Hey guys,

I should have joined this forum sooner but I've been covered up. Now that my bike is complete, I figured I'd join the club and share some pics. I scored the 08 Quad Cruiser frame and fork from a local place at a pretty good price. There are a couple nicks in the paint from being moved around the shop but you'd have a hard time finding them. Regardless, I plan on racing this bike so I'm sure there will be more nicks coming in the very near future.
It was a lot of fun putting the bike together. I decided on the QuadAngle cruiser because of it's size. I'm 35 years old, 6'5" 220lbs so size is important. Ed from colored tuffs helped me with a lot of the parts as well as Steven at Bullseye who went above and beyond the call of duty hooking me up with the custom colored pedals and hubs and the very trick chain tensioners. I guess the new school parts of the bike are the neck, the brakes and the chain tensioner. The Pauls brake are quite nice and stop really well. Impressive! I forgot about the tires, those micro knobbies are new school and very trick as well.
I haven't raced in 14 years or so since I was in college and then before when I was a kid. I look forward to practicing and racing as a great winter time activity here in NW Indiana. I can't help but feel like I need to get the bars up higher than they are. Why is it that cruiser bars are always so low? If you look at the ergonomics of a 20" bike with an average sized rider and then look at me on this cruiser, it looks like I need to go up. Your thoughts?
Here she is!

Very nice! I've asked that same question about bar height, as I'm tall as well. My theory (wild speculation, of course) is that kids ride BMX bikes and kids are shorter than adults, especially you and me. So, if a kid moves up to a cruiser, the bars need to be lowered to the height of the 20". That's how 7.5" bars on a 20" become 5" bars on a cruiser. I say, go ahead and buy some tall bars!

Looks great - welcome to the madness!

Sweet bike! I like the color combo. Especially the the custom Bullseye stuff. Welcome aboard.

Thanks guys!
PBR, I guessing you might be right. My point is that if this thing is going to fit me the same way a 20" would fit a kid, it'd need much taller bars. I haven't ridden it on a track yet but I just feel like I'm bent over too much. I know on my MTN bike, I have the largest frame I could find in that model bike ( a Gary Fisher 29" wheel bike) and I went for a fitting with my friend who has all the fancy parts to do so and has gone to school for it. That bike has a seat that's jacked up almost to the dotted line and it has one of the craziest stems you've ever seen, really long and shooting straight up. Before doing that, I was hunched over way too much and now it's downright comfortable.
I'll ride it at the track sometime this week and see how it feels

Nice build, looks great, maybe an xxl stem would let you get a little room, and allow the bars to come back some.

Nice build, like the custom stuff you did to it. You might want to look into getting a White Industries freewheel.

looks awesome let us no how it rides ill keep my eye out for ya this winter in northwest indiana

you need PRO XXL sized bars at 6'5" I would say a pair of chrome s&m grand slam xlt should be in your near future. then you wont have to run your bars so far forward.

Thanks COMP, that's what I initially felt like I needed being 6'5". I'm more body than legs too. For some reason I let myself get talked out of xxl bars because I figured the vendor knew better than me. He's probably not 6'5" though. Just ordered some and they should be here Thursday!

This is the way everyone should introduce themselves.

Don't ask how I came on here. No where nearly as cool as this.

Love your bike.

Are those pedal housings real milk chocolate? MMMMMMM.

Get the longest stem you can find. Running your bars that far forward is putting your too much of your weight over the front wheel. That and the taller bars should get you into a more comfortable riding position. Honestly what you really need is a longer frame, but bars and a stem should get you by.
Then lower the seat when you take it to the track, it's in the way for any proper tucking technique, (even for a tall dude) and it's more likely than not going to be the cause of you getting bucked off the front. (weight over the front wheel+ seat too high = danger factor 11)
The only real reason you need a seat on a bmx bike is for posing in the pits anyway.

Welcome to the site.

I was first considering a longer frame but you can't really get much bigger than this without going to a custom build from what I found just poking around the net and asking questions. I have a pretty long stem on there and the taller bars are on their way. The seat is definitely going to get pushed down when I go to the track. I think it'd be hazardous to my health the way it is there but it feels pretty good for just sitting down. Thanks for the tips!

That's an awsome ride. Welcome. The custom brown is off the charts.