How And When And Why To Watch Red Bull Rampage

I wanna watch it cos it's awesome!
I'll even be driving to work for a change, so I can get home in time to fire up the Red Bull app on my telly.
Here's hoping the wrap-them-in-cotton-wool brigade do something else with their time.

Magnificent piece of fence-sitting from STW there.

Cheers for the start time though.

Fancy doing some investigative reporting and find out why it's on a Friday anyway? It'll be during work time for their largest audience, won't it? Is it more windy on Saturdays or something?

Is saturday a reserve day incase it is cancelled due to weather?

Also might give them time to edit the live program's extensive standing around looking at windsocks down into a slicker show format in time for the weekend.

Looks to be streamed on youtube too if you have an issue with the Red Bull app.

For those in the US, I think it's only available on ESPN+.

Isn’t the best way just to watch the highlights afterwards? Live is usually really slow proceedings

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Investigative journalism/texting my husband who is always at Rampage gives the following tale of why it's on a Friday...

It used to be on a Saturday, but it shifted to a Friday to allow a back up day for bad weather.

It's in a remote location, so for a Friday event fans travelling have to plan to travel on a Thursday and leave on a Sunday (to get back to work on Monday. Remember, this is America, holidays are few and far between!). If the weather isn't up to it on the Friday, the fans are still there on the Saturday. If the weather is good on the Friday, everyone goes and parties and rides bikes on the Saturday, because they've planned to be away all weekend anyway.

When it was on a Saturday, folks planned to travel on Friday, and then get home on Sunday. If the weather was crap on the Saturday, a bunch of the crowd would have to leave as planned on the Sunday, leaving the atmosphere rather dead.

One year the weather meant the event was on the Monday. It was very very quiet.

It is kind of interesting that an event is still planned around on the ground visitors rather than a TV audience. Shows that atmosphere (and humans!) do matter, perhaps?

I will be watching it live on Friday, but its not really an event that lends itself that well to a live broadcast. There is often a LOT of hanging around and filling.

It works really well as a 'just after live' event though, within a few hours it will all have been packed into one gnarly extreme stoked to the maximum hype package (TM).

Can't wait!

beers, pretzels, crisps and maybe even burgers... i can't bloody wait ! i'll be watching it all live.

It is kind of interesting that an event is still planned around on the ground visitors rather than a TV audience. Shows that atmosphere (and humans!) do matter, perhaps?

Very interesting and unexpected, yes. Thanks for that 🙂

I didn't even mind watching the live broadcast last year. 🙂

It is kind of interesting that an event is still planned around on the ground visitors rather than a TV audience. Shows that atmosphere (and humans!) do matter, perhaps?

Yeah, makes for better telly!

I guess they sell tickets so making it as easy as you can for spectators to attend makes a lot of sense. I suspect the tv package is created over the next 24 hours to take out the gaps between riders. Live stream is more for the committed fans

I usually watch it live, and it's mostly dull AF waiting for the wind to drop, with moments of insane excitement.

Maybe highlights and avoiding social media is the way to go then.

snotrag
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I will be watching it live on Friday, but its not really an event that lends itself that well to a live broadcast. There is often a LOT of hanging around and filling.

See, I used to feel that way but over the years I've found it adds to it for me... Basically a constant reminder of how mad the whole thing is and how close it is to impossible. Like, you can get a bit blase about people jumping off cliffs in a desert while the whole thing gets beamed to the internet. The wind holds especially can be pretty fascinating since they tend to get so much from the riders and organisers, even if just overheard chat- it's a bit like mic'd up referees, I think, gets you a little extra view inside the machine.

I mean, equally I don't just sit and watch nothing happening, I have it on a second screen for that stuff but I still really like it.

and find out why it’s on a Friday anyway?

….because less surgeons work at the weekend?

I am having a watch party with some friends who don’t ride. I showed them a clip and it was completely beyond anything they had imagined, and it made them sway in their seats like watching a roller coaster! Should be fun!

Start list for you.

Rider lines

Bit annoyed by the segment they just ran on Women's Freeride. OK its good to see some exposure, but it was very minimal and the feature even had video clips of Men's freeriding. Seems like a tick box exercise to me and that they really don't care...

I missed the women’s bit, still trying to work, handle a house full of teenagers, and prep sushi 🤯

I guess that means it was really short 🙄🤔

It's underway man! Is this the live thread!

The dude called ADOLF (!) crashed twice! Twice 😳

Ah there might be a better thread to use live, all those pics make this one a bit slow

Try this thread for live chat https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/squeaky-bum-time-rampage-2023/page/4/#post-13002025