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If you just started your bike buying journey, you probably realized pretty quickly how expensive
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high-quality BMX bikes are. And when you talk to anybody, they're going to say
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get a high-quality bike, get full Kermali, get double wall rims, get aftermarket parts
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And when you find a bike that matches that criteria, your bank account starts to cry
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Buying a bike and getting into BMX isn't very cheap, and the cheap options are terrible
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I'm personally, you know, I think if you bought a $200 bike instead of a $600 bike, that $200
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bike would break enough times that you could buy three of those bikes in the amount of time
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God. Let me tell you a story about what happened when I got my first bike. My first bike was
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less than $300. My parents got it for me for my birthday. It was a BMX bike. It was a DK
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I loved it. Okay. But I didn't understand anything about quality or sizing or anything like that
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And over time, I broke that bike in the first few months
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I got another bike, another high tensile steel bike that broke in a few months
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I got another bike with some chromoly that broke in six months
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And over time I spent probably over a two year period we probably spent on BMX bikes And so if initially what we would have done is spent that on a high BMX bike I wouldn have
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broken four different bikes and I would have had a bike that lasted me that whole time and longer
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Okay. And so what I stress to you guys is to buy something that's the highest quality that you can
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afford. And sometimes the reality is you can't afford a brand new complete BMX bike and that's
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okay. There are lots of used options that still work out pretty good. I have a lot of members in
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the BMX Nerd Discord who talk about, you know, they'll post a picture of a used bike that they
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found near them. The other members will jump in and say if that's a good deal or a bad deal
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But nine times out of 10, you can find a really good deal on a used BMX bike. Sometimes you can
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find a custom BMX bike for a good price used. And if you're diligent and if you look for these deals
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you can get a high-end BMX bike for a pretty low price. And for some people, that's going to be the best option
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So I just wanted to talk about some things that you should look for and some things that you should know
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if you're buying a used BMX bike. If it's a complete BMX bike and it's used
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it should not cost anywhere near the MSRP A Kink Whip is If you see a 2021 kink whip and they trying to sell it for don do it
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That bike has been, it's two years old now and it shouldn't even be that close to that $500 mark
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It's been used, it's been ridden. Even if it's lightly ridden, you could just spend a hundred dollars more in this scenario
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and get something that is brand new. And so that would be silly
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But if you see a $700 We The People Trust on sale for, you know, someone selling it on
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Marketplace for $400 or for $350, that's a much better deal and getting something like
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that would be okay. But general rule of thumb, stay away from complete bikes that are used that are the
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same price that they, you know, are close to the same price that they retail at, okay
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That's tip number one. Tip number two, double check everything if you do buy a used bike
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Make sure that the wishbone, the back end isn't bent. make sure that nothing's been repainted
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If you get a bike that's repainted, it's probably stolen or they're covering up something
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like just stay away from things and really double check the bike because there's a lot of sad stories that pop up
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of people getting scammed buying a used BMX bike and that what I don want to happen to you Now if it a custom BMX bike it always good to plug in the parts that the owner says comes with the bike and see what the prices actually are You can build a
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custom BMX bike for maybe around a thousand dollars and that's using pretty cheap parts and
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so if someone's selling a custom BMX bike that really only costs them a thousand dollars to build
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and they're trying to get 800 for it and they've had it for a while like that's a bad deal but if
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somebody built up a really nice $1,400 BMX bike and they just want to get rid of it, they're going
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to sell it for six or $700, you're getting a crazy good deal. And those are the deals that you should
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find if you want a real good quality BMX bike and you don't want to spend a ton of money. They're not
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always out there, but if you are patient and you keep looking for the right deal, you will be able
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to find one that's a high quality bike for a good price because people just need to get rid of it
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And the BMX thing just keeps happening. So if you can't afford a high-end complete BMX bike
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but you know that you need a high-end BMX bike, check out Facebook Marketplace, check out eBay
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check out places where you can buy second-hand bikes, and try and get yourself a good custom
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BMX bike for a really good price. If you have questions about a bike that you'll look at
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or you see a bike, you want to know if it's any good, you can post pictures in the BMX Nerds Discord. The link to join is in the description
