Game of BIKE 2026: transition edition

Back in my BMX days, a thing my friends would do once every few weeks when we were bored of practicing was to play a game of BIKE. It's basically the game of HORSE you play with a basketball, but on a trick bike. Set a trick, have your friend try and duplicate it, but if they fail, they earn a letter and the first one to spell out BIKE loses.The thing is, everyone learns many of the basic bike tricks, then as they get better, they tweak their favorite tricks into their own signature moves. For a good (fair) game of BIKE, you don't just pull out your hardest signature tricks, instead you pick tricks you think your buddy could do but you maybe haven't seen them do that trick in years. It pushes everyone competing in a game of BIKE to try new things and the results are sometimes amazing where you might pull something you're trying for the very first time. Another big go-to strategy in BIKE is doing really weird, awkward tricks to see if your friends can do them too.Top level BIKEI'm a…

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