A heartening BMX email

As I have said before, we get emails on a very regular basis on Singapore BMX. But this email stands out among all that we have received so far...it really makes you think. I salute this guy:

I just discovered your website today and was very impressed (and got quite emotional too) only after reading a bit of it.

I am currently abroad, and have been for many years now, and still think of the good old days when I was riding my BMX during school holidays. Like you said in your "Why BMX?" post on September 3, 2007 04:48 PM (GMT); I don't have an easy answer to that too, and it wasn't even about the E.T. film (although I'll give my right arm for an E.T. Kuwahara) too. I watch it way after I fell in love with BMX.

Anyways, your post really resonated with me. Back in January 2008, when my father-in-law visited us and we started hitting all the MTB stores around here where I am at, 'cos he was thinking of buying one back to his home country, I kept gravitating to a Specialized BMX at the corner of the store while he browsed the MTB part. The sales guy caught on to that came over and started a spiel about it till my wife asked why I would be riding such a kid's bike. That question made perfect sense to me. Why BMX?

I was talking to a co-worker of mine who rode a Motobecane road bike with an assorted group of recreational riders and I was telling him that it sounded interesting and that I would like join in when I got a bike. And then we got into a discussion about the bike that I would get. I told him that I had some experience with road bikes during my JC days when I personally held a Colnago frame in only one arm and lifted it from a perpendicular position to a parallel one with the ground. It was SGD6,000 back in 1986 just for the frame alone. But a road bike of such quality would get all beat up by the road itself. So a MTB would be more practical and be able to take more punishment. Right? But. But. But it's not a BMX.

A MTB just doesn't give me thrill like a BMX would. So I was asking him if I could ride a BMX with them and he said sure but it would be hard riding that's all. True, I thought, BMX is not really meant for travelling long distances; but it'll go any where you wanted to go and a lot more manageable than a MTB. Maybe that's why BMX.

Well, whatever the reason it may be, it still comes down to me wishing that I own a Redline (yeah, I'll give both my arms AND the Kuwahara for one. It may be due to the fact that there was a store in Bras Basah Complex that displayed the Kuwahara there for about $400 and the Redline for $600 and change. And also 'cos there was this guy in my class that had it. And I never did obviously) or a Hutch (that's only later on 'cos there was this dude who told me that Hutch made great racing ones). Regardless, maybe there'll be a time in my life whereby I have a little more cash and I would indulge get me a little of my youth back.

That reminds me, how come you are riding a Haro? When did you get it?

Thanks for reading my rambling and having your great website.

Regards,