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Why did BMX die ????????????????????????????????????????
winnit93:
there was a massive skateboard boom after bmx.
dirtyvans:
I raced till 1991, each week there would be less riders and tracks closing down, it was depressing. My parents told me they wouldnt take me any more as it was dieing, i was gutted
i wasnt taken with mtb's and i didnt like computer games, i kept riding my racebmx but never met any other riders for years
jimmyp:
--- Quote from: winnit93 on March 29, 2007, 08:54 PM ---there was a massive skateboard boom after bmx.
--- End quote ---
Somthing that you had as well as a bmx though :-\ :-\
slurp:
i always felt the in house fighting between the UKBMX and NBMXA didnt help.Maybe if they had got there sh!t together more televised big events would have been organised like another kellogs track wars etc then more big sponsers would have got involved and possibly BMX would have been in the spot light longer.
my own story was i was the only kid who raced bmx in my school so had no one to ride with,then the local bmx shop (american connection) closed around 85(they made the hustler f+f set) with the owner,who also ran a saturday ramp session at the local indoor center took his qtr pipes with him,there was no one else to ride with there either so graffiti,girls etc took over.My looptail ripper was then the most expensive paper bike i ever owned.
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hunterdubber:
MTB's you'll notice have lasted lots longer than the first initial boom period of BMX
This is probably due to the age of the people interested in the sport
In the 80's BMX was marketed primarily at under 18's, and therefore treated by many ( TV media and advertising companies ) as a fad
It could have been different
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