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Anyone know if there are any older groups of riders riding BMX in Essex (By older I mean 30+). I knew I shouldn't have started watching xgames.

Paul Batemen from Rayleigh rides and most of the Hadleigh guys seem to have one as well but not sure they'd be xgames material...

I'm certainly not xgames material, just got the urge to ride haven't been on a bmx for years, and don't wanna look like a weirdo turning up at a skate park lol

Lol - I take my son to one in Brentwood... I don't have a go for fear of making myself look a tit!

If you go to most skate parks before mid day they are nearly always empty. Too early for teenagers! I used to go to the one ones in Colchester with my little boy so a) I didn't look like a tit, being a more more mature gentleman on a BMX (36) and b) so my 5 year old doesn't get wiped out by the brakeless teens.

Once you have a few skills i.e... you can manual and fakie a couple of meters without falling off you'll be a good as 90% of the nippers anyway.

That all said, I've sold my BMX. Too many bikes, not enough time to ride them all!

Fella I was 44 yesterday and I still get out on my bmx I ride canvey skate park early on a Sunday morning and if I get an early day I go and have a wobble round rom

Might well have to ask if i can add a bmx session to the ride calender It's weird when I rode BMX as a kid I don't remember seeing anyone over about 20 but that being said Andy Ruffle was only about 20 then lol so I guess there wasn't really an older generation of riders back then

There's quite a following next weekend there's the London ride out loads of old fools cruising round the city on bikes that are far too small

Have you got a link for that ?

Radbmx.co.UK a lot of the old school hero's still ride Craig Campbell, sid Salisbury