It's a disease, I tell you. I'm fifty bloody six and still look at BMX bikes and parts, watch BMX videos and (body and weather permitting) ride BMX every day!! Every single day!! 365 days a year!!!
It's a never-ending rabbit hole! Case in point, I started skate park riding this year and built up my first ever park bike. After various problems along the way, the bike is, as of last weekend, finally running well, which means that I can now focus more on riding than building it. So what do I start doing? Think about upgrading the forks and trying some bigger bars and tyres!! Then I see a couple of complete bikes for sale online. Both from 2011 and both decent spec and well-priced. Do I need them? Are they better than the bike I've spent just 5 months building up? No, on both counts. But do I keep looking at them and trying to justify buying them? Of course I flippin' do! But isn't a bird in the hand worth two in the bush? And what would I do with another park bike anyway? Perhaps the same thing I do with the five race bikes currently sitting in my shed!! Namely continue to spend more time and money chopping and changing parts in the vain hope that one day they might be "finished"!
Am I mad? Am I an idiot? Maybe! Or am I just afflicted with the same disease that first infected me some 45 years ago! BMX is for life, not just for Christmas. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Bah humbug!
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