Brendan Fairclough Reveals His Gnarliest Build Ever + Rampage 2025 Predictions
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Brendan Fairclough is back in the studio to reveal his gnarliest build ever and give us an exclusive first look at his wildest project yet, a 9m treehouse to under ground tunnel build we've (temporarily) named MTB OBLIVION.
We cover why Bren's sitting out Rampage this year, the mental game of competing in Utah, who he's tipping for the win (Godziek, TVS, Emil, Zink?), and the chaos of creating a viral freeride line on a shoestring budget in the Surrey Hills.
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| 0:00.0 | And I just want a bit of time off from it. |
| 0:03.8 | So I'm not saying I'm never going to do it again. |
| 0:07.0 | Did you what you just said? |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome to the ride companion where today we have 10-time Rampage competitor, |
| 0:23.1 | Brendan Fair Clock, joining us. |
| 0:24.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:25.9 | Random applause for Brendan. |
| 0:28.1 | It might actually be more because we just figured that Chatch EBT thought it was nine, |
| 0:33.7 | but then actually snap my ACL on one, snapped both my thumbs off and another. |
| 0:37.8 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | So it might actually be 11. |
| 0:41.2 | Boy, that's mad, isn't it? |
| 0:42.7 | Quite gnarly to not know how many you've done. |
| 0:44.8 | It's quite impressive feet. |
| 0:47.2 | Goes it vague after a while. |
| 0:50.0 | But, yeah, the first time I did it, I snapped my ACL, and then a couple of years in, both thumb snapped off. So we did most of it, just apart from the actual finals. So track of TV team might not have picked up on that. But, yeah, anyway, that's enough, isn't it? Hey, welcome over. Thank you. Welcome. Like the new spot. Yeah. What we thought we'd do, because it's coming in hot. |
| 1:12.5 | Well, we thought we'd get you on. |
| 1:26.5 | Obviously, you've got more insight than anyone. Rampage insight, because we thought this could be a pre-rampage episode. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. A pre-rub, because we need to do it. Yeah, it's coming, isn't it? Well, it is coming up. I can't remember the day. |
| 1:27.6 | Is it 16th? |
| 1:28.8 | Well, it's two days now, isn't it? |
| 1:29.6 | So 16th. |
| 1:27.6 | Thursday 16th? |
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