Convince me to get or not to get a cheap BMX bike

Tarckives Bikes
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i’m building up a haro x2, an old one. i painted it.

it’s this one

https://shop.sunrisecyclery.com/item/409


(it was free from a garage sale)
i’m switching out the cranks and wondering what’s a good cheap crankset and chainring. i wanna run 25:9.
what’s like, the sugino messenger of bmx cranksets?

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does that have a cassette? wont be able to go down to 9 without one.

and FYI dans comp is the ben’s of the BMX world

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casette? the freewheel just threads on iunno

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as opposed to freewheel. seeing how that haro has a one piece crank i would assume that it doesnt, which means that if it has a flip flop hub the lowest you can go is 13t in the rear, if it doesnt have a flip flop the lowest you can go is 16t or possibly 15t

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damn edits.

is it a flip flop hub?

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and yea i’ve known about dans. i think it’s like the only good online shop. like the ccs of bmx.

i was looking at this

http://www.danscomp.com/451053.php?cat=PARTS

poverty carmi cranks

looks like everything i need right now, crankset and bb.

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Holy shit, I had a Haro Master when I was 14 or something. Wow. That was like a twenty-something yea… a long time ago.

Also, I bought a chain from Dan’s, they sent me a catalog. There’s a world of funky BMX parts out there.

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[quote=“tx_what_it_do”]and yea i’ve known about dans. i think it’s like the only good online shop. like the ccs of bmx.

i was looking at this

http://www.danscomp.com/451053.php?cat=PARTS

poverty carmi cranks

looks like everything i need right now, crankset and bb.[/quote]

they would do the trick. not super nice or anything.

and since it has a once piece now, you are going to need a conversion kit to run three piece which means you will need a euro bb, not american

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euro?

i have a crankset from another haro. it’s a 3 piece from a newer version of that bike.

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euro is what is on your track bike. threaded cups. american are press fit.

and you will still need a conversion kit to make that three piece work

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but those carmi’s are american. the 1pc that i took out has press fit cups. i thought it would just pop right in…

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haha you might actually be right. i was getting really excited. hadnt talked BMX talk in awhile.

now i feel like a jackass thinking i know everything…

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i tried riding one of those modern BMX’s with the seat slammed all the way down a couple of weeks ago. my knees screamed at me for the next couple of days afterwards. i do’t see how you folks do it.

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generally you dont sit. part of my motivation to start riding adult sized bikes

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tx does that haro have a flip flop or single sided hub?

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single i think i can check

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yea single. 16t right now.

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16t is gonna be as small as you can go then

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cheap cassette wheel.

but you will also need a driver to get to 9t

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bawwww
so what a flip flop hub has 2 sizes of threading? what’s the bigger one?