Tomorrow morning live on ESPN+ at 10:30am mountain time.
Live on Redbull TV outside the US.
Kyle Strait already out with broken T4-6. In surgery now to stabilize T6.
https://cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/big-h...-bull-rampage/
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Tomorrow morning live on ESPN+ at 10:30am mountain time.
Live on Redbull TV outside the US.
Kyle Strait already out with broken T4-6. In surgery now to stabilize T6.
https://cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/big-h...-bull-rampage/
Ooof, bummer about strait.
Semenuk's drop in off the top is bonkers. And I saw some pov clip from tmac. He's hitting massive drops and jumps on like a singletrack width trail. Zero margin for error.
I am conflicted about Rampage.
No one forcing these athletes to do this, but hard to watch what will almost guaranteed become life impacting/threatening injuries for these guys. I’ll still be watching though!
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Another view. Insane.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRHCxf5y/
what in the absolute fuck is that drop in
RIP my productivity tomorrow
I think it's in the Brett Tippie video on PB where Semenuk said a couple of other riders were contemplating that drop-in, but decided it wasn't for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by adrenalated
My day is gone tomorrow. I had plans to get soooo much done!
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I find it hard to watch as well. I met Paul Bas the year before his rampage injury. Super nice humble guy, hard to reconcile with the injury he had and that he can't do what he loves anymore. I'll watch highlights, but not anything live.Quote:
Originally Posted by VTskibum
^Same
I think it’s a super cool event but honesty have no interest in watching it live.
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Quite an interesting topic which I think we have discussed before, but honestly don't remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
Is not watching the event live driven by not wanting to support the dangerous level competition rampage has reached or not wanting to see carnage? Or both? Apologies for the double negatives... too lazy to fix it right now
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More about not wanting to see massive carnage, for me.
Also I'm just not that interested in the slopestyle riding and big jumps anymore. If Rampage was more about riding gnarly natural lines I'd be more interested. But it's gotten so far beyond any sort of riding I'd ever do myself I just don't care anymore.
Vibes. Were you a competitor?Quote:
Originally Posted by skinipenem
IMHO, the early years where everything was raw were way sketchier. Riders going OTB stuffing into soft landings, washing out in piles of duff and falling off cliffs, etc. Calling it a slopestyle contest doesn't feel fair, either. Like FWT you can't win without tricking, but your line drives the score and all of these lines are completely ridiculous. Tricks are also a safer way to boost scores because the riders are are at the physical limits of what's possible. Finally, the athletes are 100% driving the format/style now, so I'm happy to just let them do their thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
Covid booster+flu yesterday. Feel like crap and took the day off, getting to watch live is a nice silver lining. Andreu got underscored, his chute was nuts!
Stark on deck!
Things evolve and change. Some get that, some don't.
Everything that's going on today with Rampage is so much bigger and farther than when it was originally started and it's not just the riding, it's the building too. You can't go that big without preparing the take offs and landings. That's where the sport and even trail construction has been driven and sort of morphed into. I think it's fucking rad.
You can definitely tell where someones riding is at or where it had stopped growing at from their comments on these sorts of things. I'm getting old but I'm not stopping trying to progress my skills set, I just do it now at slow and safe sort of pace. I sure as hell ain't trying to do any of these super hero stunts but I'm thankfully not stuck in a rut either.
sucks that the live broadcast isn't free anymore
Go Carson Stortch, hometown Bend boy
Been a little glitchy too with a few long and annoying commercials.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tap
Reed Boggs' hot mic FTMFW.
With this incoming storm not sure this wind is going to stop
Yeah that's kinda what I'm thinking. Only seven riders are opting in for a second run if they can.
Seems likely only increasing winds through tomorrow though. Comp might be over.
edit: Now down to four.
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Originally Posted by Pinkbike live updates
Dunzo. They were kind of due for wind issues, they've had really good luck the last few years but it's windy all the time down there.
??? care to paraphrase?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Seconded!
Fuck the mother fucking wind?Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
For the mutha fuckin win. Yeah I’d have loved to hear all of them on their lines.
They almost should make it a 2 day event, 2 mornings. Wind has been calmest in the mornings
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Talking to himself in full overstoke mode the whole way down. I'm sure it will be a clip soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
The size of the drop is very important to these judges. The chutes should get a little more score for my taste but the riding was very rad.
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Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by grinch
Rampage is awesome and the riding is next level, but the broadcast is hard to watch. Wind holds and long gaps between riders meant it was a 4 hour broadcast to get ~20 riders down the hill once. That's a bit much. Especially when the dead space is taken up by Sal Masakela blathering on.
Regardless, super fun to watch. The top guys are really on a different level.
That long wait part definitely played apart in my thinking. Some amazing runs, Rheeder was very close to perfection, but the wait after dampened the excitement. I think they have cancellation days planned anyway so as is the actual day of the big show could vary. Itd be more likely to go off 2 mornings. The night after the first run gives the media plenty of hype clicks. Chances are the riders are even more dialed after sleeping on their 1st runQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
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Kyle Straight is up and walking! That was great too see that update from his wife on instagram.
that's really great news! so incredibly scary to hear about unstable spinal injuries...I went through a multiple stable compression fractures in my vertebrae a lot of years ago and it was a long road back to normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
God no. No where near that level mountain biking. However, I might have missed the sarcasm phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
I am stoked that the riding is athlete driven at this point.
Two days would be better. The wind factor seems to come into play every year.
Hopefully Kyle Strait can make a full recovery. [emoji120]
It is utterly impressive how many years some of the riders have competed at rampage. Relatively, long careers for such a high risk sport.
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Sounds like he burst fractured the T6 and compression fractured the other 2 then. They get you walking pretty quickly after that surgery, I had the same thing happen with a T12 burst fracture that required surgery and I compression fractured 2 others about 7 weeks ago. They had me walking 2 days post surgery, I’m guessing he got sent to the same trauma 1 SLC hospital that I went to as most all the Utah spine surgeons have to operate there or U of U. He’s in good handsQuote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
Thanks for the intel. You've got an incredibly appropriate user name to be talking about spinal fractures.Quote:
Originally Posted by fantastic_damage
Haven't watched the broadcast yet, but stoked to. Interesting to hear that about the pacing. From my perspective, the spacing between runs felt just about right for everyone to reset, and get the media circus moved from one vantage point to another. Much faster pacing and I'd be a little worried about folks not clearing out of the way fast enough, or missing shots. But it really is a circus, and it could be a lot better choreographed.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Friggin hyped on Stark's build team dragging out the rail, really made my day.
And Semenuk's drop was just absolutely nutty. There's such an interesting spectrum of features up there, from: "I would totally hit this with a few beers and a tow-in" to "never ever, ever, ever, not even on skis on a perfect pow day." And for me at least, Semenuk's drop in falls into the later category for sure.
Yeah, semenuk's drop in was insane.Quote:
Originally Posted by cydwhit
Like, everything at rampage is insane, but massive drops and huge jumps have kinda become standard. Semenuk's drop in was the only terrain feature from the last handful of rampages where I was just giggling and yelling holy shit at the TV. Tricks are cool, and rheeder made it look effortless, but terrain features like semenuk's are just on a different level. People say they want rampage to be less like slopestyle, and semenuk's line was exactly that - burly and technical.
Edit: also, I thought stark's rail was goofy. I generally don't agree with all the people that are saying rampage is just turning into a slopestyle course, but if people start dragging rails out there, then yeah. Kinda getting slopestyley.
Fair enough. If it had been anyone other than Stark I'd have rolled my eyes at that thing. But his whole attitude towards the event, and then that surprise rail, that I'm sure the organizers wouldn't have allowed if they'd known about it, felt really "freeride" in that raw, old school sense, where folks were figuring out what was possible, what was fun, what was attainable, and what was worth pursuing.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Like, it almost feels like there's a formula for Rampage that a LOT of people followed, trying to play this game for the judges where they figure out a line that has the right mix of burly tech and jumps they can trick. And Stark being super up front that he's scared of heights, and uncomfortable on the top of the course, but also being anti-establishment enough to smuggle an illicit feature onto the course that played to his background and strengths was pretty cool. IDK, I'm pretty into wildcard moves at Rampage, and at freeride events generally. Gap the on-off features, drag a rail onto the course in the dead of night and bury it so you can whip it out when it's too late for the rent-a-cops all over the course can do anything about it. Get weird!
I guess. I dunno. Seems like every year at rampage there's someone who tries to do some sort of "outside the box" feature. There's been a few variations on an open loop sort of jump, various wall ride type things, etc. Some of them kinda work, most of them don't. And none of them seem to score particularly well.
So I guess credit goes to them for mixing it up and trying something different. But rampage is what it is for a reason. It's a venue that's all about drops and jumps and gnar. So bringing in a street course obstacle seems kinda silly. But then again, maybe inviting a guy that's afraid of heights and mostly wants to ride street course obstacles was also kinda silly. At least it went better than when they invited Rogatkin.
Edited to make incoherent rant less painful to read:
The judging should be fixed.
It’s too slow and bogs down the whole event.
Nobody understands how it’s judged which means everyone’s constantly feeling robbed.
And make it a two day event.