Bicyclism! ! !

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 15 Aug 2005, 23:01

I've seen this bike that is as light as a feather with really good disk brakes on them. It ran something like $2,400 bucks. That's a lot of green.

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 15 Aug 2005, 23:02

Too much if you ask me... unless you're a bicycle showoff-er

I know I wouldn't drive a bike that expensive anywhere besides normal, clean, tarmac...

Fishwhiz · Post by **Fishwhiz** » 15 Aug 2005, 23:44

ive got a mongoose mountain bike, silver and blue w/ black rims i got a new back tire cauz i poped the last 1 cauz i liked drifting w/ mt bike. no litarly, i can drift w/ bikes

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 15 Aug 2005, 23:49

Whahahaha, you can't drift with something that has 2 wheels, because you'll lose your balance.

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 16 Aug 2005, 00:43

I've drifted before with my bike. It was really hard doing it tho. I went down a steep hill really fast and when I neared the intersection I put the brakes on hard and swung the back end out and leaned toward the street. I drifted only 1 or 2 feet, but I did. Btw check out this totaly AWESOME bike I found on Google images.

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 16 Aug 2005, 01:47

Jopuma, that is not a DRIFT . . . it's called a SKID.

To drift on a bike, you would have to get the rear wheel out sideways while pedalling, and go around a corner.

Pretty much impossible unless you do it by accident.

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 16 Aug 2005, 10:28

@Jopuma: Yes, awesome bike. . .

Drifting with a bike is impossible on tarmac, you can perform it on wet mud, but also very hard to.

Tunerfreak · Post by **Tunerfreak** » 16 Aug 2005, 10:58

I went moutain biking on wet mud a few days ago, and I can confirm that bike drifting is more than possible.

Its alot more difficult on tarmac...

Fishwhiz · Post by **Fishwhiz** » 16 Aug 2005, 13:47

how can it be impossible if i did it b4?

all you have to do is turn and brake the rear wheel brakes. its possible. theres still markes frum where i drifted. but it is hard to keep balance, but if you see the markes, they make a curve. drift. and i never lost complete balance.

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 16 Aug 2005, 13:55

boganbusman wrote:Jopuma, that is not a DRIFT . . . it's called a SKID.

To drift on a bike, you would have to get the rear wheel out sideways while pedalling, and go around a corner.

Pretty much impossible unless you do it by accident.

NFSBLUECIVIC · Post by **NFSBLUECIVIC** » 16 Aug 2005, 16:48

drifting, or skiding on bikes is way fun, i go to a biker buddies and he lives right on the corner of a long flat street and we hold drift/skid contests to see whose tiremarks are longest. by the way, does anyone else besides me do bmx? not racing, just jumping?

Fishwhiz · Post by **Fishwhiz** » 16 Aug 2005, 16:49

cool. but thats how you can easily pop your back tire.

NFSBLUECIVIC · Post by **NFSBLUECIVIC** » 16 Aug 2005, 16:52

i see what you mean. and just to tell you drifting/skidding doesnt POP your back tire, it wears out the tread of your tire making it more vurnerable. where we live biking is pretty big, and they make these tubes for your tire that are vertually unpoppable, pretty cool to ride on.!

Post by **TheStig** » 16 Aug 2005, 19:04

I try to avoid skidding on my MTB and really try to avoid it on my roadbike. the tires are abit to expensive to do some fun skidding.
ok the road tires are not that expensive compared to the ones on my mtb but they wear out extremely fast if you skid with roadtires... but sometimes it happens. if I have to brake suddenly.

btw there is a big diffirence between diskbrakes and diskbrakes. some diskbrakes are simply crap! they look good but brake less then the average V-brakes. most of them are wire brakes. Diskbrakes are only good if they are hydrolic but even with hydrolic brake they are not all good. and only expensive diskbrakes are light. (but still not lighter then V-brakes.

ooh I thought my bike was pretty light with 9.5 kilogram (normal mountainbikes weigh about 12-13 kg)

am planning to get it a other 500gram lighter.

but then look at this bike 5.8 kgs

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 16 Aug 2005, 20:29

NFSBLUECIVIC wrote:drifting, or skiding on bikes is way fun, i go to a biker buddies and he lives right on the corner of a long flat street and we hold drift/skid contests to see whose tiremarks are longest. by the way, does anyone else besides me do bmx? not racing, just jumping?

Yup. There's this skate park like place close to my house. It's free to the public because..........well.............its a city park. The cement is really slik. On my bike I can get going really fast and go up the steepest of hills there. There's also a deep pit like thing where I can ride sideways around the rime of the pit. It's really cool. On a skateboard I just hurt myself way to much.

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 16 Aug 2005, 20:41

Check our my PIMP ride

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 16 Aug 2005, 20:53

AWESOME dude!! You have one of those!

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 16 Aug 2005, 21:11

Actually... me and my friend stold it from some kid that lives by, but then we gave it back, and he didn't even know that.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't mess with my friend.

I look weird on this pic

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 16 Aug 2005, 23:12

Cool. You're from Nebraska. I think you should just buy your own instead of "borrowing" it from a kid down the street.

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 17 Aug 2005, 01:52

Actually I'm not interested in bikes any more, and we "borrowed" it from the kid next door just to have some fun.

We also busted his garage windows out with our bb gun

I didn't care, the kid lives next to my friends house, not next to me

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 17 Aug 2005, 02:51

That's plain sad..

Anywayz, still one week to go for I have to go to school again, and my bike is still a heap of shiznit. -_-

WhereIsTheNsx · Post by **WhereIsTheNsx** » 17 Aug 2005, 04:47

I had a redline that a kid stole, i really thought I was the shiznit with that bike, i miss it

Hecubus · Post by **Hecubus** » 17 Aug 2005, 05:26

I rode my bike in the first time in years today. With gas prices hovering around the dollar mark (per litre), it's getting disturbingly expensive to fill up (I know, we've got it lucky compared to Europe, but a year ago, I could easily get gas for between 60 and 70 cents per litre, so the inflation is a little overwhelming).

Jopuma · Post by **Jopuma** » 17 Aug 2005, 05:40

Wow. That is some cheap s**t! Here in Colorado prices range from $2.68 to $3.00 for Premium gasoline!

Post by **TheStig** » 17 Aug 2005, 06:29

that is a Gallon! not for 1 liter!

big diffirence 1 gallon is alot more then 1 liter, if I am not mistaking is is something like 3.5 liter for 1 gallon!