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Stunt competition not just for teens
About 40-45 skateboarders participate at Lake F/X Games
By Pete Wicklund
Journal Times
Sunday, August 3, 2008 6:09 PM CDT
RACINE — Don’t think that skateboarding and bicycle motocross are just for kids. Saturday afternoon, during the Lake F/X Games at Pershing Park, men in their 20s proved they are capable gill bicycle clothing of the same ramp turns and jumps their younger counterparts convert bicycle to stationery bike do when performing with stunt bicycles.
“I guess as you get older you get a little more concerned because you could break your california bicycle trails arm or something. But it’s still fun to do,” said Ben Van Tiem, 21, a bike stunt rider from Oak Creek.
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Gregory Shaver iver johnson bicycle Journal Times Brian Warren competes light wieght bicycle in the 15-17-year-old BM-X-Treme Bike Competition on Saturday during the City of Racine’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department’s Lake F/X Games at Pershing Park Skate Park. More than 40 skaters and bicycle pumpblackburn tps-2 riders took caster s bicycle shop rhode island part in the annual competition.
Richard Holmes, 24, a machinist from Milwaukee, is just back on the stunt competition circuit after a serious neck injury two years columbia bicycle ago. He said it was a little scary getting baltimore city bicycle trails back onto the ramps, but now he’s back competing in the professional circuit.
Age is nothing, said diamondback edgewood bicycle Holmes, a four-time trophy winner at the Lake F/X Games. amf cobra bicycle (Holmes took first place in his age group Saturday).
“I know people who are 30 and 35 doing stunts,” said Holmes, who has participated in every Lake F/X Games since their inception eight years ago, except for the two years when he was out with injuries.
Approximately 40 to 45 skateboarders and BMX bicycle seat riders participated in training wheels for bicycle this bicycle clubs in mississippi year’s games, said Duncan bicycle chain lubricant Cortez, who coordinates the event for the city’s Department bicycle suspension road forks of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services. There were four age categories bicycle auction las vegas nv — 11 and younger; 12-14; 15-17; and 18 and older.
There were no serious albright bicycle shop injuries or mishaps Saturday.
Skateboarders participated in the first half of giant bicycle manufacturing the games, which began at noon at the Pershing Park Skate Park. Bicycle stunts were on tap for the latter part of the program, which ended at approximately 3 p.m. Each performer bicycle trails vancouver washington had two minutes to demonstrate their routines to bicycle craft judges.
Gateway Technical bicycle powered by action of arms College, a co-sponsor of the event, provided T-shirts to participants. The Friday Optimist giant sedona bicycle review Club, bicycle covers for outdoors another sponsor, provided trophies for the top four places in each age group. body fit bicycle Sky High Skate Shop in Milwaukee and Racine Cyclery provided a variety of sport-appropriate prizes.
Twelve-year-old Travis Hudson of Racine said he bicycle locks from china was impressed with the stunts front bicycle sprocket replacement performed on the ramps. But he also enjoyed the static display of Freestyle Lifestyle, a local motorcycle stunt team. Hudson and other kids were able to sit on a parked high-speed racing cycle and also german bicycle bell get the feeling of doing a power wheelie on another bike that was propped up bicycle carrier instructions on its rear wheel.
Cory Gulan, one of the team members, said his sport is a natural progression for many young people who ride bicycle motocross. Gulan said he and his teammates are trying to be good role models to young people, showing that there is constructive fun and learning to be had by getting blanc et noir bicycle involved in stunt riding.
Gulan said he bicycle bell was working with Cortez and other organizers of the Lake F/X games to be able to do a motorcycle stunt demonstration at next year’s bell ghisallo bicycle helmet event in the adjacent Gateway parking lot.
Cortez said original columbia bicycle results from Saturday’s games would be provided to The Journal alta peak bicycle review Times later this week.
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