As one of the most iconic events in mountain biking Red Bull Rampage is always a spectacle for some of the most amazing feats on a bike. Whether it is huge canyon gaps or technical ride lines riders push themselves to the limits year after year. With no wild Rampage action, this year let's take a look back at some of the great moments from the past eight years.
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s*it in between.
It should still be natural. I like backflip drops and all that stuff, but from natural terrain lips and landings!
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the free content. But you could have made this into a really cool article that told the stories of Rampage, instead of just a photo dump. Half these images don't even have captions. This could have been split into one article per venue, or per year, and I think people would have enjoyed reading the story of what happened that year. I would.
Or call up some of the riders who competed, get some audio clips of the highlights of each year. That would be awesome!
Rampage inspires us because it's full of so many moments where mountain biking progressed beyond what we thought possible. Where riders tried things hoping they would work, hoping they were even possible; and sometimes they were and sometimes they weren't. Let's get the story of Gee's line, his injury trying it and all the riders who took that bar and raised it. Let's get the story of the canyon gap Mcgazza flipped, from first hits to Tom's front flip and Sam's superman. People are still in awe of the Bender Sender from the original event but very few people were paying attention to how it all went down back then.
I just feel like there's a lot more mileage you can get out of Rampage than this photo epic.
There's a sick side shot out there of Reed sending his huge booter last year too.
So much good stuff out there. Still bummed that this year got canceled. Bummed for us and bummed for the guys that were looking forward to riding it this year.
Would love to see some flashbacks to the first editions.
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