Adventure Girl, I'm just going to use this for low speed, low impact balancing type practice/play stuff. Certainly no racing or "big air". Am familiar with the two out of three maxim. Like I tried to say in my last post, I think the heaviness may not be a bad thing for my goals. Seems like a weight similar to a mountain bike would be a good thing since I hope I can transfer the stuff I learn from the bmx bike to the mountain bike. Really, it's the "escapability factor" that intrigues me the most with the little bikes.

Just wondering, how old is your bmx racer friend? This world is all so mysterious to me.

Irulan, I checked out some of the trials link. Amazing stuff - thanks!