I'm thinking of buying a bike just to zip around the neighbourhood now and then, maybe go down to the shops and get some garlic bread or whatever

I wouldnt mind being able to do some monos and s*** as well, so I was thinking about a BMX.

Was wondering:

1. Can you get a BMX that has gears
2. Can you get a BMX with one of those giant comfy seats
3. Can you get a BMX that will be comfy for some guy whos 6'7
4. Where can I buy this magical bike for cheaps

As a reward for your attention, heres a photo of myself:

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/boxsocial/IMG_3893.jpg

don't lie you want a bmx to be like nicole kidman.

1. Can you get a BMX that has gears - that's a mountain bike
2. Can you get a BMX with one of those giant comfy seats - you mean with the sissy bar at the back? I'm sure you could fit one.
3. Can you get a BMX that will be comfy for some guy whos 6'7 - Maybe
4. Where can I buy this magical bike for cheaps - Bike shop

I reckon a mountain bike would be the ticket, especially if you want gears.

You can go way faster than a BMX.

Thankyou to the random (pave?) in background, because every photo needs guns. Maxe does not cut it

guns are for retards, i use the crushing force of my intellect to solve problems


I dont want a bike so I can get places fast, I want one so I can get places without walking, and so I can do monos

It's pretty easy popping monos on a mountain bike in first gear or whatever.

Mountain bikes just don't give the gansta street cred that riding low in a BMX will give.

1. Can you get a BMX that has gears
2. Can you get a BMX with one of those giant comfy seats
3. Can you get a BMX that will be comfy for some guy whos 6'7
4. Where can I buy this magical bike for cheaps

Answers:
1. If it had gears it wouldn't be a BMX, but freeride bikes are the closest you'll come. STP-geometry bikes are basically a BMX-ish sized frame, but designed for 26" wheels and will usually have vertical dropouts and everything else required for running them in a 1x9 configuration.

2. You can put whatever saddle you want on a bike. But remember, saddle comfort is not about padding, it's about shape. A saddle which fits you properly, even if made of carbon fibre, will be way more comforable than any saddle with tons of padding which doesn't fit you properly. Haven't you noticed that Formula 1 seats are made of carbon fibre and moulded to a drivers body?

3. Haha, oh dear, a 6'7 guy on a 20" bike? uhm... I can't say, but you might want to look at an STP/Freeride bike.

4. ...

Edit: Start off by looking at something like a Kona Shred ( http://www.konaworld.com/09_shred_en.cfm ) or Giant STP 2 ( http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-AU/bikes/mountain/2175/31851/ )
However, I wouldn't recommend either of these due to their componentry - I'd be recommending something with Saint gear on it.

last edited by Raven at 14:54:43 16/Aug/08

Hi there maxe

I'm a bmx rider, and i solely believe BMX should only mean a 20" ungeared bike.

What you're describing is like asking for a motorbike with four wheels and a roof, ie a car. Your best bet is a nice GT mountain bike, they're pretty fun.

The closest thing you'll get in the BMX category is a BMX 'cruiser' (as shown below) and the main difference is a slightly larger frame to accommodate bigger wheels and tall people who still want to fit on a BMX
http://www.leelikesbikes.com/wp-content/010508gtcruiser.jpg

FWIW, I'm considering taking up BMX (24"), but between XCE, XCC nationals and Road Crits, it's hard to fit in yet another discipline. But 24" BMX are race bikes, not stunt bikes, and there's a big difference. What you seem to be wanting isn't a race bike. Seriously, have a look at a freeride or trials bike.

This is the same as what i ride, except mine's red with a few parts changed (pedals, sprocket, cranks, seat etc)
http://bmxmuseum.com/image/dscn4830_lg.jpg

f#%&*$, "sprocket". It's called a freewheel ffs.

'sif flat pedals.

Get a Giant STP

(street-trail-park mountain bike)

It's a mountain bike with a frame that is a bit BMXish

You can google for pics cause I'm lazy, there's a few different models

Check out ebay, a mate has a shop on ebay and sells heaps of BMX stuff, i can ask him if he does bikes etc if you want? Ill be catching up with him tonight.

sprocket is perfectly appropriate, being that it has teeth and engages a chain

I didn't know that Jim, I always called it a freewheel but now I will call it a sprocket.

Speaking of STPs - Lincoln Verass (2006-2007 Victorian Elite Mens downhill State champion) occasionally turns up to Westgate on one throughout the summer months, the guy is absolutely magic to watch piloting it through the singletrack. He has to ride C grade (though we forced him up into B because he was just smashing C grade) because at 1x9 (32/11-32) he can't get top speed on the straights, but I swear the guy is way quicker on that thing than any of the A graders through the singletrack.

As for the terminology - It's a cog if it's part of a cassette or standalone with teeth where the freehub spins. It's a freewheel if it contains the mechanism allowing it to freely backpedal, but engage when pedaled normally.

1. Can you get a BMX that has gears

they're called 'childs mountain bikes... reinforce the frame and add better seat/tires/bars/etc

2. Can you get a BMX with one of those giant comfy seats

see Q 1

3. Can you get a BMX that will be comfy for some guy whos 6'7

no - you're looking at a mountain bike

4. Where can I buy this magical bike for cheaps

buy all the parts needed 2nd hand and build it yourself

i think as people have stated you'd probably be looking at an stp, bmx's for big guys, its uncomfortable. I got a avanti derelikt for my ht, people say those frames crack but i dont ride it enough to care :D, i'd also recommend a norco manik my bro has one and they're a nice ride. ps I just finished building up my new dh rig yesterday, went for a ride today <3<3 so hot.

also checkout www.farkin.net heaps of cheap 2nd hand gear there.

seriously Maxe - get some inline skates dude...


more groove for your buck...

f#%&*$, "sprocket". It's called a freewheel ffs.

erm... what do you call the large front one then?

freewheel is the one on the back that spins freely when you are coasting... hence the name

If you want an oversize BMX look at some 24" racer style bikes, larger frame and larger wheels for those lanky c***s.

erm... what do you call the large front one then?

Chainring.

sprocket and chainring/chainwheel are the normally used terms. bmx riders usually refer to them as sprockets. i've got a 25 toother on mine, nice and small.

sounds to me more like you want a chopper :p

noo.. get out of the chopper

well this thread has been hella useful

thanks QGL

broest bunch of bros that ever broed

I always called the front one either a sprocket or disc.

Most were chunky solid 44 tooth back in my BMXing days, so they weren't rings... apart from the lightweight weaker race ones that bent super easy if you cased on some coping.

I still have my last BMX which has a mini 25 toother :)

seriously Maxe - get some inline skates dude...


more groove for your buck...

the hardest thing about this suggestion would be telling your parents you're gay.

^ lol

you know what comes before bmx??

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2015/2259599635_f6e4e7e726_o.jpg

aw yeah

last edited by protit at 15:56:51 18/Aug/08

shame we don't get the twin turbo V8 here :(

http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/x6/x6/2007/allfacts/engine/datasheet.html eu choices, we only get the 35i and 35d here

I love the twin turbo diesel but it'd still be nice to have the choice to buy a premium unleaded guzzler

or the choice not to

those aren't my guns, mine are bigger

580nm from 1750rpm
yes please

same engine as mine in slightly more aggressive tune
you know you love diesel mr hardware

X6 tune on the left, mine on the right:
http://www.bmw.com.au/scripts/main.asp?PageID=11768&PID=16

i am taking one for a test drive thurs. will give a review.

wow, I bet you could drive the kids to soccer real fast in that thing.

I got it up mitsi hill easier than your suby stinky*


*may or may not be a complete lie

not at $1.80/ltr i don't
also
http://www.nolancompany.com/Main/Pictures/Photos-for-web-091603/Lg-PD-1-derail-flag.jpg

last edited by Mr Hardware at 13:55:35 19/Aug/08

why is it called mitsu hill anyway?

cause i've never seen a mitsubishi get up it, plus i think i'd be packing bricks to try it in mine.

yeah you do love it go awwwn
how could you not

dunno where you see diesel for $1.80 but they're doing it wrong


$1.58 for bp diesel near my house, and 70 litres gets me over 900k's even while enjoying regular right boot and the beautiful burbly roar of german engineering - not to mention with vastly more torque and power than lpg, less carbon and particle emissions per km than your car and without voiding my warranty

win!

I thought you went up there the other weekend nf

only did the top bit where it meets the tower of terror run, and i came in from the other way.

i couldn't climb a hill like with the fuel pump the way it was.

ah ok
bring on the efi

yeah but that's $12/100klms
where i'm doing $8/100klms

and having 8/100ths the fun.

There's a BMX park thing down the road from my place, the other day they were setting off fireworks. Scallywags!

even if your heavily over-estimated mileage figures on lpg compared to my under-estimated figures were true:

I guess I could drop down to a 2.0 turbo diesel and still surpass your power and torque and spend less than lpg

or drop down to a turbo diesel / electric hybrid and come close to or possibly even still match your power and torque and spend an unrivaled lower amount

or even ride a bike and spend nothing


if the $$ were even the point, or even the only point

One day at Ormeau I travelled slightly under 30km and used just under 1/2 a tank of Unleaded Fuel (70lt tank).

Do I get good fuel economy?

I thought it was called Mitsu Hill because it keeps breaking Mitsu's...
And most people know it as "The Chicken Track" but we have a few people calling it Mitsu Hill now :p
My mate from work in a Zook just snapped a CV there too (Same place as the Challanger), so thats 4 that I know of that have snapped there, Maybe a name change to CV Smasher?

stinky snapped an axle or cv there at least once that I can remember too

http://zero.racetime.com.au/files/threaddirection.jpg

http://zero.racetime.com.au/files/trainwreck-19thomas-600.jpg

lucky he had a box of spares in the back and changed it out right there halfway up the hill

who cares if it's derailed, it's a maxe thread i'm surprised he's even read it again since the OP

and lpg bashing is more fun

I thought it was called Mitsu Hill because it keeps breaking Mitsu's...
And most people know it as "The Chicken Track" but we have a few people calling it Mitsu Hill now :p

yeah every time i see it, it gets worse too.

i'll have to attempt it some time though, the paj might need a hose out afterwards though.

stinky snapped an axle or cv there at least once that I can remember too

yeah, and punctured two tyres within about 15 minutes.

X6 tune on the left, mine on the right:
http://www.bmw.com.au/scripts/main.asp?PageID=11768&PID=16

oops didn't notice that link didn't even go to the right place
fixed

while not my ride yet I think it will be something similair to this tasty 19th century vehicle of transportation

http://amesterdam.info/tourism\BikesInAmsterdam_large.jpg

yeh but how many chickens died to make that bike

Amsterdam is crazy with it's bikes. They have like this Bikepark (think carpark) with a few Thousand bikes there.

Pretty boring not that I think about it, but it seemed hell interisting at the time, other influences may have been at play though.

That X6 is incredibly ugly. Chris Bangle has NFI.

I thought it looked funny at first but it grew on me after a few weeks
I woulda waited for them to come out if I didn't need the extra space in the rear seats and luggage area. They drive a little sportier than X5's due to wider track, although adaptive drive makes a world of difference for X5's. None of the X6 demos locally have adaptive drive so they actually feel wallowy by comparison.

if you think x6 is ugly you are probably a tit-hater too.

its very stylish but i don't rate it at all.

looks like an M3 or something with the wrong aspect ratio. they should have given it its own look rather than copy/paste/scale an existing one imo.

its a perversion of an existing look thats probablby a bit hit and miss anyway. its like a pregnant jessica alba. look is still there, but s***s all out of proportion.

last edited by nF at 13:31:56 20/Aug/08

yeah its proportions are all wonky. It looks like a novelty-sized roller skate.

BMW's stopped looking good after the E46 series. Now Audis and Mercs have far better looking metal, when it used to be the other way round.

The engineering in the current BMW's is still outstanding though, and I wouldn't be stupid enough to turn down an M3 or M5 if someone was handing them out :P Though I would trade the M3 on an RS4 or the M5 on an R8 ;)

ive seen some FULLY HEKTIC looking audis getting around brisbane lately

BMW's stopped looking good after the E46 series.

ugh :(
totally disagree

ive seen some FULLY HEKTIC looking audis getting around brisbane lately

That's because all the cocks are buying Audi's these days.

any e92 2 door looks awesome to me

case in point.


hot:

http://images.europeancarweb.com/images/0703_ec_01_z audi_rs4_mtm front_view.jpg

not:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2263521529_b567b317f4_b.jpg

put a nice shiny reflective marketing pic of a sedan against a bland white user pic of a coupe, and still fail to make a case

too much pump fakin and half steppin in this thread

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8884/img8445fd5.jpg
By maxe1

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2047/img8467ym0.jpg
By maxe1

f***ing hell imageshack is s***

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/spinders/sid_ice_age.jpg

juicy

actually that audi in "taken" is quite tight.

the S8?
was an A3 in there as well, audi have been pimpin in movies a lot

so how'd you go infi

there is an orange audi R8 getting around west end, pretty f***ing sweet

yer, ive seen it, its f***ing tits:

theres a stack of nice cars getting around west end these days

HOLY s*** THE X6 IS MADNESS.

A quick overview
- yes it is as high as an X5
- the rear view window is apain in the ass but is offset by very large win mirrors
- it is appointed basically the same as a 5 series in terms of fit out.
- sexy HUD into the front windscreen showing speed, and other indicators.
- no parking handbrake, just a tiny little switch which gives awesome amounts of room in centre console.
- i drove the 335 twin turbo petrol 3L auto and it absolutely hammered.
- a little underpowered it felt in the low gears but once into third it really pulls.
- it is a Sports Activity Vehicle with all wheel drive so its not a sport car as such but a multipurpose.
- The rear seat roof area is a _little_ low but you would get used to it.
- The boot is massive.
- In terms of looks it just dominates anything else on the road.

The one stand out thing was the X6's handling. This thing sticks to the road like glue and no lurching feeling when you're going around corners like other big 4WD vehicles.

at $149k fully tricked out I will be waiting a while to get one but it is a dream to drive.

last edited by infi at 15:03:48 22/Aug/08

another way of putting it (imo) is to say they are simply a coupe version of the X5

the differences between them are:

- coupe vs wagon (duh)
- lower front grill, rear exhaust and other minor skirt differences
- a little less room in the back seat and lots less in the luggage area due to the coupe shape
- slightly wider wheel track
- slightly lower centre of gravity
- twin turbo 3.0 petrol is an option and in aus, twin turbo v8 isn't (boo)
- updated xdrive system

the rest is practically identical, including the options list

you should go back for a crack at the twin turbo diesel, it pulls harder in the low gears, and it's only slower from 0-100 by .2 of a second (on paper) and I simply couldn't tell that it was slower at all driving them both back to back - all I could tell was that it was quicker down low.

yeah i reckon in that 2 tonne lump of metal the diesel would be better.

theres a stack of nice cars getting around west end these days

yeah i dunno why, it's still a f***ing s*** hole

also infi, they have probably made it so the wastegate for the turbos only closes in 3rd gear and above. new mazda 3 mps is the same dunno why, probably to stop racing and stop people from smashing gears.

they're sequential turbos as well, little one for lower rpm
this is in both the petrol and diesel

I think it's mainly the weight vs displacement which is why the diesel seems to shine lower down

I guess the other thing too is that these vehicles have a 'learning' transmission so if you leave it in normal 'D' mode on your test drive and don't spend several minutes driving it aggressively before you start forming your opinion, you'll often get a false impression of what it's actually like to drive one all the time cos the shifting pattern adapts to your level of right boot. So if it's been for a few test drives where it was driven rather gently before you come along, it's shifting pattern will still be optimised for gentle driving and you'll think it's a slug. You've gotta tell it you want a bit of fun so it adjusts. Either that or flick the shifter over into DS mode, which infi might not have done.

i tell your mother what i want jim

she's used to being ridden like you stole it

new mazda 3 mps is the same dunno why, probably to stop racing and stop people from smashing gears.

Probably cause its FWD and would torque steer like a mofo.

or like a mini

yeah i dunno why, it's still a f***ing s*** hole

GENTRIFICATION

misinformation alert
the petrol 6cyl and 8cyl aren't sequential turbos, they're split between cylinders. only the diesel 6 is sequential

IM SORRY OK

you stupid f***, I just bought one on your advise of it being sequencial.

I think I should take it off your hands - it's the right thing to do

sequinsal turbos are gay for poofs anyway.

but really manly for blokes

jim what happened to your patrol? and how much did you pay for your new toy? we all know how much you earn, so just tell us anyways you nerd.


love you.

nothing happened to it :) other than getting more dents and aftermarket drivetrain components ;) I wouldn't part with the pootrol for anything

new toy was about 155k all told
~17k of that was luxury car tax which is pretty awesome