Best of Red Bull Rampage: 2001 – Can We Ride It?

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Check out the biggest and best from Rampage in its very first year. How riders survived this sort of thing when mountain bike technology was still developing is so wild!

In 2001, Red Bull Rampage arrived. It transformed and legitimized the world of freeride mountain biking. The pioneers of the sport took the freeriding style they developed — in areas like Canada’s west coast — to the mountains outside Virgin, Utah, and competed for the first time on a raw, undeveloped, steep section of desert without trails or infrastructure. Year 1 was about survival. “Can we ride it?” was a questions that took the world’s best riders to the absolute limit of the sport, hucking cliffs and pioneering new lines that would change the sport of mountain biking forever.

2015 Rider List

Andreu Lacondeguy – SPN*
Anthony Messere – CAN**
Antoine Bizet – FRA***
Bas van Steenbergen – CAN***
Bernard Kerr – GBR***
Brandon Semenuk – CAN*
Brendan Fairclough – GBR*
Brett Rheeder – CAN*
Cameron Zink – USA*
Conor McFarlane – NZL***
Darren Berrecloth – CAN***
Geoff Gulevich – CAN***
Graham Agassiz – CAN***
James Doerfling – CAN***
Jeff Herbertson – USA*
Kelly McGarry – NZL*
Kurt Sorge – CAN*
Kyle Jameson – USA***
Kyle Norbraten – CAN*
Kyle Strait – USA*
Logan Binggeli – USA***
Logan Peat – CAN**
Louis Reboul – FRA***
Makken Haugen – NOR***
Mitch Chubey – CAN*
Nic Pescetto – ITA***
Nicholi Rogatkin – USA**
Nico Vink – BEL***
Paul Basagoitia – USA*
Pierre Edouard Ferry – FRA***
Ramon Hunziker – SWI***
Remi Thirion – FRA***
Remy Metailler – FRA***
Ryan Howard – USA***
Sam Reynolds – CZE**
Szymon Godziek – POL*
Thomas Genon – BEL**
Tom van Steenbergen – CAN***
Tomas Zeida – FRA**
Tyler McCaul – USA***
Wil White – USA***
Yannick Granieri – FRA**