Shaving weight. Cutting down. Holes. CNC'd. Thinning and slimming. Saving weight...

BMX bicycles are getting out of hand... and ugly. In the photo gallery are the new Subrosa and Kink stems. They come with awesome holes so you can see your steering tube, save weight, and hopefully get stuff stuck in there so when you spin your bars it sounds like sand grinding around in there...

Eastern made the entirely horrible Grim Reaper frame a while ago, featuring hole in the headtube, long hole on the seattube, holes or CNC around the dropouts, and I believe a hole on the bottom bracket or something. It is said to weigh around four pounds. Hmph. I wouldn't want to ride frames less than five pounds.

Almost all forks come with uber unnecessary cutouts on the dropouts. It saves less than an ounce and you're sacrificing so much more strength! Really!? New forks weigh less than S&M Slam bars. And the new slam bars are like 1.5 pounds.

Seat posts are being cut to 1 inch long or simply integrated into the frame or whole seat conjunction. Seats are being sold as just plastic now... for 5-10 dollars more than padded seats! Pedals are another plastic dominated part, as well as the new Gspotr plegs (plastic pegs).

All kinds of female hub bolts that aren't supposed to be run with pegs and stuff. Foldable tires that are prone to blowing out and the like. Where does it end?


What we need is a company to step up and continue the production of solid bicycle parts. Stems with full faceplates, no cutouts, just a block of metal full of nuts. Old Odyssey CFL stem haha. The new one ain't so bad though...

We need frames five pounds or heavier, and for reasonable prices. Overseas frames for $400??? I thought we outsourced to cut down costs...

We need cranks that we're not in fear of snapping right under our feet (thanks Profile and Primo). We need seats with padding again and forks without cutouts. BLAH!!!


Do me a favor. Support the good companies. Not the trendy ones. Not only to ensure they don't go out of businnes because kids are buying the colorful, lightest parts instead of quality parts, but to ensure your safety that you have a bike capable of handling whatever you take to it!