My New SS

[The Gordo]

I just bought a new (Old) SS... I suppose I have a different approach to this stuff. I found a nice S&M 24" BMX Cruiser on E-Bay for $250. It'll make a nice jumper with the Cro-Mo TNT Cranks and Suntour Beartrap pedals. It's geared 40/17 and I plan to make out Urban smashing and trail riding like a bandit.

Although I already have a few BMX cruisers and 20"ers, I still enjoy riding my geared bike more, but the S&M will be the most modern BMX cruiser (circa '90, with 1" threaded headset) I own, with the most aggro geometry. I rode my Schwinn Predator Cruiser on the trails several times but it's older style geometry (circa 1984) Had it's limits.

Anyone else ride BMX style SS bikes.... Anyone have one of those GACK Speed Deamons? Those are awesome.

Band-Aids and Guiness!

[hairygrump]

I've wanted to part together a 24" for a while now, but haven't been able to secure the stuff on the cheap yet. I'd do exactly what you did and it would be a beer bike par excellence.

So easy to ride...
So close to the ground...
So easy to hop...

[DirtRagArt]

Here is my GT Pro Performer... a classic, eh? I got it used around 94' or 95' and got it all fixed up by Shannon Burns at PME when he had his shop on the Southside. After collecting dust for almost 3 years (due to my semi-recent infatuation with geared up mountain bikes) I finally started tooling around the neighborhood on the BMX again.

Recently I also discovered the joys of Kraynick's, where you can find more BMX parts than you can fathom. It's an excellent opportunity to learn what I should have years ago, and I think I can probably hook it up with 3-piece cranks! So my plan is to strip it bare, paint it, clean all the parts and totally rebuild it. Should be fun.

[The Gordo]

WOW!

I bought a GT Pro performer in '96 at a Pawn shop for $45, It was the same color as yours but had the GT 3 spoke mags and 3 pc cranks. At the time it was my only BMX'er and I had about six mountain bikes, mostly Cannondales.... Anyway, the GT had no brakes and I used it as my "Grocery Getter". I'd ride three blocks to the store and then hook all the bags on the big wide handle bars and cruise it home. After about a year of this... some little punk stole it from the grocery store.

As a life long cyclist of all catagories (I don't ride road bikes anymore..) I think the next trend will be Street wise Cruisers, 24" and 26" built up like tanks with pegs, gyros and 14mm axels. We have just built the biggest and best X-Treme Park in the world here in Louisville, it's on my regular ride and I stop there all the time... I just feel too old and smart to jump in there. Sure is fun to watch, maybe I'll turn loose in there on the New S&M. With helmet and armored pads of every variety of course!

Riding BMX does sharpen your skills and sometimes will give you a shot to the old ego as well as the shins. Man, I got drive to Pitt just to go to Kraynick's.

[The Gordo]

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