Thanks man that's good stuff

Minimum PSI being problematic due to tire selection?! VERY glad you brought that up, it's something I've wondered and always forget to ask! Sometimes tires have 'minimum psi', which I never understood - max-psi makes sense, but minimum? My current tires ... more »

What other tires can you compare them to? I'd have to double-check but I think those had an impressively light weight (like duo's, for instance DUO HSL's in 2.4, as a set, would save me almost a pound - a pound of rolling-weight at the outer-edge of ... more »

apologies, brevity isn't natural to me and I forget to go back and edit/shorten :/ The T1's got a lot of love in another tire thread I'd made, and when comparing their weight to other similar tires they're significantly heavier, I'd been interested to ... more »

That's funny, I'd seen those and thought they looked very cool aesthetically (at the time, am now a huge fan of slicks and the slicker-the-better, aesthetically) but at first I thought they'd last because of how thick that rubber was, but in reality ... more »

wax huh? am surprised that didn't even cross my mind, I'm imagining you mean car wax right? Have you done this more than once on tan gumwalls with success? If so I'd really like to know which specific wax you used so I can be sure to get the right product!

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I think my bike looked better when it was full black (excepting the purple sprocket and oil-slick chain), the first pic in this album just looks better than what I've got now IMO http://imgur.com/a/kTeHL Still have that black United SU2 frame (21") but

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I'm afraid of my self-control when I look at frames (Cult's 'Too Short'? DROOOOL!!), last thing I need is to be goaded into buying new ;D (especially when I'm finally content that my bike is done / almost done!

http://www.vitalbmx.com/forums/Bike-Checks,27/Silver-Surfer,1311158#post_2239225 ... more »

Interesting to know thank you!! This is my 2nd set of them (both 9" vultus, the first were black and cut to ~26.25", never noticed this although I'd never looked, hell I didn't notice it in these chrome ones for many months) While they may be known for ... more »

they're 2-piece bars (chrome shadow vultus 9" bars cut to 27.0" wide; bars are cromo and butted, and I've heard them referred to as 'light bars' although when I compare them on danscomp they don't seem particularly light/heavy compared to other 9" bars) ... more »

Yeah gotta love empire!! Can you tell that on the other stay (seat stay) above it that the gold is the Animal logo? For everyone who's unaware, Empire is one of the companies that will allow you to mail them a self-addressed, stamped envelope to them

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Oh and it's now got a brand-new (well 2-3wks at this point) 10t odyssey driver, and I've built the chain in-place on the sprocket using the KMC half-link to reduce my CS from 13.75" to 13.5" :D Re pedals, yes they're facing backwards (regular pedals ... more »

bunch more pics here: http://imgur.com/a/5DzHC

(not my beautiful property in the background, for full disclosure lol)

gave up on the idea of polished-steel forks and painted them black, swapped my slightly-worn rear pleg to the front so I've got that nice quasi-worn flatness up front, and a relatively fresh pleg on the back now

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I love plastic

New MKIV GLAND guard fits like a charm, also just put on a new set of plastic Monster pedals, am ready to go burn through some plastic lol!!... more »