Best BMX bikes to show off your tricks and skills: Top brands reviewed
Once, the BMX was a symbol of childhood freedom, its distinctive compact shape and racing pedigree adding a layer of cool to being able to hang out with your mates.
Modern BMX bikes keep that urban fashionability, adding pegs for grinding and tricks, fatter tyres for greater grip and shock absorption, and even cable-less brakes to allow the handlebars to spin.
BMX is a contraction of ‘bicycle motocross’, and the singular style of frame sprang from racing bikes used on off-road racetracks. It’s been an Olympic sport for both men and women since 2008, but can trace its origins back to the late 1960s in California, where bicycle races organised for local kids used a track that remained in use until the 1980s.
