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spillers#1:
I'm probley gonna get slagged for this......but why do people have there bars leaning forward,especially the burner mob.I own a pro burner/aero what ever the f*ck it is but i would never dream of having the bars pointing forward,when i was a teenager we used to laugh our heads off when we saw a bike with its bars forward...it was always the kids who hads a bmx but didn't know how to ride :wtf:

theRuler:

--- Quote from: spillers#1 on February 28, 2007, 08:31 AM ---it was always the kids who hads a bmx but didn't know how to ride :wtf:

--- End quote ---

yup

the thing is with mk1 burners, is that the sweep on the bars is so dramatic that if you set the bars at a normal angle, it would be like riding a wheelbarrow

as for normal bars leant right forward, it probably down to the reason you listed

zed4130:
i dont know how old you are but 'we had a bars forward bitd because top tubes were shorter and we would bang our knees on the bars 'of course lay backs helped  :daumenhoch: and top tubes got longer for example my new ripper has a 20.5 tt same as my street bike so my bars are at the same angle as my forks  :daumenhoch: but bitd the top tubes were alot shorter and i had a burner and they were short frame with all the wrong angles  :crazy2: but i still want one now  :daumenhoch: hope this helps  :daumenhoch:

theRuler:
LOL

the riders were shorter too

not ONE person back in the burner days was hankering for a longer toptube (of our age group)

the burner bars issue was due to the shit bars.

people who are building bikes with the bars right forward and levers mounted horizontally are most likely the people who never really rode a bmx seriously.

jimwise68:
Had this converse before.

I used to ride with my bars slightly forward, so the grips were inline with the front axle. Didn't realise why at the time but it must have been the differrent geometries. Couldn't do tricks with the bars back as we ride today. Tried it once when i was younger and done a front flip off of a small ramp. Never rode with my bars back past vertical after that.

Never had them so they were so far forward that you looked like you were riding a racer though!  :uglystupid2:

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