My first bike was a bmx. It spent about seven years hidden away in a garage, rarely been used except for my Sunday paper round.
I never really got any joy from a bmx. I never saw any attraction in learning to do tricks – either that or I fell off at my first attempt at a bunny hop and never ventured there again.
My disillusionment with cycling was so strong when young, that I never went to a cycling proficiency test at school because I didn’t like cycling. It was only when I got a proper bike aged about 15, that I started to get the cycling bug. It was a mountain bike with thin tyres, it was so quick compared to a bmx! I remember the first time, I managed to cycle somewhere not involving going around the village. I think it was a 3 mile ride from Menston to Otley. I suddenly realised that cycling gave you tremendous freedom. No longer were you confined to the village, British Rail or the parental taxi service. Before, long I was cycling all around the Yorkshire Dales and a Reynolds 501, road bike soon followed.
Anyway going back to BMX bikes, I do admire some of the tricks people can do. See: Danny MacAskill video I just never got the point in getting a bike, which is so difficult and slow to pedal.
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With you chief – appreciate the tricks but really you just wouldn’t from a practical point of view. My first love was a Grifter – it was a Moutainbike that weighed a tonne and had 3 gears on the twist group… http://media.photobucket.com/image/70%252527s%20grifter%20bicycle/4737carling/june76mk15.jpg
Hi, folks.
Pics and MacAskill’s video are absolutely non BMX,
this sport is called biketrials, you can find out more on http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/