26in of love

I got some new ss dropouts and now my wheel is slammed. It is now running 377mm or 14.8in chainstays. New rear hub and some other stuff.





I built a new pump track and grew a mustache.

That is a 6 foot radius 180° berm. You gotta be committed to this little turn.

^ rim? tire? ...wow

i'll play

my p.3 it looks a lil better now but i dont have recent pics

I wish that paisley could peel off and the front brake stays for now

demo 9 said:

^ rim? tire? ...wow

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It's a Mavic 721 laced to a Last hub with a table top tire on the back.

He might have been referring to the fact that your rr tire is folding to the rim when you are railing that tight a** berm!

I gotta check here more often. Our 26", 4130, 135x10mm, disk, iscg yadda yadda... my apologies for the old pics. Will post something better when I get a minute.

Jim Davage putting the Ben through the ringer:

Specs:
Frame: Rocky Mountain Flow DJ
Fork: Fox 36 Talas RC2
Rims: MTX
F/Hub: Chris King
R/Hubt Swiss 240 Ss
Front Tire: Kenda Small Block 8 2.1
Rear Tire: Kenda K-Rad
Seat: Macneil
Seat Post: Macneil
Headset: FSA Pig DH
Stem: Dangerboy AK47
Bars: Simtra McSkinny
Grips: Yeti
Brake: Shimao Deore
Chain: KMC K710SL
Cranks: Profile race w/ titanium axle
Sprocket: 25t 7075 Profile Imperaal (25:12gear ratio)
Pedals: Odyssey JC
Single Speed: Gusset 12t

t1maglio said:

He might have been referring to the fact that your rr tire is folding to the rim when you are railing that tight a** berm!

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Oh, thanks.

Here are some better pics of my bike

Love the Hydroformed Tubing on that bike... Here's mine:

no more pics D until it looks like u rode it, or u do ride it.

lol...

Cunningham or HB Sunday, Homie!

i'd love to catch a ride w u to cunningham, let me know.

v-digit said:

i'd love to catch a ride w u to cunningham, let me know.

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damn son.. Chun is coming with me... picking Chun up!

my little puppy

i know its been on rm before but here it is again, the love of my life

mike.

Finally got this painted earlier this fall..

^ ^ ^ That's clean

this are crap pics of my black market

My 09 Mob for posterity's sake:

Latest version with Solid bmx steering:

Just finished it...

JGill said:

Just finished it...

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Damn! That thing is sick!!!

Is that a Spank frame?

Looks good!

Thanks!!

Yeah it's the Spank Tweet.

Here's a couple of pics of mine.. From the new Tonic site

^^ Diggin it.

I would of loved to of hopped on one of those frames but it was a little out of the budget.

JGill said:

^^ Diggin it.

I would of loved to of hopped on one of those frames but it was a little out of the budget.

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Thank you sir!

They are not cheap, but they're worth every cent. Top quality, and Landon is just awesome. He's an bike artist

second for top quality of the howie...i cant imagine riding anything else now

manhattanprjkt83 said:

second for top quality of the howie...i cant imagine riding anything else now

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I know, Tonic FTW

JGill said:

Thanks!!

Yeah it's the Spank Tweet.

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full specs?

conor said:

full specs?

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Spank Tweet Tweet (not the greatest name but a nice product)
Minute Absolute 100mm hex w/steel steerer (considering a rigid too at some point soon)
Hope Pro 2 front
Profile SS rear 12t
Pimplites
Eastern Stealth cranks
Blk Mrkt Revolver Lite 26t
Holy Roller -front- 2.4
Specialized Rythm control -rear- 2.3
Ceneca 26.8 pivotal post
Shadow Conspiracy Sher pivotal seat
Kink headset
Spank 1.5 stem
DK pedals (oldies but goodies)
Stolen bar ends
Bar and bb are from my P1


Next week I will be putting a new KHE halflink chain, new bb, brakes (either a bb7 or Chrome Hayes Nine), a new seat (The Shadow is from my 20"), and a Macneil or Redline pivotal post (The Ceneca widens at the top 2.5 in not allowing it to be slammed)

JGill said:

Just finished it...

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Looks great...now go spank it!

JGill said:

a Macneil or Redline pivotal post (The Ceneca widens at the top 2.5 in not allowing it to be slammed)

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The macneil post has that same bulge in anything but 25.4mm size. I used a 25.4 post and a shim for my 27.2 frame, fully slammable

Cash-Money said:

The macneil post has that same bulge in anything but 25.4mm size. I used a 25.4 post and a shim for my 27.2 frame, fully slammable

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Thanks for the heads-up! I was hoping not to shim it, so I hope the Redline works...

Here's one from Bulgaria, my sort-of-new kinda-old bike.

I dubbed it the RAM Experimental, since that's just what it is.

It's the result of me messing around with an old rejected prototype frame we had here at the office. I love how re-workable steel is. Just chop it, grind it, weld it back together and voila. I shortened the chainstays by about 2cm (currently sitting at 390mm, so they're pretty short), got rid of the old adjustable dropouts and designed a pair of bolt-on replacable ones instead - kinda odd for a cromo frame, i know, but it spared me a bit of extra chopping and welding.

Geometry is definitely leaning towards the low and slack end of things compared to some other bikes, but i love how it just wants to go fast and rip through berms and rollers. I'd take speed and flow over tricks any day, so it suits me perfectly.

The build is as follows:
frame - RAM Experimental
fork - RS Argyle 302
wheelset - Mavic EN521 rims, DT 1.8 competition spokes, Formula hubs
tyres - Maxxis FlyWeight 330, ultralight tubes
seat/post - SDG I-Fly + SDG I-Beam post
cranks - Truvativ Holzfeller
pedals - Odyssey Twisted PC
handlebar - Funn, don't remember the model, it's white
stem - Truvativ Hussefelt, custom bored and drilled, it was a brick
grips - ODI mushroom grips

Weight is 12.18kg as it is - the frame is quite a tank (weight is never a big concern with prototypes) and the fork isn't exactly lightweight but i have a few ideas that'll get me below the 12kg mark with just minor changes. The bike rides lighter than its actual weight - the wheels are crazy light, those FlyWeight tires are just 330 grams per piece. The sidewalls are super thin but they should hold up fine for dirt.

I've had this bike for a while now.. been through a number of diff. set ups and even looks slightly different from this now, but here's a pic.... thought I'd contribute

Points to whoever can guess the frame.

She may not look very Dirt/BMX-y right now, but I have landed 360s and other stuns on it, so it counts! Just spent 15 minutes at a park and with the seat lower, it looks streetier. Great frame, the wheels are pretty flexy, but whatever. So far it's cost me $50, all spent on the fork.