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New School BMX 2004 - Now => New School Park, Street & Dirt => Topic started by: lodge on October 18, 2008, 10:02 AM

Title: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: lodge on October 18, 2008, 10:02 AM: How cool is this Morgan Wade rocking a front brake for the first time in ages.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh280/macky573021/morgan_yellow-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: bmxer4ever on October 18, 2008, 01:18 PM: Quote from: stevemcintosh on October 18, 2008, 10:02 AM
How cool is this Morgan Wade rocking a front brake for the first time in ages.

2 brakes, four pegs and a full face helmet doin' a proper bloody nosepick.......that's just the way it should be!
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: markatkins on October 18, 2008, 01:25 PM: Good to see him with a full face,those piss pots are shite.
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: harris on October 18, 2008, 01:40 PM: front brakes will be back big time
and a few companies dont do front lugs yet.
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: bmxer4ever on October 18, 2008, 01:43 PM: Quote from: harris on October 18, 2008, 01:40 PM
front brakes will be back big time
and a few companies dont do front lugs yet.

My crusade is bearing fruit..... :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: harris on October 18, 2008, 01:46 PM: tbh i cant see how anyone can ride without one
like riding down the road without your trousers on ,it just shouldnt be done, :P
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: SaMAlex on October 18, 2008, 01:48 PM: Bugger. Just when I work out that they aint cool, and maybe I should take mine off ... they "come back". :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: bmxer4ever on October 18, 2008, 02:52 PM: Quote from: harris on October 18, 2008, 01:40 PM
front brakes will be back big time
and a few companies dont do front lugs yet.

These do....... ::)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/GDF%20Bmx%20Bikes/100_0492.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/GDF%20Bmx%20Bikes/100_0493.jpg)
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: lodge on October 18, 2008, 03:04 PM: Not easy to get hold of though Gary eh.

You cant go far wrong with a set of odyssey classic freestyle forks.
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: Philbert on October 18, 2008, 03:10 PM: that pic is now one of my favourites. fookin style! i still like you too alex
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: bmxer4ever on October 18, 2008, 03:42 PM: Quote from: stevemcintosh on October 18, 2008, 03:04 PM
Not easy to get hold of though Gary eh.

You cant go far wrong with a set of odyssey classic freestyle forks.

You're not kiddin' dude - these were the only pair in the COUNTRY when I bought 'em (allegedly!).
They're sittin' here waiting for the rest of the bike to get built! :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: Philbert on October 18, 2008, 04:03 PM: do odyssey still make the dirt fork with lugs on. i bought a set a couple of years ago!
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: jedi on October 18, 2008, 04:04 PM: i got odessey forks with lugs on 4 mionths ago
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: Philbert on October 18, 2008, 04:05 PM: you didn't get them off ebay did you?
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: jedi on October 18, 2008, 04:06 PM: nah man, my lbs got them for me
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: egg on October 18, 2008, 04:18 PM: that's nyquists bike not morgans :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: lodge on October 18, 2008, 04:34 PM: Quote from: egg on October 18, 2008, 04:18 PM
that's nyquists bike not morgans :daumenhoch:

Woops seems it is morgan riding nyquists bike, the pic is from levi's web site.
Guess the haro sticker on the frame gives it away. still a nice braked nosepick.
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: lodge on October 18, 2008, 04:46 PM: Quote from: philbert on October 18, 2008, 04:03 PM
do odyssey still make the dirt fork with lugs on. i bought a set a couple of years ago!

Odyssey classic freestyle 41 thermal forks with lugs on are still readily available and there light they retail for approx 80 notes.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh280/macky573021/untitled.jpg)
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: jedi on October 18, 2008, 05:12 PM: thats what i got
Title: Re: Front Brakes Are Coming Back
Post by: welsh denny on October 19, 2008, 12:00 AM: morgans prob practicing nosepicks for a new trick- bikeflip to nosepick. :LolLolLolLol:

front brakes are tops. sooner or later there are gonna be some new tricks which aint poss by jamming your foot. and front brakes will be back on most bikes. :-X