Throwback Thursday - Gee Atherton's Bonkers 2010 Rampage Wall Ride
THROWBACK THURSDAY
By 2010 the level of skill, the bikes the competitors were riding and the amount of risk everyone was willing to take had all reached new highs at the Red Bull Rampage. This trend of bigger, better and more saw Gee Atherton create a hipped stepdown to wall ride that required massive amounts of skill and commitment to jump cleanly. Luckily, a racer like Gee has skill oozing from his every pore and toppled many a freerider with his high-speed run. Hitting his massive jump during his finals run, Gee's skills were good enough to land him a second place finish behind Cameron Zink but just in front of Darren Berrecloth.
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Of course, having been of the opinion that rampage wasn't right somehow, and living a twelve hour drive away from the site of rampage I decided to see for myself.
For one thing, Google maps will give you directions straight to the end gate. So that was fun. For another, I've only been to Utah for all of 8 hours and it's gorgeous.
Anyways, HOLY F@$#!!!!
So now I'm still trying to pry my foot out of my mouth, however, I still absolutely agree that seeing more technical lines would be just as enjoyable as seeing big air being thrown off of a razors edge. Cam Zink's run and Aggy's from last year are my favorite of all time, just those wild descents...
Since there are so many other slopestyle contests I still rather see the raw tech steep lines.
Still love those frames though.
Or does someone here just hate commencal? For f#&@'s sake people
THIS was pure f*cking RAMPAGE, as was Gee's second place for a pure race run with not one trick
undeniable
didn't somebody rip his forks in half the year after???
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1NyDxyFf9s
The speed he had on the upper ridge was crazy. He jumped strait from a cliff on his right after that, still at mach speed. A big drop in the middle, some more air time and this stunt that broke every one who tried it this year was the icing on the cake.
47 sec (if i remember) of pure flow style and maximum commitment.
Forever a winner run.
Forever a fan of Gee from this moment.
Look at Gee's run again compared to others and look at how big he went, so smoothly on so many features. The issue is that when you are that smooth, the features where you triple what others are doubling just look plain. Gee also did it, not off a wooden feature (are we not lucky that the wooden era seems to be over, shame it has been replaced with the sandbag and smooth era)
Sick of people only showing things in slomo. It’s great an’ all but show it in real-time too, ‘cos slomo NEVER gets across the speed these guys are hitting it at. Many thanks.