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The product line currently includes almost all parts necessary to build a BMX bike except frames. In 2005 the company won a design distinction award from ID magazine for the Elementary stem [ 3 ] which gained a US patent [ 4 ] and challenged the prevalent stem design of the time which used 6 bolts and replaced them with a single bolt ...
Skirt guard or coatguard: a device fitted over the rear wheel of a bicycle to prevent a long skirt, coat or other trailing clothes or luggage from catching in the wheel, or in the gap between the rim and the brakes; Spindle: an axle around which a pedal rotates; threaded at one end to screw into crank arms; Spoke: connects wheel rim to hub ...
Diamondback was founded as a BMX brand in 1977 by Western States Imports in Newbury Park, California, which sold bikes under the Centurion (bicycle) brand. [7] Became a highly regarded name in BMX. [8] Dynacraft BSC – American Bicycle distributor; DYNO is a BMX bike and bike products company started by Bob Morales in 1982.
RECO (Racer Engineering Company) was a wholly owned manufacturing division created for insurance purposes to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, even though RECO was always produced in-house. It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his attempt to market motorcycle frames.
Virtually identical tubing to the already produced (PROFILE BMX BIKES) featured all chrome parts with some black parts. At over $400US some Hutch BMX bikes were the most expensive on the market. [4] By 1985, the company began producing other frames like the Hollywood and Judge. The latter named for their Hutch team member Tim Judge, and former ...
DK Bicycles introduced the Dual Drive hub back in the early 2000s which is a BMX Left/Right drive flip flop hub with the smaller sized metric (30 mm x 1 mm) BMX threads for 13T-15T freewheels, but also includes two threaded adapters, one left and one right, threaded inside to match the smaller metric threads and threaded on the outside with ...
Flatland – flatland style BMX bikes have different frame geometry to traditional park BMX bikes because flatland riding requires precise balance on multiple parts of the bike. Park – park style BMX bikes (also called vert) are often made lighter by reducing the structural strength of particular areas of the bike, which is possible because ...
Diamondback Bicycles was founded as a BMX brand in 1977 by Western States Imports in Newbury Park, California, which sold bikes under the Centurion (bicycle) brand. [1] Early in its history, the brand name was "Diamond Back" and in 1994 this changed to "DiamondBack" and then to "Diamondback."