Want to know how your favourite riders are getting along at Red Bull Rampage 2021? Brett Tippie heads out on the mountain to check out the progress they're making on their lines and get the inside scoop on what's planned for finals.
He follows the same instagram page as me, called @dadsaysjokes. It's full of extremely low quality content to make even the worst dad jokes cringe. Half the posts I get suggested from them show him liking them.
@nikifor88: Q: "What's worse than when it rains cats and dogs?" (=really heavy rain) A: "Hailing taxis" (hail is ice rain, hailing a taxi is when you wave to the driver to stop so you can get a ride)
Love seeing Tippie back out there doing his thing. No one knows these guys like he does and can speak from experience the way he does. Stoked to watch the insanity go down!!!!
Tippie is burly everywhere, even his head! Probably how he survived the freeirde pioneer years. He was always the rider leaking blood and going back up for more.
I have no sense whether Brage's line is gonna be mind-blowing or a disappointing meander down the mountain. I hope he at least makes top 10 so he can come again. Lots of potential in that guy.
I just hope he has a full run, but judging from his x games edit i fear his more of a one feature at a time kind of freerider.
slopestyle guys are more accustomed to doing full runs.
@Zuman: I don't know about that, the way he attacked the hardline course was pretty rad. It might be different with tricks, but there's no doubt he rides at 110% on gnarly terrain
Showing the build and practice as prelude to the event is so much better when it’s mixed in with the banter between Tippie and the riders. It’s good to hear them speak to someone they respect and they’ll give genuine replies to. A regular talking head couldn’t get that from them. The long lens shots of Brett tripping out on the scale of the site was really cool too… good to see some creativity on the directors part. Great content.
I am stoked for this. But....Someone in my office scheduled a Laboratory Information Systems planning meeting on Friday at 11am. I think it's time we office-based mountain enthusiasts stage a BIG DATA RAMPAGE on Friday morning. "Uh, yeah Carl, I've been thinking about sending the scanned barcode data off the the big server, flipping it to anonymize, then running a "whole health integrated prediction" (WHIP) algorithm. Then we merge with VCH's downstream workflow where we do a huge "drop to flat file" but then split off before it goes to Sunquest and instead finish by sharing Fraser Health's front end where the data will do an opposite flip and "barcode spin" for the end user. Yes I know it's complicated but I think the team, who are digging really hard, can accomplish it with a lot of style"
About time you lot at Pinkbike realised that us mere mortals like to see gods like Tippie at events and showing us stuff. Rampage wouldnt be the same without that crazy old guy roaming round cracking dad jokes. And the sooner you realise that he should be back doing "just the Tip" at Crankworx the better. Christina is good but no one can replace Tippie!
It would be crazy to see a rider just drop in on a totally raw line, no build outs, nothing, and make it down to the bottom in one piece- that would be sick.
Anyone else think altering a natural landscape on public lands for a 1-day event, to build features the general public will never ride, is wrong? Or, cash is king, bulldoze it…
I feel ya absolutely, but you know after walking the course and looking at the landscape, it seemed like it's all just going to melt back into it's natural form over time
@dmackyaheard: Na, I wouldn’t attempt to hit those lines even if someone was holding a gun to my head. I would have better chances surviving the gunshot than making it from top to bottom in one piece.
Q: "What's worse than when it rains cats and dogs?" (=really heavy rain)
A: "Hailing taxis" (hail is ice rain, hailing a taxi is when you wave to the driver to stop so you can get a ride)
“I bought some shoes the other day from a drug dealer. I dunno what they’re laced with but damn I’ve been trippin’”
The long lens shots of Brett tripping out on the scale of the site was really cool too… good to see some creativity on the directors part.
Great content.
Rampage wouldnt be the same without that crazy old guy roaming round cracking dad jokes.
And the sooner you realise that he should be back doing "just the Tip" at Crankworx the better.
Christina is good but no one can replace Tippie!
There
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