Last weekend, in Sibiu, the cultural heart of Transylvania, the crème de la crème of romanian BMX-ers gathered for the scene’s first street BMX contest, under the X-Cup label. The venue of the event was the marvellous Sub Arini park of the city, where the organizers prepared a delicious street spot, containing various stairsets, some rails, different length ledges and an array of gaps. More than 1000 specatators came to witness what was about to become an amazing competition with a vast range of tricks, some of them never seen before in Romania. Mirraco rider Alin Moldovan stood out of the crowd and destroyed the entire location properly: perfect 360 gap over the small ledge at the dome, tailwhip and 180 barspin upwards off the long ledge, feeble to barspin-out at the big grindbox and various other tech-combos worth mentioning. Alin also pulled what would’ve been the best line of the contest, with a bunnyhop barspin over the marker-tape, a 360 over the following 9-set, manual down the aforementioned ledge and a bunnyhop to tailwhip at the smaller ledge, by the streetrail. Speaking of the streetrail, Alin owned it, by double peg grinding it second-try, and left it abused, as he should. Mr. Moldovan decided it was time to spice things up and raise the bar, so he stuck a pretty clean tailwhip at the impressive 9-set, which gave fellow riders some trouble, and shut down the competition hereby. Alin was crowned winner of the day, as expected, and walked away with the prizemoney and his friendly smile, probably thinking about the party that was due that night. With friendly greetings from Romania, Maximilian Munteanu Romanian Street Movie
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 - 4:57 am