Editing BMX (section)

===British BMX explosion===
In the UK, BMX was a craze which took off in the early 1980s, specifically 1982 and 1983, when the BMX bike became the must-have bicycle for children and teenagers.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} The 1983 cult movie ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' helped establish the sport further worldwide. Previously a small niche area, BMX exploded at this time into the dominant bicycle for the younger rider, with older teenagers and even adults becoming known names through publications like ''BMX Bi-Weekly'', featuring big names like Tim March and Andy Ruffell. The shift to freestyle from racing came in 1985 with popular styling moving from chrome frames and contrasting components in black blue or red being the norm, to brightly coloured bikes in one colour only, including their magnesium alloy wheels and even matching tyres. Because BMX exploded into Britain's streets so suddenly, it was perhaps inevitable that it would implode with similar speed, when the children who rode the bikes left school and went to work. By 1986–1987, sales in the UK had dropped off dramatically, with the new all-terrain bike or [[mountain bike]] (another trend from mid-1970s California) taking off, soon to become the most popular adult bicycle.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ballantine |first=Richard |title=Richard's Bicycle Book |author-link=Richard Ballantine}}</ref><ref>Article on Repack and the birth of Mountain bikes</ref>

In 1980, the first BMX track in the UK was founded in [[Landseer Park]], [[Ipswich]], by the Ipswich BMX Club, which still provides coaching and races on a regular basis.<ref name="nja">{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Nick |title=Landseer Park |url=https://www.njarchitects.co.uk/suffolk/landseer-park/ |website=Nicholas Jacob Architects |access-date=2019-09-30 |date=6 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="IBMXC">{{cite web |title=2019 summer events |url=http://ipswichbmx.co.uk/images/2019-joomla-Summer-Calender.jpg |website=Ipswich BMX Club |access-date=2019-09-30 |archive-date=2019-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930201032/http://ipswichbmx.co.uk/images/2019-joomla-Summer-Calender.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref>