Decent crash from Bienvenido Aguado too… overshooting his big gap.
He's still hoping to manage a full top to bottom in practise too. Are these guys made out of something more malleable than the rest of us?
Are these guys made out of something more malleable than the rest of us?
Do you work for YT? 😆
In most other high risk sports , the first drop, testing etc is done off camera with no pressure
It's not though is it? It's 2023. People film themselves getting out of bed in the motel and driving to the venue. Absolutely no way you wouldn't film the first hit on a bit feature.
Absolutely no way you wouldn’t film the first hit on a bit feature.
Especially in ski/snowboard freeride vids. Banger trick into an untouched powder landing = gold.
FunkyDunc
This just shows the pressure from sponsors,
Brendan, like most of these guys, makes a lot of his money from social media, and he's posting this stuff for his own benefit, on his own channels that he monetises for himself. This kind of content is gold for him, no way he hit stuff without sharing, and if he crashes, he still shares it because it gets just as many views, maybe more
Christ, Brendan even posted a vid of himself after a crash at a world cup, off his tits on pain meds😁
That's nuts, hope he gets the score for it.
It's even more nuts that he's not the one doing it, and they both have ridden it now too -
Damn, looks like it’s going to be too windy to ride all day today. Which means lots of lost practice. Tomorrow is looking the the wind should stay down all day, but there’s going to be a lot of people who haven’t had as much practice as they’d like stringing features together. Wonder if they’ll push it to Saturday to add in practice tomorrow?
Damn, looks like it’s going to be too windy to ride all day today. Which means lots of lost practice. Tomorrow is looking the the wind should stay down all day, but there’s going to be a lot of people who haven’t had as much practice as they’d like stringing features together. Wonder if they’ll push it to Saturday to add in practice tomorrow?
That's a pity, spose pushing it runs the risk that it ends up being windy on Saturday and then they have to push it to Sunday.
The wider shot made that look almost tame, then the rider shot made me almost sprain my arsehole with clenching.
Genuinely made me laugh.
they should do it over a week, so theres a good day to do it with no wind.
Otherwise its a waste of time
Gee is out and about and wandering around Rampage!
Good to see, but either the injuries are 'relatively' minor as he said, he's stubborn as hell, or he's just nails.
Suspect it's more of the last two than the first.
Wonder if they’ll push it to Saturday to add in practice tomorrow?
As luck would have it, there's a solar eclipse on Saturday which affects a huge swathe of the mid west, including the Rampage site.
https://stateparks.utah.gov/activities/dark-sky/annular-solar-eclipse-october-14-2023/
So, what lights for sixty foot drops off cliffs?
Watched Ben Deakins latest vid last night, the whole vid was full of stuff that was nuts, the exposure looked nuts at the top
I give up trying to get this forum to work!
Brendan only just making it on to the top feature. On this vid the exposure looks non existent compared to Ben’s
Watching that video what scared me more than watching brendog doing the canyon gap was when he was running in and stopping on the take off. That video also does a good job of showing all the camaraderie between riders and diggers.
It's all just bloody amazing isn't it... i mean like REALLY incredible how they do it.
You start looking at some of the features and thinking "meh, it's not that big" later in the video but the reality is, even they are HUGE !!!! you can count the seconds they're in the air for.... you should never be able to count for that long in terms of flight 😀 😀
Got a huge soft spot for the Brendog team. Genuinely goosebumped when he landed the canyon and Ben and Ollie explode with relief and excitement 😊👌🙏🤘👍
So good to see the camaraderie such an extreme event brings. So bad to see any injuries so let's hope they're done with.
Got a huge soft spot for the Brendog team. Genuinely goosebumped when he landed the canyon and Ben and Ollie explode with relief and excitement
Absolutely. 🙂
Last time we were in DMR HQ for the day we were chatting with Mark the main man and he introduced Ollie as the 'tea boy', obviously i knew who he was but Mrs Weeksy was looking confused and was tempted to ask for a tea i think 😀 😀
I did explain who he was when i got a chance.
For some reason we always end up parked near Deaks at races in FoD and have a bit of a chat and banter as we're often at the top together with not many other adults if i'm racing too. But he always comes over as friendly, polite and just really enjoying himself. So seeing the bunch of them clearly having fun and a proper proper group spirit is absolutely brilliant.
I think I got more nervous when Brendan was testing the run up and warming up for the jump by pulling up short on the ramp. It would have only taken a brake fail or a bit of a slide to just plop over the edge into oblivion.😳
Gee back on site...
It's honestly just mind-blowing, that feature.
So, what lights for sixty foot drops off cliffs?
Magicshine 12,000 - "hold my beer"
LET’S GO!
i've had the countdown timer on TV since 1hr22 to go.... Mostly because we've lost the Amazon Firestick remote and i've now configured it to my phone as a remote and i don't want to drop the connection, so just leaving it running now 😀
Has it started yet? I'm still getting the countdown screen.
No. Due at 16.15
There's a player embedded in the Pinkbike homepage, in case anyone's looking for an easy way to view.
Just the intro guff at the moment, riding scheduled for 5pm apparently.
Yes but the first rider isn’t due to go til 5pm Uk time
Slightly disappointed they didn't call him Brendan Fairclaw this year.
Also live on YouTube:
And another vid from Brendog to kill 20 minutes while we wait:
Have to admit, that live drone footage looks amazing. It makes the stuff from the world cup look like it was filmed on a Nintendo Gameboy.
Go Dog!!!!!
What a run
Nervous whether he'd make it down safely but clean run...top lad!
That ridgeline at the top, skidding up to the edge… I was shitting myself! Unbelievable