Last week at the shop I saw an old BMX frame I had around 6 years ago and it had some mods I had done in the era of transforming heavy as hell pig bikes into a lighter and more advanced style of BMX. I thought it was time to mod my Charge Racer and below are the results.

One of the first steps was to loose the bulky seatpost clamp/seat tube at the to of the frame.
1. The first step is being happy with you seat height. Don't screw this part up. Teva lent me his glasses so I could see what I was doing as I drilled the hole. One side need to be larger so a counter sunk bolt can sit in the seat tube to stop play in the post.
2. always use your rubber!!!! to mark the cut.
3. Rowan and Mike helping to keep the cut straight

4. Now some finishing work with the file and its time to set it up.
5. Looks good saves weight and makes the re-sale value of your frame $0000

Next on the chopping block was the head tube. I wanted a steeper head tube angle and a more pursuit looking frame so decided to cut 1.5cm from the lower part of my head tube.
1. Using the same protection as the seat tube mod (rubber band) I cut the main piece off.
I don't have a photo but after the cut I faced the head tube straight and installed my head set.

I also needed some Speed holes on my dropouts. Nothing like some slime green pain to give it that 80's Odyssey look.