Not sure... at Rampage in Virgin, Utah, United States - photo by slcrockclimber

This is what happens when you think you wont make the canyon gap, and you bail over the bars....

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Album: Red-Bull-Rampage-2010
Category: All Mountain/Enduro
Date Posted: Oct 8, 2010 at 8:20
Oct 8, 2010
Location: Virgin, Utah, United States
Trail: Rampage
Riders: Not sure...

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Louis2 (Oct 8, 2010 at 12:02)

Report fork abuse..!!!

Tatuator (Oct 11, 2010 at 18:27)

If this is the newest evo titanium something bomber, i have read somewhere that they are thinned and lighted something like For Racing Only.. Rampage definnitly is not a rece

Anyway i will never buy 888's not because they brake sometimes.. Just dont like the company and their "style"

jofish (Oct 11, 2010 at 16:19)

don't be daft. if it's not good enough for that guy at the red bull rampage then it's not good enough for me. my 888's will be on ebay within the hour. fucking death trap.

dj162 (Oct 11, 2010 at 21:46)

Haha, rampage this year was i kick in the balls for marazocchi!! how many bombers blew up??

amon87 (Oct 12, 2010 at 10:30)

i suppose, three EVO Ti

nikibrytalniq (Oct 8, 2010 at 9:20)

that is mike hopkins bike

bobish (Oct 8, 2010 at 20:16)

pretty sure its not hopkins bike. that crash happened in the rampage final and hopkins wasn't in the final.

p-romano (Oct 8, 2010 at 20:19)

and most people dream of just owning one of those. the lowers are still good

kevinridesfelt (Oct 8, 2010 at 21:13)

Hopkins was in the finals and that is his bike.

connen31 (Oct 10, 2010 at 19:40)

james doerfling if im not mistaken

M-a-R-c-I (Oct 11, 2010 at 8:53)

you're mistaken...I watched the live show and this is Hopkins's bike..

bobish (Oct 11, 2010 at 18:57)

my bad. I only saw one broken fork in the rampage and it was doerfling's that i saw. was unaware that hopkins broke his too. its looking like the 888 isn't as strong as it once was.

nouser (Oct 12, 2010 at 9:40)

bobish it didt kinda do a 62 ft gap and get bailed on the lip on the landing so the full force whent on the forks im surprized the forks broke before the headtube tho

Colin994 (Oct 13, 2010 at 19:28)

broken 888 #3

p-romano (Oct 13, 2010 at 20:27)

Kurt Sorge bent his too

Ajax-Rider (Oct 17, 2010 at 8:09)

somehow i don't think thats under warranty

TheLongMan (Oct 18, 2010 at 9:19)

hopkins was running a green scott bike....this looks like a gt to me....

nouser (Oct 18, 2010 at 9:48)

nah its a gambler

TheLongMan (Oct 18, 2010 at 10:49)

ahhhh you where right! www.pinkbike.com/photo/5714256
I thought he was riding a green one!

bobish (Oct 18, 2010 at 22:38)

i thought hopkins had his name on his downtube.

TheLongMan (Oct 19, 2010 at 12:49)

they must have given him another for the rampage...

bobish (Oct 22, 2010 at 11:01)

the picture that i saw it in was from the rampage. whatever i dont care anymore

samuel-adams (Oct 8, 2010 at 12:45)

i think is sa more 888`s break down there then beautiful women ha ha

Gregory459 (Oct 17, 2010 at 12:26)

this is how bombers ends.

pokalface (Oct 17, 2010 at 15:14)

thats the latest and the earliest to be broken..

Schmitty (Nov 15, 2012 at 14:05)

I was just riding along...

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ridesanoldskool (Oct 10, 2010 at 18:50)

well i know never to buy a bomber

brodierider6 (Oct 10, 2010 at 19:40)

Why, because you saw one this one break? ...

ridesanoldskool (Oct 10, 2010 at 20:34) (Below Threshold)

thats exactly why

M-a-R-c-I (Oct 11, 2010 at 8:56)

there was an other cracked 888 at the rampage...James Doerfling mashed up his fork too with a not too precise landing...but it wasn't like a mistake when you should snap your fork..soo the quality of the 888 is questionable I guess...

alonso92 (Oct 11, 2010 at 8:59)

ive seen boxxers break, does that mean i shouldnt get boxxers? NO

konarider92 (Oct 11, 2010 at 16:14)

i wouldn't be so concerned about riding them... any fork could do that after bailing out a 70 foot canyon gap. just bad luck i suppose

cornwallextreme (Oct 11, 2010 at 16:18)

Boxxers do have a more snap happy rep than 888s
www.pinkbike.com/photo/4413035

konarider92 (Oct 11, 2010 at 16:20)

point proven

MontanaRider (Oct 13, 2010 at 11:35)

That kind of riding will destroy any fork on the market (boxxers, 888's, 40's) what have you. It doesn't mean it's a bad fork by any means. I'd love to see you do that to a Marzocchi without a hammer.

Colin994 (Oct 13, 2010 at 19:33)

yeah but there were 3 that broke. and there were a lot of crashes that gnarly on other forks and they held up fine

alonso92 (Oct 14, 2010 at 13:53)

every single crash is different, so in some crashes, forks take a bigger hit than others

Colin994 (Oct 14, 2010 at 15:17)

true but the crashes the 888's were involved in were all different as well. not to mention most of the other forks were put under those different types of situations as well and held up fine, just proving that the 888's fell short of the others

HUMMERTM (Oct 20, 2010 at 17:18)

MontanaRider i could still do a lot off damage with out a hammer

alonso92 (Oct 20, 2010 at 17:24)

colin, they whernt put under the same situations because evry crash is different! but either way, im going to stop defending 888, if you think theyre weaker than boxxers its your opinion

MontanaRider (Oct 21, 2010 at 13:33)

Hummertm, it's all good. More power to you if you can do that to a fork, I suppose. I was just stating that I don't believe a vast majority of people on this site can do this to a fork. If you can, you've proved me wrong. I ride a dj3 and I love it personally. Maybe the new 888's just aren't as strong, but I bet you can be assured that after seeing this Marzocchi is looking at their design again.