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Albany BMX Riders! Get Involved!

Future plans developing for Albany, New York. BMX riders need to get involved to secure a place within these facilities! Here’s the link http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/09/21/capital-region-skateparks#more

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Lake Forest, CA. – BMX Banned

Lake Forest, California opened a skatepark that allowed both BMX and skateboards, with the help of Etnies shoe brand, 7 years ago. It recently updated and expanded, in the process of doing so it also banned BMX from using the facility. Why? Still our guess, but the city claims a liability issue. Why wasn’t there [...]

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Lindo Lake, Ca. Park Design

BMX riders! If you live anywhere near Lindo Lake, California make sure you get involved in this awesome project!

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Kory Laos Park – Tucson, AZ

The Kory Laos memorial freestyle park is under construction. The park idea was started after a young boy (Kory) lost his life while riding street in Tucson, Arizona. His parents made it a goal to honor their son by creating a safe environment for BMX riders in Tucson. The first leg of the park is [...]

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R.I.P. Lawn Trails

Lawn Trails R.I.P from Yawn BMX It’s a sad day when people lose a sacred place and years of hard work.

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El Paso Skate Ditch

This is a great example of city leaders and advocates working together to solve problems. This small community outside of El Paso, Texas wanted a skate park and had decided to build a modular one. When a local skater found out, he threw out the idea of building a skate-able drainage ditch. You can read [...]

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The Case For BMX Advocacy

BMX needs a new perspective on skatepark advocacy.

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Arizona BMX Parks

Flagstaff, Arizona was the first community to build a BMX specific “skate” park in 2005. After years of kicking the local BMX riders out of the skateboard only park, the citizens of Flagstaff realized it would be a benefit to build a park solely for BMX.  After the park opened BMX riders finally had a [...]

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