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It was too heavy in the front and too light in the back, so I added the extra weight to test how the counterbalance feels. Practically perfect for me now 👍

Yes I realize that BMX flatland is borderline interesting, but I figured adding sand weights to a bike would be dull enough for this community 🤷

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the love of your knees, I beg you to raise the seat.

Also extremely dull, love it.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, the bike is otherwise perfectly aligned for me. Whatever model frame this is under the puke pink paint, the top tube is plenty long enough to give full clearance for my knees. And I'm 5' 10" tall, still plenty of room for my knees. Apparently this frame is notably longer than the average 20" bike.

I have an exact alignment of all the parts for BMX flatland riding. The center of the hand grips are directly lined up with the steering axis, and the seat is at exactly the height to be on the same plane as the rotation of the handlebars. The seat has to be on the same plane as the handlebars, since the seat doubles as a third handgrip with a number of flatland tricks.

The challenge here was to tweak the weight distribution of the bike to counterbalance my own body weight, the back end of the bike was just too light for me.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look man I don't know what you're talking about

That seat height is set for somebody who's 4 ft tall

When you down stroke on your pedal, your legs should be almost fully extended with almost no knee bend

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You must not know anything about brakeless 20" BMX flatland then. Try watching some videos on it, more often than not we're not even sitting down anyways, the seat is basically just a third handgrip.

Go ahead, check the Matt Wilhelm Warehouse Session, or the JoMoPro 2012 competition. BMX flatland isn't in any way like normal bicycle riding. When the name of the game has almost nothing to do with sitting on the seat, we play by our own rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgzJ4VSq8ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMOkI4DQm_0

And a bonus clip, my own custom 1981 Mongoose Supergoose, my main preferred BMX flatland bike, but now the frame has stress cracks so I can't safely perform tricks on it anymore :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2ZRLeRdR0