15 Bikes of Red Bull Rampage - Vote For Your Favourite

 Straight's is arguably the only good-looking bike in the whole feature, though the Canyon's OK too I suppose.

 This x1000

 @lacuna: The Commie is one of the best-looking frames on the market with those long straight tubes - and Strait's blue & white colour scheme is a breath of fresh air compared to most custom paint jobs.
Not sure about the fake rust bits, but it's still way better than the rest.

 I don't know man. Vinny T's Gambler gets my vote. Cleanest looking DH frame on the market.

 @BenTheSwabian: It's a great looking frame, for sure. Bit too murdered out though?

 Proper sucking Trek off as usual on here.

 I'm a sucker for Sessions with single crowns. Something about it just looks really good.

 I love the way it's a homage to old retro trucks but at the same time in old commencal colors!

 I thought Semenuk’s was the best-looking, but can’t vote for it as I feel the budget was not commensurate with most of the others’ bikes.

 @nofu: Looks like a Slash.

 I like the toned down feel of the Scott Gambler. Minimalistic branding.

 @chakaping: Kyle's FRS is soooo hot. I'm not a huge rust look fan, but Kyle's light patina spattering on turquoise blue is sexy. It really pays homage to the quality patina finishes that are so highly regarded in hot-rodding. What gives it the win IMO is that little detail on the top-tube by the stem that reads "rampage xx". if that isn't the most badass thing you've ever heard I don't know what is.

 Semenuk for the 26" wheel love

 I’m diggin the gambler Tbh, but I couldn’t agree more with the fanboy statement. The paint job on Kyle’s bike is pretty damn dope though.

 @jmhills: If I'm not mistaken Redbull's build video said it is a 26/27.5 mulleted bike. That isn't a unique setup out there besides the ZEB up front, which is a game-changer but not the first time Rampage has seen a single crown. At least half the competitors have one 26 on their bike, which makes sense when considering the implications of tire buzzing at this event.

 Disagree about strait's bike but strongly agree about the fanboys

 @jmhills: Literally half the compitition has a 26" rear

 The second I saw Strait's bike I fell in love. Would have been 11/10 if they painted the fork lowers to match the same way they did on Andreau's.

 Ehhh I liked Adreu's Patina style bike

 I wonder why the choice of the Avid Codes over SRAM Codes, I personally like the feel of the Avids better but interesting choice.

 Haha, that was my exact thought

 @chakaping: it is look good at the picture, in person those dropouts ugly AF, at least in previous iteration

 shhhhh

 That's quite an epiphany

 @Lloydmeister: For a Moment I thought some Rouge had switched the bikes over.

 2001 Kona Stinky

 I'm quite dedicated to Ellsworth at the moment, I dare say that this would make a good upgrade if it came in 26"

 That one is my favorite simply because it looks like the Ellsworth's and Kona's I wanted when I was growing up.

 Truth, God as my Witness...

 @jmhills: Indeed, I especially love the cnc work on the old Ellsworth bikes.

 Don't telle me, i'm Furious

 YT put Commencal on the Tues?

 Good catch, thanks. We'll let Sarah off as she's banging out stories for us at 3am!

 more cuirous about the the "supreme" idler now being used as a chain tensioner.

 @sack-zement:

 Don’t poop and scroll, sorry for the blank reply.

 @jamessmurthwaite: You should get Sorge's Evil correct too - it is an Insurgent, NOT a Wreckoning

 List should have been bikes only without saying who the owner was, although the single crown probably still takes it.

 yes, definetly different than the current model.

 looks like spectral

 Yeah, looks very similar to the Spectral 29, but with slightly different linkage arrangement.

 As a current Torque owner/lover, here are my observations:

- 27.5 wheels still (but who knows, Rampage seems to be the wild west of wrong wheels in bikes)
- New chainstay protection. On the underside of the CS too.
-The seatstay into yoke looks like one piece, only with a guide link?
- SRAM UDH
- Water bottle mounts
- Boss on the underside of the top tube, likely for a spectral style box (please god no)
- Approved for dual crown forks obviously
- Replaceable threaded insert for forward shock mount (always worried me)
- Shitty plastic headset top cover and spacers (if you follow spectral 29 problems, the lack of stiffness here causes cracking noises and steerer wear)
- The cable guide/downtube cover seems to have been thrown out for more traditional internal routing (actually was one of my favourite features)
- Looks like rear geometry adjust at the shock mount
- Rear end looks carbon, but i could be mistaken

 Bit weird not to use the Sender at the sendiest MTB event of the year too.

 Well that answers my question. That is by the looks of it the new or at least a prototype Torque. It looks 95% like a spectral, but the link is a bit bigger, and the seattstays go on the inside of the link instead of on the outside like the Spectral. Looks pretty cool with the double crown.

 @JoseMPM: The fact it says Torque on it should give it away

 Yes the fuzz is beautiful. The blue part could have been a little larger area wise, but in total it's the nicest for me. Those silver details everywhere, too good!

 Looks bitchen

 I came here to say the same thing. Maybe not that ALL of them are boring, but I think the WC designs were way cooler. It's not like the paint job REALLY matters, but I'm surprised that an event with massive media coverage, and especially with a smaller field of competitors, doesn't see them going all out on some rad bike visuals.

 @MuddyBrit: It would be cool to see world cup level $ support for Rampage and an international event series.
Greatest show on 2 wheels yet for some reason it feels low budget and malnourished as far as equipment, event structure, hype, purse. Rampage should be somewhat raw, just wish it was developed more than a yearly season-ender frankenbike spectacle.

 No frame sponsor.

 @chakaping: or that he's said he actually prefers the older frame.....

 @nojzilla: It does look better, but IIRC he doesn't have a frame sponsor now and the lack of branding would appear to support that.

 Looks totally "Retail ready"... even the photographer didn't mind and took the shot even if his hands were shaking...

 @chakaping: check the bike review video. He's says in his own words he prefers the ramp up of the older frame (before Gwin changed it for racing) he's working on frame designs for a potential sponsor atm

 P.S he did say too that he cracked it in his crash an they built up another.. so let's see what he drops in on...

 @chakaping: aha, missed that! shame that he's without a frame sponsor

 @valanidi: He's working on something with a new frame sponsor and he's not made himself the most attractive ambassador in the last couple years with his Stories. At least YT still flows him frames and I voted for his Old Black 26" TUES because it's cvlt AF even though I don't agree with some of his political views.

 @suspended-flesh: i see... being a social media ape (not on insta / fb etc) had no clue on that

 Its not a wreckoning. He's running an Insurgent frame which comes as a 27.5 rear. Sick looking rig! Love Evil

 @tex-avery: Correct PB got it Wrong! Insurgent v3

 Oh and the new Torque is not bad either. Even though kind of boring in that black finish

 I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned that yet. AXS DH review tomorrow?

 Why would that be a bad thing?

 So what? It's Rampage, nobody is pedaling these machines. Evils are just fancy linkage-driven single pivots, Yetis are really really fancy single pivots. The FRS/Furious, Torque, TR11, and Tues are also linkage-driven single pivots, constituting most of the field this year. Don't let the marketing of expensive brands fool you, most of the bike industry is on the same fundamentals.

 The V10 is more of a race bike than something for air ballet.

 YT's are nice... but they're always clapped out within 2 seasons. I've never witnessed a brand with such a propensity towards building absolute clapcycles. Nothing can compare to the bag-full-of-dimes sound their bikes make as they creak, clatter, and snap chainstays down the mountain. Used to like them, now I feel bad for every owner of one.

 Yeah, I’m going to run down to Walmart right now to pick one up and go send!