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[edit] Respect to Sport!
All fans of BMX Freestyle! Please show respect to the sport and don't call "BMX" anything about 20". On this page should be only description of term "BMX". And it means Bicycle Motocross - exact sport, not type of bicycle or riding style... it's childish and stupid. Be objective! http://www.univofbmx.com/ Genesbmx - to prevent vandalism, help to clear everything not primary associated with Bicycle Motocross racing. --BMXrace.lv 10:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] BMX Cleanup Needed Please! Mass Abuse, Vandalism
Cleanup Needed Please! = Mass Abuse, Vandalism
Alot of stuff is missing since my last contribs 04:51, 29 January 2007 Genesbmx (contribs) (Edit External Links) Can we please restore from my last contribs. RESTORED! Thanks: Genesbmx January 30, 2007
Due to all the vandalism-abuse seen on the Wikipedia BMX page, Im backing out of helping keep the external links cleaned up and lined up. It seems to be a wast of time as no one respects the work I put in to helping out and the abuse over the last 90 days is seen as a high. I wish all the other Wikipedia`s people luck inlisting BMX in to its online encyclopedia. Its been fun but I would rather take the pride and time in to my bmx web site where my work is not vandalised from day to day. Take care everone and good luck Wikipedia BMX. Genesbmx March 01, 2007
The world needs a better free encyclopedia. I guess it pays to,
take vandalism-abuse about the Wikipedia BMX to the higher ups
of the web as we did and massed a high amount of press coverage,
So now Wikipedia To Start All Over. "This time, contributors to
a new online encyclopedia will not be anonymous". A NEW! Pedia
Is IN Town Called: Citizendium, http://www.citizendium.org
and aims to be better the Wikipedia. Genesbmx March 26, 2007
[edit] BMX and Freestyle BMX should be separated
BMX (Bicycle Motocross or bicross(france)) and Freestyle BMX is very different sports and disciplines. My opinion, that this terminology could be more official. In oficial sports and other news BMX means only one olympic cycling dicipline and its name/abriviature talks by its self. Freestyle BMX are using this abriviature only becouse of using similar design of bicycles. And what if design of BMX and Freestyle bikes will change extremely uncompatible? Only one thing should be understandible: that "BMX" is not name of bicycle design (officialy) and thats why theese both sports shouldn't be mixed, compeared and united. In "Freestyle BMX" main target is freestyling - not cross or cycling speed. There should be tree of categories "Sports/Freestyle/Freestyle BMX" but "BMX" is in "Sports/Cycling/BMX".
At the moment I see growing social misunderstanding(even here) "what acctualy is BMX?" especialy in non english countries. There should be official(not slang) explanation even in wikipedia - "BMX is not freestyle and Freestyle BMX is not part of BMX". I hope, that in future there will be other nam for Freestyle - "Freestyle cycling", becouse, as i meaned, theres nothing similar exept bike, wich designs and materials become more and more different.
Other thing, that this article must be more concentrated on therm - "BMX", not results, racers, etc. Thank You!--Bmxrace 12:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
I waited some days, then decided to remove anything about Freestyle, becouse BMX is only BMX - cross on tracks. Someone could clean links and move to Freestyle BMX. I know that for some uneducated this is painfull, thats why Im asking peapole to take part in this process.--BMXrace.lv 16:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] National American Sanctioning Body Number One racers by year
This list is taking up quite a large percentage of the article. Wouldn't it make sense to split it into a subarticle ("List of.." style)? --Dschwen 22:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps I will do that Perhaps I will move freestyle to a separate equal article and make both BMX Racing and Freestyle in to sub articles with them being linked to a master article. I want this to be a comprehensive albeit brief history and description of the two branches of the sport. Baseball and Football have much longer articles. Yes I know in part they have much longer histories and more variations but I want to give BMX its due. As I said I will split the two BMX disciplines into two articles with one comparatively brief master article linking both. Sorry for taking so long to respond. I did not check the discussion board until now. I will check in at least once a day from now on. I truly hope I am contributing in a helpful way. Hunter2005 01:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- Done. I don't know anything about BMX though, so please fix my edits if I got something wrong. -- TheMightyQuill 18:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Use of scanned photographs in wikipedia
I would like to start adding images to my articles, specifically photographs to my articles on BMX athletes and personalities. I have tried to make heads or tails of the Wiki policies on the use of images but I do not claim to appreciate the nuances of copyright law, even when the descriptions are simplified by Wikipedia, so I will try to ask directly by giving the general descriptions and sources of the images I intend to use:
Scanned images from various BMX magazines, particularly those published in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. Attributed to the photographer. I of course plan to follow the recommended template:
| Description |
BMX personality headshot/racing shot(s). |
|---|---|
| Source |
BMX magazine like "BMX Action","Super BMX & Freestyle" (both now defunct i.e. out of business) and "BMX Plus!" (still active) |
| Date |
Generally the 1980's |
| Author |
Staff photographers from the various magazines. |
| Permission |
Unknown |
| Other versions |
Unknown as far as I know. |
I do not know what tag this would fall under.
If anyone here cannot help perhaps you can forward this to someone who can or tell me specifically where I can repost this letter. I will try to check in here as much as possible to see if I was answered. Hunter2005 19:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reason of removal of a listed BMXer
Removed Alex Wurz as a legend because Tommy Brackens was the IBMXF World Champion for 1986 which was held in Slough, England. Furthermore, I do not see him listed among the IBMXF winners in the results in the December 1986 issue of Super BMX & Freestyle on page 73 for his age group. Shelby James was the World Champion for the 12 years old age group that year. Perhaps I am pointing to the wrong sanctioning body. Please name the sanctioning body Alex Wurz allegedly won the world championship in.
Even if he did win a "World Championship" somewhere, wining one big title, doesn't make one a legend. One has to capture multiple titles and/or make major contributions to the sport, or at the very least have an unusually long longevity in the sport while making some contribution to it or a combination of the three. Alex Wurz does not meet any of those criteria. Thank You. Hunter2005 05:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup needed?
I see only one major problem with the article, and that's the use of external links. Other than that, is there really anything that needs cleanup? Assuming that's fixed, can the tag be taken down? -Harmil 21:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Iv been checking in on the use of the bmx external links from time to time and trying to keep them set alphabetized. Other than having to weed out a hand full of spam links and move around some of the add-in links to fit in place, year 2006, the use of the bmx external links seems to be looking ok, from my point of view. - Genesbmx September 2006
Iv been seeing just alittle abuse show up with the external links. The most, a few links showing up off-topic and some known URL links that host some adult content and a bit of abuse to the URL information beside the links. Other than this, Is there something that can be done to help keep the external links alphabetized? As of this post, the external links are all in order and are all cleaned up........ - Genesbmx January 22, 2007
[edit] Question
Shouldn't the article mention what BMX stands for? Most people don't know what that stands for(the initials I mean). TJ Spyke 03:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
I added the acronymn definition for BMX, cleaned up the freestyle section, fixed some typos/errors and removed the clean-up tag. NickABusey 03:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC) BMX is an oxymoron. It literaly means bicycle moto (motorcycle) cross-contry. Should'nt the moto be taken out?
Shouldn't, becouse historicaly this sport was created by imitating motocross, and eaven now this point is most important criteria for sport developing by keeping motocross image --Bmxrace 12:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Street/Micro-Gearing
Updated the street and micro-gearing content, by adding in a comment about the "first-wave" of street riding progression (although it's really probably the third or fourth, if you go all the way back to the '80s), added a bit more about the type of riding going on now (by making it less NYC-centric - although Ride and Props might not cover it, there's plenty of progressive street riding going on that doesn't involve Dipset, four pegs, no brakes, and fitted New Era caps), and placed the section on micro-gearing after this latest wave of progression, because that didn't really start coming into effect until 2002, if memory serves me right.
CMcMahon SJBMX 19:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Notable riders?
Just wondering if it might be an idea to include a list of notable BMX riders in this article. There is a category for BMX riders but it isn't linked to. My knowledge of BMX riders just about goes as far as Mat Hoffman so I'm probably not the best person to do it. mh. 02:47, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Steel Ponies ?
FYI, in the first sentence after 20-inch wheels I removed "(sometimes referred to as iron horses or steel ponies)". Is that a joke or vandalism? I've been riding BMX and reading BMX mags for 26 years and have not heard anyone refer to their bikes as 'iron horses' or 'steel ponies' - sounds ridiculous. Those terms may apply to motorcycles but not BMX bikes.
Den. 1 March 2007
