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Bmx History Essay

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Evolution and History of BMX
BMX is an extreme sport that many young kids and even adults are into. A majority of towns/cities don't really like BMX because it is supposedly disrespectful and annoying. There are multiple cases of adults and children getting tickets for having fun, meanwhile the cop could be out giving a ticket to a car that's speeding or giving a drunk guy a ride to the jail cell and get them off the road. But instead they are giving us tickets for riding a bike. In some places the city could build a BMX park and pay attention to the roads and actual other problems instead of us, or make certain and/or designated spot for riding.
Many inventors and people have gone off the general design of the “Dandy Horse”, the dandy horse was invented by Baron Karl Drais in Mannheim, Germany, and patented in …show more content…

BMX incorporates all these forces and utilizes them in various ways to perform motions and tricks that are not usually done on a bicycle. Every trick has some sort of physics applied to it. Even if the trick is a basic “Bunny Hop” or “J-hop.” There're different techniques for both, the American version involves pulling up the front tire of the bike before the rear tire. The second technique, called an English bunny hop, which involves lifting both wheels of the bike simultaneously, and is naturally easier to do when the rider uses clipless bike pedals. Biking is hard work, especially if you're riding uphill. In the physics of biking, "hard work" means that you use a significant amount of energy and effort to pedal the distance you’re going. If you're heading uphill, you need to work against act of gravity. When you're going fast, you're working against the force of air resistance that's pushing against your body. There could be bumps in the road you have to ride on; that takes a lot more force and uses a lot more

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