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billstup:
Poilitics, thats why riders started to go anti establishment and burn their freestyle licences, and it was politics that ruined racing too, and will do again if it gets popular again  :(

darkersomeday:
all spot on like, what i'm getting at is,

whats the chances of it happening again?
is bmx too "established" for it to happen a second time?

WizardWeb:
Also for the kids that should have been the new wave, Nintendo happened. All the kids wanted consoles and so the xmas lists didn't have BMX in them anymore.

All the money went and a lot of the pro's stopped riding because they couldn't make a living at it. Contests went from giving away a truck and a cheque to t-shirts and shoes. Companies went bust as they were giving so much product away to riders (to replace the broken stuff and keep their bikes shiny for the photo's) that they ended up not being able to promote themselves anymore.

Mat Hoffman says in his book he almost gave up riding because he played so much Mario when he was injured one time. Added to that a lot of the kids that had been into it for a while were at the car buying, drinking and jobs stage. So it's no surprise that all the less dedicated people (I'd probably include myself in that) took the easier option.

And now we're all fat !  :LolLolLolLol:

It could happen again, in many ways it's more established now. But if no one watches stuff like the x-games anymore and the mainstream media interest goes, then it'll go underground again. The olympics will be good promotion but only for racing, I wonder if kids don't see the link between racing and what they think of as BMX (street, dirt, etc).

SaMAlex:

--- Quote from: darksunday on November 24, 2007, 10:00 PM ---
whats the chances of it happening again?
is bmx too "established" for it to happen a second time?

--- End quote ---

Probably, everything comes and goes. Its bound not to drop as hard next time, but it will come and go from the main streem like everything does.

billstup:
It already has got too establishished imho, give it another two years and all it will need is the x games to become less popular and all the sponsors will go, and it`ll go under ground again, then there will be a few years in the wilderness and it`ll be back  :daumenhoch:

Recession and stuff will also have an effect imho, but it`ll go in cycles of every 7 years or so of boom and bust, it`s just the way it is I`m afraid  :(

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