Originally Posted by jrowedc
I could think of many things--sprawled riders among them--that I could clear with a 2' bunny hop. The question that should have been asked, "Riding forwards gets me everywhere I need to go. Why backwards?", does not have an obvious answer.
true but if all the old schoolers of BMX were content with this question, everyone would still only be racing on the track. Think about the progression of BMX street/dirt/ramp riding in the last 25 years and it started with someone wanting to roll backwards.