Squeaky Bum Time – Rampage 2023!

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 😀

I’m going to try to watch it live but Junior is due home from nursery so I think I’ll be watching the Gruffalo for the millionth time.

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

Gutted to see the new countdown clock sitting at 40 minutes!

I can’t stand all these American TV types for that long.

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!

Brendoooogg! Flipping heck

That ridgeline at the top, skidding up to the edge… I was shitting myself! Unbelievable

That was stunning

Yes Bren!!! 😂🙏👌

Hope Adolf (!) gets a clean run next time.
Strait’s big drop was HUGE!

Canyon gap front flip, OMFG

That was ridiculous!

BVA. Omg.

If that’s completed in time, that’s got to be up there for the win

Surprised at Bienve’s score…lower than i was expecting after that run

Guess not enough going on at the top. Will see if they score DJ higher due to spinning everything right from the off.

The filming is soooo much better this year.
What did the Spanish guy score?

High 70s.79?

Probably cos he stopped. He was more than happy with it anyway 😁

Bienve should be sitting in 1st place with that run. Did they penalise him for deliberately exiting his bicycle?

Also, I’d never agree to riding with a microphone on. All my sponsors would drop me if they heard what comes out of my mouth when I’m scared.

Has Gullevich had plastic surgery recently? Eyes are looking a bit mental. Reminds me of Limmy.

Not sure I agree with the judges scoring so far, but I’m no expert 

Feels like they are rewarding risk over technical skill

Has Gullevich had plastic surgery recently? Eyes are looking a bit mental. Reminds me of Limmy.

I thought it was drag make up!

Sorge always makes it look so much easier- not that dramatic a run but he looks so chilled up top, just makes it look it like it’s the local dirt jumps, and barely even seems out of breath at the bottom.

I feel quite nervous watching a lot of this… quite glad when they get to that bottom bit.

I can’t picture what this bloke is about to do… it looks insane

…big build up and then made it look simple 🤯

Wtf? BVA and Brendog robbed!

89.00! I wasn’t seeing that.

I thought 84.

Judging on point as usual

It’s always a bit split like that though, where the slopestyle stuff scores higher than old-school freeriding.

Not saying I agree though…

Brendog getting robbed again 🙄