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Rampage Retrospective is a look back into freeride mountain biking, its people, its history, and how the Red Bull Rampage recreated and redefined the sport. Find out how this single event hurdled mountain biking, its athletes and image into the international action sports limelight and how it has sculpted it forever!
Witness the events through the eyes of the visionaries, the athletes, and other participants who believed in the concept and made it a reality. Re-live four years of interactive highlights from the world's best mountain bikers and the 'behind the scenes' history.
More information about the Red Bull Rampage event
In 2002, Red Bull Rampage was born.
The goal - to create a free-ride mountain bike competition unlike anything anyone had ever seen.
A true free-ride event, molded in the image of free-ski competitions, where riders are free to choose, and even create, their own lines down the mountain. Riders were then judged and scored in four categories: line difficulty, air/amplitude, control/style and fluidity/technique.
The location was nothing short of perfect. A veritable free-ride mountain biking mecca was found in Virgin, Utah, with endless riding possibilities.
In the first year the turnout was sparse, with few spectators, but once work of the competition spread, everyone knew this was the event to be part of.
The following years saw the number of riders vying to be a part of the competition growing to huge proportions. A rider's career could be made with a good performance at the Rampage; proven by athletes Tyler Klassen, Darren Berrecloth and Steve Romaniuk.
Some came of age at Rampage; demonstrated by young-gun Kyle Strait. After the first coming to Rampage at the age of 14, he finally wore the crown of Rampage King in its final year.
As the event grew in popularity, the spectators came in droves to see these modern day gladiators battle in the amphitheater that was the Rampage venue.
Red Bull Rampage maxxed out its capabilities in its third year and restrictions had to be put in place for the riders' benefit, as the amount of spectators was a serious problem.
The fourth and final year was bitter-sweet. Rampage was now established as the premiere free-ride mountain bike event and the void that is left will be a hard one to fill.
Rampage will live on in the history of mountain biking as the event that changed the sport forever.
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