shawnrock@gmail

I ride both, and there's a few others here that do as well. My friends that I ride with ride both BMX and track bikes as well. It's all good times.

carleton

I used to ride BMX, too. I wasn't very good, though.

shawnrock@gmail

Being good isn't what it's about. It's about having fun, traveling, meeting new people, and accomplishing your own goals at your own pace.

TRaffic Jammer

...and every once and a while pulling off a trick you never thought you could do.
It's all about the fun, wether it's full on Traffic Jamming or bar spins over stairs.

mihlbach

Yeah, when I first moved to NYC about 6 years ago now, I learned that bombing through traffic was sort of the same rush as dirt jumping. Different challenge..same sort of fun.

mihlbach

Exactly, when I used to ride, it was me and two other friends in the middle of central Illinios (total BFE)..no scene at all. All we had were magazines and the movie Rad for guidence. We basically sucked because there was no one to teach us any of the tricks. We just had to figure it out on our own. But it was just all about the fun..and the fact that no one but us ever really got it. About when we all started to get good (i.e. we cold do stuff like nothing airs) we all went our separate ways to college and we all just sort of moved onto other things. All three of us still agree that bikes rule though.

TRaffic Jammer

Now if we merged the two...... Traffic Jumping...oh yes...

shishi

Don't know much about BMX, but that **** is just crazy. Backwards jumps and drops

TRaffic Jammer

I just watched it again and the madness that is wall riding the curved bricks behind the flag pole, blows my mind.

shawnrock@gmail

curved wall rides are beyond fun. It doesn't really make sense at first, and then it's just the best thing imaginable.

evanyc

that's it. im going to get my hoffman from the dude i gave it to who never rides

TRaffic Jammer

You GAVE it to?...... that's sick man.

teiaperigosa

in this context, it means...get your game tight...step up

evanyc

haha if you only knew how many bikes i've given away in my life. i owed this guy for a buncha graphic design stuff he'd done for my label and he wanted a bike so... i dont think he uses it much though.

morbot

id love to try bmx, but yeah, i doubt i ever will

TRaffic Jammer

I tried a roomies once and managed to bunnyhop a garbage can after about a halfhour on it. I can see how addictive thay can be.

mihlbach

I wonder what the bmx kiddies think of the fixed gear kiddies...they must think we are a bunch of posers. When I was BMXing, I had no idea what a track bike was...but I probably woulda thought it was for posers, unless ridden properly on the track.

Edit: on second thought, I probably would have respected the whole brakeless in traffic thing, even though I would have brushed it off as being less cool than BMX street thrashing.

Edit (again): no, actually, I probably would have thought the brakeless fixie riders were just drugged out moron posers.

TRaffic Jammer

I LOVE thrashing traffic, and slicing the lanes like a laser. I always ride with full on brakes. I can see how the fixies like the pure simplicity and it is balls on hardcore no matter how you slice it. For me though taking an unmodified track bike onto the road gives me the heebie-jebbies.

ImOnCrank

It's funny, since I haven't been on the snow as much the last few years cause of college (every single snowy weekend of my life until I graduated high school to maybe 2-3 weeks on the hill a year) riding fixed, especially brakeless, through city streets is the closest I've gotten to that rush you get from tearing the sh*t out of a hill, espcially for an ex-boardercross junkie. Similarly the snowboard scene from back in the day (like 93-99) feels a ton like the fixed scene today. Yeah you get a lot of ******dumpsters *****ing about poser this and that but in general it's a ton of boss people who love riding and look for any excuse to go out and throw down. Best part about it is that alleycats are way cheaper to enter, involve a crap ton less waiting, tend to be a lot less cold and don't involve judges (especially that crap french one from USASA who had a goddamned grudge against me and never scored me right, to hell with her and her stupid hat... damnit I'm still bitter about that one run).

I've been thinking about putting together a 20'' and trying to teach myself some crap and after watching those vids and the peeps at stockwell park I think I might have to after I get back to maine and can get parts and frames for dirt cheap.

jamey

a few of my bmx friends are asking me for help with getting together some fixed gear bikes. most of them ride brakeless bmx bikes so riding brakeless fixed should be no sweat for them.

carleton

I rode brakeless BMX for a while in SF. I refused to ride brakless fixie when I lived there. I kept an "Oh Sh1t" brake. But, I ride brakeless fixie now out East no problem.

There is a difference with BMX you can stop one of 3 ways: "Fred Flintstone", jam your foot between seat tube and tire, or just jump off.

But, if they have bike skills enough to do that plus tricks, I agree, fixie shouldn't be a stretch for them.

bldzr

I think we'll either see a convergence of styles between fixed riding and BMX trick riding (anybody know Jason from Philly? that cat can ride!!!) or we'll see fixed trick riding take on a style of its own, with a more high-speed aspect. That's what I like about watching M.A.S.H. It's just like riding with those guys. There's this whole Chris Senn vibe to it. Instead of staying at the same spot all day, like you would skating or BMX'ing, you just bomb **** and hit what you feel like hitting along the way. I think that while bike ballet-type tricks will continue to influence fixie tricks, You're more likely to see someone come up with the 700c version of the ollie - a groundbreaking trick that all others will be based on.

I can only hope that I come up with it.

yo to any of the heads in MASH - Jimmy James, Travis Poe, Dustin - I'll see you in Portland at the West Side. and bet I'm a have the MESS camera pointed at yr rock star asses.

TRaffic Jammer

"Instead of staying at the same spot all day, like you would skating or BMX'ing, you just bomb **** and hit what you feel like hitting along the way."

You just described the riding style of the 80's, full tilt balls on ripping....... with tricks.
I've done stairs on my SS, real slow mind you. Now if we had some bomb-proof rims.....hmmmm

I still say Traffic Jumping...... little ramps set up all through the city zones where messers work.
Kick ramps that will allow you to boost over the corner, from roof top to park garage. You KNOW someone out there is sick enough to do it. Freerunners are all over the buildings, freeriders all over the mountains, now it's time for the speed version of urban freeriding, at speeds that MTB can't get to..