BMX Biking Facts: Choosing the Best Tires and Lightweight Bikes

Choosing the best BMX tires depends on your riding style, whether you focus on street, park, or dirt jumps. Discover the lightest BMX bikes and essential facts about this freestyle sport.

Top 10 BMX Bikes

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Philip Foster

BMX bike riding has steadily gained acceptance since the late 1980s and stands as one of the most popular extreme sports in the U.S. BMX riding, or bicycle motocross, originally consisted of races held on dirt courses.

Low angle view of a man performing stunts on a bicycle

The Lightest BMX Bikes

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Philip Foster

Decreasing the weight of your BMX bike allows you to jump higher and spin faster. Unfortunately, the lightest BMX bikes remain the most expensive models. If you don't have the funds to purchase one of these complete bikes, simply customize your current setup with a few of these lightweight components.

Philip Foster has been writing professionally since 2010. His work has been featured in the literary-arts magazine "The PEEL" and the weekly newspaper "The Mountain Xpress." Foster is an expert in various extreme sports. He cooked in a restaurant that offered organic and vegetarian cuisine for over three years. Foster received a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from Appalachian State University.