Top Gear - BMX vs. Car is Budapest

winston I'm one of those who have poo-pooed tricks on fixed bikes...more specifically track bikes.....it's not a case of jealous argument, my point would be: if you are genuinely interested in doing tricks you would be much better served by a bmx, trials or circus bike....you're seriously limiting yourself on a track bike......consequently you will never be able to achieve what you can on a bike specifically built for the purpose, therefore your tricks will never look / be as impressive.

Trying to use an object not for it's intended design is part of the appeal. No one would every deny that a BMX or trails bike is better for tricks., but you can't actually get around on a BMX unless you live in a small town, (or lived in central London and never left). Like I said before many of the tricks are quite different and as with anything should be appreciated for for what they are.

You may think the tricks are crap (visually speaking and what impresses you), that is of course an opinion which is totally valid as I can say I like the colour blue and you hate it. You can not say that the act of doing fixed trick is crap without missing the point really doing tricks, it is the challenge and enjoyment of doing the trick, not comparing it to tricks done on other types of bikes, it's working with what you have got, having fun may be not going out just to do tricks but be out and about and able to do tricks. Many peoples would say it is stupid to ride a bike with one gear because if you can have gears why not.

BMX racing started off from people racing small bikes round a rough track then evolved into racing then split into freestyle and racing. Some where along the line some people started riding bikes at motor bike trails (some rode BMX some rode mbt) contest as well. This resulted in BMX and trails bikes. Mountain bike evolved from old cruisers then racing started and now you have jump specific mbt bikes. Now to start off with what a mbt could do compared to a bmx was rubbish, now there is some overlap, where bmx and mbt jumping overlap bmx still tends to be better in terms of pure trick list but there are many things that mbt riders can do the bmxers can not. I would personally say I would prefer to watch BMX over mbt jumping any day, but I would not say mbt tricks are point less because many things you can do better on a bmx imo. Things evolve and diversify.