Terrible One Handlebars & Frames Available

Terrible One is a new bike part supplier for Standard Bike Repair. Introducing the T1 family to the Standard Bike Repair blog: “Running a Bike Shop in a House located in a sketchy ally parallel to Arapahoe between 18th and 19th near downtown Boulder in Colorado: the mountainous western United States state”.

Terrible One Frame Badges — Headtube Badge

T1: Frames and Handlebars

BMX riders who launch into the air: locally they spin, crunch and jump at the precise time of middle to end. Locally, the kids and dirt eaters drop-in and fly at Valmont Bike Park. They do flips on bikes at dirt jumps manufactured by the jumpers themselves to pedal into speed for the wild turn in the air. They do BMX flips in England, backyards in Switzerland, China, Africa, Russia, Kansas, Ohio, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida, Wyoming and Alabama. Kevin Stiffler, Standard Bike Repair stock holder and cycling instructor from Lee Likes Bikes, and Evil Knieval pedal faster as they approach the lift-off point at a rapid speed.

I like jumping off curbs. A two foot jump that launches four feet of air underneath the pavement or side hill is scary. Maybe it is because my right ear hears hard sounds and bass sounds. My left ear is stronger and can discern pitch. I use it for the phone. If I am in a group conversation, my left ear follows the voice. In both ears, I wear fancy digital hearing aids with Bluetooth technology running Secrets by Jennifer Thomas on her album Illumination. One is blue and the right is green.

Kick jump fly air stunt launch — Serious Man

T1 Offers Two Piece and Four Piece Handlebars

A two-piece BMX handlebar:

Terrible One BMX Handlebars — T1 Ruben Bars

Four Piece Bars are for the Vintage BMX Look

Cool BMX Bars from the 1990's and 1980's — Salt City Four Piece BMX Handlebars from 80’s and 90’s

Getting to Know the Team at T1

Have you ever been to Interbike? It is a Las Vegas event that has become the de facto biggest bicycling industry showcase of the year within the United States. While I was perusing the T1 blog, I found a post that unveiled their dislike for Vegas. That’s when I decided that I liked the T1 staff. I have been to Vegas twice. I have not been to Interbike. Before this year’s Interbike event, Thomas Prehn casually asked me if I would like to ride my bicycle to event next year… my response was “Maybe… could I? Would my body feel good after a 785 mile ride?” Usually, I hitchhike when I want to see the country that I am traversing. But, wouldn’t a bike ride to a bike show be a challenge and an adventure worth doing? Especially my first one. Five years into the business, it is about time, isn’t it.

Badass Jumping Frames — Strength and Quality are the hallmarks of T1 BMX frames.

BMX Frames by Terrible One

BMX braking methods include: 1. the rider’s feet 2. slowing down gradually 3. crashing 4. u-brake on the rear wheel 5. disc brakes… there is probably more that I do not know about or cannot name because my knowledge of BMX culture, jumping, frame design, components and history is limited to watching the movie Big Air and seeing the other kids do it.

One of my favorite design techniques is used on this bike: u-brake underneath the frame grabbing rim from the underside of the rear triangle.

I think the raw metal look is the best possible design for a bike. It reminds me that a bicycle is a machine.

BMX rules. I want to learn more about it.