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kennyhunter6061:
Gogo is spot on, BMX never died.  Sure the big parent companies pulled a lot of their support to go chasing money in MTBs and other 'next big things', and many of the first generation of UK riders left the scene to do 'grown up' things.  I take my hat off to guys like Gogo who kept riding hard all through the 90's.  I still rode, after taking a break from 88-91, but my riding was never as frequent as it was in the '80's (i.e. every day for hours on end).  I think many people got the idea that bmx died because the media stopped covering it in the same manic way it did in the 80's.  Then Ride magazine became the only way some people had of finding out what was happening in the BMX world.  Nowadays we have the luxury of the internet so it's a lot easier to find out what's happening, where your nearest park/track is etc.  This can only be good for getting people involved.  I personally don't see BMX 'dying' anytime soon.  People will come and go but in general things seem a lot more stable now and, if anything, the sport is only going to get bigger.

WizardWeb:
I was reading on the bike biz site yesterday that for the bike shops, the BMX boom bust in 85 and MTB took over in 87. There's a whole load of things on this page.

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/statistics.php

I find stats are interesting when you can relate to them otherwise they're the worst thing in the world. I sat through a finance meeting at work today.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....  :LolLolLolLol:

Trev:

--- Quote from: teamsano on November 27, 2007, 09:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: darksunday on November 27, 2007, 10:34 AM ---
"put the buckfast on the floor and take two steps back"



when i said "bmx died" i meant commercially,

i rode through the dark years too so i do know just how small bmx got in those years,
yes i did all the birds/cars/drugs stuff but alway found time to ride aswell, in the mid 90's when i was at uni in edinburgh my bmx was even my main form of transport,

if you actually bothered to see what i was trying to say from this thread, you see i was "subtley" trying to get folk to support the genuine bmx companies instead of the big "corporates" :daumenhoch:

"real riders" eh? :LolLolLolLol:

whats that "batty riders"?



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hoho, i wasnt referring to your post in particular, dude. more like this ones like this-


--- Quote from: Trev on November 26, 2007, 03:47 PM ---as far as i'm concerned, bmx died in the late 80's / early 90's due to everyone "growing up".
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however, he slightly redeemed himself here-


--- Quote from: Trev on November 26, 2007, 03:47 PM ---just my opinion....

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it only died if it died in your heart.

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probably a bad choice of words on my behalf.  bmx itself didn't die, but the big scene it was did, which is what i was implying.

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