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I don’t mind roller blades but BMX riders fuck up ledges and spots with their pegs. Fuck them.
Yeah guy I've heard it before, I bust my BMX friends balls about it every time we hang out, while he tells me I poach his lines. The bit never gets old.
Fuck em if they fuck up the ledge, but if you know how to grind, you won't fuck up the ledge. Its literally just as easy chip edges if jam crookeds or 5-0s like you don't know what you're doing.
I've been on sessions w/ bikes and skates were I've watched the skaters chipping out the corner worse and more often than BMX
But I probably won't change your mind and that's fine, so have a nice day
how do ya figure?
yeah "just as easy" is hyperbole, excuse me on that, but I've watched it happen in-person so take that as you will. There's good technique and bad technique in both disciplines.
Either way its grinding two hardened materials together, so some destruction is guaranteed.
any biker who is having a sesh with has plastic sleeves on or is pegless IMO
That's like saying a sledgehammer and a spoon can both destroy something. It's technically true, but you gotta try a hell of a lot harder with one of them.
I agree, but I'd liken it more to claw hammer vs sledgehammer, but the point stands.
The conversation always seems to devolve into "ride a bike, chip a ledge 100% of the time" and all I'm driving at is it's more nuanced than that. Gotta admit, if a loud 5050 feels and sounds good to skaters, I can only imagine a loud, aggro double peg feels just as good to BMX riders ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still agree that BMX w/o plastic peg sleeves and trying to do grinds on ledges is pretty heinous, but I'll reference the 3rd and Army ledges are chunky and rounded off and it was mostly skateboards
Agree to disagree if you must