Tom Isted: Inside Red Bull Rampage 2025 (Judging, Building, Injuries & More)
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Tom Isted is back on The Ride Companion!
Fresh from Red Bull Rampage 2025, Tom stops by the studio to break down every detail of his time in the Utah desert — from building his line and flipping flat drops, to navigating event politics and dealing with the fallout from Adolf Silva's crash. Tom shares how he manages risk, his honest take on judging, and what it really takes to earn respect at freeride's biggest event. Plus, behind-the-scenes stories about his dig crew, surviving the chaos, and balancing family life while being one of the world's most versatile mountain bike riders. We hope you enjoy the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, last year you had a feature that was undoubtedly one of the biggest on site. |
| 0:05.8 | It was one of the biggest takeaways from the event for me. |
| 0:09.5 | It was like, you know, it was like one. |
| 0:12.0 | It was just a talking point, right? |
| 0:13.5 | I think I won the Instagram video. |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah, the morality moment of rampage. |
| 0:17.0 | So there's always these sort of like big things. |
| 0:19.6 | And because I wasn't there there I sort of couldn't |
| 0:21.4 | really picture it. I think like I have an idea of which things were the crazy features that |
| 0:26.7 | people were talking about but what were they from your perspective and from where you were on a |
| 0:30.7 | hill? |
| 0:46.4 | Right, are we ready? Okay, I wrote this thing that I wanted to read out first. I'm just going to read it out. That's all right, isn't it? |
| 0:58.8 | We're going to talk about everything that went on at Rampage during this episode, but I feel like it's important that the first thing we mention is Adolf's Road to Recovery page. Adolf has had a life-changing injury and it's in these moments that we need to reinstate what makes our sport great no matter the discipline. These accidents can |
| 1:03.9 | and will happen when you're pushing yourself on a bicycle. Free ride events like Rampage have |
| 1:09.0 | given us all some of the most inspirational highlights of bike control and out-and-out human courage. |
| 1:13.6 | They've remained etching our heads over the years and will be for years to come. |
| 1:17.6 | It's a really unique event and have provided so many highs along with the lows associated with a dangerous sport like this. |
| 1:24.6 | A lot of us watched on in terror as one of the best riders in the world |
| 1:28.9 | had a really, really bad crash. In these moments, it's natural to have a kind of knee-jerk reaction |
| 1:34.7 | and question everything that's going on. That's fine, but it's for another time. Right now, |
| 1:39.8 | it's important to have focus on the things which are immediately important and the things |
| 1:43.3 | which you yourself can change and help in whatever way, Adolf Silver and his recovery. |
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