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.
Sorge, had BIG plans for the finals in 2012
Cam McCaul has some big balls sending the canyon gap
Kyle Strait's massive no hander
Lacondeguy going huge off the wooden step up.
McGazza waking up to some early morning hip.
Nico Vink going flat out
Brendog finally sending the canyon gap he started in 2012
R-Dog reppin' his all-American paint
Vink putting his own stamp on Gee Atherton's line lower down on the track.
Kelly McGarry getting inverted.
Throwing down: Aggy sending it. 57 feet. Almost 20 meters. And a suicide no hander.
Graham Agassiz dropping in big time.
Mike Montgomery whipping for the crowds.
Brendan Fairclough had his canyon gap dialled.
Kelly McGarry's huge canyon flip.
Winning run, winning move from Kyle Strait in 2013.
In 2014 Tom Van Steenbergen was the first to guinea pig the canyon gap and hit it nearly perfect.
Kelly McGarry soaring off a hip high on the upper ridge.
Gulllevich hitting the on-off step down.
Mitch whipping it out in qualies.
Kyle's massive 2014 no hander drop.
Zink's 360 off the big drop.
Brandon with his signature style.
Tom VanSteenbergen's attempt at a front flip over the canyon gap.
Andreu Lacondeguy drops into his finals run.
Remy Metailler coming down his run with a ribbon of smoke following him.
R Dog with a ridgeline no hander.
Reece Wallace spinning.
Graham Agassiz guinea pigging his start drop during the first run of qualifying.
Robbie Bourden going huge.
Claw, cracking tables.
R Dog was throwing down the style.
Remi Metailler throwing the suicide no-hander across the canyon gap.
Brett Rheeder's slopestyle influence really brought a lot of different style to Rampage with a trick fueled line.
Kurt Sorge stomping his winning 2015 Rampage run.
T-Mac boosting down the mountain.
Antoine Bizet blasting through the moto whoops.
Tommy G dropping off the end of the fin.
Aggy going airborn.
Carson Storch with a dirt exhaust tail soaring off the ridge.
Brett Rheeder flat drop flipping on the lower mountain.
The Claw feels the G's.
Brandon Semenuk on a flat spin midway down and on his way to his second win at Rampage in 2016.
Spot the rider.
TVS signature front flip radness.
Godziek tucking up and landing a massive front flip.
Brendog adding some steeze to the bottom half of his run.
Brendan Fairclough took tenth and the Kelly McGarry Spirit Award in 2018.
Nell hucks perhaps the sketchiest build on the hill featuring a kicker on a fractured piece of cliff.
T-Mac threading the needle on his big drop.
Nose bonkin'.
TVS going huge in morning practice.
Cam Zink with a gargantuan front flip over his canyon gap.
Brandon Semenuk threw down a textbook first run last year. When the dust had settled, no one could best his 92.33
Kyle Strait sends a massive suicide near the top of his run.
Brendog backflips his canyon gap.
Emil Johansson took 12th at his first Rampage.
Andreu sandstorming his way into the upper steeps of his first run.
Victory lap for Semenuk.
Brendog conquering Dwayne Johnson.
Semenuk putting the icing on the cake for Rampage 2019 on his victory lap.
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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.