Video: Top 3 Runs from Red Bull Rampage 2022
 | This year marked the 16th edition of the legendary freeride mountain bike event and Red Bull Rampage 2022 did not disappoint. Canadian Brett Rheeder triumphed on a near perfect day in Virgin, Utah, with a run that combined technical trick mastery with pure flow. Watch Rheeder's winning run in the video player above. The judging panel awarded Rheeder a score of 90.66 on his first and only run down the mountain. Szymon Godziek finished as the runner-up with a score of 86.33 and taking home third place and the last podium spot was Brandon Semenuk with a score of 84.00. |
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Hardline is very different though. So difficult to compare - but how lucky are we to have two awesome events
The fact Semenuk didn’t do any digging, the fact this venue has a lot of slow traverse link sections and the fact that Szymon Godziek should have won... and the fcuking wind...
The main problem is they waste the good weather, doing replays and boring interviews and scoring between each rider. Which ends up making it very long and boring.
Start earlier
Score after all first runs are complete.
@scott-townes:
It’s tricky but it’s just how it works out. Most years the wind isn’t an issue, but sometimes it is, and we just have to deal with it
The camera work looked straight up amateur at times.
LINE matters! By going wayyy riders right along the ridge, canyon gappers skip the heart of the gnarliest and steepest part of the venue, and that reflects in the judging. Honestly Godzi scoring as high as he did over there is a huge testament to how gnarly his in-run 360 to canyon flip really was.
Take a look in the mirror. Do you really think you know more about this than:
Bearclaw
Bender
Watts
Kyle J
Spangler
Come on.
So watched the top 3 again just now. Godziek is the clear winner. He’s killing it, sadly the Judges are killing Rampage
Regarding Rampage getting boring: it's just the riders progressing so much that they make this kind of stuff much easier, just stoked on their precision of getting everything on point, huge respect for them
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Give your collective heads a shake and rewatch what the F just occurred and imagine yourself dropping off a cliff on an angle most steerer tubes have on your front fork knowing you might die falling down the cliffside.
2 almost left us in practice, I still have not heard anything about Kyle yet and I gotta say I'm scared shitless about his condition. The rest made it look so easy I think most of the weekend warriors here think they too can ride it all less the tricks.... good luck with that I'll save a room at Belleview for the brave.
I salute every person who attended, dug, rode, announced and made the event successful. Look back 2 decades and see a handful of devoted mountain bikers trying to build something that they might not even be able to ride with no reward. 1st place in the RBR year one was $2,500.00. I think Bourdo won a grande and blew it in Jamaica on rum. My point is the community has turned Red Bull Rampage into the penultimate event of the year drawing in the top dogs who lay it ALL on the hill. Some devote the entire year preparing even moving to the desert.......and for what? money?.... that's a joke just look at the past and see the trail of broken riders who lost it all for what?=To be loved and respected by their fellow riders doing what they live for and I must say reading the comments here depresses the f*ck out of me.I think most here take it all for granted. Will not surprise me to see the event ended by the destruction from within.
This is mountain biking in it's finest glory built and produced by the community. Announced by past heroes built by and for the people we want to see dropping off the starting plank.
Support and love what is happening. Do not piss it away with unwarranted comments from behind a laptop ruminating about some minutia that bothers them like someone's voice or a drone whizzing by.
thanks for the ear.
GODZIEK's run gave me goose bumps which is what I want to see from this event.
I wait all year for it and the riders never disappoint.
I do agree that time between runs could be tighter together to keep the hype going and also move the interview/bike checks to the build up would make a better rounded profile for the riders and dig crews who we invest time to.
Bringing in rider guests,past contestants in to commentate, share there views would keep the breaks going to.
Also don't skip the podiums either! That's what the people want.
Ps I know they won't read this but hay hoo
Anyways, glad everyone is safe and that we still got rampage. Props to stark for doing his own thing
...ready for the down votes...
As for the idea that taking a break for a few years will somehow freshen up the event or how riders approach it – are you serious? Do people honestly believe that riders will just forget how to do tricks (or keep learning them) or how to build massive features they can link together. Or maybe tricks will no longer somehow be cool. Maybe they can introduce random trick bans like mogul ski contests had back in the day. I’d love to see the mountain bike equivalent of a double daffy. The only way this could ever return to being the “core” event that some people seem to want it to be is to drop the riders off at the bottom of some random Utah hill and tell them they have ½ a day to scope a line and then ride down it. Personally I have no interest in seeing that.
I´m sure hes a good moto rider but that ride looked lame compared to the competition.
[awaits flaming]
At the end of the day there's only so big you can go before it gets too silly so they've got to start tricking the bigger features. Once you've done all you can on a dual crown then you need to spin/whip to stay ahead of the rest.
Ever get the feeling Rampage is fixed??
Let's not forget, we've bitched about the old guard - Sorge, Strait, etc. - getting overscored in past years for this same thing. Be careful what you wish for!