Freestyle BMX Bike Riding

As some of may or may not know, the BMX bike riding trend is now almost forty years old. A lot has happened since kids first started riding their bikes off-road in the early nineteen seventies. Perfection in design, new stunts, improved race tracks and terrains have all made BMX bike riding the Olympic Sport it is today. During the nineteen eighties kids where riding their bikes everywhere, not all had off-road track at their disposal to burn their fever for BMX bikes. Thus, BMX bike fans where often found riding their bikes in city settings like stairs, parks, sidewalks and so forth. By 1979 Freestyle BMX had its first organized team called the BMX Action Trick Team. But this was mostly an underground movement until the American Freestyle Association was organized by Bob Morales in 1982.

BMX freestyle takes several disciplines in consideration, which make up the movement as a sport. These disciplines include street, park, vert, trails and flatland. The street discipline involves riding your BMX bike through the cityscape, across obstacles and terrain which was not initially intended for BMX bikes. Sidewalks, stairs and hand rails are among some of the most popular obstacles. In order to ride in this type of terrain, BMX bikes are especially equipped with pegs on each side, and few have any breaks on them. These customization are specially designed for street riders who will need to display some skill in order to perform the acrobatics required to successfully ride a bike in the streets.