Arrrggghhhh..... Rampage shouldn't be about "tricks" with the cliffs turned into groomed slopestyle courses, it should be about crazy, shady lines that only a handful of people can get down, let alone trick. Must be getting old
Gee, Vink, Romo, etc were awesome to watch at Rampage each for slightly different reasons but they don't stand a chance when every top 10 run has a flip or 3 some where. The lines of days gone by were so sketchy if you did a flip or 3 it meant you had crashed and were rag dolling! Nothing compares to seeing a WC DH rider (Vink, Gee, Freeracer) schleying Rampage or a good old fashioned hucker (Romo, Hopkins)
in Dota 2 (a videogame), for the biggest tournament of the year the organizer put 1.6 million dollara and the community about 16 millions more. we might give redbull a hand and contribute with some price money @redbullbike
Can't wait for it. This year will be crazy if some of the FEST- guys will compete against the FMB guys. It might be quiet interesting to see Viny T an Laconde..... ride against Semenuk and Zink...
on the other hand I'm quiet scared because I can't imagine that they will decrease the size of the jumps like the ones from Malmedy.... so it's kind of getting really scary, even watchint it on the inet.let's hope that there won't be any collateral damage...
Wonder what crazy line Zinky winky will produce at rampage in October? Same goes for Van Steenburger gunning to land that front flip this time round... Also there's the FEST boys (notably Laconsteezeguy and Aggy).. and there's Semen.
God it's going to be an interesting one this year with the line up of riders emulating & bigging up their lines for glory!
Couple of years ago I was getting excited in the run up to rampage, posting clips on my Facebook. (think it was Zinks flip bail) My mum saw them an asked "is that what you do?" I laughed an said " that's a hundred times what I do"
Redbull pulled in 5,000,000,000 in 2014.
Purse for Rampage winner (who could just as easily die or be paralyzed while they make Redbull more disgustingly rich) is less than 10k.
I know the riders WANT to compete, but if they all just stood their ground a little bit, Redbull would loosen the purse strings I bet.
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God it's going to be an interesting one this year with the line up of riders emulating & bigging up their lines for glory!
I laughed an said " that's a hundred times what I do"
She bought me a leatte.......