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@litany: lmfao wtf i cant believe the board approved that acquisition. im reminded often the CEO is sometimes the idiot posterchild for what is otherwise a super incompetent stupid board that's not actually invested in the product/service in any way and they're sometimes just there for a stint before they hop onto the next company they want to drain

yo getting the helmet from semenuk thats gotta be insane

lmao wtf semenuk is full of surprises

wonder if the backlash was different in person at the event. at least here, in the premiere im-not-on-my-bike-and-im-talking-shit location of the internet i dont think anyone really has qualms about the event cancellation. we could see the wind owning people that got runs in, so at least here in this little bubble called pink bicycle i think everyone was largely supportive. if anything, people are just frustrated at this all-or-nothing approach to organizing when the storm was on the radar for like a week and the multi gajillion dollar marketing company masquerading as some kind of liquid beverage supplier had zero latitude to move the event around. riders and their diggers worked like f*cking crazy to build out their stuff and then they just gotta fly home because i don't fkn know why. absolutely nobody needs to sell us on accepting any safety reasoning here, this is literally your home of "rampage should be cancelled forever after life-changing injuries and redbull needs to step the fuck up and insure these riders". all of us here on pinkbike fucking hates how redbull has historically moved through these things. they couldve waited, extended rider/digger/event staff stays, recorded and not done the whole live thing. they couldve sent everyone home and said come back in a week after the storm passes. but the rigid "its joever everyone go home" was ofc a disappointment to everyone. i want the organizers to own that heat and just accept that: it was a disappointing way to manage the event. just own it and be cooler next year and plan in more contigency protocols. whoever in another thread was hoping for dads rootbeer rampage next time, yea. i'm kinda getting there i just had one from costco so let's do that. kirkland signature rampage would also f*ckin slap

@ecologist: i think competition is a sore spot for him that cornered him into thinking he had to win forever in order to have a career. when he exited it definitely was on a high note and i think it's just one of those things that can crush certain types of people. i vividly remember him being neck and neck with semenuk for a while and countless times he came behind him in comp, and i think he was super hard on himself in those moments. if the guy is anything like me, sometimes revisiting an old world is scary. but this could be good for him. competition also started changing fiercely by the end of his run, and it's possible he looks back at it with a heavy heart feeling like it would've killed him to try and keep up and yeah. maybe he's just damn terrified of being sucked back into some sort of competition because it brought him to some rough places mentally, but being around it could totally get him hyped again. impossible to say. if anyone here has ever invested a ton of their life into something and now no longer does that, you probably are familiar with how you still carry that with you. we see this kind of stuff all the time with former ice skaters and former world champions of other sports, i'm gonna guess it's really hard to find peace and meaning in life again. i dont think it's awkward at all, i think bretts a human being. i think it showed that this was a difficult decision for him to make, but he's taking a leap to be around a world that may have brought him a lot of self doubt and grief in the past and he's doing that for tommy g. and that's actually pretty cool

only been to CGP once but damn those were some good runs they built out there.

everyone says this kinda nonsense until they stand at the drop of one of the "slopestyle" lines.

that track looks so fkn fun when he exited the berm and took another route wtf

idk but i think brandon got a flat at 4:14

@kanioni: yea this bike specifically had one of the first flippy chips too for the shorter chainstay it was fuckin awesome i had the highlighter yellow one it really didnt feel much different than park bikes today ive been looking to get another bike park rig and im like... actually looking back in the past here. older sessions before they all went 29, commencal supreme v3s, i dunno. as far as being dumb and jumping off shit at bike parks i just havent been convinced any modern park-ish rigs are doing jack diddly squat that much differently then they were 10 years ago