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SaMAlex:

--- Quote from: C.B.C.L on November 24, 2007, 10:29 PM ---
meet up with your mates on a sunday afternoon, pull a few manuals on some walls and do a few feeble grinds. share some laughs then go home for tea


--- End quote ---

F-ing brill! BMX in a nutshell!

Philbert:
i think clothing and shoe companies are too intertwined with other sports such as skateboarding, surfing, motocross, mtb, that they'll always be around feeding off extreme sports in some shape or form, the smaller ones come and go year by year!

as for bike companies i think the big ones will survive. the more modern brands will fade away. basically because there's so many rider owned companies that at the moment are probably turning a pretty profit but when then dip in the industry happens they won't be able to survive,

america will and always will have a huge following in the sport purely due to the amount of people in its country,
europe though is dictated too much by fashion, when they start dropping, all these european companies will disapear with them

TwoBobRob:
The companies that are in it for the long run are the ones that HAVE already been in it for the long run.....  Some good, some not so good.  The ones that just had a bundle of money chucked at em have/will disappear.

There is no doubt in my mind that those original rider owned companies will survive in some shape or form for a very long time to come.  After all, what else could they go and do?  They live and breathe it.

Just to clarify something from my earlier post;   when I mentioned an impending death in freestyle riding, I didn't mean anyone specific or currently hurt, I meant that I feel like we're going to see it in our local park, or at a small jam....

Hope I'm wrong....

WizardWeb:
Rider owned companies usually have the flexibility to cope with a downturn, mainly cos they don't report to shareholders and can downsize a lot easier. If the market can't support them though, they be the first to go the way of the dodo, unless they group together somehow and share the cost.

Bigger companies can weather it for a different reason, they diversify which is what they did in the 80's, they all got into mountainbikes - some more successfully than others. (e.g. GT, Haro vs Skyway, Redline).

darkersomeday:
so if we wanted to seriously support the future of bmx what would be a good way for us "oldies" to contribute ?

how could we help guarantee or at least try to help the way bmx progresses?

would it be possible in any way?

ok we cant go out and pull triple flip whips and make amazing video's but what can we do?

are we bothered?

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