Red Bull Rampage Finals Video
Source: Red Bull USA
It was a wild weekend in the beautiful Utah desert, check out the highlights from a final to remember!
Enjoy the video,
www.redbullusa.com
Title photo by Ian Hylands:
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It was a wild weekend in the beautiful Utah desert, check out the highlights from a final to remember!
Enjoy the video,
www.redbullusa.com
Title photo by Ian Hylands:
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-huge drops > check
-crazy lines > check
-360 off the Icon > check
-canyon gap > check
-broken 888s > check x3
and btw, come on, upload that vid to pb! red bull player sux and I can't fave the video
Test will be how many guys are riding them next time! Lol.
At least one breakage looked random - on the gap-wall ride. Could have cost that rider a podium.
pretty unfortunate for marz
and seriously, the crash hopkins put his bike through was retarded. anything would've broken there. but i wasn't sure it was just the fork. could it have been the whole headtube of the bike? i only saw one flash clip, i could be wrong
braaaap!
and why does red bull insist on using there sh*ty video player?
pepsi spends their ad money on $10 million super bowl commercials,
red bull spends it on sick events, which is fun, but the whole thing is a redbull commercial at the heart, think of how many RB logos you just saw.
But they were not too scared for a 2nd run. Zink crashed that 3 hard the first time, but still got up and tried it again. Incredible props.
And why show up if you're going to sit back? Got to go for it.
btw speaking of him, does anybody know why brad can't pronounce his name? first and last? is he a name retard or something?
I would think that if you knew you were going to announce an event - ANY event - you would do just a hint of research and know your players. This 21st century world is all weird-like!!
That's pretty rad imo ...
You are right that Red Bull the most for a lot of action sports, but other companies deserve credit too
Breast milk has a high level of taurine, I think the Rampage should be sponsored by Hooters. (pinch of salt not included with my post)
And as if it needed saying, the riding was so sick it was terminally ill!
zinks 360 was absolutely mind blowing like the sheer size and just everything about 3ing that set up is unreal
props to darren as well for going back to the roots! i think thts where rampage is at.. technical big mountain not just all tricks
Exactly. But he can't/won't. So how is that versatile? His run was DH. Claw was balls-out FR. Zink was absolutely committed after crashing that 3 hard. Even getting up for a 2nd run was impressive. To try the 3 again at all was crazy. To nail it. Amazing. PROPS!
PROPS for Claw's save at the top too. Amazing! That save was better than all the stuff G didn't attempt put together.
1.Gee
2. Claw (great mix of tricks and great line, just wasn't smooth, almost went over the bars and all that....)
3. Zinc
Is it a big trick competition??? Maybe the rules need to be re-done.
The 3 of the Icon sender was just the highlight of my year.
BTW Does anyone know where all the 3D footage is gonna be used?
Yes Mt Biking has gone insane boyz and girlz ...and i think i like it!
Although I don't think Ewen was a navy seal like JV. I think JV was actually a frogman for a navy demo team in Nam as opposed to a SEAL.
Here's JV. And check him in Predator too. Great movie. NOT Predator 2 - which SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS - imo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqmH49VBC0
Is it that riders of other forks crash less hard? That still wouldn't be an advert for Zoke. Lol.
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We already banned almost everything due to insurance. That can also go too far. I think that whilst the wrecks are spectacular, more people are stoked by the saves, successes and the effort put in rather than the crash. And people do learn from watching smashes. Maybe a few other kids try something they shouldn't after watching Rampage. On the other hand, maybe a few more avoid injury after watching Rampage crashes and thinking more about how they use their own bike.
And a lot of sports need a lot of failures for every success. There are plenty of injuries in gymnastics too for example.
Rampage is a once every year (at best) event and considering how many riders were there and for how long, there were not that many bad injuries. Somewhere there is a sweet spot where it is watchable but without many fatalities. Like motorsport, skiing, bobsleigh, hockey, rugby and other speed or impact sports. You can never eliminate the risk of death or major injury. If people putting their lives on the line is unacceptable, then there are a lot of professions that need to change. And I am not advocating either way.
The riders decide themselves on the actual risk of their own line and what features and tricks they will pull. They match it to their own abilities. Like Gee deciding a 2nd run was too much for him to handle.
These riders are super-specialists in biking gnar. So we put them in a special place to take it to the limit. This creates a market to see them doing what is almost impossible for any human and actually impossible for most of us - for one reason or another.
To challenge whether it should happen, is to challenge whether div of labor has gone too far and indeed one of the cornerstones of market economics... And again, I am not advocating either way. But more on div of labor here if interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
One of the probs w div of labor is that if people are so busy making heads for pins during the day & riding/relaxing most of the rest of the time; they might appreciate a company providing an event they like (Rampage) but don't have time left to think about - for example - that energy drinks usually contain lots of sugar, too much of that can give people weight probs, diabetes... Or that producing more sugar often involves clearing tropical forests, draining Everglades, diverting river-water etc. And if no-one has time to think about that then you can end up with a world full of diabetics, sugar-plantations... Sound familiar?
Yeah - there is the obvious benefit of the entertainment we watched. But there could be other sides to it - like the point made by powfiend (lol at name), about injuries. Or others that may or may not be obvious. To be great you have to look at the whole pic.
One thing I love about the biking community is they are normally interested in the outdoors, it's wellbeing and therefore the wider world so everyone everywhere has the opportunity now and in future to enjoy what we enjoy. So pls think about the big picture. Yes Rampage is great to watch. Maybe it could be better if the energy drinks industry used its huge sugar-buying power and massive profits to drive ethics in plantation farming and provide opportunity for guys that work there, as well as providing opportunities for those that want to be the best FRider on the planet, giving us entertainment and a sweet way to down more vodka faster. Lol.
Who'd a thunk it?! PB becomes law school, human rights watch, sustainable development centre...
Who says biking is not a higher pleasure? LMAO!