BMX!, You're doing it wrong! Options

[BS]

BMX!

[BS]

Ahhh...I found my old thread.

This is an old thread. Don't act like it's new.

[cornfed]

The dude in this with the long hair and '77 Ted Nugent 'stache (sorry man, I forgot your name. I am horrible with names) was KILLING the rhythm room @ Ray's a few months ago when I was there. Trail riding is like the Filet Mignon of BMX: the tenderest, juiciest part of the sport with all the tough, gristly, racing aspect removed (lame analogy, I know, but it's true)

PAWOODS

[woodybmx86]

YES!!! I kinew you would pull this up. for sure. In those pics... Judge aint BMX, you know. hahahahahahah

[iceemike]

Can we get a section on this website for "BMX"? I'm not seeing any.

try going to the track once in awhile and i might even take a pic of you and post it, need some from the hop skip and a sandbag party

[Cook Bros Seeker]

It doesn't matter what you call it. My only issue is that today's kids (except for the ones whose parents introduced them to it) don't know about racing or how it is associated (or actually "is") with BMX. The kids where I live only know BMX to be street riding and the bikes stores confirm this by not promoting BMX racing or carrying racing products. I understand the business aspect - that racing items won't sell....because the kids don't know about racing. It's a cycle that needs to be broken. I'm sure if you take a kid that rides street to a BMX racing track he'd have fun getting air on the jumps that are well built and not sketchy (as the kids say).

[Elvis]

A guy like me telling a kid s/he don't know about "real" BMX would just make that kid even less interested in racing. ("He smells funny, and wants to talk about stupid stuff, and Van Halen.")

If the kids are meant to race, they'll seek out racing. Otherwise it's one of the benefits of youth to care less about roots.

[90262LeeBMXs]

A guy like me telling a kid s/he don't know about "real" BMX would just make that kid even less interested in racing. ("He smells funny, and wants to talk about stupid stuff, and Van Halen.")

If the kids are meant to race, they'll seek out racing. Otherwise it's one of the benefits of youth to care less about roots.

Thou shalt not seek what does not exist.

In other words:
Kids will not seek out what kids do not know is there.

Besides, if I had trails in a bikes ride distance I'd be there too. I even tried to go to the skate park and recruit/ ask kids where the trails are, or even where are some good places to build trails and they all looked at me like I was some kind of caveman. So I asked "don't you guys get tired of riding this same old sucky skatepark"(with lame transitions that take all your speed away). They just shrugged. These were 16-19 Y/O's. Eh, whatever!

[SFGuy]

And back in the old days, when racing was held only on Saturdays and Sundays (at least, in my neck of the woods), that left five days for jumping, riding trails, sneaking into the empty public pool to ride it, getting chased off the pedestrian mall by the rent-a-cops, sneaking on the roof of Vassar College's new gym (it had a gigantic recessed bowl in the roof, and we rode it), and pretty much jumping our bikes off of whatever we could get a lift from, and riding them wherever we could. And it was all BMX. And it all still is.

Yep. And the only bike we owned was our race bike, which we rode to school, and on quarter pipes, and trails, and to race. Unlike today, where my garage now has 11 bikes for me and two kids.

[BS]

Trail riding is like the Filet Mignon of BMX: the tenderest, juiciest part of the sport with all the tough, gristly, racing aspect removed (lame analogy, I know, but it's true)

Dude, that has got to be THEE BEST analogy that I have heard in the internet age. You just won teh freaking internets.

It helps that I love filet mignon (cornfed beef) AND trails.