backwardcircle.com bikes - Any1 know anything?

General Fixed Street
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Im looking @ getting another frame & my boss came across these guys @ a trade show in the US…
Just wanting sum 1st hand knowledge as to whether they are a worthy option or not…
$300 USD + ship…

• Custom CAD-CAM designed light weight Cro-Moly steel, TIG welded frame & Forks.
Featuring cold forged adjustable chain tention dropouts for durability, & enhanced performance.
• Unequilateral chain stay for more strength on the power side.
• Frame Weight 8lbs.
• Includes, bearings, race, and BC Gryphon Head Badge.
Frame specs:
http://www.backwardcircle.com/Fixed-Gear-Frame-Specs-s/27.htm


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Any info would be choice…

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what do you want to use it for? eg what style of riding?

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the long top tube would suggest a kind of “street” or freestyle frame, but who knows…

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That’s odd. Why have a curvy pursuit seat tube when the wheel clearance would allow it to be straight? I’d be wary.

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Well, they’re no Jack Taylor’s, but it looks like it would foul if it was straight.

Those asymmetrical stays are naff. Yamaguchi did it better


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Would be used for Street…

Pin20: In what aspect would i be wary because of that design??? wouldn’t they have done it purely for a ‘different design’ ???

  • on a side note…it seems that more pro skaters are turning to the fixie…(after seeing John Cardiel on Macaframa) & now Christian Hosoi & Omar Hassan are on the backward circle ‘Pro’ team…
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I’m not saying that it is a bad frame or not to get it, it’s just that some pursuit frames have the curved seat tube because it’s a functional/performance requirement. To just duplicate that aesthetic for a street bike ‘to be different’ seems a little weird to me. Let us know how you get on.

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I’d boycott them simply for their excessive use of ‘tribal art’… :stuck_out_tongue:

I’d be interested in just how far their relationship goes with hoisoi and omar et al. it wouldn’t be the first time a company gave someone a frame/board/shirt once and claimed them as a ‘team member’ without their knowledge.

the skater crossover has always been big…
gerwer
mic-e reyes
chris haslam
alex olson
mccrank
sauder
seu trinh
stranger
marnell
huf
and many more i’ve already forgotten (and none of them ever claimed ‘team’ status)

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jevonte turner

and he had a part in MASH

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John Igei

Jovantae article from Transworld years ago.

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and chronic overuse of fish-eye lens. oh, and they’re ugly as sin.

don’t forgot to add DeeCee and Benzy to that list of skaters turned gnarly fixed gear “heads”

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Isn’t Hans a rollerblader though!?

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Hans is many things… remote control car national titles competitor, skater and former rollerblader. apparently he plays music for people too? CRAZY! i just thought he had nice shoes…

but the list wasnt supposed to be a complete… we could be here all day.

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I know nothing but I think it’s a really ugly frame

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Huf and fish eyes are the bomb!! First pic of this
frame looks like shit, waaayyyyy to loose.

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With the lax angles and offset stays it looks like some of the clunker accident damaged frame you’d see in hard rubbish

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thats one fukn ugly bike

thats reason enough not to buy one.

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Whats with the trispoke aerospoke in last photo ?? stickered up something else or never released prototype?

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Looks like a piece of shit

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You forgot the most important skater of all…JOHN CARDIEL!!!