I have been racing BMX quite a bit in 2010. This past weekend I took three of the neighborhood kids to race for their first time, three siblings, and not only did they all do great, they all won trophies.
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A quick link here for online gear ratio calculators, for finding or comparing gear ratios, sizes, or gear inches. Especially helpful when fine tuning spin, or trying to match spin between different sized bikes. I always had trouble remembering where these handy tools lived online, so I figured I would create a post and put one here permanently.
For reference, the standard 20″ BMX gearing is 44T on the front, 16T on the rear, 44/16. That gives you 55 gear inches. 41/15 gives you 54.7 gear inches, which is very close. So you can see how you can change sizes front to back and still achieve the same basic gear inch size, giving you the same resistance at the pedals.
For 24″ cruisers, factory Redline runs 41/18, for 54.7 gear inches.
On my 26″ Ti P, I run 32/14, for 59.4 gear inches, a bit taller for a bigger wheeled bike.
Keep in mind that tire size/volume and crank length can affect the actual ratio and feel, apples to apples…
Arapahoe Cyclery is my home shop in Colorado. Located on South Broadway in Littleton (south Denver), Arapahoe Cyclery is a family oriented bike shop with a wide selection ranging from kids bikes, comfort bikes and cruisers, to higher end road and mountain bikes. They also have a BMX selection. Giant and Trek brands are the main focus.
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I first went to The Bike Shop on King Street back in the early 80’s, 1981 or 1982. I was living in Maui, in grade school, and racing BMX. In my small world, I thought The Bike Shop was the coolest shop in the world.
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Spectrum Powder Works-
I have had a number of framesets powder coated at Spectrum Powder Works, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and they have done an excellent job for me.
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Colorado BMX racing- Pikes Peak BMX in Colorado Springs
Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Pikes Peak BMX is an excellent, lung busting, long track.
They try and race year round at Pikes Peak, check out their site for more race info.
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Colorado BMX racing- County Line BMX in Denver
Located in Littleton, in the south Denver Metro area, the County Line BMX track is a part of the South Suburban Parks and Recreation department. They have a terrible website at SSPRD.org, which is so poorly organized that I have a hard time finding info on the racquetball schedules, much less usable info on the County Line BMX track.
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Bike World Gallery 4
These are NOT my pics, these are just great (or nostalgic) bike pics that I have picked up over the years while browsing the Wide Wide World of Web. If you see your own pic in this collection, and have beef with it appearing here, let me know and I can remove it. That would be super lame though.
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Greg Melms BMX Custom Creations
I stumbled across these bike pics on the vintage BMX forums. There is a Melms thread on most of the vintage BMX sites, under titles like “Welcome to the future!”.
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Bike World- BMX Number Plate gallery 1
These are NOT my pics, these are just great (or nostalgic) number plate pics that I have picked up over the years while browsing the Wide Wide World of Web. If you see your own pic in this collection, and have beef with it appearing here, let me know and I can remove it. That would be super lame though.
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