/blog/interbike-2015-the-shadow-conspiracy

[dude...]

plastic pins can still fuck your shins up, i dont know why people are still praising that shit

mutant bikes have a nylon brake cable in the works
http://bmxunion.com/blog/interbike-2015-mutant-bikes/


and the stupid 2pc cranks that join in the middle of the spindle design rears its ugly head yet again


stolen have tie die pedals-the new oil slick/camo wrap?


fly spacer that goes under your lower bearing in your headset to slacken the geo of your frame-pretty sure a flat company (ares maybe?) did this around 10 years ago


new bits for the subrosa street rail, now you can be a street rider without the need to ever actually leave your drive to learn all the latest cool flatbar stunts






boring as fuck interbike this year, more horrible tyre and parts colourways/wraps, trying to be the next big kiddie fad

[montymitch]

Pretty depressing if this is all Interbike has to offer.
Any news of the next Ratchet hub?

[The Brawn]

Death of the Spanish BB.

Although I don't really like Fly as a brand, they always have a nice booth.

[The Brawn]

I see more frames with taller headtubes which I like.

[The Brawn]

fly spacer that goes under your lower bearing in your headset to slacken the geo of your frame-pretty sure a flat company (ares maybe?) did this around 10 years ago

Surely you can't just change headtube angle by adding an angled spacer to the lower race? If you change the angle with which the fork goes through the frame, the fork won't sit inside the top bearing correctly and force the bearing to follow the angle of the fork over the angle of the headtube. You're basically making the fork steerer run inside the headtube at an unparalleled angle.

[dude...]

the spacer isnt angled, it just lifts the bottom bearing up a bit which means the headtube of the frame sits a bit higher up the fork steerer. the headtube angle thus becomes slightly slacker as a result, but it also affects the bb height of the frame and seattube angle

[The Brawn]

the spacer isnt angled, it just lifts the bottom bearing up a bit which means the headtube of the frame sits a bit higher up the fork steerer. the headtube angle thus becomes slightly slacker as a result, but it also affects the bb height of the frame and seattube angle

Ok got it. I was thinking they were trying to do a cheap Angleset headset.

[JFax]

Is this something that riders woud want though, seems like a solution for a non-existing problem.

On another note, what would this do to the strength of the fork. I can kinda see that the stress would be lifted to further up the steering tube, right? Will this make it stronger or weaker?

[DontcallmeKenneth]

It wont do anything since I've done this before not because I wanted a slackier head angle but because I didn't have a spacer for my headset so the steering tube liked out the top slightly from my stem.

[LeonLikesToRock]

This looks cool http://www.fatbmx.com/bmx/news/article.php?storyid=36232

[Dr. Steve Brule]

This looks cool http://www.fatbmx.com/bmx/news/article.php?storyid=36232

Rad.

[badlight]

Pretty stoked on this :



Deeper set pivotal guts.