BMX Riders Organization

Editorial by Susan Linerode of Freedom BMX Skatepark. Nearly every week, I get letters or e-mails from riders across the country with a common theme: “My town is shutting down our skate park,” or “All of our funding for the skatepark got cut, what can we do?” Just Google “skatepark funding reductions” and you will get [...]

Chris McMahon, occasionally referred to in the bike scene as “Beerman,” dueto an unfortunate high school football coach, runs www.sjbmx.com. His take on bikes being a “menace” in skateparks is that it’s not bikes, per se, it’s little kids who don’t know what they’re doing, don’t have park etiquette, and are essentially abandoned at the skatepark [...]

In 2003, the City of Lake Forest, CA, with the help of Etnies Shoes, opened the Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest. This public/private partnership has been a great success for skaters and BMX riders, who regularly travel to Lake Forest to ride the park. Now the park is scheduled to get even better, with several [...]

The long anticipated Morgan Hill Skateboard/BMX Park is now open. The facility is a 15,000 square foot concrete park with street style elements and a bowl/flowcourse.  The park is designed for both skateboarding and BMX use.

Saw this in the paper today, check it out. GRIMM Young skateboarders, and other extreme-sports enthusiasts, turned out for the South Beach Civic Association’s monthly meeting last week, to express their concerns about the closing of Benjamin Soto Skate Park in Midland Beach. (Staten Island Advance/Virginia N. Sherry)

Yes Bikes are not allowed in you read the title right. Dam that isn’t right you are probably thinking. Well there is something you can do to help. You can take 10 seconds of your time and you can go sign a petition. So take 10 seconds away from facebook. And sign this petition. Then [...]