Street workout and BMX Flatland:
hanging leg raises on a cannon barrel and BMX bike check
This blog is the English transcription of what I say in Hungarian in my YouTube video bellow:
I spiced my blog with some picture of the parts of my BMX Flatland bicycle taken from the video above. The other topic of my writing, as you will soon find out, is
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Hi, Coffeeking coming right at you again from Miskolc, Avas, Hungary. I'm here at one of the smallest cannons of Indian Chief Long Gun’s great-grandson who used this beisde his tomahawk when he stepped on the war path. :D Do not think that I have become a full gangsta rapper and I am posing with guns, but here's a pretty California-like mood. I feel completely like I was chilling on the West Coast, especially because I was riding my bike to some very delicate gangsta rap (Mr. Criminal). But this is not the West Coast, but Mist Coast (my city Miskolc cna be pronunced like that), so I quickly give you a bike check here. This means that I will show you what parts does my BMX bicycle consist of, with which I practise Flatland tricks here in the Avas-top Youth Park.
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| Hanging leg raises on a cannon-barrel to get rid of some of those swimbelts :) |
I will explain you now what parts make up my BMX Flatland bike and share a few of my experiences of using them. I will also include logos of the BMX brands I ride in my blog. Click on them to visit the websites of the BMX companies.
You can see that there is my website (dxncoffee.com) on this nice yellow BMX frame as well. The bike itself is a BMX Flatland bicycle. It's important for the ground on which riders practise to be flat, straight and even, which is ideal for practicing different Flatland tricks. The frame brand is Mankind, you can see the MK logo on the headtube, just like on the lovely metallic purple head bearing, which is also a Mankind bike part.
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| My Mankind BMX frame and head bearings. |
The next component I present is the BMX front fork. This is a zero offset fork, which means that the first axle is located in the center of the fork. It is a St. Martin Mikado fork, the logo is a little overlaid on the inside of the legs of the fork.
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| I love my St Martin BMX Flatland bike parts, they work fine. |
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| St Martin Mikado zero offset BMX Flatland fork. It endures well my 90-kg bodyweight for years now. |
I'll show you my brakes now. I only have front brakes, this is also a St. Martin brand of beautiful metallic burgundy colour. The brake shoe is something "noname", but it works very well. I really like St. Martin parts, I used to have a St. Martin frame before.
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| I love my U-Brakes from St Martin. Metal burgundy color is my favourite! |
The brake lever also shows that I used it a lot, it's a very old piece. This is an Odyssey brake lever, the little O-letter logo appears on it. Odyssey BMX parts kick ass!
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| I have been using my Odyssey Monolever break lever for 10 years and it works good as new. |
I also have an old, shabby bar that I have also worn out, but just some of the paint on it. The paint got worn from the ’step over the bar’-type tricks. This is also an Odyssey brand bike part, with its special name Bar Mitzvah. Such funny names are given by Odyssey to its products. Bar Mitzvah is a word game, the word "bar" is a bicycle part of course, but the word "Bar Mitzvah" itself means something in Jewish culture that is used for boys who have grown up and Bar Mitzvah is also how their inauguration ceremony is called.
This bar designed especially for BMX Flatland style has the specialty that it has lifetime warranty. I've been using it for about 10 years and it has no problem at all. Its weight is light too. It's a "zero" offset bar. This means that there is no sweep angle forwards or backwards.
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| The perfect fit for me: Odyssey Bar Mitzvah bars with zero offset |
The next piece of my bike is the stem. It's also a St. Martin component. I really like it that it is "knee-friendly" from its side toward the saddle, so there are no protuberances. Apart from this, when I hit my legs, it will also hurt, but I will not get caught in it and it does not cause me injuries like I've been
fighting with ninjas.
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| X26 stem by St Martin BMX Flatland company |
Then there are some of those strange things called "pegs" on my BMX. I use 4 pieces and, surprisingly, they are not made of iron, steel or aluminum, but of some kind of strong plastic. They are light, strong and durable, and I have been using them for a long time. They are manufactured by my friend, Csöpi, who also helped me a lot to practice tricks and repaired my bikes a lot for me to his great pleasure, so I would like to dedicate this video to him as well.
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| Mashers BMX Flatland pegs by by friend Csöpi, Hungarian street rider |
What do you think is so special in this bike if you look at it? You see here a hole in the middle. This is the place of the cranks or center axle. You can see that there is no pedal, sprocket, chain, cranks, driver, and rear hu bon mx BMX bike. I use a front hub in the back too, so I actually have two front wheels, one right in the front, in the front fork, the other in the back in the rear fork. I've taken off the drive for several years now because it was simply not necessary for the tricks I've been practicing.
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| Superstar BMX Overdrive front hubs work fine for me in the front and in the back as I use no cranks and have 2 front wheels. |
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| Superstar Overdrive front hubs for BMX Flatland superstar riders ;) |
The front and back hubs are the same with a very modest name: Superstar is their brand. Both of my rims are also Superstar parts and "Duty" fantasy name. Probably because a superstar has a duty to keep doing his tricks on his BMX Flatland bike every day. ;)
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| I ride Superstar Duty BMX Flatland/Street rims in both wheels |
Tires are very important. I use Odyssey, developed by our "Father" Chase Gouin. This type is the Frequency G. 1.75 size tire and as you can see, the rear one is white and the front one black, but there is no difference in its material and pattern. I use them at about 7.5 bar, but they can be blown up to a very brutal 10 bar. There are some who are rolling with on that pressure. For me this about 7-7.5 bar pressure works lately, but I've been cycling with tires that have been pressurized even more.
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| My all-time favourite tire for BMX Flatland riding is Frequency G 1.75 size from the King of BMX brands: Odyssey |
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| Colony BMX seat and seatpost work great for me in Flatland |
My seat and seat post are Colony brand "pivotal" parts. This means that the saddle is screwed up from the top of the saddle through an opening in the middle of the saddle, with an Allen bolt. The seat of my BMX is also quite run-down, with upside-down tricks (eg caboose-glide) when it accidentally hits the concrete or I drop the bicycle, it unfortunately wears.
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| Colony Pivotal Seat and seatpost designed for BMX Flatland riding. They last long even under me! |
As you can see, bike parts in BMX Flatland also get worn. The shoes also, especially when I used to practice "scuffing" ("shuffle ", braking and propelling the wheel with the shoes) tricks. Then I wore my shoes brutally fast, the sole simply got punctureded at the front and could almost be thrown to the trash, though it was almost "brand new." I do not practice scuff-tricks anymore, because I like to practice something else. Unfortunately, my scuffing tricks they have not been recorded to a video, I might pull them one more time to make a good video of them.
I bought 90% of my BMX at Harlee Shop in Miskolc, by the way,. This is now the place for advertising. I advertise because I am satisfied with both the parts and the service. So people do not just advertise in MLM, but in everyday life as well, when they tell each other where they bought something, how good it is, how good a product works so they recommend products and services just like I do now with my BMX Flatland bike.
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| Harlee Shop Miskolc, Hungary is a great skate and bike store |
In the meantime, I think it is clearly visible that I've done a lot of cuts in the video and maybe I'm talking a bit quieter than I would otherwise do, because here a lot of people are coming outside, running around, kids are rollerskating. This is a little bit embarrassing to me that I'm recording my video and I'm talking to mysellf and who knows what they might think. They must think that I have taken a lot of DXN Ganoderma medicinal mushroom and this is the result. XD LOL! :D See you,
Peace!
(Do not stop the video yet, here is comes my new DXN product experience!)
