I used to ride a BMX bike to grade school.  Nothing fancy just a cheap single speed BMX bike.  Actually let’s be honest it wasn’t even really a BMX bike it was a heavy cheap copy of a BMX bike.  Whatever my parents could afford and would get me to school.  After school and on weekends it was my transportation to the corner store or to visit a friend.  I’d carry everything I needed in my backpack and didn’t have any bike specific gear.  I don’t recall even having a helmet.

What would I change?  You know I don’t think I’d change anything.  At that age I didn’t take care of my stuff and I didn’t need anything super special to get me around my neighbourhood. I had fun and I don’t recall having too many bike problems.

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17 (UPI) -- A year after suffering critical injuries in the Dew Tour Championships in Las Vegas, BMX rider TJ Lavin says he still has trouble maintaining balance on a bike. When I'm riding my bike, it seems like it's going way too fast for me and everything feels really weird. "I've probably been on my bike 10 times since I crashed," he said. If he had been wearing a full-face helmet, he said: "I honestly don't think there is any way I would've been in a coma. Injuries Lavin suffered a year ago required a medically induced coma, and he says he's working out and has begun riding again but has to relearn. Lavin was wearing an open-faced skateboard helmet at the time of the accident. He said the "No. 1 reason" people avoid wearing the full-face helmets is "probably to be cool. I would've gotten knocked out for a minute maybe, or maybe I wouldn't have been knocked out at all.

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