Helmet Safety Tips for BMX Bikes

Series Summary

A fairly recent craze has grabbed the attention and enthusiasm of riders on an international level: Bicycle MotoX, popularly known as BMX. Formed in California in the late 1960s, BMX was born when a group of teenagers decided to get creative on an afternoon ride. Imitating their motocross heroes, these kids started to do tricks on their bicycles… and extreme sports have never been the same. Now there are extreme BMX competitions all over the world! Two primary forms of BMXing have emerged within these competitions: racing and freestyle. BMX racing focuses on the racer who can most successfully master rough terrain and dirt jumps. Freestyle BMX riders are asked to creatively combine tricks and stunts to achieve acrobatic feats that blur the line between sport and art.

In these free BMX bike setup videos, learn how to perform custom bicycle part maintenance to get your Huffy to perform like you need it to, whether for racing or doing tricks. Our expert will show you how to get a bike frame that is well-suited to the size of your body, how to pick the right handlebars and position them properly, how to set your seat height for doing BMX tricks, crank and gear tips, how much tire pressure to have, how to set your chain, and more. Watch and learn how to set up a BMX bike to be as radical as its rider!

Video Transcript

"Probably the most common piece of safety equipment that your going to find BMX riders using is a good helmet most commonly used is a skateboard style helmet this particular model by Protec is what I'm wearing. The main the first issue when your buying one is that you want to make sure that it fits you snuggle but isn't to tight so that it's going to cut off circulation or be uncomfortable. You usually want to buy them a little bit tighter than you think that you do because they tend to pack out a little bit. Here you see if I put my helmet on I can sort of shake my head and it won't move but it also still very comfortable, so I don't ever have to worry about getting a headache anything like that it's very comfortable. The second issue here is your strap this is basically what holds the helmet on when you go down you want to make sure that it again it's not to loose, because if it's to loose it's just not going to hold your helmet on. And if it's to tight it'll it will be very uncomfortable and if your helmet is uncomfortable your not going to want to wear it and that's not a good thing. The third and final issue has to do with these little guys here you want this V in essence to come down right below your ear that ensures that proper helmet fit so here you go got it all strapped up these coming down right below my ears, my helmets not moving your good to go."