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You guys need to replace that pic of the department store shitheap —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.167.149 (talk) 05:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History and dating[edit]

Cultural impact[edit]

It would be worth mentioning the cultural impact of BMX in early 80's, esp. on the wave of popular movies like E.T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.5.49.76 (talk) 18:31, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is BMX popularity waning in the 21st century? Acwilson9 (talk) 18:45, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural discsssion belongs in BMX article, not in this BMX bike article.

Origin Dating [and location] Error[edit]

There is strong evidence (including photographs) that BMX started as early as the mid-1950s in Europe with clear pictures of children riding bikes fitted out like the real motorcycles of the day with race places on dirt tracks. FatBMX.com has the skinny. 82.29.204.131 (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2013 (UTC) Smidoid[reply]

That photo might just be boys fooling around, in between motorcycle races. See discussion at Talk:BMX#Started_where?_(CA?,_NY?_Holland?). Acwilson9 (talk) 20:18, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move/merge "History" of two currently-overlapping articles[edit]

IMO, most of the BMX bike#History article section should be moved/merged into the BMX#History article section, with appropriate Template:See_also hatnotes in both articles. The latter article is about BMX overall, while the former is just about the bicycles used in BMX. The current redundancy between the two articles has also produced some inadvertent inconsistencies, which could be resolved with further fact-checking. (I cannot myself take this on right now.) Acwilson9 (talk) 19:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Typos and other errors[edit]

Should that 'By 1997 the American Bicycle Association (ABA) was organized' not say '1977'? --62.16.186.44 (talk) 12:19, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. Pinkbeast (talk) 15:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of BMX bike makers[edit]

I removed the following unsourced entries from the list of manufacturers:

Cult Crew
Wethepeople
Fitbikeco
Stolen bikes
Sunday
Merritt
Subrosa
Shadow Conspiracy
Kink
S&M bikes

If a BMX bike maker is notable, it should have a Wikipedia article about it. Before adding, please see WP:PRODUCT and WP:GNG, and then write the article first. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]