Shout out to Muffinman for the grips

Custom Standard Bykes 125R w/ Closed Dropouts

Dialed Custom Paint Eastern Grim Reaper BMX Bike

Custom Painted Eastern Grim Reaper BMX Bike

1998 DK General Lee

Dialed S&M WTF

2011 S&M WTF BMX Bike

Best Complete BMX Bikes of 2012!!!

Best Complete BMX Bikes of 2012 List.

These are all the 2012 model complete BMX bikes available that come with 100% cromo frames, forks, and bars, basically the only complete BMX bikes you should be looking at if you are serious about doing tricks.  It is arranged by size and price so you can easily compare EVERY bmx bike in your size.   I might do a list of complete bikes made of trimoly frames that I think would be worthy of riding if this list proves useful.  This list is a work in progress, prices change, I may have listed some things wrong, links to the product pages could change.  If you spot anything wrong leave a comment and I'll fix it.  The 2-hip and FBM bikes listed are 2011 models, they have not put the 2012 models on line yet. 

I am also going to add "picks" to the respective size sections; like best cheap bike, best overall bike, and best looking bike.  I am also going to maybe get a famous guest rider to do his picks as well, stay tuned!!! Click below for the list!  Happy hunting. 

1983 Mongoose Expert

Murdered the F#%& Out!: Joe Vee Cult Bad Boy v2 Bike Check

Roasted: Lotek Mike Slims

Lotek Mike Slims Worn Out

Rat Bike: 2009 Mirraco Black Pearl 2

2009 Mirraco Black Pearl 2 BMX Bike

Better flickington of my new whip: The Take Ivy 5 BMX Frame

The Take Ivy 5 BMX Frame, itchin' for a sick frame?

If you have a red, itchy weight weenie rash that needs soothing then I present to you the ointment to alleviate your ailment: the new frame from The Take, The Ivy 5.   It's hand made of supertherm cromoly by FBM in upstate New York.  It literally weighs nothing, it sports scooted out geometry unapologetically, and apparently it costs 4 barrels of oil, 30 pounds of cocoa beans and one Moroccan baby.  Get 'em while they're hot!

The Take Ivy 5

This is "Chameleon Cherry Violet", I'll work with the color.  

Stranger Dream Machine Bike Check

Stranger Dream Machine

The Stranger Dream Machine frame is hand made by S&M in southern California.  This one belongs to TCU board member Mike Gully. 

Eastern Venus Hubs: Variety Is The Spice of Life

Eastern Venus Cassette Hub

Eastern Venus Front Hub

    This is the recently released Venus BMX hub set from Eastern Bicycles.  If I was going to build a new wheel set regardless of price I would use these hubs.  The front hub is your standard female axle 3/8" model, looks like the cones just pop in, interesting is the fact that it comes with a plastic snap on hub guard.  Comes with a 7075 alum center axle, I think it also comes with a chromoly center axle too for peg riders. 
    The rear hub is where things get really interesting.  It comes with the same bi-rection driver as the bi-rectional hub, so you can switch the drive side easily.  It also has the same pop-n-lock guard lip as the bi-rectional hub but does not come with the guard, unlike the front hub.   It does however come with no less than three axles for optional setups.  It comes with both a 7075 alum female axle for pegless, a heat treated cromo for peggers, and also a special cromo axle with a traditional threaded 14mm side and a female on the other for a super tough peg setup.  It uses 3/8" bolts for the female setup with built in 14mm lips on the hub.  The point of the three different axles is to have the lightest setup possible for your needs.  It's only $130.00 for the rear hub, making it cheaper than most hubs made of the same material with half the features.  IMO it is the best hub option for weight wienies for any price. 

G-Sport Birdcage: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

Gsport Birdcage Crosssection

Gsport Birdcage

 This is the soon to be released G-Sport Birdcage rim.  It is named the birdcage because it has a hollow lip that you can see in the cross section above.  It is called the birdcage because birds have hollow bones like the hollow lip on these rims.  At 14.4 ounces it will be the lightest welded freestyle rim on the market.  The only rims lighter are a few cheap Alienation rims that have pinned joints.  CYCLE SENSEI EXCLUSIVE INFO: The ERD on these yet to be released rims is "about 383mm" according to designer George French, I asked him on a message board because I'm dying to sell my set of lighter-but-designed-for-racing Sun Ringle Env front specific rims and snag a pair of chrome Birdcages when they come out. 

S&M Bikes Ironman Sprocket: Sprocket Evolution

S&M Bikes Ironman Sprocket

Toughest and best looking sprocket on the market.

This is the Ironman sprocket made by S&M bikes.  It is unique for a BMX sprocket because it is made out of heat treated chromoly.  Normal professional grade BMX sprockets are made out of either forged or cnc'ed 6000 or 7000 series aluminum.  To make up for the increase in weight from using chromoly the sprocket is highly machined, the teeth are hollow and the spokes are very thin.  The result is reportedly the toughest sprocket on the market at only a 1 ounce increase in weight over the lightest aluminum sprockets of the same size.  The slimmed down profile gives it a great look too on the bike.  Of special note is the 19mm splined interface for attaching to your spindle.  This eliminates the need for a sprocket bolt, thus negating some of the added weight and it also allows the owner to switch drive sides without buying a LHD crank arm.  A few companies have been making "spline drive" aluminum sprockets for a few years but they are very weak, they require a pressed-in cromo insert at the spline interface that has a tendency to separate from the rest of the sprocket when you give it a good bashing.  Because the Ironman sprocket is 100% cromo there is no weak point, thus making it the only spline drive sprocket I would recommend for anything other than trails riding. 

Oakly got it's start making BMX grips in the '70s.

The origins of Oakley.

History of Oakley from Defgrip on Vimeo.

BSD TrailOrPark Bike Check, Super Dialed

This is the new BSD TrailOrPark frame.  This is what BMX bikes should look like.

BSD TrailOrPark

 Best part is you can get these frames at any shop with a qbp account which is any respectable one, and they aren't even that expensive.

Solid Gold 1-1/8" Headset Spacer

Solid Gold 1-1/8" Headset Spacer

 Amity Bike Co. makes a solid gold 9ct 1-1/8" headset spacer.  Costs 199 pounds but might not be such a bad buy with the pound trading at 1.3 to the dollar these days...

Absolute Sickness: WeThePeople C.R.E.A.M. Frame

I'm kinda pissed this frame doesn't come in 20.5" and the back end is so short but it's still literally the most technologically advanced BMX frame to date.  It is designed and marketed by the German BMX company WeThePeople and made in Taiwan out of heat treated 4130 cromo.   It is the first BMX frame in history to make use of investment casting for the head tube and the seat tube junction.  WeThePeople used the investment casting technique for the dropouts on the Warriors frame before and has used it for the integrated seat post clamp on most of the frames for a few years. 

EDIT: wtp released the weights on this delayed frame and the fact is you probably shouldn't buy it because it weighs over 5 pounds for the 20.75".  supposedly its cheaper to make them this way, or it will be, or something.  

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