Cheers

1130pm ish I think?

6pm on Redbull TV

It was 11:30 last night for the preshow (watch replay here:https://www.pinkbike.com/news/watch-now-red-bull-rampage-practice.html)

6:00pm BST tonight for the main event. Link here, or watch it on the app on your tablet/smartTV/etc

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tv/live/AP-1X5MRB3UH1W11/red-bull-rampage

Do they do a condensed highlights version later on for those of us with an aversion to American-style pundit-panel-chat and recaps?

😉

Cheers Guys, the beers are ready in the fridge for a friday evening of RAMPAGE 🙂

Woo! Yeah! Off to the shops for a six pack of fizzy piss and a nacho hat 🙂

kayak – not really. In previous years you get the full thing that you can skip through, or really shortened highlights where they assume your attention span can’t even cope with a full run.

It’s a shame there’s no in-between. a 30 minute highlights (both for this and the WC DH in general) would be able to cover the exciting bits and most of the runs from the top finishers.

The 20 minute EWS highlight package goes some way towards achieving this balance.

Nah, watch all of it, and get pissed as a newt😀

A shame? it’s only a shame if you’re not actually into DH or Freeride/slopestyle.
to be fair EWS is far too dull for any more than a 20min show (usually less than 10minutes of riding footage)

Looking forward to watching the whole thing. It’s mental. These are the best mtb riders in the world riding the most challenging terrain *imaginable* but if you can’t appreciate that fair enough.

*Still needs a shark pool gap and crocodile pit tho IMO

I think the RB player on replay lets you click through to the rider runs there is probably only about 1hr of riding in total up there, less if there are some big crashes on run 1.

I do remember getting up one morning in Oz to catch the end and seeing 40mins of wind delay before they went home

Useful information such as the above doesn’t really help if all you’re looking for is something to moan about

In reality it’s a lot easier to keep your beer cold and skip between the riders back in the UK though

I’m far too hungover to understand what that means.
There’s always at least a case of beer in my fridge. You’re welcome to a few.

Think I might just start drinking again now.

Weirdly the youtube live stream says 18:30 but redbull tv says 18:00.

I often use the youtube streams since the days of the redbull tv stream crashing all the time.  Is it ok these days?

Windsock drinking game is go… wait no stop, there was a breeze.

Drinking game? This must be a southern english thing

In Scotland there’s only one drinking game the rules are thus

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Get drinking, both stream say 19:00 now.

Just watching the ‘reveal’ recording before the main event.  I hope the live commentary doesn’t suck as badly 🙁 , where is Warner when you need him

*Still needs a shark pool gap and crocodile pit tho IMO

Did you have Pitfall on the Atari when you were little? Needs more scorpion…

I often use the youtube streams since the days of the redbull tv stream crashing all the time.

Been running it Android with and without chrome cast and on amazon for the last few years with no crashes.

Yeah. I loved Pitfall on the Atari Kayla.

I have an awful feeling there may be a little scorpion this year looking at a couple of the riders lines and what trick they’re thinking of pulling over them.

Welcome to my home

(not really mine)

Redbulltv on PS4 has been really stable for all live events I’ve watched

While you’re waiting:

and

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/social-round-up-red-bull-rampage-final-prep.html

bollocks.  The stream is collapsing and it hasn’t even started yet 🙁

Did someone say it was on YouTube?  I’m off to hunt

For those having problems

Oof, that’s exactly what it’d look like if I was to try and do that

He was a lucky boy there. Bike was aff!

This is incredible. Never seen a Rampage as thrilling!

This is incredible. Never seen a Rampage as thrilling!

I think I agree.  Some of the lines look amazing

Belgian commentary has Cedric Gracia but then they skip the riders comments at the bottom which sucks.  Getting better though

That flip off the cliff by Van Steenbergen…  nuts

yep.  He was great in the interview afterwards.  You realise just how significant that one move is

That Adolf taking the BIG jump

Not sure why, but i’ve never found Rampage to be that thrilling to watch on screen?

You don’t get a real sense of the scale, and once you’ve seen someone backflip a canyon, you’ve seen em all.  As the runs aren’t against the clock, the TV tends to just look like someone rolling slowly down a hill, occasionally jumping or dropping off stuff!  Don’t get me wrong, what they are hitting is MENTAL, but it just doesn’t come across on screen. I’m sure standing at the lip of a 100foot canyon gap is pretty dam hair raising, but to watch, i’m just not so sure

(it’s a bit like F1 on telly, the only time you actually get any sense of the crazy speed of the cars is when they crash and explode into a million small carbon fibre bits!)

Compared, the Downhill series is imo, thrilling to watch, possibly because of the tighter, closer cut (rampage is a lot more of long lense action / choppercam that squashes the size / perspective) and ‘against the clock’ element?

Wish the camera in the heli would zoom in a bit more!! Need a magnifying glass to see the riders

That run was **** spectacular!

IF Only Semenuk had nailed that 720…     hope he makes it to the bottom in run 2.  I’ve a feeling he could do something really special if it all works out.

That flip landing to jump was crazy.

That was brilliant.