At the 2010 Red Bull Rampage, riders were sent off a remarkable Oakley Icon Sender featuring a large wooden ramp overlooking a gutsy 40-foot drop. The structure was highlighted by a massive tower, watched over by “Josh,” an intimidating wooden skull structure created by Oakley eyewear designers. Nothing was more memorable from the 2010 event than Oakley rider Cameron Zink throwing a breath-taking 360 off of the Icon Sender, ultimately leading him to victory.
2012 is a whole new ball game as the new Sender packs a punch that will have the riders’ heads spinning. Josh and the Oakley Icon Sender are back and better than ever for this year’s Red Bull Rampage. The updated feature will include three sender options combined into one structure to create variety and leave it to the riders’ to decide how to attack the Sender.
The Icon Sender from the air, the third line still has yet to be finished....
For more information check out
Oakley's web page on the design with a gallery of images of Josh being put together.
Rampage is about bringing everyone together for a gnar fest- tricks, speed, style are all welcome there- it's what makes the event so good. It's awesome that people from all disciplines are getting amped about a single event. It's gonna be sweet. I hope you get conjunctivitis or something so you can't watch it.
You guys have to shut up with that. There's an overwhelming majority of natural lines as opposed to wooden ones and its kind of hard to find new lines in a venue where they've already had a few events at. Ever watch a FWT event? New and creative lines are almost impossible because guess what? There's only so much you can do with one event area. Get over it already.
Notice how all those complaining have never been there and most likely will never go... there's a correlation to this.
Semenuk won because, as I said, he score big points pulling tricks off lines with little prebuilds, but last year...there was another story...
I still find it hard to believe though that this is the same site where people were overwhelmingly convinced that Paul Bas's kicker in the desert was no different than something from a dirt jump competition.
We'll have to wait and see how it turns out. I'm pumped.
Airtime gives scale. Slopestyle is better to watch than big mountain. Any fool (me) can see that.
Zink won it last time on one big trick, in a run that was top to bottom inferior to Gee man's. Still, that 360 is still what everyone wants to talk about and watch. If Gee tricked the gap, maybe it would have been different.
More wood please!
And come on Pilgs! Put in a good one to silence all these wankers who think they are better than you.
And Brendog! Go on my son!
Surely, the 50 x 50 ft at the end puts the challenge back in it?! I think a wide ramp / drop to give the riders some extra confidence when they're about to do that kind of crazy s**t is pretty much irrelevant - it's the jump / drop I'm interested in.
There seem to be a lot of people here that seem to have a very strong opinion about these things, but with little or no experience of what we're actually talking about here. As Ian pointed out earlier, and slightly more eloquently, if you haven't been to the Rampage* you don't understand, you would stand on the end of any of those features and s**t a brick, no matter how wide the ramp is!
(I have assumed you haven't ever hit anything of this size, if I am incorrect, I will have more respect for your opinion - after you link me to evidence below)
* Disclaimer - I haven't been to the rampage site myself, but I have ridden down (avoiding all features) the Mountain Style course in Chatel, which is the only Big Mountain competition in Europe - my understanding is that most of the features are small in comparison to the stuff we're discussing here, so I can only imagine how ridiculously huge these are! I look forward to seeing some people send it this weekend.
20x30 theres your evidence. bigger than most who whine. I ain't a pussy. I just dont have the guys at red bull engineering and calculating ramps that make these jumps possible. Or sponsors paying for my bikes and injuries.
BOTH SIDES HAVE VERY GOOD ARGUMENTS, BUT MTB'ING HAS TO EVOLVE AND MOVE FORWARD TO SURVIVE AND GROW BY TRYING NEW THINGS AND SEEING IF ITS BETTER.
ANYWAY TO MY KNOWLEDGE NON OF THE RIDERS HAVE MADE MOANED ABOUT THE FEATURES SO MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T EITHER!
REDBULL ADDED THE WOOD TO GIVE A VISUAL FACTOR TO THE RAMPAGE TO THE UP AND COMING GENERATION OF YOUNG RIDERS WHO WANT TO WATCH A BIT MORE THAN JUST DUST (kids who are to young to remember the original rampage in all its glory) AND SOMETHING NEW FOR THE RIDERS TO SESSION BECAUSE TO GIVE THEM A FEELING OF MORE CHOICE AND PROGRESSION INSTEAD OF JUST HITTING THE SAME KIND OF LIPS EVERY TIME. BECAUSE THE RAMPAGE ISN'T JUST FOR US AND OUR OPINIONS, ITS ALSO FOR THE KINGS OF STYLE AND GNARLY! Smile
So was the sarcasm really needed? Hahahahahaha Just kidding mate, its my sense of humor
No problem sir, we hope you enjoy your VIP seat a-top the Oakley sender tower! (sweet view )
Love & Hugs,
Red Bull.
Should we debate if Norbs got robbed next?
Thanks for asking kindly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJe-8v1f7I&feature=plcp%3Cbr
No I'm not clueless. thats a 2ft wide ramp for a 2.5in wide tire sending out 30ft and down 20ft. not near as big as rampage but big enough to not be called clueless.
I'm just excited to watch the event with the wide variety of riders invited.The variety between McCaul, Zink, Claw, Pilgrim, Paul Bass is going to be fun to watch. They all have a different style and the best part is that they get to choose how they make it down the mountain. They have access to all the same runs as everyone else so it'l be interesting to see who can be original with either their lines or doing original tricks on the ever popular Oakley wooden feature. They are all bad asses for just dropping in from the top.
And even if you (like me, an almost everyone else in the world) were to chicken to drop in this course, you're still a boss. You don't need to answer to anyone about that.
PLEASE
PLEASE
anyone fancy giving me a lift down to watch this awesome event? I live in west vancouver! will split fuel money of course.
BOTH SIDES HAVE VERY GOOD ARGUMENTS, BUT MTB'ING HAS TO EVOLVE AND MOVE FORWARD TO SURVIVE AND GROW BY TRYING NEW THINGS AND SEEING IF ITS BETTER.
ANYWAY TO MY KNOWLEDGE NON OF THE RIDERS HAVE MADE MOANED ABOUT THE FEATURES SO MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T EITHER!
REDBULL ADDED THE WOOD TO GIVE A VISUAL FACTOR TO THE RAMPAGE TO THE UP AND COMING GENERATION OF YOUNG RIDERS WHO WANT TO WATCH A BIT MORE THAN JUST DUST (kids who are to young to remember the original rampage in all its glory) AND SOMETHING NEW FOR THE RIDERS TO SESSION BECAUSE TO GIVE THEM A FEELING OF MORE CHOICE AND PROGRESSION INSTEAD OF JUST HITTING THE SAME KIND OF LIPS EVERY TIME. BECAUSE THE RAMPAGE ISN'T JUST FOR US AND OUR OPINIONS, ITS ALSO FOR THE KINGS OF STYLE AND GNARLY!
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Step 2: Haul ass on the run-in (get a heli-tow if necessary)
Step 3: Hit the new kicker and gap an off-camber 3 onto the roof of the shanty
Step 4: Do a rear tire plant on the skull horn
Step 5: Back flip off the skull horn
Step 6: Ride straight to the bottom, collect the purse
Hairspray & Spandex, maybe assless-chaps next-year?