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what happened?
darkersomeday:
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--- Quote from: darksunday on November 24, 2007, 09:43 PM ---
why did bmx seem to die for a while? any views on it?
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Cos all you lot stopped riding!!! :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
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dont be including me in that! :LolLolLolLol:
why did bmx die though? was it the parts problems or did it just go out of fashion?
harris:
birds, booze ,cars and work .it just had its day ,then some carried on in the background
and it stayed on simmer for a while until the touch paper got lit .much rnd was done in this time thou.hooorar
Philbert:
because all the kids from the original boom started to grow hair in funny places and interests swayed towards the flange!
and unfortunately for this country the big name raleigh, in the early nineties made a commercial push to get kids riding the raleigh activator mtb with its radical front suspension and if you could afford it the m trax range so they stopped making the burner and it all became about the mountain bike until good old channel 5 started showing espn at 2 a.m. in 96, you know the rest....
dunno about stateside. i grew up in engerland
SaMAlex:
--- Quote from: darksunday on November 24, 2007, 09:51 PM ---
why did bmx die though? was it the parts problems or did it just go out of fashion?
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The parts just kept getting better, it was pure fashion. "oh, you STILL ride a BMX?"
Part got heavy and over engineered cos everyone was jumping off roofs for much of the 90s (go watch an early backyard video for proof), but they were still better parts, being made for the riding at the time.
YGT:
skateboarding crossed over
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