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Don't sell the bike, just stop doing stupid shit! I miss mine. Haven't had one in years. Last one I had was a Specialized Hemi Comp for racing (my real BMX love).

Dude, we used to build gravity bikes in the 80's. Turn a 20" frame upside down, so your belly rested on the bottom bracket, used some low rise bars leaned way forward and footpegs on the back axle. Sooooo much fun. BMX Action back in like '87-'88 was doing all kinds of builds.

Yeah man. I'd started wearing knee braces on my motorcycles because of the beatings my knees were taking from crashing - I'd been wearing race boots with built in ankle braces for years, thanks to BMX crashes. It's not if I end up in a wheel chair, it's when.

Gravity bikes were a bit of a pain in the ass for us, because none of us had cars to get us back to the top of the hills. Plus, I owned on bike at the time, so it was tear it down, make it into a gravity bike, ride for the day, then tear it down again, then rebuild it for that weekend's race. I did have the advantage of working in a bike shop though. May not have had all the trick parts, but my bike was smooth as butter.