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LHD and MTB explained.
With street/park, pegs/grinding making it's way sharply into the mountain bike world, there is a need for left side drive hubs for those who grind on the right side. As per forum posts, this video is just a quick visual explanation of why it's a good idea to run one.
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or you could just relearn grinds on your opposite side.
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When you raise the BB, you raise the stand over. When you raise the stand over, you raise the bars.
If you are +20mm BB on a 26" frame, and minus 40mm when you drop the head tube by running a lower fork like the Bronx or Rebate, you've already lost 2" in bar height. This is why I am running 3.5" rise bars with a 1/2" spacer. Normally I would run a 2" rise bar, but all the geo that makes a 2" rise bar fit has changed. So if you are talking raising the BB like a 20", now you're looking at close to a 6" overall change. Depending on specifics, you'd be looking between a 6" and 8" rise bar. Otherwise you would be extremely hunched over, and the bike would be nearly impossible to ride.
If you are +20mm BB on a 26" frame, and minus 40mm when you drop the head tube by running a lower fork like the Bronx or Rebate, you've already lost 2" in bar height. This is why I am running 3.5" rise bars with a 1/2" spacer. Normally I would run a 2" rise bar, but all the geo that makes a 2" rise bar fit has changed. So if you are talking raising the BB like a 20", now you're looking at close to a 6" overall change. Depending on specifics, you'd be looking between a 6" and 8" rise bar. Otherwise you would be extremely hunched over, and the bike would be nearly impossible to ride.
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you're not running any bikes with the lhd and a disc though, since no frames have a mount on the right and you would just bend discs all day anyways.
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There are lhd drive hubs out there with the disc on the left.
There are frames with mounts on the right as well.
Not many, but they exist.
The whole point of this, and the forum it was created for is to demonstrate the need for the industry to try and keep up.
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i dont see the need for this anymore, there are so few people doing this on mountain bikes that its a lost venture and a waste of money for any company to put the work into a lhd + disc hub.
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Not very bright or follow the sport very well do ya? It's gaining momentum. More and more big companies are producing 110mm frames because they realize the need for it, and see what more and more riders are doing. Two years ago there wasn't a market. Right now it's going nowhere but up. Get a clue.
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yeah im pretty much just really dumb. Oh and i ride a bmx bike if i want to ride a skatepark, not a useless larger version of a bmx bike
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You are ignorant. Thanks for reinforcing my point!
I've always rode a disc, and I grind. Simple as that.
I also grind on both sides.
As for that totally retarded statement about BMX, MTB, and skateparks..... Maybe bike riding just isn't for you. You do know that BMX stands for Bicycle Motocross right? You also know that a BMX bike that you would use in a skatepark is a modified version of a race bike right? I'm guessing you didn't. You probably also didn't know that left side drive was invented for guys who grind on the right with a BMX bike.
So, from these completely uneducated and totally ridiculous statement of yours, I'm gathering that you firmly believe that BMX bikes are the only bikes on the planet that should modify themselves to suit other riding needs.
Go buy a skateboard. Those are pretty much unchanged since their inception.
Dumbass!
I've always rode a disc, and I grind. Simple as that.
I also grind on both sides.
As for that totally retarded statement about BMX, MTB, and skateparks..... Maybe bike riding just isn't for you. You do know that BMX stands for Bicycle Motocross right? You also know that a BMX bike that you would use in a skatepark is a modified version of a race bike right? I'm guessing you didn't. You probably also didn't know that left side drive was invented for guys who grind on the right with a BMX bike.
So, from these completely uneducated and totally ridiculous statement of yours, I'm gathering that you firmly believe that BMX bikes are the only bikes on the planet that should modify themselves to suit other riding needs.
Go buy a skateboard. Those are pretty much unchanged since their inception.
Dumbass!

