The first big movie featuring BMX bikes, E.T., came out in June of 1982. That's really weird for me, personally, because that's within days of when my family moved to a mobile home park outside of Boise, Idaho, which is where I got into BMX. I thought the movie came out in the Fall.
In any case, this early Steven Spielberg movie, featuring an 8 or 9-year-old named Drew Barrymore, as well as C. Thomas Howell, and Bob Haro himself as a stunt rider, was a blockbuster hit, and those E.T. Kuwahara BMX bikes were popular for years afterwards. I didn't get into BMX because of E.T., But the chase scene was the closest thing to a BMX video we had back then.
Somebody had this article about the unknown BMX stunt riders, "The BMX Boys of E.T.," linked on Facebook, and this is a part of the E.T. story I had never heard before. I just read it, and it's really interesting if you're an Old School BMXer. So check it out.
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