BMX Bike Parts

Freestyle BMX is a creative way of using bicycles originally designed for bicycle motocross racing. It can be split into several disciplines, although riders will generally participate in more than one discipline. These are Street, Park, Vert, Trails (sometimes called Dirt) and Flatland. more...

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Disciplines

Park

Skateparks are used by BMXers as well as skateboarders, inline skaters and sometimes scooter-riders and they all draw inspiration from the others. Skateparks themselves can be made of wood, concrete or metal. Styles of riding will differ between wood and concrete parks - wood lends itself to technical tricks, while concrete is more suited to a fast, flowing style, with riders searching for gaps, and aiming to air higher from the coping. Concrete parks usually tend to contain bowls and pools. However, it is not unusual for riders to merge the two styles in either type of park.

Concrete parks are commonly built outdoors due to their ability to withstand years of exposure to the elements. Concrete parks are also often publicly funded due to their permanent and costly nature. Parks made from wood are popular with commercial skateparks due to ease of construction, availability of materials, cost, and the relative safety associated with falling on wood instead of concrete. Parks designed with BMX use in mind will typically have steel coping that is less prone to damage than concrete or pool coping.

Common obstacles include:

quarter pipes - literally, quarter of a pipe - riders air from it and perform tricks on a platform above the ramp or drop in on it to gain speed; spines - two quarter pipes back to back; flat banks - a flat bank set at an angle of roughly 40 degrees from horizontal; wall rides/vert walls - a vertical wall above either quarter pipes or flat banks; miniramps - two small quarter pipes facing one another, like a halfpipe, but with a short flat area between.; hips - essentially two quarter pipes or flat banks, each with one edge at a right angle or a more aggressive angle to the other.; box jumps - a steep quarter pipe like lip with a deck extending to a landing often less steep than the lip.; pyramids - a four way wedge or transition box.; camel humps - a quarter pipe with a short flat area on top leading to a small hump, used to gain air.; launches - A curved ramp that launches the rider into the air.; roll-ins - A long sloping ramp. Also used to refer to very tall ramps (15+ feet);

Vert

Perhaps the most extreme of the BMX disciplines, a half pipe consists of two quarter pipes set facing each other (much like a mini ramp), but at around 10-15 feet tall (around 2.5 to 3.5 metres) high. The biggest ramp ever used in competition is the X-Games big air ramp at 27 feet tall. Both 'faces' of the ramp have an extension to the transition that is vertical, hence the name.

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