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Am I in the minority?
MartyC:
Racing first (crap at it but got a few trophies), jumping and riding the streets was my real love, then got into freestyle :daumenhoch:
Trev:
Freestyle from day 1. Got into BMX funnily enough watching the Kelloggs which was primarily racing. I never really thought about racing though. But saw Neil Ruffell do a no handed cherry picker and thought that was the coolest thing i had ever seen.
It was also easier to practice freestyle tricks outside my house rather than getting to a track..
roonster:
freestyle never got into racing mainly cos my mate at the time was big into racing kept comng back black&blue must have put me off ;D
gossa:
Well speaking as an old school racer it was all just BMX to me so here's my view. Before racing I just went out and wheelied and bunnyhopped my way to the woods or skateparks where I jumped. I guess that was pre 'proper' freestyle but for me and the guys I rode with it was all just riding. But then 'proper freestyle came along with different bikes and the racers couldn't keep up with this pace as the 'proper' freestylers developed the sport, began doing much harder tricks and thier bikes became even more specialized but as a racer I was still really into it and we still all rode together and I used to love going to the early freestyle comps to watch or ride in the very early ones. Then a bit of a rift developed, almost like the skaters verses bikers situation, there was a definite divide between the communities. Freestylers didn't wear racepants and jerseys at this time, they wore Anarchic Adjustment and M zone t-shirts!
Then late eighties 'street riding' and backyard came along and united the freestylers and racers once again as you didn't need a specific bike, you could street ride with Comp 3's or comp st's and everyone was welcome at backyard, it didn't matter. I think at this point the sport wasn't as big as it had been and we were all just hapy to have a big group of riders all in one place.
I loved just riding and sometimes I opted to go to a street or jump jam instead of a race but the race scene had gotten all political so we needed a change. For me it was always just about getting rad and that could come from jumping 'king kong' during a national final, thrashing stockwell or meanwhile, or all just thrashing through london doing massive kick out bunnyhops into bins and manualling across pavement sections..........
adenough:
got to say, it was freestyle from the very day i got my extra burner :daumenhoch:
:-[
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