BMX - Lets see your little bikes.

To be honest though, I'd say the difference between racing and trick riding is the same as the difference between park and street.

;-)

Let's just agree to keep flatland out of it.
Those guys are weird with their funky* looking bikes.

*Meant in a derogatory sense.

Weren't BMX bikes originally used for racing untill some mad man decided to jump around on one?

BMX racing is closer to velodrome racing..

I'm calling bullshit here.

Although I agree it'd be great to have a specific bmx race topic

Until we get the race thread, here's Juan Carlos winning. In style, and having fun no doubt...

Finals - Cruiser Boys 15-16 - YouTube

To balance this off, here's my 2012 wtp trust, although it was taken at the velodrome.

http://a.yfrog.com/img686/5505/7kxygw.jpg

I'm calling bullshit here.

okay well thats not true...
but its just not for me. but to be fair it birthed most of the sickest riders ever so bleh

BMX racing thread >>>>>>>>>

I just found this old pic of my Felt, it's been consigned to the loft, prob not gonna get ridden again :-(

BMX racing thread >>>>>>>>>

http://www.lfgss.com/thread110940.html

For an ok documentary about the origin and evolution of bmx folks should check out the film "Joe Kid on a Stingray".

I'm not disputing the importance of bmx racing in the overall picture, just that as one of the many disciplines it's the one that shares so little with the others, from the uniforms to the v-brakes and clipless pedals. I've met many bmxers over the years and other than talking about the local race track (cyclopark) whilst we are using the skatepark not 50m away bmx racing has never come up in conversation. But then I don't talk about x-games or any of the other big competitions, and view bmx as a way of observing and using things around you rather than striving to be the best.

Style and creativity are quite hard to quantify. Everyone has slightly different ideas of what can be done on an obstacle, and different styles can make the same trick look very different. When I watch street riding I'm not looking just at the complexity of the tricks but taking in what the spot has to offer and seeing the insight into the rider's line and the filmers take on how best to observe this.

Spot selection is a whole topic by itself. I spend hours riding about looking down alleys and industrial estates for anything from a curb set up to a perfect handrail. I've got google maps dotted with spots so I can go somewhere new and know what's round the corner. Some tricks need a really specific obstacle, so even the fact that they've found something that can be rollercoaster grinded makes the trick so much better.

Unless park footage is the likes of Alcantara (and the other Fly Bikes lot), Robbo, Matt Roe, Hawk, I'm not interested.
Whip and flip combos are so boring. Flow is so much more stylish and in my eyes skillfull.

I think a good representation of how vastly different styles can be is the Bakery series. These riders all come to the same skatepark but they all treat it and it's movable objects differently.

BAKER'S DOZEN: VAN HOMAN on Vimeo

BAKER’S DOZEN: BEN LEWIS on Vimeo

playing devils advocate... when I see vid after vid of - guess fucking what - yet another decent-but-nothing-special rider chucking their brakeless bike down a rail I see

0/10 - creativity
0/10 - style
?/10 - fun [no idea how much fun they're having]

I have no problem with people chucking themselves down rails, or making vids of it, or those vids geting posted on here... but style and creativity... not seeing loads.

BMX racing is part of BMX, but I do hate the way the olympics implied BMX = BMX racing, when the reality is BMX racing is a subset of BMX that is completely irrelevant to those BMXers who dont race and has practically nothing in common with the rest of BMX.

Lol because 100 different combinations of flip whips over a jump box is so much more creative... You're not watching the right videos because surprise surprise you have an opinion on something you know fuck all about.

Unless park footage is the likes of Alcantara (and the other Fly Bikes lot), Robbo, Matt Roe, Hawk, I'm not interested.
Whip and flip combos are so boring. Flow is so much more stylish and in my eyes skillfull.

Hawk, dugan, aitken, T1 ramps?

yeah yeah exactly.
people who just flow parks, those were just some examples.

what i mean is that style of parking riding is so much better than the Xgames shite

My old Standard 250 TRLS OX

I miss riding BMX nearly every day, but my back doesn't. Mountain biking doesn't quite have the same feeling as sending it down a rail.

Back when it was all the rage to grind your 10mm droputs to 14mm and cut them smaller

ive got one of those, its in the loft, never built it up but always wanted to....

Unless park footage is the likes of Alcantara (and the other Fly Bikes lot), Robbo, Matt Roe, Hawk, I'm not interested.
Whip and flip combos are so boring. Flow is so much more stylish and in my eyes skillfull.

This. Too many dickheads cant ride bikes these days.
Best thing I ever saw was Garret Byrnes turning on flat ground, Backyard Jam.

P.S. BMX Racing is BMX as a sport... but in the end, whatevs...

^ with style!

Just went out for the first ride in months, my god my knees and wrist hurt.

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