BMX bicycle: A definition

KIRBY J: Could you explain to me what a BMX bike is? My rather cloistered life has prevented my ever getting to know what that form of bicycle is.

MR R J DOUGLAS SC: I join with your Honour. I have had to find out. Your Honour, it is a smaller form of bike than the conventional rally bike or the sort of bike we were used to in our youth. It is a squat form of bike which in modern times in the last decade or two has been utilised for quick performance use by persons usually, as in this case, on tracks which have mounds which one speeds up towards and jumps from place to place. So it is a form of performance bike within a confined environment.

KIRBY J: I see.

MR DOUGLAS: Is that a sufficient explanation for your Honour?

KIRBY J: I think I might have seen one, so I think I know. …

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Citation: Leyden v Caboolture Shire Council [2007] HCATrans 475