The Red Bull Rampage 2025 competitors are onsite in Southwest Utah, starting the final countdown to the events.
The first days onsite saw athletes scouting their potential lines. All 12 female athletes and 18 male athletes checked in for registration, marking the start of the competition.
Due to adverse weather, both events have been pushed back a day.
On Friday, October 17th the top 12 female riders will compete followed by the top 18 male athletes on Sunday, October 19th. Both broadcasts begin at 5.30pm UK and will be streamed right to this very page without the ads you may otherwise encounter on YouTube et al (scroll to the end of this article when it’s time)..
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2025 Red Bull Rampage Women’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Robin Goomes (NZL)
Georgia Astle (CAN)
Casey Brown (CAN)
Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
Wild Card Athletes
Camila Nogueira (ARG)
Chelsea Kimball (USA)
CJ Selig (USA)
Hannah Bergemann (USA)
Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS)
Janelle Soukup (USA)
Kirsten Van Horne (CAN)
Vinny Armstrong (NZL)
2025 Red Bull Rampage Men’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Szymon Godziek (POL)
Tom Van Steenbergen (CAN)
Thomas Genon (BEL)
Carson Storch (USA)
Adolf Silva (SPA)
Wildcard Athletes
Aiden Parish (USA)
Bienve Aguado Alba (SPA)
Cam Zink (USA)
Dylan Stark (USA)
Emil Johansson (SWE)
Finley Kirschenmann (USA)
Hayden Zablotny (CAN)
Jaxson Riddle (USA)
Luke Whitlock (USA)
Reed Boggs (USA)
Talus Turk (USA)
Tom Isted (GBR)
Tomas Lemoine (FRA)
Watch the Women’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Friday, October 17th at 5:30pm UK
Watch the Men’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Sunday, October 19th at 5.30pm UK
Emil’s update on his Facebook page:
bad end to my day at rampage yesterday, thankful to be alive in one piece & doing ok considering the circumstances. scary situation tumbling down trying to grab everything in my way to slow down… was lucky to finally make the slide stop before I fell of another edge. massive thanks to Sammy for trying to catch me & holding on to me at the end of that cliff long after to keep me from sliding off until the medical team got up there. My right leg looked really ugly & I was unable to move from the spot without severe pain… Massive thanks to the medical team for getting me out of there is the best way possible!!
I suffered a big dislocation of my right hip that they managed to pop back in at the hospital… but will most likely need to get surgery on it to clean the socket up from pieces of bone. Besides that I am pretty much unscratched!
I have seen all the kind messages, thank you!!
And a vid from an angle below of the tailwhip to cliff landing – where you can see how hard he lands … And then teetering on the edge like the Italian Job bus. 😳
There’s another a video of him doing a jump to fakey and rapidly switching the bike round to forwards. They’ll be doing that next year across the canyon gap I reckon! 😀
I saw that Silva had posted something about injuring his lower back, so while that sucks, it could have been a lot worse.
I believe Paul Basagoitia crashed at Rampage, broke T12 which compressed his spinal cord. It took him a long time to get back out on a bike again. Hopefully Silva will be as lucky.
I’m a wheels on the ground kinda guy, so clearly don’t understand the psyche of these guys. Tom van Steenbergen almost killed himself at Rampage in 2021, and was coming back for more this year. I haven’t watched it since that crash, but have seen the coverage of training and finals crashes and helicopters this last few days. It seems there are more and more crashes and i just don’t get a kick out of watching that. The brave, smiling (through gritted teeth?) faces from hospital beds on Insta…. hmmmm. I hope Silva is OK, but they aren’t sharing much detail. Emil Johannsen passing that off as just a hip dislocation – just a bit of surgery to tidy up the hip socket – maybe that’s the fentanyl high.
You do realise these athletes live for the level of danger they operate at? As much as some of us spectate to see the best on the planet do what they do, they do it because that’s how they are made. They need the mental and physical challenges throwing themselves off a cliff on a bike involves. I get it if people don’t want to watch because its dangerous, but calling for it to be stopped or changed is completely wrong in my opinion.
No, I just said I wasn’t watching anymore, and also started out saying i didn’t understand that psyche
Fair enough, wasn’t just aimed at you, susepic 🙂
I get what you’re saying. However, the ‘competition’ element of it adds another factor.
Take Gee Atherton’s The Knife Edge, for example. Definitely comparable to a lot of what we were seeing at Rampage in terms of exposure (obviously, given the result). So that supports the argument these guys are going to do these things no matter what, just for the challenge.
However, Gee was able to pick the time he dropped in. He didn’t have a countdown clock telling him he had to do it now or he was done.
In Adolf Silva’s case, he was dropping in with his trousers literally falling down. Because that was the time he had to go.
Maybe the event needs to be a rider focused rather than a spectator focused if we’re expecting these guys to be going beyond what they are capable of just to be in with a chance of winning.
But, and a contrary view, do you think they are pushing the boundaries to make “content”. To stand out in a crowded social media space. Would Gee have done that line had it not been able to be filmed? Look at Brendan Faircloughs tree house drop, or ride over his house. I just can’t believe he would have done that if it wasn’t the sole intention to make content for clicks. What the motivation have been otherwise to go to all that effort.?
I think that just comes back to the ‘because it’s there’ argument which predates social media by over half a century.
I think if people have the time and resources to do stuff just to see if it’s possible then they are going to do it. I think that instinct exists in everyone but manifests itself in different ways.
I guess social media gives you the resources to focus on pushing limits, but there are still people working full time jobs who were competing at Rampage.
I think it’s a complicated question but the answer is neither, ‘It should be stopped’ or ‘They are going to do it anyway so let them’. If people want to push themselves they are going to do it. However, when other people are using them to make money (while not taking any risks themselves) that adds another factor and you really have to look at the morality of it.
On the other hand it’s fantastic that there are now ways to earn decent money from doing these crazy things. Remember those old videos of Josh Bender being found out in the desert throwing himself off cliffs, just to see what he could do? It’s only on film because his mates went and found him with their cameras. MY impression of Brendog is that he just loves trying stuff, building stuff to test himself. That he can make money from a youtube channel is just a bonus.
Nice quote on FB the other day from Gee saying what a fantastic event he think Rampage is and how he never did it for the rankings, even though he won it twice.
Gee never won rampage
From a rb athlete who runs hardline that won’t exist without rb. I don’t think he counts as anything other than rb marketing department
“Gee never won rampage"
Oh ok, that’s the important bit of what I was saying. Apologies.
“From a rb athlete who runs hardline that won’t exist without rb. I don’t think he counts as anything other than rb marketing department "
Dickish thing to say imo.
I’d guess the older riders have spent their entire careers expanding their comfort zone. They know their boundaries. They’re highly experienced at pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone. They might not be training at Rampage year round, but they will be training for it. People who keep their wheels on the ground probably won’t ever understand it. The younger less experienced Rampage riders, maybe have less aversion to risk, making them perhaps more vulnerable to exploitation by the event.
I think the Ride Companion podcast has Brendog talking about that treehouse drop he built.
Didn’t The Ride Companion also have Brengog and Olli talking about how a few years ago at Rampage the other riders had to basically talk Silva out of hitting or flipping a massive kicker that he’d built then? I could be wrong and it might have been another rider though.
It seems pretty obvious to me. On this trajectory, someone will die in the next few years and, when that happens, the format will be changed. At that point, everyone will question why it needed a fatality to initiate reform.
That’s a sensible extrapolation. And it seems incredible that having two huge incidents, one potentially (but hopefully not) resulting in a life altering injury, that is possibly still not enough for the organisers to alter the format to reduce the risk. Do RedBull ever make statements on event accidents or does they just send hopes and prayers to the injured rider?
But Gee did have a biiiiiggggg training crash at Rampage……2 years after the Knife Edge crash https://singletrackmag.com/2023/10/gee-atherton-airlifted-after-massive-rampage-crash/
I suspect that the attrition rate at Rampage is much greater than Hardline.
Hardline nixed their canyon gap feature because they were too worried about consequences. Rampage seems happy to lose 5 of their 12 female competitors and 3 of the men during one event.
That stat is scary, but appreciate these guys are wired different.
I think everyone just smiles from their hospital bed, and everyone watches all the crashes that Redbull post on their insta (though not the ones that hospitalize anyone)
Pink Bike reports also seem to say that was nasty, but wow those guys are hard as nails and they’ll shrug it off.
Its all about the marketing and knowing that 99% who see the images will say that’s cool and not know how many went to hospital to get them
I do wish a mtb journalist actually found out the truth about what rb do or don’t do for riders who are hospitalised, requires rehab or longer term injuries that prevent them from working
Its as if everyone is scared of upsetting rb by finding out the truth
Why change it? All riders know the risks and would still try to progress the sport regardless. The isle of man tt course doesn’t have speed limits because riders die doing it. Its extreme freeride . As for insurance, most riders , both mtb and bmx cant afford it but do it anyway.