Street Riding

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An 'MtB Street Bike'

Street Riding is a type of bicycling sport, in which the basic idea is to perform tricks using obstacles such as benches, stairs or inclined walls. Both BMX and MTB bikes are commonly used. Street bikes ('rigs') usually have plates or pegs attached, for protection as well as to perform tricks and maneuvers (such as grinding pegs round a bowl or on a wall to create showers of sparks).

Because the sport often takes place in unforgiving urban hardscape environments, it tends to be somewhat dangerous, and can also be very hard on the bikes.

Traditionally street riders have used BMX bikes, but MTB bikes have recently become more common. MTBs built for street riding are generally BMX-influenced singlespeed hardtails or fully rigid bikes, with slick or very low-profile tyres and often only one brake. Where Freeride bikes are used, the emphasis is less on performing technical tricks and, as in freeriding, more on achieving distance.

Well-known BMX street riders include RL Osborn, Erik Appelhof, Jay Yelton and Travis Bowling.