Learn tips for proper trail riding etiquette in this free instructional video lesson on BMX riding.
Garson Fields has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for 7 years. His first introduction to BMX riding was racing at the Whip City track in Westfield, MA. He then made the jump into freestyle riding. Garson has a full length part in the video Chaos Theory, produced by Quarter Productions and Dan Bowhers.
People jump spots or trails are something that people put a whole lot of time and work into and have a whole lot pride in usually. As much as you know if you pick up a magazine or watch a video and watch somebody riding a really amazing trails and to think oh, well gee I wish I could go ride that spot. Keep this in mind you shouldn't just show up on somebody's trails unannounced to a lot of people thats almost exactly the same thing as you should up in their house and started eating there cereal, you have something that is almost always not going to be on your land. So it's not as though you have a right to be there to begin with and then you have something that somebody has clearly toiled for hundreds if not thousands of hours on to built something to ride. The same time you know if your out riding somewhere and somebody invites you to go ride there trails don't take that lightly that is that's a really big thing for somebody to do. Because it is a sign that your up to this point not acting like a jerk if you buy have a good fortune to get invited to go ride somebody's trails you want to make sure, A you show up with somebody who rides there and digs there a lot, if you case anything you come short on jumps and take a big chunk of dirt out of the landing or something just fix it, it takes a couple minutes with a shovel and ultimately everybody will be a lot happier. Don't litter don't make a whole of noise because a lot of the time those trails being there is depending on the people to ride there, being respectful of the people who are in adjacent areas of land. So when it comes down to it if you have a situation with people who don't want you riding your trails just don't bother riding their trails. You can go pick up your own shovel and dig your own trails and then hopefully you'll at some point gain a little more respect with the amount and time and effort people put in digging. And then you know when it comes time you hopefully get invited to go ride trails with somebody you can show up and make sure that you'll be invited back.
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