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A couple of us decided to go hit up some cement parks in the southern part of PA, we had no clue what to expect so Im gonna do some ranting right now. As everyone knows its been a constant battle with bikes being allowed at skateparks, so you never know what is gonna happen when you go to a concrete park that is free. We get to the first park located in York which is actually really good but filled with tons of skaters, hesitant at first we talk to a few locals and they say its cool to ride just respect everyone. It ended up being ok with no drama expect Marky T getting mad at kids for sitting in the big bowls or basically trying to skate a 10 foot bowl and not even go up a foot on it. We actually heard some stories from some kids saying there has been fights between skaters and riders, which is just ridiculous we both want to ride the same stuff and it never makes sense the two sides can not coexist sometimes. After leaving the park we headed to Lancaster to ride another cement park but not before finding another skatepark that was locked up, which was useless. Get to Lancaster and there is actually 1 person skating. He says he does not care if we ride and after 5 or 10 minutes a park ranger shows up and basically gives us the attitude like we are breaking some crazy law. Were like ok we are leaving sorry for having fun, he gets a serious ego trip spell or whatever u wanna call it. Then out of nowhere says well I was gonna let you guys go but your being cocky. His actual quote was "we were huffing and puffing and someone was walking up the hill moving there tires back and forth". Wow was this dude nuts, after the usual take the licenses and writing our info down and trying to find out if we have warrants he's like yeah you might get some fines in the mail. Then he says you guys are too old for this. So basically from all of this nonsense and mess I realize BMX will always be discriminated and it makes no sense at all because I guess its ok to play football or baseball or whatever damm sport you wanna play till whatever age you want but I guess society says you cant ride a bike past a certain age. No wonder the country is going downhill fast, too many people are close minded and worry about stupid things like kicking kids out of a skatepark which is a public park so they are the real lawbreakers... Check the photos below for a few pics of the quick sessions and next time you get busted riding a concrete park just tell them hey man sorry for having fun and not doing what society says is right...

Check out the website for Eric Bugbee's movie coming out Accelerate which might help BMX become more accepted by society, only time will tell