I’d quite like to see the little slopestylists as well as the Darnhillerists all digging for a couple of days prior to the main event, they must all be able to imagine a line and dig it in, it’s not like they got into MTB/BMX or whatever and just happened to have a ridiculous park full of huge ramps and dirt jumps round the corner from their Nan’s house is it?
They will have started off in the sport by digging their own trails, I think it would be quite nice to have one event where viewers get to see what happens when you remove the professional course designer and $50k worth of timber and leave some professional Gnarly bicyclerists in the desert with enough water and some shovels…
It’s not that I don’t like Slopestyle comps, its just I think the Rampage should actually be a wee bit different, as for getting sponsors logos in shot, well they don’t need a chuffing great wooden kicker for that. plenty of well placed windbreaks, banners, riders and hangers-on all over the place, covered in Logos will remind us all to go buy the correct brands of caffinated dogs piss, pricey sunglasses and easily bent Deraileurs…