| Freestyle BMX otherwise also known as Bike Stunt is | | | | It is around 10 to 13 feet high and both faces of the |
| actually the trick of maneuvering bicycles. Well, these | | | | ramp have an extended vertical transition. |
| bicycles are not your ordinary ones and they come | | | | Trails consist of a series of jumps built from dirt that |
| with 20" wheelbase that are originally meant for | | | | is usually compact mud. The trick usually consists of |
| races. Started in the late 70s and the early 80s, bike | | | | taking a steep jump and landing at a slightly plainer |
| stunt reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the 80s | | | | ground. |
| decade but was soon robbed of it in the 90s. | | | | Flatland is almost a lost form of art which has seen |
| However, this temporary decline in popularity brought | | | | no popularity in recent years but has a loyal fan |
| to the market rider-owned bicycle companies, which | | | | following. Flatland is usually performed on smooth |
| gave a fresh lease of life to the bicycles. | | | | ground and the tricks are usually spinning and |
| The Bike Stunt is divided into five major genres, | | | | balancing. |
| namely Street, Skateparks, Vert, Trails and Flatland | | | | Different types of tricks |
| riding. | | | | The basics of the freestyling tricks have always been |
| Street riding is exactly what it sounds like, the | | | | the same and whatever new tricks that are found |
| players use anything on the street to show their | | | | are usually based on these ones. |
| skills. Be it walls, banks, rails, gaps or anything that | | | | 1. Air seems to be the most common and most |
| forms an obstacle, the best thing about being a | | | | preferred one. It basically consists of jumping in the |
| street freestyler is that there are no limits and no | | | | air and landing with both legs on the pedal. |
| stopping. However, those who try BMX Street have | | | | 2. Bunny hop- making the bike jump off the ground |
| a different bike than the other types like Park or Dirt. | | | | without actually performing a jump. |
| Firstly, they are the heaviest and strongest types of | | | | 3. Manual - where freestylers ride with the front |
| bikes for these tricks, and secondly, they have two | | | | wheel in the air, without pedaling. |
| or four stunt pegs for grinding. In fact, these | | | | 4. Fakie - It simply consists of riding backwards. |
| features make it hard to do Park or Dirt with the | | | | 5. Grind - Slithering down any object without using |
| same bike. | | | | the wheels. |
| Skateparks is the name derived from the parks that | | | | 6. Endo - where the bike is stopped with the front |
| are meant for skateboarders, but due to scarcity of | | | | wheel and raining the back wheel in the air. |
| space, the BMX bikers are forced to practice there. | | | | 7. Wallride - riding along a vertical wall or anything |
| Hence, much of the Saktepark tricks are influenced | | | | similar to it. |
| by the tricks that skateboarders do. | | | | There are sub divisions to these tricks, but these |
| In Vert riding, two players ride on a Vert ramp that | | | | remain to be the foundation of all freestyling BMX |
| consists of two 'quarter pipes' that face each other. | | | | tricks. |