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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: scott250 on June 18, 2010, 12:03 AM
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OK, so why is it the OS seems to rock them to the heighest point posible + NS have em slamed to the floor ?
I've always ran mine between 2 to 4" at most - I ran mine a little higher in the mid school from barspins(nipping seat) and nofooter manuals. Its about 2" for now - I don't bother much with barspins these days+ the newschoolers kind of pin one leg to do bars ::).
Have all oldschoolers damaged the knees so much they cannot run a seat any lower ;D ?
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:) No idea although I`ve always ran my post slammed -maybe `cos I`m a bit taller than Spen :daumenhoch:
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Most of my seatposts in the 80s were cut up old bars - I made a layback from my old vbars, then a straight one from some bent CWs. I went right off CWs and laybacks bitd though ;D still make me cringe today :P think I'm anti-gimick or something :-\
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Another bit taller than Spen so its always been a low seat for me, have a bit of a pet hate for flagpole height seats... :D
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High seatposts from the 80's blame Tim March and The Patterson Brothers (and just about any Other Pro over 6"). Only just learning to run mine low now ;D
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mines where its comfy for seated cruising, which is all i can do, so its set about 6in, same height bitd tbh.....
looks fookin un-comfy to me sat on the back wheel pedaling....
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Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.
Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v37/bmxbandit/diagnosis_wnker.jpg)
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High seatposts from the 80's blame Tim March and The Patterson Brothers (and just about any Other Pro over 6"). Only just learning to run mine low now ;D
Must have been the odd time when they got snagged in it & slamed ;D
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Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.
Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v37/bmxbandit/diagnosis_wnker.jpg)
Ahh, but most of us had tight jeans in 84 + masive bars - remember those GT xt large ones, haha- mate of mine had some. If I was younger I would wear those tight jeans - never get chain snag with em :P - but they do look daft as, haha.
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...always had my seat at the same height as the bars when turned 90 degrees - and seat positioned a couple mm's away from the grip end so you could hold em together for balance tricks.
Set lower for racing tho.
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Bitd we had high seatposts for racing so we could sit down entering a corner, not done that way these days as everyone uses the same (read fastest) line.
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Fashion. Just like the wide bars and the narrow jeans.
Seat height level with your bars when turned 90°.
Deviate too far from that, you're playing with yourself.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v37/bmxbandit/diagnosis_wnker.jpg)
Real imaginative reply... ::)
I'll stick with my low seat and yes i do partake in the odd 5 knuckle shuffle so you got that part right... ;)
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I can't physically pedal a 20" bmx anymore with a seatpost below 6".
I am 6foot3 and my Doctor told me to lay off BMXing 21 years ago due to "ballerina's knee!"
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Bitd we had high seatposts for racing so we could sit down entering a corner, not done that way these days as everyone uses the same (read fastest) line.
Really? I've never sat down while riding a BMX much, if ever on trails or tracks - only for nofooted manuals and going backwards, oww and nofooted endos bitd, haha.
Then again, I never raced ever.