Episode 197 - When Will Women Ride Red Bull Rampage? (with Vaea Verbeeck)

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4.6 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Red Bull Rampage is the largest, most important freeride mountain bike event in the world. Rampage historically hasn't included a women's field, and Red Bull has been promoting the development of women's freeride through a non-competition event called Formation that's held on the same terrain. This year Formation was cancelled, leading some to speculate that Rampage might include a women's field. When the rider list came out last week, we were disappointed to see neither a women's field nor a public plan to integrate women into the event. Alicia Leggett and I sat down with Vaea Verbeeck, one of the original Formation riders and a future Rampage hopeful, to hear her thoughts about the situation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a another edition of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Brian Park,
0:17.1	standing in for Henry Quinny, who is off field testing.
0:26.5	Joining me is our own Alicia Leggett, as well as one of the best free riders in the world,
0:27.3	Viya Verbeek.
0:33.9	Today we're going to talk about Red Bull Rampage, what's going on this year and why everybody's mad about it.
0:35.4	But before we do that, Via, fun fact, I've been holding guilt in my
0:41.5	conscience for years, or at least I used to, about back in my Rocky Mountain era, I convinced
0:50.0	you, I guess, to join the team. And I kind of felt for a long time like I derailed a very promising racing career because
1:00.5	you were very, very fast.
1:02.1	And then you joined Rocky and you sort of evolved as a free rider.
1:07.2	So do you blame me for every struggle you've had in the industry?
1:11.6	No, I do not blame you.
1:14.6	What do you mean?
1:15.6	You feel blamed for derailing me off of racing?
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:19.6	Yeah, because you were so fast.
1:21.6	And then the Rocky program wasn't a race program, although I think they had aspirations
1:26.6	to be a race program. So you never
1:28.2	got those World Cup opportunities. On the flip side, can I take credit for all of your successes
1:33.9	in free red? Definitely. Take all the credit. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Alicia, what was the first
1:42.1	Red Bull rampage you watched? Oh, that's a hard question, and I'm not sure I even want to admit the answer.
1:49.1	It wasn't very early, because I started mountain biking in around 2012, and then it would
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