They need to start releasing models of the various freestyle/flatland GT's & Dyno's from yesteryear. The cruiser bikes are cool, but the little brothers are where it's at for me.
That is a sick bike. I like the changes you made to it Phu! I just put the same GT cruiser bars on my 2021 purple rain Big Ripper. Everyone needs to light a candle for Todd Lyons bringing back SE with the these 29" BMX bikes and making these old school bikes popular again. The GT performer and Haro Master/freestyle were the most coveted BMX bikes when I was a kid.
@@AlfredoMancuso haha me too man. I dreamed of owning a GT as a kid, but was out of my parents budget. Also had to watch my friend (from a wealthier family) ride around on them for years. That's why I only buy GT now. I have a few but just bought a similar bike to this - it's the blue pro 29 as opposed to the performer 29
That bike is clean! I am 6'-1" and its still kinda hard for me to get used to a 29" bike. Sometimes when I turn my foot will rub the front tire on a 29". I still ride a 20" in XL or XXL long frame. My feet are far from front tire when turning and my knees are far from the bars. I also feel I can throw a 20" around a little better.
Comin up on the next episode of... “Phu Review” Throw in some 18”s for the kids and 20”s for the mids since you covered the 29”ers...these vids you’re throwing out are 🔥
That is one cool bike, might have to pick me one up for my 50 year old self. Just wondering what size I should get my 11 year old daughter. She’s 5 3’ and her 20 inch bmx bike seems a little to small.
Hey bro what’s up I have been watching a couple videos and I looking for some advice on a 1989 GT performer survivor Chrome. I’m looking to see if it’s best to keep the original crank on or change it to a 3piece ? The whole bike is intact all original all stock. The crank is a bit rusty, Master PHU what do you think? I’m going crazy here. I just took the bike out of my old basement room where it Has been in the dark for 22 years.
needs 990 bottom mount , foot stands , front fork stands, front brakes , rotor , tech 77 levers , blue handler seat , arrya 7x rims , vans tires , round pedals to pull off world tour look
I had the 1987 GT Performer Freestyle team model but in the day glow pink and it got shaped like a S when I was hit by a car. I was more worried about that bike than myself.
Damn I have 4) big rippers 2) white 1)red 1) blue that I have purchased within the past year……..now I want one of these performers that I owned in 20” version 30+ years ago……but how am I gonna explain to my wife why I need 5 (29ers) when I could only ride one at a time along with my even more expensive LS swapping car hobby with expensive superchargers that I have to hide in boxes in the garage til after I paint the cars because the wife would lose it seeing me bolt on a $5k supercharger on a primered car or truck…..but damn honestly I don’t have the space……FUCK
I swear he doesn't understand the meaning of aftermarket LOL. Any bike or car whatever comes on it from the factory stock the way it is sold to the public is the bike or vehicle in STOCK form. Every single part on it is officially a STOCK part. ESPECIALLY if it is a part actually from the SAME company of the bike or car!!! Even if it came with profile hubs and a profile sprocket, if that's how the bike came from the manufacturer, those would be considered STOCK parts on that specific bike. AFTERMARKET means any part purchased separately manufactured from a different company than the bike or car brand that you are REPLACING a STOCK part with. Sorry man but for some reason it's just annoying the way you keep referring to stock and aftermarket in the absolute wrong terms.
That’s actually a common misconception. Phu, the owner of the shop, and myself, who has owned bike shops, am a sponsored pro rider and have even designed my own signature parts. We both have 15+ years of experience in this industry. Bike companies make “stock” parts to save money and get you onto the bike, they also make aftermarket parts that are of much greater quality, better materials, more CNCing, machining, or added value that strengthens the product. Therefore some stock bikes, sometimes come with upgraded, non stock parts from the same brand. In your example, neither Profile nor Madera (their sister company) make complete bikes. But if they did, they would HAVE to have a lesser priced line to be able to produce a complete bike, at an entry, or more accesible price point. Then their higher price point bikes would offer “non stock” alternatives being their superior Profile or Madera components.
@@AlfredoMancuso no disrespect I'm not trying to argue with you love the channel, but I'm simply giving you the facts. This whole explanation you just gave seems to be your own and has nothing to do with the simple definition of what an after-market part is versus a stock part on a car a bicycle a skateboard a scooter or anything that comes with the parts that are on the product as it was meant to be sold as the complete ready product at the initial purchase retail level. Easy example would be the 2019 GT street performer comes with way lower-quality parts than a Pro Performer but guess what ? whatever Parts it does have on it are the stock OEM original parts. Now all of the better parts that come on the Pro Performer are the Pro performers stock OEM original parts. Anything aftermarket would be any parts you took off and replaced on either the street performer or the Pro Performer that were different from STOCK OEM parts you took off of the bike, whether for repair or just enhancement. On the 2019 street performer the OEM STOCK cranks are regular gt tubular arms. On the Pro Performer the STOCK OEM cranks are Power Series. If I took off the power series cranks and put some Eclat or Profile cranks then I would be placing AFTERMARKET parts on the bike. And if I took the regular GT arms off of the street performer and replace them with GT power series, profile, redline, subrosa, or flea market cranks ANY of those are now after market cranks. Years in any industry has zero meaning towards understanding the simple fact of what is OEM and / or stock and what is aftermarket. Definition of aftermarket = 1: the market for parts and accessories used in the repair or enhancement of a product (such as an automobile) - or in this case a BICYCLE! 2: a secondary market available after sales in the original market are finished. ..... There ya go it can't be any clearer at this point. Honestly just trying to help you out.
Another explanation / example okay let's use the GT Mallet stem. It is a stock OEM part of the 2021 GT Pro Performer. It is also a part that GT sells separately. But for the 2021 GT Pro Performer it is not an aftermarket part! For that specific bike it is a stock OEM part and if I took the Mallet stem off and put an s&m stem or even some different GT stem then I'm replacing a stock OEM part with an aftermarket part. And obviously if I purchase the GT Mallet stem and put it on say some SE bike and I am replacing the SE stem with the GT Mallet stem I have now taken off an oem stock part from the SE and replaced it with an aftermarket part. At this point if you don't get it you just don't get it or just don't want to get it. Like I said no disrespect and I'm a fan of your guys Channel but you guys are simply calling something exactly what it isn't over and over.
I think those hands bars looks better then the classic. Cause I remember they had grip on the top bars and they would rust. It’s like they updated the look on it.
