JOEY GOUGH - BMX Girl

I've been thinking about changing my frame for a while. I love my Standard 125R but I've been liking frames with a lower BB recently, it just feels nice and stable. It's a challenge to find the perfect frame though, after riding for so long I have very specific ideas of what I want in a frame. I was looking for a chromo frame with v brake mounts, a BB height of 11.5" and a chainstay length no longer than the standard. Add to that, I didn't want to go too light and I wanted the brake cable to go all the way through in the housing. Hmmm, that narrows it down slightly! I thought there was nothing out there without going custom, until I found the Deluxe frame in a ltd edition v brake version. It has a slightly slacker head angle than I am used to and a shorter chainstay length, but now that I am all about the trails, the lazier geometry suits me!

I built it up a gave it a ride at the weekend on our new line at the trails and loved it. It felt fast but stable and really flickable, the short back end took me by surprise to begin with! The detail on the frame is really cool, the way the seat stay and chain stay tubes have been finished off is so neat, and the brake cable guides are spot on....you can run the cable all the way through in the housing (like I wanted), under the top tube out of the way and the guides are central so running my brake lever on the left sets up just as good as a right hand lever. The frame has a spanish BB which looks a lot slicker than a euro with my profiles, loving that, plus with it being a new frame it's got an integrated headset which is so much easier and simple.


With it being a new frame I topped it off with a few new parts, I got a full aqua profile set up, the 40 stem was an accident but I'm loving it now, looks great! I added a girly touch with the pink cable and grips, so it looks like a 90's racer colour scheme now! I switched back to the DTH race tires front and back in preparation for the french roadtrip which is less than 2 weeks away now (woohoo!) but they ride a treat at the trails too, light and smooth, couldn't ask for more. So my bikes pretty much ended up as some sort of trails/race cross breed of a machine which just about sums me up I guess.


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