First day at the skate park

My good friend from back in Beaumont Mike just recently got into riding fixie. For those who don't know, a fixie is typically a rode bike frame and geometry with a single gear and no brakes. The crank and rear cog are set up so that you can't coast. The trade off for this is that when you petal backwards, the back wheel goes backwards as well which opens up a whole world of tricks and what-not. I'm sure I've not done the fixie community justice in this description.

Long story short, the tricks interested me, but the bike didn't. In comes BMX


I bought it the second day I was here in town, used off craigslist.  I spent hours true-ing the rear wheel and getting the brakes working and finally took it out to the park to likely hurt both my body and my pride. The result was super fun.

The video really doesn't do the skate park justice. The whole thing is still really intimidating for me but I've begun to feel a lot more comfortable dropping into the bowls and getting some air off the jumps. I promise better video in the future.