Red Bull Rampage, a Rider's Inside Line...

On October 19-21 Red Bull Energy Drink hosted the country's first invitation-only, men's mountain bike freeride competition. The whole weekend was made possible by the hard work from the people at Red Bull, Global Event Management (the promoters of the winter X Games), Bike Zion, as well as many individuals. The contest was much like an extreme skiing contest. The course consisted of a mountainside, it was not timed, but did have a time limit of 4 minutes. Scoring was based on difficulty of line choice, flow, continuity and basically how big you can go, stick it AND make it look good. They had a diverse panel of jugdes including mountain bikers Greg Herbold, Shaums March and Josh Bender.

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