How to Build a BMX Frame

**A Day with Taylor and Adam**

We started off the day with a visit to check out the local bike shop where they had fixed the leaks on my old motorcycle. It was running too lean, so Taylor said it was an easy fix. However, as soon as we got back in the air, I realized that fixing the leaks wasn't going to be enough to get me back in the game. We had a quick drive out to the skate park, but unfortunately, it was closed for the day. So, we decided to try our luck at an outdoor park instead.

As we pulled up to the park, Taylor pointed out that it was too dark to ride and the park would close in just six minutes. We were disappointed, but we decided to make the most of the situation and head over to a bounce house instead. I have to admit, I wasn't expecting to be bouncing around on trampolines again anytime soon, but Taylor assured me that it would be a lot of fun.

We spent some time getting used to the bouncy surface and playing around with the obstacles. The staff at the bounce house were really cool and even offered us a special "off-limits" section where we could film our antics without being interrupted. One of the employees, a woman named Boingo, was actually a professional BMX rider who had competed in the DC racing series.

After some time bouncing around, Taylor suggested that we try to come up with an idea for a competition. The first idea was to see how many times I could bounce across the entire park without falling off. It wasn't long before we were both giggling and having a great time, but unfortunately, I came up a little short on my count.

Taylor then suggested that we try something a bit more ambitious - a drift competition on a bike suspended above the trampoline. This idea was met with enthusiasm from our friend, Adam, who had some experience with drifting on the dyno at Martin's car shop in Winter Garden. We decided to give it a shot and see what happened.

As we were setting up the course, Taylor explained that she wasn't allowed to film us actually doing the drifts on the trampoline due to safety concerns. However, she did suggest that we try filming from outside the trampoline area instead. I have to admit, my attempts at drifting in mid-air were a bit of a disaster, but it was still great fun trying.

After our bouncing adventure came to an end, Taylor and Adam decided to head off to Mexico for some time on their own. I was left to continue driving out to Winter Garden, where we would meet up with Martin from the sample peas team to work on his car's dyno performance. Unfortunately, my navigation skills left a bit to be desired, as I got lost on the way and had to pull over multiple times to try and get back on course.

Despite the setbacks, we finally arrived at Martin's shop and were able to get some time on the dyno to work out what was going wrong with his car. It was clear that I wasn't alone in my struggles with navigation, as Adam mentioned earlier that people could only see him shirtless in my videos. He reassured me that it didn't matter, but I did feel a bit bad about not being able to drive Adam home safely.

As we finished up our dyno session and said our goodbyes, Taylor reminded us all that she was having some trouble with her audio equipment and that people couldn't hear what we were saying in the video. We joked around for a bit before parting ways, but I was grateful for the opportunity to have spent time with my friends and colleagues.

**A Quick Message from Adam**

If you're having any issues with your camera settings or need some advice on how to switch frames, please leave a comment below and we'll do our best to help. We love it when viewers can help each other out in the comments section.

**Later...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we actually have a bike related day for once should be pretty cool hi so we're pulling into a place called Sparky's distribution it's basically the headquarters for a lot of Florida brands like shadow Sabrosa and there just happened to be like 25 minutes down the road for me there's pretty cool always so cute I actually picked up some white rims I'm loving the white rim so much on the 240 and the mini that I decided I want white on my bike that's gonna look like that now we're pulling up to the best bike shop in Florida mr. bikes um boys I'm gonna see if Chad can lace up my new rims for me just being stupid yeah I didn't break there you go this is art yeah I'm gonna put on my wall it kind of looks sick doesn't it no that's a bad idea yeah so if you're local and you need wheels lace come to mr. baiken boards because they charge $20 I know some people are complaining about shops charging like $120 that's ridiculous Chad builds wheels in the sleep don't scratch my spokes ash look how pretty this is I actually had Nicole's white wheels laying next to my bike awhile ago and I thought it looked really cool so that's why I got white rims from my bike I don't know what I'm gonna really do now I know I'm planning on riding OSP later tonight I just don't know if I'm gonna go home maybe put my new frame together or if it's gonna be too late and I'm gonna end up doing something else but I'll make it interesting now I haven't really done anything like this in a while but I thought cool I have a new frame I have to build up a new frame why not use the opportunity to make like a little instructional segment in this video on how to build up a new BMX frame so here it is I'm gonna be using a bike stand just to make it easier to film and show you guys but you can definitely do this on the ground a bike stands not necessary I have a brand new frame and then the tools you will need will be a chain breaker some lubricant for your bottom bracket which you have to get to make sure it's the same size as your spindle and your cranks and then you also need a set of Allen wrenches and whatever type of socket tool you need to get your back wheel off it's a super simple process I've done it a million times but it can definitely be a little bit overwhelming if you've never done anything like this with your bike before we sell bottom brackets on my website with the frame and we also sell headsets in case you want a new fresh one while you're rebuilding everything first step remove the seat jeez that's a long seat post now we'll remove the back wheel top the chain off pull it out of there we're gonna take the cranks off now always make sure that you use metric allen wrenches if your parts are metric which 99% are a lot of people use American tools and then they strip their bolts and then message me asking where they can get new ones in some bikes you'll be able to pull the cranks right off and others it'll be tight so we'll need the help of my trusty little friend put the bolt back in fire away boom slide this on out and make sure not to lose any of those little pieces tap the spindle out now make sure not to get grease all over your nice new carpet now all we have left is the front end in the chain taking off the chain is the part that sucks my chain Baker is actually like super broken so I have to make it like super janky to work but you're gonna want a good chain breaker and then just pop the pinout but when you do leave it so it's still on the other side a little bit I'll show you so if you leave a little bit hanging over like that you can just kind of snap it out and then you'll still have a little hangover take it off and now you're gonna remove your top cap all right you're gonna loosen the pinch bolts now on the stem but there's no need to remove them once they're loose you should be able to just wiggle your Forks right out if you're saving your headset take it out and put it aside tip two getting the bottom one out take your Forks upside down and go bingo now your hands are probably certainly covered in grease so this is when you go get paper towels and apologize to your mom for getting grease all over the place now I'm anticipating there's gonna be some comments down below like Adam you should give away your old frame you should do a giveaway you should give it away well it's my first signature frame it was a prototype and it means a lot to me so I really don't wanna give this one away however I am planning on doing a giveaway with a brand new LZ frame my idea for the giveaway it's gonna be kind of like a scavenger hunt on YouTube I'm gonna have like a bunch of questions and then you guys are gonna answer them and they're gonna be all pulled from old videos so if you watch a lot of my videos you will have a good advantage I want to reward the top fans and this is a way that I thought I'd be able to I just have to work out the details on how you guys will submit the answers and how we're gonna deal with that so stay tuned cuz that will be coming soon now you open up your brand-new LZ frame and get super excited so pretty ok now you're gonna light coating and grease right over your bottom bracket it's gonna go it's good to put some on actual bearings as well help stop your frame on the ground you're just gonna rest the bearing in there now some people tell you you need a bearing press or you're gonna damage the bearings I've been bashing mine in for years and never had any issues so go for it some people put this little spacer in there it's supposed to prevent the bearings from pressing in towards each other I never do I never have so I'm not going to every bikes different but you're gonna want to slide the bottom bracket in if you can and make sure that you have enough spacers so your cranks don't hit your frame I like to normally have about this much space you can run last but if you're kind like she might damage the frame Nicole's playing dress-up while I'm filming this video she keeps walking and you're showing me all these outfits I like that dress why and why I think it looks nice put your other crank on you don't want to put it on like this you want to put it on so it's going straight up and down and so they're perfectly parallel a lot of people have a hard time lining it up so one thing I say to use there's kind of line it up with dish that's a guide get it right you'll be able to just kind of press the pedals and you won't really move much but if you get it wrong you'll let go and then they'll just flop forward so your cranks might have a pinch bolt in which case you're gonna tighten down the compression until your cranks don't really move then loose a little bit and tighten the pinch bolt in my case I just tighten as much as I can because I don't like my cranks to move this is a good time to clean off your grimy headset bearings and grease them up fresh before you put them back in proper order is barring little shim thingy and then top cap the bottom comes with the race but chances are your Forks already have a race so you won't even need it slide the fork on in it's very important that when you put your stem back on you make sure you have enough spacers to make the fork or assess so when you put in the compression cap it will pull everything snug together if it's hanging loose you're gonna have a loose head set and it's gonna suck we're gonna come back to the head set later once the bikes on the ground slip the back wheel on here it's really important to line your chain up and make sure that it's the proper length if it's too short you're gonna need a new chain and if it's too long you're gonna need to cut a shorter always be cautious and don't break your chain and make it too short it's better to have it a little bit long realize it take a link out and then put it back on top the seat in tighten the compression cap till your bars won't spin and then back off just a hair make sure it's lined up with the wheel and then tighten the pinch bolts now the last step is to admire your new frame take a picture post it up to Instagram and tag me in it Adam winter squirrel Z so I can see your fresh new frame if you got one of my friends sick thank you so much if not still sick so that you just put together your first frame it's currently pouring out but the weather forecast is it's gonna slow down and I really want to ride my bike I haven't got a chance to try the new frame yet so I'm heading to Taylor's house to pick him up I didn't really talk about it but because my chain breaker was so messed up I wasn't able to get my chain right so it's like super sue super tight I'm hoping I'll just stretch out but I don't know I just normally I write on Thursdays but I think Thursday we're actually gonna go over to Tampa to RS enthalpy and Martin's gonna retune my 240 so it'll be good for the event pretty sure it's just messed up because when he tuned it it had boost leaks so he had to lean it out a little bit so I wouldn't get too much fuel now that the car is getting more air because the booze leaks are fixed it's running too lean so he says it's a super easy fix I just got a drive out there that check do you have to 70 bucks on Amazon to understand books tip to day bro today I'm so good I forgot my helmet so I hope Taylor has one for me is that my album yeah I would make you get a rental numb knees no these bugs are so freaking loud shut up bugs I just called the skate park and apparently closed so I think we're gonna go try to ride this little outdoor park I'll probably be wet but whatever we just pulled up to the park and it's too dark to ride and the park closes in six minutes I'm sorry sure so we can see how I'm sad yeah so we decided to go the bounce house because physical activity hooray America talent into a bounce house in a long time we both we both suck so this is gonna be a lot different than when I went with Tanner because he just made me feel really uncomfortable cuz he's so good that's my favorite part about coming here I've never seen a shirt that describes you better eat sleep drift crash cry drink a lot racecar stuff this is this is this guy Austin racecar stuff games to me check em out he's really cool we're not allowed to film on the actual trampoline so she said we could film from here you got it okay those way better than mine good I did not expect you to be able to do that so well yay off-limits section with a bounce house we serve right now there's an air bag I thought there's like a giant fan underneath and I thought it was gonna be like we're skydiving so when we started filming she asked us if we were vloggers and then Taylor said we were even though I said that we weren't and then she went to talk to her manager and they said we could film on the trampoline now which is cool so I can film doing a backflip like hey all jokes aside though shout out said Boingo her by DC racing but you see that is not a win on his back I don't know I did this is not your back Wow Taylor came up with a good idea for a legit competition oh how many bounces to get across the whole thing yogi so funny the first time okay okay but can you count them all I do it I won do 3 2 3 4 5 I guess I'll count 8 you came up a little short 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 one two three one two three four five I'm breathing so hard that I can't hold the camera stay so since we're not like legitimate acrobats like two-hander Fox we have a little thing up with a sleeve for you guys that I think will be a pretty fun watch three two one all right so we're all done here at Boeing and we're gonna go to a quick little Mexico real quick strut yo Jamal was awesome of Jamal and what was the other guy's name dee dee Jumanji you guys are dope Jamal was real cool that we were having a YouTube talk with him so we made it to Mexico long drive I'm really tired but I'm gonna lad and I'm gonna do some drifting early with my bike on top yeah it's one wheel four days all right well that was disappointing Adam I'm disappointed in you they couldn't hear what you were saying I don't know what they haven't seen that video yeah they've seen me Driftless in a different video well what if they haven't seen that video Adam what what if they haven't seen that video Adam then I suck I'm sorry used Taylor's leaving now we tried to troubleshoot with the 2:40 tomorrow between classes I'm actually driving out to Winter Garden and Martin from our sample peas gonna throw it on the dyno if you can figure out what's going on with it you know I'm before you started hanging out on me people can only see you shirtless in my videos I know you just don't worry Charles I'm sorry well I don't feel like driving you home so Miata that's fine that's okay that's that's okay okay thank you good night if you have any questions and you can't figure out how to switch your frame over just leave a comment down below and if you have switch to frame over before and you feel like you're pretty knowledgeable if you could go down in the comments and maybe reply to a couple people and give them some helpful advice that would be insanely appreciated I love it when you guys help each other out in the comments section thanks so much for watching my video I really appreciate it smash that like button and later it was at this moment there's our broken rocktoday we actually have a bike related day for once should be pretty cool hi so we're pulling into a place called Sparky's distribution it's basically the headquarters for a lot of Florida brands like shadow Sabrosa and there just happened to be like 25 minutes down the road for me there's pretty cool always so cute I actually picked up some white rims I'm loving the white rim so much on the 240 and the mini that I decided I want white on my bike that's gonna look like that now we're pulling up to the best bike shop in Florida mr. bikes um boys I'm gonna see if Chad can lace up my new rims for me just being stupid yeah I didn't break there you go this is art yeah I'm gonna put on my wall it kind of looks sick doesn't it no that's a bad idea yeah so if you're local and you need wheels lace come to mr. baiken boards because they charge $20 I know some people are complaining about shops charging like $120 that's ridiculous Chad builds wheels in the sleep don't scratch my spokes ash look how pretty this is I actually had Nicole's white wheels laying next to my bike awhile ago and I thought it looked really cool so that's why I got white rims from my bike I don't know what I'm gonna really do now I know I'm planning on riding OSP later tonight I just don't know if I'm gonna go home maybe put my new frame together or if it's gonna be too late and I'm gonna end up doing something else but I'll make it interesting now I haven't really done anything like this in a while but I thought cool I have a new frame I have to build up a new frame why not use the opportunity to make like a little instructional segment in this video on how to build up a new BMX frame so here it is I'm gonna be using a bike stand just to make it easier to film and show you guys but you can definitely do this on the ground a bike stands not necessary I have a brand new frame and then the tools you will need will be a chain breaker some lubricant for your bottom bracket which you have to get to make sure it's the same size as your spindle and your cranks and then you also need a set of Allen wrenches and whatever type of socket tool you need to get your back wheel off it's a super simple process I've done it a million times but it can definitely be a little bit overwhelming if you've never done anything like this with your bike before we sell bottom brackets on my website with the frame and we also sell headsets in case you want a new fresh one while you're rebuilding everything first step remove the seat jeez that's a long seat post now we'll remove the back wheel top the chain off pull it out of there we're gonna take the cranks off now always make sure that you use metric allen wrenches if your parts are metric which 99% are a lot of people use American tools and then they strip their bolts and then message me asking where they can get new ones in some bikes you'll be able to pull the cranks right off and others it'll be tight so we'll need the help of my trusty little friend put the bolt back in fire away boom slide this on out and make sure not to lose any of those little pieces tap the spindle out now make sure not to get grease all over your nice new carpet now all we have left is the front end in the chain taking off the chain is the part that sucks my chain Baker is actually like super broken so I have to make it like super janky to work but you're gonna want a good chain breaker and then just pop the pinout but when you do leave it so it's still on the other side a little bit I'll show you so if you leave a little bit hanging over like that you can just kind of snap it out and then you'll still have a little hangover take it off and now you're gonna remove your top cap all right you're gonna loosen the pinch bolts now on the stem but there's no need to remove them once they're loose you should be able to just wiggle your Forks right out if you're saving your headset take it out and put it aside tip two getting the bottom one out take your Forks upside down and go bingo now your hands are probably certainly covered in grease so this is when you go get paper towels and apologize to your mom for getting grease all over the place now I'm anticipating there's gonna be some comments down below like Adam you should give away your old frame you should do a giveaway you should give it away well it's my first signature frame it was a prototype and it means a lot to me so I really don't wanna give this one away however I am planning on doing a giveaway with a brand new LZ frame my idea for the giveaway it's gonna be kind of like a scavenger hunt on YouTube I'm gonna have like a bunch of questions and then you guys are gonna answer them and they're gonna be all pulled from old videos so if you watch a lot of my videos you will have a good advantage I want to reward the top fans and this is a way that I thought I'd be able to I just have to work out the details on how you guys will submit the answers and how we're gonna deal with that so stay tuned cuz that will be coming soon now you open up your brand-new LZ frame and get super excited so pretty ok now you're gonna light coating and grease right over your bottom bracket it's gonna go it's good to put some on actual bearings as well help stop your frame on the ground you're just gonna rest the bearing in there now some people tell you you need a bearing press or you're gonna damage the bearings I've been bashing mine in for years and never had any issues so go for it some people put this little spacer in there it's supposed to prevent the bearings from pressing in towards each other I never do I never have so I'm not going to every bikes different but you're gonna want to slide the bottom bracket in if you can and make sure that you have enough spacers so your cranks don't hit your frame I like to normally have about this much space you can run last but if you're kind like she might damage the frame Nicole's playing dress-up while I'm filming this video she keeps walking and you're showing me all these outfits I like that dress why and why I think it looks nice put your other crank on you don't want to put it on like this you want to put it on so it's going straight up and down and so they're perfectly parallel a lot of people have a hard time lining it up so one thing I say to use there's kind of line it up with dish that's a guide get it right you'll be able to just kind of press the pedals and you won't really move much but if you get it wrong you'll let go and then they'll just flop forward so your cranks might have a pinch bolt in which case you're gonna tighten down the compression until your cranks don't really move then loose a little bit and tighten the pinch bolt in my case I just tighten as much as I can because I don't like my cranks to move this is a good time to clean off your grimy headset bearings and grease them up fresh before you put them back in proper order is barring little shim thingy and then top cap the bottom comes with the race but chances are your Forks already have a race so you won't even need it slide the fork on in it's very important that when you put your stem back on you make sure you have enough spacers to make the fork or assess so when you put in the compression cap it will pull everything snug together if it's hanging loose you're gonna have a loose head set and it's gonna suck we're gonna come back to the head set later once the bikes on the ground slip the back wheel on here it's really important to line your chain up and make sure that it's the proper length if it's too short you're gonna need a new chain and if it's too long you're gonna need to cut a shorter always be cautious and don't break your chain and make it too short it's better to have it a little bit long realize it take a link out and then put it back on top the seat in tighten the compression cap till your bars won't spin and then back off just a hair make sure it's lined up with the wheel and then tighten the pinch bolts now the last step is to admire your new frame take a picture post it up to Instagram and tag me in it Adam winter squirrel Z so I can see your fresh new frame if you got one of my friends sick thank you so much if not still sick so that you just put together your first frame it's currently pouring out but the weather forecast is it's gonna slow down and I really want to ride my bike I haven't got a chance to try the new frame yet so I'm heading to Taylor's house to pick him up I didn't really talk about it but because my chain breaker was so messed up I wasn't able to get my chain right so it's like super sue super tight I'm hoping I'll just stretch out but I don't know I just normally I write on Thursdays but I think Thursday we're actually gonna go over to Tampa to RS enthalpy and Martin's gonna retune my 240 so it'll be good for the event pretty sure it's just messed up because when he tuned it it had boost leaks so he had to lean it out a little bit so I wouldn't get too much fuel now that the car is getting more air because the booze leaks are fixed it's running too lean so he says it's a super easy fix I just got a drive out there that check do you have to 70 bucks on Amazon to understand books tip to day bro today I'm so good I forgot my helmet so I hope Taylor has one for me is that my album yeah I would make you get a rental numb knees no these bugs are so freaking loud shut up bugs I just called the skate park and apparently closed so I think we're gonna go try to ride this little outdoor park I'll probably be wet but whatever we just pulled up to the park and it's too dark to ride and the park closes in six minutes I'm sorry sure so we can see how I'm sad yeah so we decided to go the bounce house because physical activity hooray America talent into a bounce house in a long time we both we both suck so this is gonna be a lot different than when I went with Tanner because he just made me feel really uncomfortable cuz he's so good that's my favorite part about coming here I've never seen a shirt that describes you better eat sleep drift crash cry drink a lot racecar stuff this is this is this guy Austin racecar stuff games to me check em out he's really cool we're not allowed to film on the actual trampoline so she said we could film from here you got it okay those way better than mine good I did not expect you to be able to do that so well yay off-limits section with a bounce house we serve right now there's an air bag I thought there's like a giant fan underneath and I thought it was gonna be like we're skydiving so when we started filming she asked us if we were vloggers and then Taylor said we were even though I said that we weren't and then she went to talk to her manager and they said we could film on the trampoline now which is cool so I can film doing a backflip like hey all jokes aside though shout out said Boingo her by DC racing but you see that is not a win on his back I don't know I did this is not your back Wow Taylor came up with a good idea for a legit competition oh how many bounces to get across the whole thing yogi so funny the first time okay okay but can you count them all I do it I won do 3 2 3 4 5 I guess I'll count 8 you came up a little short 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 one two three one two three four five I'm breathing so hard that I can't hold the camera stay so since we're not like legitimate acrobats like two-hander Fox we have a little thing up with a sleeve for you guys that I think will be a pretty fun watch three two one all right so we're all done here at Boeing and we're gonna go to a quick little Mexico real quick strut yo Jamal was awesome of Jamal and what was the other guy's name dee dee Jumanji you guys are dope Jamal was real cool that we were having a YouTube talk with him so we made it to Mexico long drive I'm really tired but I'm gonna lad and I'm gonna do some drifting early with my bike on top yeah it's one wheel four days all right well that was disappointing Adam I'm disappointed in you they couldn't hear what you were saying I don't know what they haven't seen that video yeah they've seen me Driftless in a different video well what if they haven't seen that video Adam what what if they haven't seen that video Adam then I suck I'm sorry used Taylor's leaving now we tried to troubleshoot with the 2:40 tomorrow between classes I'm actually driving out to Winter Garden and Martin from our sample peas gonna throw it on the dyno if you can figure out what's going on with it you know I'm before you started hanging out on me people can only see you shirtless in my videos I know you just don't worry Charles I'm sorry well I don't feel like driving you home so Miata that's fine that's okay that's that's okay okay thank you good night if you have any questions and you can't figure out how to switch your frame over just leave a comment down below and if you have switch to frame over before and you feel like you're pretty knowledgeable if you could go down in the comments and maybe reply to a couple people and give them some helpful advice that would be insanely appreciated I love it when you guys help each other out in the comments section thanks so much for watching my video I really appreciate it smash that like button and later it was at this moment there's our broken rock\n"