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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: 80sdave on February 09, 2008, 10:40 PM
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I really want to start racing this year as im fed up of riding my local skatepark but im not sure if at 6ft3" im to tall for a 20". I know i could ride cruisers but it just doesnt feel right. Is anyone else out their riding 20's at roughly the same height.
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Longun's about that or maybe a bit more and I'm sure I've seen a few tall riders at Hayes when I've been there so I wouldn't say so. Tim March nearly won the worlds and he was a tall fooker :daumenhoch:
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Cool, hayes is my nearest track , i was thinking about joining up and hopefully getting the youngest down their aswell to get him riding, suppose i should start looking at bikes for tall fookers then :LolLolLolLol:
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Toptube 21.5 - 22" maybe .
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If Hayes is your nearest, where are based?
I'm not far these days (Iver Heath) but went to school in Hayes (not far from the current track) and spent most of my youth at the old Hayes track :LolLolLolLol:
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Ben Forwood - 6' 5" ? .
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Im in harrow so quite near marty , just watched the uci bmx from bejing shazane reade is going to take gold in the olympics for sure. :daumenhoch:
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Darkersomeday on here is 6'4"
and this is the ideal frame for you (21.75" top tube)
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=54047.0
:) DINGO :)
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In the Old school series theres a few big lads racing regular. Madd Matt is well over 6 foot, so is nishiki 14, Quadpaul is a tad over 6 foot as well, they dont have any real problems, perhaps you should pop over to an os race and try a few rides out :daumenhoch:
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Mat oaten more like 7 foot tall :) te-harve rides old skool at 6'1"
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Im seriously thinking of quitting at the moment, my bike may be up for sale soon, its around the 21.5"-22" top tube. Only ridden twice and crashed once.
Still has all the rubber spikes on it around the Comp 3's.
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Mat oaten more like 7 foot tall :) te-harve rides old skool at 6'1"
:LolLolLolLol: His 6ft 4 and a 1/4 :LolLolLolLol:
I know he bought a frame with a 20 ½ top tube and a 2" xxl stem :) His bought lots of bits to find out whats comfortable for him :( So as someone else said try and get to an os meet and try a few bikes out :)
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Thank's people looks like a 20 then i will get to an os meet ill check the dates for the southern area, and what bike do you have southern andy, someone posted up a quad with a long toptube but i always thought the quads were freestyle and the pk's were race bikes ?.anyway off to the calender and touch wood see you all soon. :daumenhoch:
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Ben Forwood - 6' 5" ? .
About that, he rides for dialled bikes and uses about a 23"tt.
Felm must be one of the tallest dudes in 19+ (even though he's about 40!), he rode for freeagent last year and redline now I think, so there are frames out there.
I'm 6 foot and I ride a 21"tt, thats about avarage in 30+, well apart from the hobbits from east ungular, they all seem to be about 3 foot tall. ;D
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There's a race at Hayes on Sunday, get yourself down there to check out all the lanky gits on little bikes.
If you do come and say hi to me, I'm the bloke with the ginger ponytail in 30+ (number 53) on a tatty black Standard with posh bits. I drive a merc vito with the numberplate MK53BMX. :daumenhoch:
Miles. :coolsmiley:
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As others have said, Ben's probably the tallest rider in the UK at around 6'5". He runs a custom 22" frame and over the last 2 seasons has achieved Euro No.1, World No 4, Euro No.4 and World No.2.
There are quite a few off the peg 21.5" - 22" frames around.
I think the next time I get a frame made for Ben, he might go a tad longer at 22.25" or 22.5". I think a 23" BMX frame would be pushing the envelope a bit too far and would be difficult to pick-up/manual.
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The Macneil Deuce Deuce (not too surprisingly) is a 22" TT frame. Rides nice too :)
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Ill tey and get to hayes but i work weekends at present and that will change shortly hence wanting to race, i may do the os series to get back into it first as im so use to mtb's and clip pedals.
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what bike do you have southern andy,
This here mate, although i still in two minds as to what i'm doing, i think i'll make my mind up more when my break has heeled.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/huffy3.jpg
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/huffy2.jpg
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/huffy1.jpg
A lot of the guys on here are telling me not to sell it.
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That looks nice i havent seen a huffy for years didnt realise they were still about, looks quite long to. :daumenhoch:
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A lot of the guys on here are telling me not to sell it.
Too right, you've got to keep the faith, easy to say now but wait till the summer comes :daumenhoch:
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That looks nice i havent seen a huffy for years didnt realise they were still about, looks quite long to. :daumenhoch:
It is mate, light as a feather and it doesn't hurt when it lands on you neither :LolLolLolLol: The ground hurts though. It is at the top end of the Huffy bikes, i like it a lot.
It does have a long frame, which is why i bought it, my son has a GT with an 18/19" top tube, no way can i ride that. I'm just under 6ft by a fraction.
Anyway, try as many bikes as you can for size, these guys on here know there stuff big style, so any info they give you it will be honest.
As i have said, i'm not sure what i'm doing with this yet, time will tell. ;)
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Yeah i must admit the info given on here is great, well helpful. Ill probably try to find somthing i can race in the os series for the rest of this year and get up to speed then next year when ill have all the time i need race full on but i really want to get my youngest racing he's 7 and likes the dirt as where my middle son is a skatepark addict.
maybe a PK junior for him :smitten:
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This is old school mate, and it wont cost you an arm or a leg neither.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=54753.0
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Nice bike i'm just not that keen on the old haro's for some reason, money isnt the issue i just have no time at present to get stuck in buy and ride, a few more weeks yet, i have to read the rules aswell to find out how much of the bike has to be os to race.
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too tall to race 20"? Two words mate: Winnie Wright. A legend who's unfortunately no longer with us but Winnie was riding when the longest frame available was probably 18". Here's Winnie in the yellow free agent gear at Slough, all legs, all heart!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd42/clivegossa/scan0009-1.jpg)
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too tall to race 20"? Two words mate: Winnie Wright. A legend who's unfortunately no longer with us but Winnie was riding when the longest frame available was probably 18". Here's Winnie in the yellow free agent gear at Slough, all legs, all heart!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd42/clivegossa/scan0009-1.jpg)
Winnie was a top bloke RIP.
Is that the Uncle Sams burger van in the background? Haven't see that in years :).
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too tall to race 20"? Two words mate: Winnie Wright. A legend who's unfortunately no longer with us but Winnie was riding when the longest frame available was probably 18". Here's Winnie in the yellow free agent gear at Slough, all legs, all heart!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd42/clivegossa/scan0009-1.jpg)
Winnie was a top bloke RIP.
Is that the Uncle Sams burger van in the background? Haven't see that in years :).
Looks like it Marty, best apres race grub there was! I think this was a regional, 1988? That's me, winnie and lynchy.....
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Excellent picture mate, cant wait to get riding. Is slough still open i heard they closed it ages ago, a guy near me called Gunner used to ride their i think his mum was ace riders club secretary or somthing , Biiiig doubles their, Cool 8)
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There's a race at Hayes on Sunday, get yourself down there to check out all the lanky gits on little bikes.
If you do come and say hi to me, I'm the bloke with the ginger ponytail in 30+ (number 53) on a tatty black Standard with posh bits. I drive a merc vito with the numberplate MK53BMX. :daumenhoch:
Miles. :coolsmiley:
Just dont stand on top of the berms when he's racing :LolLolLolLol:
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I know a man who has just bought an old school legal race frame and forks that's got a 22" top tube. ;)
He may sell as well.
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Be interested to know what it is.
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Be interested to know what it is.
Bloody long ....thats what. :2funny: :LolLolLolLol:
Matt
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its not for sale sorry ;) as have some very nice plans for it :4_17_5:
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But what is it ?
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its a haro pro xxl its very long