Who is Vector Cycles?
What is Vector? What are we doing here? Who ate the last burrito? All important questions when a website like this is telling you what to do when it comes to fixing your expensive piece of machinery that you put yourself onto and hope that it holds up every day!
First of all, let me introduce...me. My name is Pickles (Or Rob, or Dr. Destruction, whatever you feel the most comfortable with). I have been riding BMX bikes since I was a wee little pipsqueak (Since I was 12). Now, I am 19 and at a university studying Mechanical Engineering. The day I got my first BMX bike (From Walmart, thank you very much!), I had fun when unfortunate things happened. Snapped a pedal? Replaced them - and I learned stuff along the way. Early on I wanted to be a doctor, and then around the middle of high school, I realized "HAH! Screw that", took a class in CAD and haven't looked back since.
I enjoy working with design elements - whether the elements are the trusses in a bridge or the cross sectional design of a bicycle rim. I have several years of working with bikes under my belt. When something goes wrong now, I can find out what it was, fix it, and be back on my bike usually within 20 minutes. A couple of years ago, it would take me a week to find out that my driver was loose.
This is what is behind writing articles. Stuff that I've done before, and know about. When it comes to things I don't know about like the back of my hand, I don't write about them until I know what's going on under the metal.
I got my start with the Hoffman BMX forums, a far and long time ago. After that I jumped over to BMX - Forum, where I still pop in from time to time. I live just down the road from an amazing rider-owned bicycle shop, and I live in a town with a mix of legitimate riders and people who think they know what a wheelie is. Riding isn't something I do in my free time, it has become a lifestyle for me - and much like ending my ambitions of being a doctor - I haven't looked back once. I have met some of my closest friends because I was on 2 pedals at the time I met them (and yeah, some of them are skaters too).
I hope you enjoy the website. I have a lot of time and effort put into it already, and there's only going to be more put in - and hopefully an expansion of the team over here. I hope an article helps you figure out what is wrong with your bike, or the X-Ray project helps you figure out how to set up your pedals or headset.
Take it easy,
-Pickles
First of all, let me introduce...me. My name is Pickles (Or Rob, or Dr. Destruction, whatever you feel the most comfortable with). I have been riding BMX bikes since I was a wee little pipsqueak (Since I was 12). Now, I am 19 and at a university studying Mechanical Engineering. The day I got my first BMX bike (From Walmart, thank you very much!), I had fun when unfortunate things happened. Snapped a pedal? Replaced them - and I learned stuff along the way. Early on I wanted to be a doctor, and then around the middle of high school, I realized "HAH! Screw that", took a class in CAD and haven't looked back since.
I enjoy working with design elements - whether the elements are the trusses in a bridge or the cross sectional design of a bicycle rim. I have several years of working with bikes under my belt. When something goes wrong now, I can find out what it was, fix it, and be back on my bike usually within 20 minutes. A couple of years ago, it would take me a week to find out that my driver was loose.
This is what is behind writing articles. Stuff that I've done before, and know about. When it comes to things I don't know about like the back of my hand, I don't write about them until I know what's going on under the metal.
I got my start with the Hoffman BMX forums, a far and long time ago. After that I jumped over to BMX - Forum, where I still pop in from time to time. I live just down the road from an amazing rider-owned bicycle shop, and I live in a town with a mix of legitimate riders and people who think they know what a wheelie is. Riding isn't something I do in my free time, it has become a lifestyle for me - and much like ending my ambitions of being a doctor - I haven't looked back once. I have met some of my closest friends because I was on 2 pedals at the time I met them (and yeah, some of them are skaters too).
I hope you enjoy the website. I have a lot of time and effort put into it already, and there's only going to be more put in - and hopefully an expansion of the team over here. I hope an article helps you figure out what is wrong with your bike, or the X-Ray project helps you figure out how to set up your pedals or headset.
Take it easy,
-Pickles