How Do You Modify A BMX Bike To Practice Tricks Indoors?
Outside of indoor BMX parks, most of which have set guidelines particular to the park about bicycle equipment safety, practicing BMX tricks indoors is fairly uncommon, and as such has few guidelines. A handful of simple common-sense judgments combined with minor modification work to the bicycle are usually all that is necessary to accomplish this task. The most important indoor modification involves covering handlebar ends and peg ends to lower the chance of damage to floors or walls in the event a stunt goes awry. Unfortunately, non-marking bicycle tire sizes are relegated to tricycles, sidewalk bicycles and wheelchairs, so finished floor surfaces are best avoided. Cut old inner tubes in nine-inch lengths of tubing. Cut lengths of tubing lengthwise to open in flat rectangles of thin rubber. Cut flat rectangles of thin rubber in half lengthwise to create two thinner rectangles the same length as the original fatter rectangle. Stretch middle of rectangle lightly over one handlebar end a