Kit
Browse used BMX kit for sale from riders across the UK. The category covers everything worn rather than bolted on: full-face and open-face helmets, goggles, body armour, knee and elbow pads, ankle braces, gloves and long-sleeved jerseys. Race meetings generally require a full-face helmet, long sleeves and long trousers, so a racing rider ends up owning most of that list, while a park rider might get by with a lid and a pair of knee pads.
Does BMX kit mean clothing or components?
Here it means what you wear. Bars, cranks, forks and brakes sit under components, while this section is helmets, pads, goggles and jerseys. The distinction matters when searching, because riders use the same word for a box of parts and a bag of protection.
What kit do you actually need?
It depends where you ride. Racing has a floor: a full-face helmet, goggles, gloves, long sleeves and long trousers, with a chest protector and knee pads on top for most riders. Park and street riders run an open-face skate-style lid, long socks and knee pads, and tend to add ankle braces after the first time a foot comes off a pedal. Dirt jumping follows the racing list.
Which BMX kit is worth buying used?
Pads, jerseys, gloves and body armour hold their value poorly and are usually a sound buy, especially in the junior sizes riders grow out of within a season. Helmets are the exception, and not a marginal one: the liner crushes once, an impact often leaves no mark on the shell, and there is no way to verify a stranger's account of what a lid has been through. Goggles are fine as long as you price a replacement lens into the offer.
What should you check on used pads and jerseys?
Squeeze the foam. Knee and elbow padding compresses with repeated hits and never fully recovers — if it feels hard and thin over the kneecap rather than springy, it is spent. Check the elastic sleeves have not gone slack, since a pad that slides down mid-run is worse than nothing, and look for matted hooks on the velcro. On jerseys the wear shows at the elbows and shoulders; on gloves, at the base of the palm and along the thumb seam.
How do you judge a fair price on used kit?
Junior race kit outgrown after one season is the bargain here, often going for a third of new after a dozen wears. Armour and pads that have visibly done a few years are worth less than they look, because the protective foam is exactly the part that has aged. Anything you would be replacing for safety rather than for fit should be bought new.