Your beginning?

I just started riding last year. I started because i was tired of walking everywhere so my parents bought me and my bro some halfway descent bikes off CL. I knew how to bunny hop already since i had rode bikes since i was like three but stopped at like age 8. So then i actually hit some dirt ramps and then bought a frame and im slowly but surely building a dream bike. Plus a lot of help form my local park for those older guys who help you on shit.

depends on what you consider "starting riding"
when i was in 8th grade i started with my gt learning to do bunnyhops and go off little ramps. the next year (i think) i got a mirra blend 2 and thats when i started REALLY riding. i learned feebles, smiths, double pegs, x-ups, 180s and 360s on that bike. i started off because me and my friends used to just ride our bikes everywhere around our neighborhoods after school and that got me to meet one or 2 kids who rode. they taught me a few things and once i got into high school i became friends with a bunch of other people who rode. we started riding, and then went to the skatepark and the rest is history. i was on and off my bike the end of my high school years, but in the past year or 2 ive gotten back on and im right back to where i used to be and now progressing even further

EDIT: im a junior in college now FYI

"I tried to walk to the sun one day..."


Haha. I always liked riding but I always had crappy bikes, I never have lived in a decent scene, and I suck(ed). Chaz.Bryan rode, I knew he rode and he knew a lot more that I did so I started hitting plastic kickers on an 18in mountain bike. At this time I was like 12 so a 12 year old riding an 18in bike isn't good, but I did it. I kept slamming my knees off of the stem and the frame and the bike was just getting me hurt. So finally, I sold all the old crappy Next, Mongoose and Huffy bikes that didn't fit me anymore, I got around $110 , I went to WalMart, and bought a Mike Spinner bike and I started to learn to hop, foot jam, boost, etc. I learned all of the basics on that bike I guess. A month or two passes and I am just having a blast on my new "awesome" bike, and then, I met Max. (MaximusBikes) Max basically told me that he got that I loved riding but I wasn't gonna improve and have as much fun and everything if I didn't get a good bike. I thought that a good bike was fully custom, at least $1000 bike, so I figured I could never get a good bike, and then he showed me VeinBMX and Danscomp. I started to like Amber's bikes so I looked through Vein and I eventually found a few that I liked. I asked Max which one I should get, he said with my budget, the Silo would be the best, so I got it. I never would have thought I would doing what I am now. I only (I say only because a lot of people have at least a grand in their bikes.) have a little over $700 in my bike right now and I am pretty satisfied with my setup! It's still a working project, but if it weren't for Chaz and Max, I wouldn't be riding and I wouldn't be the same person.

Well i have always had a love for bikes, ever since i could walk. I always rode bikes, as a kid, i rode up and down my driveway when i lived in Alabama and hit jumps i made from weird things i found. Fast forward a bunch of years, i was 15 and i always knew i liked riding bikes, 90% of my free time still consisted of riding. I did distance riding, mountain biking, i did a little BMX and it all started when i got a Haro Backtrail x4 Nyquist for 20 bucks! I did wheelies, learned to hop, learned 180s (surprisingly) and then i met a guy named LJ who i had known for a while, and one day we started riding and he did a few 360s and all kinds of stuff that baffled me! I realized i needed to get a bike that wasnt 40 pounds so i could even attempt this! So i bought a Stolen Casino and it was fun and real light, but broke nonstop so i bought a Subrosa Salvador off my friend and slowly broke everything and replaced it with nicer stuff and made the bike i have today. I still ride a ton, i learn tricks nonstop and i live, love, and breathe BMX. I try to do good for the community, but get nothing but shit and cant wait until i can ride in a free country again!

the summer before 6th grade I was scrolling through the channels and landed on X games Megaramp. The very first run I saw was Anthony doing that double frontie. the next day i went and got my dyno bmx out of the shed and rode my little plastic kicker and thinking i was on a megaramp lol... then that same day my brother came over and was like oh hey you got that bike out of the shed.. I m gonna need it back and he took it that day... A day after i got into bmx.. Then i got to middle school and the library had bmx plus and ride bmx in it and i started getting those everyday for 3 years. i read every single one the library had atleast twice. It took me a year and a half to save up for a bike. on my birthday i got a cheap mongoose and rod ethe crap out of it and then slowly bought newer better parts. the next year i found a slightly used frame forks bars and stem on CL and bought that and that was when i really started learning tricks... im in 11thgrade now.. truthfully if my brother hadnt taken the bike away i wouldnt have stayed with it.. i would have just gone back to hockey in a day or two.

Started riding at age 5, began dirt jumping at 10. Growing up I was fortunate enough to have 3 great dirt trails within a few miles of my house. In those days, everyone rode after school and during the weekends, with summer break being one huge dirt jam. When I was around 13 or 14, a kid moved to my town from Ohio, and he was huge into racing. I decided it'd be cool to try it since back then, we all rode race bikes anyway (I had a Powerlite P-61 at that time). I placed 1st in state for my age and class 2 years in a row, mainly because I wasn't afraid to jump IMO. Quit riding after high school...they frown upon bringing bikes to boot camp LOL! Anyway, I finally started riding again after a 14 year hiatus. It's great though, because my son just got into riding and racing, so we ride together doing street and park which is something I never did back in the day. I still don't race, but it's tempting to start back up every time we watch my son race.

Back in the eighties, can't remember the year exactly...
Decided one day I wanted to learn to ride a bike. Traded a used skateboard and a Mark McGwire rookie card for a friends bike for a couple days, rode it around my neighborhood learning the basics, and after some scrimping and saving got a heavy beast. Columbia Firestar I think it was...
Rode it all through high school till it got stolen, never thought much about it after that, until a couple years ago. Friend of mine I rollerbladed with happened to have a Haro I could borrow. He rode an Eastern he sunk a ton of money into, and rekindled my forgotten interest. Finally gave in to myself, bought a WTP justice to start on, added piece by piece. Got my Cult OS frame a couple days ago, and back into the groove....
Nothing like it. Except maybe blading, but that is a whole other story. Lol.

It was yhis summer, my best friend invited me to the skatepark, he made me bank transfer and I loved it. went evrry week until the cop as kickef us out. since thrn I have been building vintage bikes.

I used to go mountain biking with my dad when I was little. When I was like 8 I got a free agent maverick and actually I bought a second one the next year to keep at my grandmas. I would always race my friends around and I was pretty much the fastest kid that I knew. I'll never forget the time we made a ramp in my back yard out of dirt and we hit that thing all day and even used our old little 16 inch bikes on it haha. I eventually got an play station and later an xbox and no-lifed gran turismo 4 and forza cuz I love cars and want to race cars if i couldn't bike. So when I started 7th grade I had to ride my bike to school everyday. I don't remember what it was that got me started but I started trying to do tricks. It took me 2 months to learn how to bunny hop on my free agent. I remember one day after school I jumped a six step with that thing it was scary as shit and I haven't even done it on my new bike haha. At the same time my dad started getting into mountain biking and road biking and I started riding with him and I love mountain biking. I started learning how to work on bikes from my dad and just doing it cuz my free agent broke all the time lol. Anyways I started riding my bike all the time and it was braking all the time and I was getting experience from mountain biking and road biking too. So at the end of 7th grade my dad told me if I got all A's I could get a gun. I thought about it and told him I wanted a bmx bike instead. That was the best choice of my life so far. I got a 2012 fit Atiken 2. Now I ride my bike everyday and and I am in the process of upgrading it even more. I also mountain bike. I did 4 cross country races a couple months ago, and I am doing a dual slalom race next month. Now biking is my life.

I ride da bike, da bike fun, so i spend tonna monay on da bike, now i ride da bike still all deez ears bruh.