This is my first how to. I didnt see a 180 one up here and i searched, but didnt see one.



1. Make a quick, short, carve to the way you are going to spin.

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you may have some pretty basic questions here about manual photography, which is good. I have seen a lot of people who just point and shoot for terrible results or set the camera on “automatic” and fire away, producing very bland, unimaginative photos. The best way to learn is to learn the manual way. I shoot a Nikon D100 and I almost never use the auto settings because they are often wrong in that they do not expose the photo the way I want it. Later on, you will learn that shooting bmx photos means you must use manual settings on your camera and on your lights because it gives you maximum creative control.

First, what camera do you have? if your camera does not allow manual control of aperture and shutter speed, the creative possiblities are pretty limited. if you have manual control, you will need to master the basics of balancing shutter speed and aperture for good exposures.

the settings you will use depend on how much light there is and what part of the scene you want to expose and to what degree you want to expose it. your camera should have a built-in light meter that tells you when the scene in the frame is exposed correctly. Learn your light meter, love your light meter, BECOME ONE WITH THE LIGHT METER! every manufacturer has a different kind of light meter but they work about the same.
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How to – Strip, shape and recover a seat

Well I hated my seat and wanted to get a new one but couldn’t afford one at the time so I thought ill mod my existing one.

What you will need:

Seat
Stanley knife
Scissors
A fine toothed file
Adhesive spray glue
A cover u want to put on your seat
Staple gun (optional)
Gloves (optional)

This is what I used:


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Why BMX means so much to me

BMX, a sport that infatuates all of the people reading this article, I am addicted to this terrific sport and I will keep riding until my body gives out on me. I am going to try to explain why BMX means so much to me by describing the best day of BMX I had.

I wake, the alarm ringing in my ear, I get up and get dressed, I leave without breakfast not wanting to miss a minute of daylight. I arrive at the skate park greeted by my riding buddy. I stand there looking at the dirt jump to the side that I had ignored for so long I rode around the park in dream land wondering what would happen if I went at the ferocious double again. Would it leave me bloody and bruised as it did once before? After getting used to my bike I decided that I could no longer have that doubt in my mind, the thought that “what if I had went for it”. In such a hurry I crunched down on the pedals towards the jump I overcome the first small double standing in between my fear and me. Unsure weather I am going to make it I crunch down on the pedals once more to get that extra speed. I am sent soaring into the air by the lip as I am in the air my adrenaline is pumping and I am focused on achieving my goal. I have the down ramp in my sights. I point the bike towards it. I land and go over to the bench, hop off my bike and couldn’t help but let out my excitement with a loud “wooooooohooooooo!”

For me it is these moments that make regular life bearable, knowing that when I am riding it’s just me and whatever I want it to be. This is my life.

by Ryan Gregor

So, i mod stuff left and right and i heard about you can remove the anodizing on aluminum parts with oven cleaner? yeah, weird but i tried it out.

1. Get a can of this---->

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OK, so I've been around the "bmx' block. My first bike had a coaster brake, because they didn't have freewheels then... All along the way, I've been clicking pics. And today I'll share some with you. I'll do my best to recollect the years and riders, and I may miss some, but, at least it will give you a glimps into the history of freestyle, as I witnessed it on the east coast.

This pic is from 85. Matt Valentine took the picture, (he was one of my riding friends, who died a few short years later in a car wreck, right before we left for college)

The trick is a cowboy, which is a type of endo variation that has pretty much dissapeared today, but would be a great lip trick on ramps to bring back. It can be done no handed breakless pretty easily.



Back then, freestyle wasn't ever on tv. So when kids saw it, they would flock around.... read More

I've had my elementary for a few months now and it hasn't slipped once!

I got my elementary in black and have never seen a stem I'd prefer. I remember the first time I saw it thinking how great it looked and later how well it worked!

If I had to criticize the stem I would have to say that putting it on is slightly more difficult than other stems, and I scratched both set of bars Ive had trying to line it up. The stem is also incredibly annoying to get off or loosen unless you oil it a lot. The one bolt design often jams causing me to have to hit the bolt with the allen key in it with a hammer, this could be avoided easily though by just oiling it. I'm just stupid lol!

The design of the elementary it incredibly simple yet very clever and effective, the lack of the bolts around the back helps save your knees and looks awseome, many stems have got a lot of design inspiration from the design of the elementary, but none that i know of only use one bolt! and its super light!

PROS
1. looks great, is different, and great design
2. good anodising prevents bad scratching
3. superlight
4. holds the bar in place well
5. reasonably priced

CONS
1. difficult to put on and not wreck bars
2. it jams occasionally when being taken off if not greased
3. it may be irregular and original in the world of stems but they're super common!




all in all I give the stem 8.5/10 i knocked a bit off because of the jamming issue
thanks for reading