I have met some of the best people in my life cause of bmx. We don’t need to gate keep bmx. The olympics riders work really hard. We can have core bmx and also mainstream bmx. Hating on other riders for their riding style and tricks is nonsense. BMX is a way of expressing yourself. Dudes go out ride today and do whatever you want on your bike.
by unitetheleague
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Trey Jones does suck. He’s right about that.
Olympics are soulless trash.
Dude is such a fuckin goofball lol
Sounds mad because he can’t do a 540 tripple tailwhip. Trey Jones is barley a pro rider and has his own fucking frame. Idk why this dude is mad he should be happy to be so successful off his weird riding style.
Sounds like he’s got some head trauma and mental health issues going on tbh…half of that doesn’t even make sense and is vague and contradictory
Just babbling without any sustenance.
Everything he’s said is how action sports has always been.
Olympics and X games have always been style-less stale money grabs, and the local street scenes have always had the most influence and style.
Mainstream X-Games type riders are actually good for the industry. If it wasn’t because of guys like R-Willy, Garrett Reynolds, Chad Kerley, Logan Martin, etc. BMX would be a “sport/activity/hobby/whatever you prefer to call it” exclusive for countries like USA, Spain or England. I’m Peruvian and our local scene exists thanks in a big part to companies like ESPN that put BMX on a worldwide level. BMX brands can now sell stuff here unlike 30 years ago when BMX was non-existant here.
Wait til he hears about the wheelie bike trend
He deleted it
This reads like potato casserole, but with way less cohesion
Dam that was cringe
To an 8 year old kid who has never seen BMX I think the Olympics is vastly more important than BF posting a 10 second clip from last weekend. I’m all over that BF clip and I most likely won’t watch the Olympics.
Core, industry, lifers whatever you want to call them can get up their own ass too much. They want to keep their way and shuns the new. Look at Adam LZ, biggest BMX YouTuber gets shit on and now he’s not posting BMX. ( He supports the Central fl scene though) Scerbo and Edwin probably didn’t watch Adam but I’m sure tons of young kids did and that is who pushes the “sport” forward. I’d say BMX needs Nick Bruce and Huffy more than Ralph and Animal. Those who don’t know will know Huffy way before Animal.
I’m old enough to remember when xgames exploded BMX popularity, all the new dudes showing up at the spots, new bikes, new hype. Most fade away but if you can keep even a tiny percent you can keep the industry. You start kids with the most accessible version and then feed them down to Bone Deth and Ratboy.
Everyone was just “someone who rode Bmx” at some point. The serious pros who get paid to ride now were just “kids who rode Bmx” before they were bmxers. I get there’s a difference. A “huge fucking one”. But if you alienate the “people who ride Bmx” then the future will have no “bmxers”. And that’s how an industry fails.
It’s insane to think like this. It’s awesome that BMX has grown to the point where there is room for all types of riders and styles. Big x games stuff, Olympics, pushing limits and boundaries doing big air tricks, street park and everything in between.
Is he just mad that his “edgy” lifestyle has become mainstream? He should keep doing what he’s best at, that raw edgy style and don’t worry about the new age and money chasers
I think I’d be more stoked about BMX in the Olympics if it wasn’t only pegless trick ferret park riding being spotlighted. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate the skill and sheer balls it takes to get to that level, and I get that that’s the kind of stuff that“normies” love to see, but it kinda sucks that that’s the only facet of BMX on show.
Like I do think it’s cool that freestyle is being put on the world stage alongside these much bigger conventional sports, and anything that gets more people interested in BMX is a good thing, but I’d find it much more interesting with a street comp as well, or just more obstacle variety in the park contest like the skateboarding had.
He’s a trash person. So his take would be trash.