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Article #175: Freestyle Bmx - Drive Yourself To The Limits

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Freestyle BMX otherwise also known as 10 to 13 feet high and both faces of the
Bike Stunt is actually the trick of ramp have an extended vertical
maneuvering bicycles. Well, these transition.
bicycles are not your ordinary ones and Trails consist of a series of jumps built
they come with 20" wheelbase that are from dirt that is usually compact mud.
originally meant for races. Started in The trick usually consists of taking a
the late 70s and the early 80s, bike steep jump and landing at a slightly
stunt reached the pinnacle of its plainer ground.
popularity in the 80s decade but was soon Flatland is almost a lost form of art
robbed of it in the 90s. However, this which has seen no popularity in recent
temporary decline in popularity brought years but has a loyal fan following.
to the market rider-owned bicycle Flatland is usually performed on smooth
companies, which gave a fresh lease of ground and the tricks are usually
life to the bicycles. spinning and balancing.
The Bike Stunt is divided into five major Different types of tricks
genres, namely Street, Skateparks, Vert, The basics of the freestyling tricks have
Trails and Flatland riding. always been the same and whatever new
Street riding is exactly what it sounds tricks that are found are usually based
like, the players use anything on the on these ones.
street to show their skills. Be it walls, 1. Air seems to be the most common and
banks, rails, gaps or anything that forms most preferred one. It basically consists
an obstacle, the best thing about being a of jumping in the air and landing with
street freestyler is that there are no both legs on the pedal.
limits and no stopping. However, those 2. Bunny hop- making the bike jump off
who try BMX Street have a different bike the ground without actually performing a
than the other types like Park or Dirt. jump.
Firstly, they are the heaviest and 3. Manual - where freestylers ride with
strongest types of bikes for these the front wheel in the air, without
tricks, and secondly, they have two or pedaling.
four stunt pegs for grinding. In fact, 4. Fakie - It simply consists of riding
these features make it hard to do Park or backwards
Dirt with the same bike. 5. Grind - Slithering down any object
Skateparks is the name derived from the without using the wheels.
parks that are meant for skateboarders, 6. Endo - where the bike is stopped with
but due to scarcity of space, the BMX the front wheel and raining the back
bikers are forced to practice there. wheel in the air.
Hence, much of the Saktepark tricks are 7. Wallride - riding along a vertical
influenced by the tricks that wall or anything similar to it.
skateboarders do. There are sub divisions to these tricks,
In Vert riding, two players ride on a but these remain to be the foundation of
Vert ramp that consists of two 'quarter all freestyling BMX tricks.
pipes' that face each other. It is around






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