What's in a Name?
Bikercross, mountaincross, and 4x. 1 sport with 3 different names. Head to head racing has come a long way in the last 10 years, evolving through a few names. Back in the day they raced world cup slaloms, then merged the slalom into dual for more excitement, but it just became take out city, so then they changed to 4 man events. I think Bikercross sounds the best and explains more of what it is. 4x doesn't explain bike riding too much, mountaincross sounds like a silly moutain board event, but bikercross fits. Snowboarding has boardercross, dirtbikes have motocross, etc. England was the first to coin the term "bikercross" back in 1999- I think. Anywho...props to England for a good name, who knows where it will be in another 10 years, or what it will be called. 4x Rules for now:).
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Hi Jill, I race 4X in Colombia and moving to Australia this week, i'm so happy cause you have noticed the problem with the name of our sport, I think that people of all over the world have to unified the name of the sport for expand the media and have more publicity, for example if you want to search some videos in youtube... you have to type hundred of combination to find some 4x, four x, 4 cross ... action.
You have my suport with Bikercross as the unique name.
very cool site!!
Posted by: damnkid | March 15, 2007 10:09 AM