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Whats the difference between Flatland and Street or Park BMX?
What makes a flatland bike a flatland bike. Would i be able to use a flatland bike for street and park, in particular this bike. http://london.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-sports-bikes-Gt-Flatland-Bmx-W0QQAdIdZ212864184
To answer your question right away, no you wouldnt be able to use that flatland bike for street and park, its just not designed for that type of abuse.
To give you a good explanation...
As you can see in that GT the kink in the downtube... that is flatland technology right there. You can tell its a flatland frame right away. Most flatland bikes will have smaller sprockets (25 tooth and lower), smaller bars with a crossbar that dips or sinks down and usually only front brakes. All this is for the branch of BMX called flatland, if you couldn't tell allready. lol. Street bikes look just like normal BMX bikes, as do park and dirt bikes. Allthough the difference between these three types of bikes is the materials theyre made of and the type of abuse they are built to take. for instance a street bike or a street frame would be made of probably heat treated chromoly, making the bike or bike frame lighter but still able to hold its strength. The toptube of the frame would be smaller. (smaller toptube means faster spins) A park designed bike or frame would be made about the same as a street frame but with different angles between all the tubes. Also, the toptube, downtube, seatstays, and chainstays would probably be different lengths than a street or dirt bike but again, generally shorter for so you can crank those spins out. Finally, the dirt designed bikes and frames would be built with a longer toptube length and also a longer downtube and chainstay length. Basically the geometry of the frames will be different for each type of terrain you want to ride. Some street riders will rock a slick tire in the back that has a lot of micro tread and a big knobby tire in the front. The slick tire grips the street/ cement/ pavement, whatever, better and the knobby tire helps to carve your turns for spins. Park riders will most likely do the same and dirt riders will ride probably knobbier tires, front and back. Slick tires work well for dirt riding also.
In flatland, riders make their bike spin and the maneuver around their bike while without the aid of ramps. Flatland usually comes with riders utilizing all four pegs to balance on their bike, whether its right side up or upside down... Riders use all of their bike.
Street is a whole other game. Riders scope out their local city or town looking for stair sets, gaps, handrails, ledges/ hubbas, and any kind of cool spot. Street riders jump on and grind everything and anything. Karl Poynter rides four pegs, a free coaster (a special type of free wheel where you don't need to pedal backwards while riding backwards) and brakeless. Some street riders ride brakeless with two pegs, some ride with brakes with no pegs. Ive ridden street a lot of ways. Brakeless with no pegs, brakeless with two pegs, brakes and no pegs, brakes and two pegs, and Ive also ridden with three pegs before. Some riders like Def Paul even ride chainless! Don't ask me just look him up, you'll be amazed and shocked at how well someone can ride without a chain.
Park riders will most likely ride with brakes and almost the same as street except all their tricks are done in a skate park/ bike park with quarter pipes, halfpipes, rails, spines bowls, pools everything. My buddy could tell you a lot about park riding....
Now dirt.... you could guess. Riders spend a lot of time at their local trails and if they dont have any, they gather up the boys, find some woods or a nice open field and start building. A lot of time, effort and dedication go into making and maintaining trails. You could spend 4 hours and some trails and get only about an hour and a half of riding in, but its not the riding thats the best part. Just being with your bros in the middle of the woods making jumps for your bikes, its a bonding experience. I love to go to my local trails and just hang out with the boys. Bring some food, something to drink maybe even matches or a lighter and just be there all day. Its absolutely wonderful.
Thats pretty much everything to know about the branches of BMX. Except for flatland and park i dont know much about. Parks just like street except done in a skatepark. And i didnt even tell you about the racing part and how it kickstarted the whoooooollleee sport. I hope i helped. 
KEEP RIDING!!!! and ride because you want to, dont do it to make money or to be the best just do you, ya know? If you dont wanna do it, dont....
Whew... it took me like a half hour to write that...
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Board Sports Stay in Vogue
The Youth of today are quickly influenced by new trends. The desire to move with the times, keep up with their peers and perhaps disassociate themselves from old fashioned activities, means that any popular mainstream leisure activity has a limited lifecycle. That may be true for many fads which have come and gone in recent years. But some activities tend to return again and again, if only in a slightly different form.
It's true that football is unlikely to lose its appeal. The simplicity of an activity that requires the minimum of equipment, yet combines physical activity with competition is obvious and boys are enthused by the game the world over. Cycling is another activity that is able to retain its position in the hearts and minds of young people. Being more than an economic means of transport, the simple bicycle has its own fashion lifecycles that see different forms of bikes becoming popular then being replaced by new derivatives. Straightforward racers were superseded by trendy Chopper bikes in the 70's. Next came the era of the mountain bike, which brought off-road riding to the masses at a relatively low cost. Mountain bikes are still favoured in sporting circles but the physical effort to get the best from them is perhaps too much for many. Now the simpler BMX bicycle is the item of choice for boys looking for a cool and trendy means of transport. They allow skills and tricks to be performed while retaining a degree of customisation potential that allows young people to express their individuality.
Board riding, in all its various forms is another activity with staying power. For the last 50 years or more, riding a board powered by gravity, wave or wind has existed all over the world in different styles and has bounced back into the spotlight over and over again as new varieties of board riding are explored.
Surfing was perhaps the first globally popular board riding sport. Regions with suitable wave conditions and a warm enough climate soon became surfing hotspots. There were a number of these locations around the world but they were limited, so those without access to the required sea conditions invented a new version of the sport. Skateboarding was born and rapidly swept the world as the new activity of choice for young people. People made hand-built ramps and jumps in their gardens while commercial skateparks were developed. In the same way that BMX bikes are popular today, skateboarding provided all the same crucial ingredients. Movement, speed, skill, tricks, fashion, individuality and a certain degree of "cool" for the top performers were all present. Skateboarding still exists today in most parts of the world, but participation levels are lower now. There's no doubt that wheeled board riding will remain a popular youth activity that is sure to have its periods of fame again and again.
Snow provides another environment that suits a different derivative of board riding. Snowboarding was created by combining surfing with skiing to bring the same ingredients to the mountain slopes that attracted board riders to the sea and skateparks in the past. The sport quickly replaced other snow sports for young people, who found snowboarding more exciting, less mainstream and more individual than traditional skiing. Again speed, skill, fashion and peer popularity are all present and the sport still continues to grow as new venues are created. Not everyone has access to snow covered mountains and that flourishing level of popularity has now made it viable for investment in artificial snowboarding environments to be made. All over the world indoor snow centres are being built using modern technology to create real snow indoors. These centres exist in many European countries already, particularly in the UK and The Netherlands where mountains suitable for snowboarding are virtually non-existent. The slopes in these indoors centres are getting larger, longer and able to include additional features that are attractive to snowboarders. The indoor environments are also better able to bring complementary attractions of music and other social add-ons. Many indoors snow centres include caf?nd restaurant areas in addition to retail outlets. They are fast becoming complete social hubs for young people wherever they are built. In the UK the latest one to open is on the outskirts of London and brings indoor snowboarding within the reach of the 8 million population of the UK capital city.
Other forms of board riding now include wind powered derivatives such as windsurfing, kitesurfing, both on land and water. Wave boarding, where a rider is pulled along behind a speed boat is another form, but requires expensive facilities and is likely to remain a minority form of board riding. There are other types of youth activity that come and go in different styles but board riding, in all its forms, now seems firmly established for many years to come.
About the Author
Mark Bartley reviews the popularity of board sports that sees different forms of board riding remaining in the spotlight. Board riders in the UK can try out their indoor snowboarding at the The Snow Centre, a new facility on the outskirts of London.
