Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Watching Red Bull Rampage is less of an adrenaline event and more of an endurance one. As is traditional, practice was delayed by wind. The organisers …

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Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Glad I stayed up to watch second runs though as it was great to see Thomas Genon complete his run in massive style this time.  Was a very good Rampage with some huge huge scores.  Following the articles here has added to the enjoyment as well and so happy to see the Women’s event get going at last in such a good way.  Brendan’s score seemed very unfair given the level of exposure and the size of his run, especially with the chute

What an event! We’re spoilt to live in Utah and grabbed tickets this year, and it’s soooo much bigger in real life! And it won’t just be the course from this year that future hopefuls will be riding in the coming weeks, the hills around Virgin are full of crazy lines to try! it’s just terrifying watching your own kids ride them!

I think it’s really bad that the women’s event was mid week, and rather lucky that the men’s event was delayed enabling it to be shown in full before the men’s race

The rest has already been said on other threads

I think it’s really bad that the women’s event was mid week, and rather lucky that the men’s event was delayed enabling it to be shown in full before the men’s race

Well if they’d tried to run it on the same day as Mens Finals it would arguably have never gone ahead as the wind caused delays etc… So the fact it was on a different day actually helped

Well if they’d tried to run it on the same day as Mens Finals it would arguably have never gone ahead as the wind caused delays etc… So the fact it was on a different day actually helped

It could have been on Sat/Sun therefore getting much more of an audience rather than mid week when people are working

I agree it’d be better on a weekend, I choose mens only tickets as I couldn’t take time off work midweek 🙁

German bloke rides Brendog’s line.

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@kayak23 there’s another guy that did it with him, his POV makes it look really smooth.

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I’m sort of not surprised – there are so many people round there riding such gnarly stuff that the skill level is incredible. But I guess it’s one thing to figure out how to build it and ride it, and another to ride it once you know it works and can see the speeds, lines etc. Putting it together in the first place is a whole other level of skill.

Putting it together in the first place is a whole other level of skill.

God yeah. Totally agree. For Bren and the team to come up with that incredibly creative line, test the untested and ride it under competition conditions is insane.

I think a few of the comments in the first Insta clip were suggesting that maybe Bren wasn’t too happy about someone riding it after the comp. Not sure how much truth there is in that though. Probably the usual level of comments section truth.

Like you say though, coming up with it in the first place and putting the run together can certainly not be underplayed.

Nothing but respect for Bren, Ollie and Deaks. 🙂

I think I’d be a bit miffed if I was Brendog.

That post hasn’t come from a position of respect for what he did. He could have titled it ‘I survived his rampage line’ rather than ‘I did it on a (suspiciously) cheap secondhand bike I’d never ridden before’

He’s obvs a really good rider, but it comes off like he’s trying to show him up/belittle him. Be interesting to see him get a place next year…

There’s another factor in bren’s run Vs this guy that needs to be considered… Wind

Rampage is an afternoon jobbie, and it gets windier throughout the day, if these guys rode in the morning or takes that out of the equation.

The other big difference is smoothness, bren looked way more composed, even on his first hit videos. These guys look like a couple of very skillful chancers. There’s videos every year now of guys going and hitting rampage features after the comp and frankly they often look lucky not to end up in hospital

Tbh I’m surprised the lines don’t get flattened after the comp to stop exactly this happening

… still waiting to see if anyone else will do the BFC of Isted and McCaul. I thought the speed of the run out on that was the scariest thing this year.

Crikey, I was more scared watching that than Rampage.

Brendan will be miffed, I’m sure – I remember Olly was very forthright on his opinions about Lew Buchanan going to ride the Battleship feature from last year.

But I think the big takeaway here is that Red Bull need to add an amateur category to the contest – maybe the next day – they could send a load of vloggers and influencers down the pros’ lines and see what happens?

Engagement figures would be through the roof.

Pah! no backflip 😀

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