Irulan and JanT, thanks for your replies. Just for the record, I'm not a grandma (in fact, never had kids), only used that word cause I thought maybe that's how the typical bmx'er might see me.

The crash I referred to was really just a bad decision making, kind of refusal to bail out kind of thing. If I had bailed I would have been ok, but I "chose" to see if I could recover when ridiculously out of balance. And yeah, I was trying a bit too much of a "whip" - for my level of skill. Lessoned learned: less is more when trying a new move. Also, I had already done similarly stupid falls on a long trail ride and was already starting to resemble an apple that's been dropped on the floor multiple times! So falling on supposedly soft safe grass just added insult to preexisting injury.

So after "wasting" way too much time in two LBS's yesterday, I'm pretty sure I will buy this sweet little $200 bmx. Was lucky enough to get some simple trick demos from a 23 year old kid at the bike shop. I had so much fun, I was late for a "grownup" appointment - lost track of time! Does this ever happen to you when in the LBS?!

Probably most interesting thing was when I asked him about what muscles he uses most, to keep the feet in contact with the pedals. (We were doing bunny hops.) Instead of mentioning anything he does with his feet (like what Irulan said), he pointed to his chest and arms and explained a certain forward push move he does with his arms. I think that my upper body strength is definitely going to be explored here, which should be interesting. BTW, bmx bikes are not really all that light, which is fine. I can do an upper body workout just carrying it around.

When I asked him about feet, he said just keep your feet flat. I am taking that with a grain of salt, because when I was watching him, his feet were not flat, in fact, I think they were doing something like what Irulan described and maybe it's just so natural for this guy, he's not aware of it?

Anyway, thanks for reading/responding. I'll let you know how this silliness progresses. And hey, if the bmx doesn't rock my world, some kid's gonna get a pretty cool gift!!!