Talk:BMX racing
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This seems like a pretty pointless stub. How about deleting this and keeping all the info under BMX?
Nojer2 11:27, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I would agree with combining "BMX" and "BMX Racing" into one top-level page with further detail in follow-on linked pages. The BMX page does seem heavy on the freestyle slant, and someone created this separate "BMX racing" page, so here we are.
J. Riechel 11May2005
BMX Racing is different then BMX Free style, which makes this not a pointless stub ... Bikes are different, riding is different, organization and riders are different. Racing gave birth to free style and ramps ...
--Nwbmxdad 02:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
There is not such therm or phrase as "BMX racing" officialy. BMX is what it is - "Bicycle Motocross" what actualy is the racing. Like "MX" - it's racing. Creators of "BMX" page in wikipedia only want to make easer access for information for uninformed and uneducated kids who thinks that "BMX" is kind of bicycle and sport is named in the name of bicycle.
"BMX" is "BMX" but "Freestyle BMX" is like a slang, not official, becouse BMX has nothing similar with freestyling. It's speed and technics. --BMXrace.lv 17:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there an official name for any sport? Anyway, even if there is not official name for BMX Racing, BMX is made up of different disciplines, including freestyle. The term BMX freestyle simply is a convenient and accurate way of differentiating from other sports with freestyle branches. For instance Swimming:
Skiing:
Wrestling:
skateboarding:
Our even freestyle MX:
Freestyle BMX is just a way to describe a subdiscipline of the sport, just like all the others who have similar subdivisions. As a person who got into BMX in 1981 and raced for nine years until 1989 I can tell you that while the term "Freestyle BMX" maybe unofficial, that it hasn't been handled down from upon high, it is been around since 1979 and is perfectly descriptive. Just because no one has codified it someway doesn't mean it is not legitimate. Long term use confers it own legitimacy, and as pointed out above many other sports use similar titles for branches of the sport that rely on the initiative and imagination of the athlete.
As for splitting this article up I don't see the need. It is just as long as the American Baseball and Ice Hockey articles at this time. Hunter2005 09:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] It seems that someone dismantled the Cycling portal......
.....without supplying something in its place. If you are going to change something at least put something in its place. This looks more like vandalism than an legitimate edit. I believe the old portal should be restored. Hunter2005 11:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, that would have been me. Please contribute to the discussion there, at Portal talk:Cycling, rather than in a dark corner of another room down the corridor. The idea was simply that is was far too prose heavy - check out some featured portals and you'll see they are a gateway rather than an attempt at compressing the whole project into one page. Either way, discussion there, not here. Thanks. Mk3severo 13:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
