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The 2023 Kink Cloud is Travis Hughes' signature BMX bike
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Now it's not built around a signature frame, but it does have a handful of aftermarket parts
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This bike is a pretty good quality bike, but it comes at a really high price tag
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Let's talk about the Kink Cloud and figure out if this bike is a good bike for you
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or if Kink is charging way too much for this bike. Make sure you stay till the end because I'll give you my honest opinion and sometimes that
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gets me in trouble. So there are five common questions that everybody asks me about the Kink Cloud
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The first one is how much does it weigh? The kink cloud is going to weigh right at 27 pounds
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It's going to cost you $799. Everything on the bike is fully customizable and fully
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upgradable, but there are very few parts on this bike that you would want to change out or upgrade
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right away. It comes with four nylon pegs but zero hub guards, and it does come with a standard
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set of mission U brakes. So let's talk about the sizing of this bike and the color options that
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it's available in. The kink cloud comes with a 21-inch top tube and a matte, iridescent black color
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way. This is the only option for the King Cloud. You probably don't know this, but I do free bike
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recommendations for my subscribers. If you're looking for a bike but you're confused because there's a
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million different options, click the link up here or in the description and request a free bike
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recommendation. I'll send you three bikes that are perfect for you based off of your height
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your budget, your skill level, and all these other things. It takes me about a day, so be patient
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but you'd be silly not to do that. So let's talk about the sizing of the King Cloud and determine
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if it's a good fit for you. The Kink Cloud has a 21 inch top tube and that makes it best for riders who are over 6 foot
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There are four other geometries on the frame. These geometries determine how the bike handles and how the bike feels
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Let's talk about those four geometries. The Kink Cloud has a 75 degree head tube angle an 8 inch standover height 13 inch chain stay and an 11 bottom bracket height Some things to note the 75 degree head tube angle is half of a degree steeper than you see on most complete bike This brings
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a front tire closer to your feet giving you a shorter wheelbase and a more responsive bike
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The standover height is a quarter of an inch lower than average. This can affect how the
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bike feels when you're doing certain tricks. And the bottom bracket height is just a tiny bit taller
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than average. This is going to have an effect on the responsiveness on the bike and make it more
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responsive. Now in my opinion the 13.25 inch chain stay evens out the effect that the steeper
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head tube angle has on the bike. So the 13.25 inch chain stays a little bit longer than average
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which pulls the back wheel farther away and can kind of combat the front end being closer
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because of that steeper head tube angle. The geometries of the parts on the bike have the same
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effect as those four other geometries we just talked about. Let's talk about the part geometry
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and see how that's going to affect the bike. The Kink Cloud has forks that have a 20
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56 millimeter offset. The handlebars are 9.5 inches tall and 29.5 inches wide
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The King Cloud comes with a top load stem with a 32 millimeter rise and a 50 millimeter reach
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The King Cloud has a 25-toothed sprocket and a 9-tooth driver. Everything's on the right side, meaning it's right-hand drive, and this bike comes with a free coaster
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So the quality determines how long your bike's going to hold up to certain levels of riding
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It's best to buy the highest quality bike that you can afford. The frame on the kink switch is full kermali, meaning all of the tubing inside of the frame
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is made from kramali instead of high tensile steel. Kramali's about four times stronger than high tensile steel, and this is best for serious riders
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or heavier riders. The forks are also full kermali. The handlebars on the kink cloud are kink rex 9.5 inch aftermarket handlebars
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They aftermarket kromali so they generally going to be quite a bit stronger than because they use heat treating and other things to make far stronger The cranks are full chromali three eight cranks
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The rims on the kink cloud are mission mylar double wall rims
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So now let's talk about some of the highlights and some of the low lights on the kink cloud. Some of the highlights include the kink bold H.R.D. Aftermarket
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Kink hemlock pedals. It comes with fully sealed bearings. It's going to come with four
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nylon aftermarket pegs. And the kink imprint aftermarket sprocket. Some of the low lights
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include the fact that it doesn't come with any hub guards. It comes with four pegs but no
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hub guard. And the low quality kink severed tires. So now let's talk about how this bike scores
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when compared to other bikes and determine if it has a weight limit based off of that quality
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All this information is calculated by the Dougstop app, which is free on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store
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The Kink Cloud has a 7.4 quality score and it doesn't really have a weight limit
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I'm confident that the components on this bike are going to last to pretty much any weight
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Now, certain bikes are better for certain styles of riding. Let's take a look at the Kink Cloud and figure out what style of riding this bike is best for
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The Kink Cloud scores a 7.33 in the street, a 6.92 in park
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and a 5.38 in Dirty. The King Cloud is obviously best for riding street and riding skate parks
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If you were to buy the King Cloud or if you already have the King Cloud, these are the first three upgrades that you should make on the bike
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Get rid of those kink sever tires with tires that grip better and weigh less
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Upgrade those eight spline cranks to some strong aftermarket 48 spline cranks and then buy some hub guards to match the pegs So I don recommend the kink cloud all that often And it not because it a terrible bike but where it fits in on budget and quality is just it an awkward position So generally
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people who need an average quality bike of like around 7 can buy one that costs a lot
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less. So the quality score on the Kink Cloud really isn't that high, but the price tag is very
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high. It comes with cool things like an aftermarket chain, after market sprocket, aftermarket
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bars. Like, it comes with good quality stuff, but it's at that price point that most people who
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have, say, an $800 budget to buy the King Cloud also have an $1,100 budget to buy the We the People
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envy or the We the People Battleship. Most people aren't going to spend that lower amount of money
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on the cloud. There's nothing super special about it. Now, it's not a bad bike. And if you're
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looking at this bike, it's worth the price. Just note that the cloud frame is not the aftermarket
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cloud frame. There was some mix up over that in the last few. years but kink is clarified this year and clarified before that hey this isn't the aftermarket frame
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if it was the aftermarket frame this bike would cost closer to 1200 but it's not it's not a bad
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quality bike it's just in an awkward position where it doesn't get recommended all that much now if you're
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unsure if you're unsure on whether or not this bike is right for you request a free bike recommendation
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and i'll tell you you know sometimes i include this bike sometimes i don't there's only one way to find
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out. Now YouTube thinks that the video on the screen right here is the best video for you to watch
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If you want to watch the full kinkline review, that is also up here on the screen
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Let me know in the comments what you think about the kink cloud and which bike I should review next
