Video: Red Bull Rampage 2015 – Kurt Sorge and Andreu Lacondeguy first and second

Despite the fact that the final was brought forward thanks to threatened weather, there was some astonishing riding yesterday at the Red Bull Rampage.

Kurt Sorge came top with this awesome run, which is spoiled somewhat by dint of the GoPro going wonky half way through. Fine, fine stuff nonetheless:

And in a much more watchable ThirdPerson-O-Tron, here’s Andreu Lacondeguy’s startlingly impressive second place:

Whatever you’re riding this weekend……it’ll seem just that little bit more puny after this.

Sorry.

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.