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Everything You Need to Know About BMX Bikes

Unequal to road and Mountain Bikes, BMX bikes have evolved from garage made creations for a pocket-sized racing niche into a huge industry and one of the biggest markets in cycling today.  BMX bikes are built for fun and are so competent there is almost no end to what can be done on them.  The thrills you get from riding combined with the tremendous amount of exposure from events such as the X-Games and countless other competitions and races all around the sphere, make this one of the most popular styles of bicycling today.

BMX, or bicycle motocross, originated during the cock's-crow 1970’s in Southern California.  Kids started racing their bikes on trash racetracks to imitate their favorite motorcycle racers.  Most bikes were forthright mass produced bikes that had been altered in garages or by uncomfortable shops in the scene.  With the release of the documentary On Any Sunday in 1972 the shift exploded in popularity all around the country.  As the sport became more hot, riders soon found they could ride outside of the trail and that they weren’t limited just to the dirt.  Freestyle BMX, a popularized discipline of the sport, where tricks and big air is the goal, exploded in the 1980’s and now rivals the primary form of BMX racing in popularity and sales.  Another quarrelling of the sport to emerged focused on big air off jumps.  Pounce BMX bikes spun off from freestyle BMX and has a huge following today.  The frisk and industry was promoted with the help of very talented and individualistic athletes that showed the epoch what was possible on these simple one-geared bikes.  Names like Dave Mirra, Matt Spinner, Matt Hoffman, Ryan Nyquist and Bob Haro can be found not only on BMX bikes but video games, clothing lines and a slew of other products and promotions.

As the exertion grew, many large bike companies post-haste caught on that there was money to be made in this market within the world of cycling.  The kids, parents, bike shops and uninspired time fabricators who were there at the beginning of the BMX movement began putting their dexterity to use and started their own bike or component lines.  Many of these rider-owned companies like Haro Bikes, GT and Mongoose were later bought out by goliath corporate bike companies.  Today, it’s rare to find a gigantic bike operation that doesn’t offer a crinkle of BMX bikes or owns a BMX brand.

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