Nonexistent Riding Scene (HELP)

Since you live in a fairly small town this maybe be hard, but what I suggest is trying to influence your friends to ride! Tell them that it's fun and you could teach them a few things and they will never wanna quit! And if that doesn't help maybe you could find someone who skates at the local skatepark and become friends with them and then take them to one of your street spots that you both could bust a few tricks on!

yeah what stocksy said and try showing them some real sick edits and bmx movies

Stocksy wrote:

Since you live in a fairly small town this maybe be hard, but what I suggest is trying to influence your friends to ride! Tell them that it's fun and you could teach them a few things and they will never wanna quit! And if that doesn't help maybe you could find someone who skates at the local skatepark and become friends with them and then take them to one of your street spots that you both could bust a few tricks on!

Thanks for your help. I don't know about trying to get my friends into it because I tried with one of my friends and it didn't work, plus almost all of them are already involved in a sport which keeps them busy. But I'll definitely take the skater thing into consideration because there's a pretty decent skate scene around here.

SIRE wrote:

Thanks for your help. I don't know about trying to get my friends into it because I tried with one of my friends and it didn't work, plus almost all of them are already involved in a sport which keeps them busy. But I'll definitely take the skater thing into consideration because there's a pretty decent skate scene around here.

Yeah man I ride with skaters here and there. I don't really live in a very skater-friendly area because I live in West Virginia and it's really hilly here and all of the concrete in my town is cracked and un-even and just torn up! But yeah if you need to ride with skaters, it's better than nobody to ride with at all!

Wow a dude that cheerleads instead of riding BMX. What has the world come to? haha but i say keep it lonely, keep it legit. Make your own scene dude. Thats what i did, i inspired a few friends to get a good bike (Stocksy is one of them btw) and a bunch of others by being chill to em, helping them learn and introducing them to things like Vital and lots of videos! its a great time. and when i go into the other town there are other kids i got into riding! its what you make of it man. Get some jumps going, get a few rails, get a grindbox or quarter or half pipe! do whatever you can to make it look cool. First thing to do is get real good! That way when you are doing tricks in front of them they want to also! haha Do what you can, and if it was my choice man, id say just ride, although i love riding with friends, its a lot easier for me to learn tricks alone.

Well I feel sorry for you. I live in a town with about 30-40 other riders.

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i have almost no spots to ride unless i want ride like 10 miles haha even then its just some ledges that arent even that smooth. plus i skate too and i dont even have a park nearby so i kinda know what you're going through except almost all my friends ride. you should show them videos or like what stocksy said find skaters to ride with. who knows maybe you'll get into skating too. maybe you could get them into riding