As most of us are aware BMX racing originated in the USA as most thing do, however it didn't get started here in Australia until 1977.

Scot Breithaupt was a support motocross rider for the Yamaha Factory Team and he would practice his riding skills on a dirt trail in Long Beach California which people called "BUMS" mainly because hobo's and homeless used to live in that area. 

In November of 1970 a fair few local kids started to come down to watch Scot practice on the 1350 foot track., some would even try to imitate his riding and jumping on their bicycles. After this became a regular occurrence Scott came to the track one day with some of his motocross trophies. He had each of the 35 kids there a quarter each and Scot categorized each rider into Beginner, Novice and Expert. The kids each raced two laps of the very rough dirt track which consisted of 9 jumps, a mud patch and a 35 foot drop off jump. Amazingly the following week the attendance level grew from 35 to over 150 local kids all eager to race each other. So BMX was born.

Scot made up some flyers but word of mouth spread like wild fire through the area and within a year there were 350 riders at the BUMs track. The popularity of this new sport simply exploded but the tracks name still remained as BUMS however it did get refereed to as "Bicycle United Motocross Society from then on.

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Very quickly Scot started creating more tracks throughout the California area as the sports popularity continued to grow uncontrollably.

he created a rule book and implimented a points scoring system for the racing and In June of 1971 Scot held the very first major Bicycles United Motocross Society event called the Fathers Day Race. It was quickly followed by the Nor Cal V's So Cal race event.

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