Winter goes away and i break my leg go figure. Too bad. I did have a great time this winter going to Ray's mtb park in Cleveland Oh. (Godly) Flow skatepark Columbus Oh. (Gnarly) x-dreams Rochester New York (Hot Chicks on bikes!) I don't know how but i've tried selling bikes before and it either takes for ever for someone to come up with the money or i end up parting stuff out but this time i was joking about selling my bike when i was in pain from breaking my leg and had a check for 500 bucks in my hand the next day. I didn't want to but i can't work now, can't get unemployement or workers comp. I have no insurance so i have to pay for my own prescriptions. Not to mention rent and all the other things in life. Now i probably have to give up riding but i'll always be around it. Anyone reading this don't feel bad for me ...go huck a backflip for me. Hey atleast i got to learn flipwhips and probably the best inverts ever (oh they make me tingle inside) before i had to stop. I haven't had a chance to try one yet but i know i can do them but i really want to do a whip to lawnmower. My biggest problem with bmx is that i've spent thousands and thousands of dollars on it. I've always blamed my bikes for me not being able to do certain tricks. I'm a geometry freik. Every dimension on my frame bars and crank size has to be right but it took me having to run over thirty or so frames (lotta money) to figure out what i wanted. Now i'm broke and no one 14 sells a frame with the dimensions i want so i'd have to pay S&M extra to make me a custom frame. I'm probably not going to be able to afford a new bike for forever so even if i do i won't be able to afford that so i'm going to have to stick with different geometry that i know how to ride but isn't exactly what i want. that's life i guess. here it is anyways No.1 Bottom bracket height 11.625 (5/8) No.2 Chain stay length 13.825 (SL710 Chain Stretched for that little extra pop) No.3 head tube angle 75 (I have to run my bars parallel with my forks and like my forks almost straight up and down. Also gives the feel of a longer top tube but keeps a smaller wheel base for the nose wheelies. I run 170 cranks so it puts my body a little closer to the front of the bike but keeps my legs closer together to pinch seat also puts more weight on my bars so i can raise them more which also brings my legs closer to the seat for pinching them. No.4 Seat tube angle 72 Also gives the feel of a longer top tube No.5 Top tube 20.5