Bruno does well in NYC. Update 5, the Trick or Treat comp.

Oct 31, 2010

Written by Bart de Jong

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Just imagine be 17 years old. Your friends are at school but you got some days off to go to a contest in New York City for the weekend to ride with some of the very best street riders in the world. You get up crazy early on Thursday, fly over to the metropole that you've never been to before and somehow prepare for next day's event. Your sponsor has flown 3 guys over with you so you can say the pressure is on to do well.
Bruno was the only international rider on the course at the Trick Or Treat contest. He had traveled the farthest, only had a day to get used to the 6 hour time change and did that by going shopping the day he arrived. When it was time to ride, the German teenager got to business. It took him little time to get used to the rails, ledges, ramps and other obstacles on the course. Bruno blended in the rider field like it was daily business. There was mutual respect from the start.

When the contest took off Bruno and Dakota Roche just rode and

did their thing. They transfered into the finals after two rounds by eliminating some of the best riders out there. With Steve Crandall on the microphone the atmosphere was great. 8 riders rode together in the final round, all at once. If an obstable was free, you just hit it. Bruno was all over the course and fired out some feeble grinds to manuals on the reaper rail and fired off some amazing 540's off of the hearse to flat. It didn't work out the first three times but he pulled through on attempt number four. It would later be the winning move for the best trick contest.

In the end Augie Simoncini and Scotty Cranmer took the win, but Bruno and Dak made it to second. Well stoked.

While his German friends were at school, Bruno experienced another lesson of life in NYC. Back to school on Tuesday, but another story to tell.

BdJ

FATBMX follows Bruno Hoffmann in New York City:
Bruno Prepares. Update #4.
Bruno goes NYC. Update # 3
Bruno Hoffmann in NYC part 2
Bruno Hoffmann arrives in NYC