Bmx today is a well known sport with all the innovations to the bikes the different styles company’s and all of the well known contests. It has grown a ton from when it started and the athletes have grown like the bmx pioneer Dave Mirra at the x games.
with the first bmx team and The early 1970s kids started to race their bikes on dirt tracks in southern california. This became known as Bicycle motocross or BMX. This sport grew really fast up to the late 1970s a man by the name of Bob Haro invented freestyle bmx by landing the first ever documented Rockwall in a parking lot he soon had made the first ever freestyle trick team known as the “Bmx Action Trick Team” who consisted of mike buff, Pat Romano, Ron Wilton and the commander R.L Osborn. The team soon went their separate ways Bob Haro had left for other opportunities and soon created the well known bike brand Haro. while R.L. Osborn made and controlled the RedLine freestyle team.
Bmx had grown nationwide and soon become part of the X-Games were a man by the name of Dave Mirra who made the sport bigger by pulling some of the most most legendary tricks like the double back flip, Pocket Air, and the Corkscrew 720. Dave mirra was soon known as the Miracle Man. he had the most medals won in x games but was recently passed by skateboarder Bob Burnquist.
Bmx has grown over there years and every day new tricks and styles are created such as Street, vert, park etc. more and more people are being inspired every day and it’s not stopping anytime soon.