pinkBIKE it doesnt say pinkMOUNTAINBIKE, does it?? why dont you just join the rest of us appreciate anything on two wheels, unlike most bmxers who hate mountainbikers
why is this Pod :-s? out there are so many better pictures i dont say that this is an ugly pic but look here i say this pic deserves POD better And lett all romanianen enjoy the first romanian POD www.pinkbike.com/photo/5097896
How tall are you if u think u are to tall for bmx then? Cos i can ride a bmx at any height, I am 6ft 4 and i ride and race a bmx. And i have only go 8" rise bars and an xl frame if you are tall than than u can get 8.25" rise bars or high and get an xxl or xxxl frame so don't use the shit excuse that you are to tall.
lol another drama queeen. i never said i was too tall, i simply think theyre too small for my riding style, i dont like riding them, and you guys seriously need to not take this so personally, it was a fucking joke jeeeez.
Don't sweat it bawz.. A lot of very sensitive people on pinkbike with no sense of humor.. I don't like riding BMX bikes either... I guess we are both bigots.
i used to ride bmx... but then i realized i looked ridiculous riding a kid's bike. tricks on mtn bikes look soooo much better anyway... unless you're short, or wear those gay skinny jeans and then you just look weird and awkward.
^ and ^^ stop hating on what other people wear if they feel comfortable in them then by all means they should wear them not that i wear those gay skinny jeans :p
only girls are allowed to wear jeans that tight. what self respecting man would want people to see or know that they wear "skinny jeans" seriously wtf?
Half Baked is one of the best stoner films out there, and ballsofsteel; your ridiculous, "stop the hate child" is just a quote from the movie, you shouldn't "TAKE IT SO PERSONALLY" as you like to put it, and if you'd read my comment you'd know that even your cool in my book, cause im guessing you ride bikes right? i just think its stupid that people segregate riders cause of the type of bike they ride, if i saw a fat gross crackhead bitch riding the crappiest walmart bike ive ever seen, id still think she was cool
lol like i said in the first place buddy, it was merely a joke. bmx racing is hard, i have respect for anyone that rides bikes. So all you mofo's seriously need to grow up and quit the arguements.
Stop bikerfighting, we all ride on two wheels, I have respect for whatever you do. As long as you get out there and have some fun, dirtjumping, streetbiking, roadbiking, downhilling, xcing, who gives a f*ck? Skaters should be the only ones who bug us, we shouldnt bug eachother.If you ride a bike, whatever kind, your cool
skinny jeans arent gay, or girly, they are just clothes and its just some of the faggy stereotypes that happen to wear them people like the majority here cry about. you might as well say anybody who wears a pink and yellow race jersey is gay and thats its girly or w/e but no, they arent at all.
sorry bro, skinny jeans are only for girls and any guys that wear them deserve to be called gay. no straight man wants to see another guy in skinny jeans. straight guys like when GIRLS wear them because it shows off their legs and ass. i have nothing against gays, just ALL GUYS WHO WEAR SKINNY JEANS. you might as well wear a bra and thong if you're gonna rock skinny jeans!
so apparently you disregarded what i just said, why the f*ck would a straight guy wear a bra and thong just because hes wearing skinny jeans? and if you have nothing against gays, but say that any guy who wears them deserves to be called gay and have something against those who wear skinny jeans then your degrading gays yourself by putting them in your same stupid stereotype you have against people who wear skinny jeans...
First of all, I said a guy might as well wear a bra and thong if they're gonna wear skinny jeans because ONLY GIRLS SHOULD WEAR SKINNY JEANS AND GIRLS WEAR BRAS AND THONGS THEREFORE, IF YOU'RE GONNA BE A GIRL AND WEAR SKINNY JEANS YOU SHOULD COMPLETE THE OUTFIT. And secondly, I have absolutely nothing against gays but gay men like to check out other gay men so it would make sense for GAY men to wear skinny, revealing jeans (the reason why you should be called gay if you wear skinny jeans). But for all those straight men out there (myself included) who don't like to check out other men, skinny jeans are a problem when other males wear them because what straight man would want to see another man's figure like that? YUCK!
but the fact of the matter is, while in your opinion its only girls who should wear skinny jeans, in fact lots of men DO ACTUALLY WEAR THEM and obviously contrary to your ways of thinking; nope, skinny jeans apparently dont turn men into girls and its not mandantory for men to wear thongs and bras if they are wearing skinny jeans at all and i'm sure any man who wears skinny jeans would be just as confused as me if there was another man wearing skinny jeans, a bra, and a thong; according to you is the correct way of wearing skinny jeans for a man, to couple them with a bra and a thong. i cant see how anybody can quite justify doing this except of course for your theory that skinny jeans turn men into girls which is to be honest slightly... not true. it would also be very wrong to say every man who wears skinny jeans is gay, and/or likes to check out other men which is again what your saying since straight men who wear them, which is a lot, obviously dont. also, there are some significant differences between mens and womans skinny jeans, mens commonly being not so tight or "skinny" and they dont show off features as much.
jascha, i agree, im not arguing against anything im just arguing for the point that people can wear what they like without having to be stereotyped by people like maveri and a lot of other people.
atmos-fair you know my stance completely so i will continue to think skinny jeans are only for girls (and you're gay if you wear them) and i'm sure as hell not the only man to think this. as for "people like me" stereotyping, skinny jeans are not the only type of clothing people stereotype on (if you wear a swastika on your shirt you're considered a nazi/white supremacist, you wear a suit and you're some sort of business person, etc) so get used to it.
you can think that if you want, it will never be true though and you will always be misinformed. its fine for you to have your own opinion, i'm just explaining how i think you are wrong. i know you aren't the only person to think this and i know well that different clothing gets stereotyped but who seriously wears a swastika unless they ARE supporting white supremacy etc, or a suit if they aren't doing something business-related or something else that you would wear a suit for. People wear those things for a reason and you are essentially saying the only reason men would wear skinny jeans is if they were gay or female (which doesnt even make sense if they are men otherwise you wouldnt be complaining if they were woman wearing them... ) and its obviously not true that only gays and woman wear skinny jeans. i don't need to get used to "it" because guess what, i wear skinny jeans sometimes, i have a girlfriend; im straight, im not gay, im not a woman, and guess what, people dont think i am because of these blatently obvious reasons that prove wearing skinny jeans dont make you a girl or a gay...
i'm not really affected by what pinkbike think personally, i know everyone hates them but i commented just on the topic in general and he replied directly to me so, yeah.
good discussion, i think the bottom line is we all have opinions. we should probably get back to bikes now. btw, i'm in love with my new Fox 180mm Van RC2
to ross... i agree, anyone who wears skinny jeans are all sloppy rancid c*nts. to maveri20.. Top Gun is the greatest movie of all time, and I bet that Fox 180 is like sex on ecstasy.
hahaha well you sir unfortunately suck. I feel obligated to speak up for everyone else who is afraid to tell the truth. skinny jeans suck, and anyone who wears them should have been aborted.
haha! best Top Gun line: Iceman: You two really are cowboys. Maverick: What's your problem, Kazanski? Iceman: You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous. Maverick: That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.
lol, as he's holding his cigar. And yeah, the 180 Van RC2 is like riding through a cloud while candyflipping and having the glitch mob play in the backround as visualizers go off and puppies chase you.... or something along those lines.
I like this one:
Slider: Goose, whose butt did you kiss to get in here anyway? Goose: The list is long, but distinguished. Slider: Yeah, well so is my Johnson.
Yeah, I meant to say (with correct grammar) that I believe Mr. Graves, in the foreground, is "manualing" past the gentlemen who is attempting this jump.
but if graves was in the air then he wouldnt be gaining speed. the guy in the air is gonna proberbly land at about the same speed that he took off at, but graves is gonna be shot over that roller and continue zooming down the track and eventuly win. as he always does. air looks good, but its slower.
I race bmx, and can tell you, that airing is quicker than manualing, while almost as fast does require more effort and does not gain you much speed, where as shooting over a jump low, and then pumping into the landing, is much quicker. also there are no bumps in the air to slow you down, where as in a manual, the pump you are trying to manual too, slows you down as you go over it.
Jumping is never faster. Only on Pro Sets. And on jumps like doubles with no backside/huge drop off on the first lip, but a very nice backside on the second lip.
What is faster through a rythym ? Manualing, Pumping, or Jumping ? A mix of Manuals and pumps. A manual is just a form of pumping without having both wheels on the ground for resistance.
P.S. - There are things called tap-manuals, pick-taps, pick-pedals, those are all faster than jumping if you can do them right.
If you and I went through a rythym section side by side, you jump, and only jumped through it, I manualed and pumped through it, I would pull you.
Only under certain circumstances is jumping faster.
Pick manualing is the fastest way around the track, ever. But you can sit and think your right, that's okay too.
Really? Using that word as an insult? Why hasn't this comment been deleted by a mod yet? Completely innocent comments in PODs, VODs, and articles get deleted really fast all the time and yet the staff here give comments like this the OK? This is the environment they want to foster?
thats definetly worth pod... its one of the only pictures iv seen on the home page that grabs my attention and makes me want to see it in a larger scale.. thats what pod should be doing. good choice in my opinion !
tbh, i have done both in the past, and this is onky an opinion but bmx is alot more fun! but i dont get why there has to be all this rivalry between bmx and moutain bike, moutain biking is still great so whats the point in arguing?
The "unknown" rider is Norways Sebastian Kartfjord who happens to be an olympian as well.
In 2008 Graves was among the best on his BMX bike, however in Copenhagen you could see he was still adapting to a BMX bike again (Copenhagen was only a week after the 1st WC 4X). Among others he did not get the full speed out of his manuals yet...
everyone needs to chill, if it weren't for bmx racing, thered be no free style bmx, and if that never happened people wouldnt be doing insane tricks on mtb and fmx, kids need to know their dam history
Everything has a history and an evolutionary process and you can not pretend that what is done today has nothing to do with bmx. It simply is not possible to dissociate the two things, however you want. Face it. peace
I never said bmx didn't have an influence on mountain biking, I said that if bmxs never existed or no mtn bikers ever paid attention to what was going on in the bmx world, people would still end up doing tricks on mtn bikes. Tricks on bikes is a form of expression and a style not limited to any one kind of bicycle. Face it.
Of course not! Even before bmx bikes exist people do tricks on bikes... it´s a long way process and human nature. But in that process, some disciplines have much more influence, i think.
Take a look at 4x. How could you see a 4x race without thinking on bmx? it´s impossible, except if you never see or ride a bmx race, or you try to extinguish bmx denying it?
I supose that already but i really get pissed of when i see comments try do diminuish bmx (specialy bmx race), although in this case be a matter of expression on the same subject.
haha il take the low road and ul take the high and i forget the lyrics after that something about scotland. XD sick pod thou BMXers finnaly found them selves a set of balls (i joke i joke)
To me, all the so called riders that neg prop bmx stuff (especialy bmx racing)are a bunch of rednecks and ignorant people. It makes me say Mountain bike sucks!!!
I ride a 26" BLK MRKT now...but I grew up riding and racing 20"'s and will never forget were the roots of all extreme biking came from...IT'S 20" BMX PEOPLE. Everyone needs to stop hating on each other...we obviously all ride 2 wheels bikes, who cares what aspect of the 2 wheel sport you enjoy. JUST GET OUT AND RIDE!!!