Risk, Reward and Rampage: Degree of Difficulty - Video

Oct 23, 2017
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51 Comments
  • 158 0
 These videos of Cam explaining things are awesome!
  • 23 0
 There should be more!! And we should get more chances to see the guy ride too, it's always good watchin
  • 19 0
 Agreed. Very well put together. More please.
  • 5 0
 the best ever
  • 4 0
 Cam is the man.
Does anyone have a link to his RF Freeride challenge submission video?
Haven't seen it in years.
  • 1 0
 Cam for mtb president
  • 1 0
 I love em !!! I could watch this for hours!
  • 90 0
 Red bull's way of telling the haters to shut up about this being a slopestyle contest. The features are enormous and that top part is pretty damn raw no matter how you ride it. Stoked for Rampage!
  • 14 7
 No one is saying it isn't gnarly anymore...but it is certainly a hell of a lot less raw. Old rampage footage looks like amateur hour, when it reality it was often more challenging as the landings weren't dug out... The real hero here is Cam Mccaul...he's the only reason many of us can stomach watching rampage with audio, otherwise we are stuck in SPEED WHEELIE purgatory
  • 4 8
flag adrennan FL (Oct 24, 2017 at 9:49) (Below Threshold)
 @nvranka: cedric's talk basically said it isn't gnarly haha
  • 5 0
 @nvranka: If the top guys today took on the old rampage courses they would make some of the stuff look like nothing. A high point line back then isn't what it is today. Not to say what they were doing back then wasn't gnarly, it was, but there's no doubt that the technical factor has greatly progressed.
  • 55 3
 The rock didn't stand up afterwards, pu**y
  • 24 1
 The rock also didn't soldier on and send a 72 ft gap.
  • 47 0
 Here is to hoping all of this years riders head home in one piece!
  • 15 0
 Amazing commitment and skill from the riders who ride Rampage and other big hit stuff. I love how the guy makes some killer jumps in his ride at the end, even doing a loop, but bails out on on one section. Gives you an idea of how extreme some of the lines are. And to think that I feel awesome if I get a foot off the ground on my local trails - HAHAH!
  • 11 0
 yeah loved when the guy did a loop. haha seriously tho yeah they are mental!
  • 15 1
 yeah, siiiiiiiick loop
  • 15 0
 So smart @redbull - these videos are great and explain it to even guys like me who have been watching since 2001.
  • 10 0
 even tho I miss cam as a competitor, his work as an event commentator has been the biggest blessing to the sport since the invention of dual suspension bikes !
  • 5 0
 He got Rachel's race bike or is this a production color? Works nicely with those orange forks.

Always nice to watch this guy. Funny at times yet still so smooth over this kind of terrain.
  • 1 0
 Cam McCaul has a long history of making freeride vids. See NWD 6, 7, 8, 9, The Collective, Roam, Seasons, Follow Me... There are more.
  • 2 0
 Yeah, uh, he's qualified first place in this event before. This dude is most competitors role model.
  • 2 0
 instagram.com/p/BaZDSzOHQhy
  • 4 0
 That was brilliant! One of the best vids ive seen on pinkbike or anywhere.Ive always admired these young lads commitment and apparent lack of fear,but this really puts it perspective.Utterly mental,cant wait for this years comp!
  • 5 2
 Cool video but so frustrating when they are zooming the camera over the lip of that drop and stop in not one but two shots without showing you the actual transition at the bottom. Clearly shot and edited by people who don't ride themselves because looking over the edge of the lip to the landing is the thing that gives you the biggest sense of scale and that's what I imagine we all wanted to see so we can imagine what that would be like.
  • 6 0
 Comparison with 3D was awesome!
  • 5 0
 My hands and feet got sweaty from watching this.
  • 5 0
 Knees weak, arms are heavy?
  • 5 0
 @tornateo: vomit on his sweater already?
  • 3 0
 It's been fun to 'grow up' with Cam, Clay, Zink, Strait, and others I'm missing. All about my age, staying in the sport and starting families, mad respect!
  • 1 0
 I love watching Rampage, but can't avoid the feeling that this is some modern sort of gladiator games, and that people are seriously risking there lives for money and glory and for us the spectators. Can't forget Paul Bassgotia's crash. and really don't know how many others suffer the severe consequences of this game.
  • 4 4
 2 years ago I pitched Red Bull this idea. I literally said, use school buses to show scale. Unless you have been there its impossible to grasp the steepness and scale of these jumps.
  • 31 0
 I'm pretty sure Evil Knievel pitched this idea in 1975 when he jumped over 14 buses.
  • 1 0
 @bikekrieg: yeah, that was part of the pitch. Evil did it.
  • 2 0
 yeah cam explain it very well
  • 1 0
 Very cool. That little hop in at 3:25 was sweet. What happened to Part 1. Did I miss it?
  • 2 0
 Found it. Duh
  • 2 0
 I simply love Cam, him and Tippie are the best in our sport
  • 2 0
 I have a black screen i just hear the sound Frown
  • 4 0
 It looked great, really.
  • 1 0
 @erlkonig: ahhahahaha it sounds great its all i can say
  • 2 0
 Cam basically explained as a rider you don't see anything until the point of no return. If you do a 360 from the step down like the other Cam, you don't see anything until your landing. So if you weren't seeing anything, that must have been how the riders experience it too.
  • 1 1
 Wind is going to end the Rampage events.. year after year its a royal pain in the ass! Did you see the early vid of them prepping this year? not worth it boys!
  • 2 0
 That was awesome, great job Cam
  • 1 0
 Hope they show these video's to the judges
  • 1 0
 Crazy!!!
  • 1 0
 Well done cam!
  • 1 0
 *Claw
  • 1 0
 That Session looks cool
  • 1 0
 very nice







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