The time is approaching. Crimson Bull Rampage is that this weekend. Technically, it has already began with riders and their dig crews placing in lengthy hours remodeling the Virgin panorama into (barely) rideable terrain. Rampage offers us a number of the gnarliest strains within the sport, but it surely additionally offers us an opportunity to take a look at the customized bikes whipped up only for this occasion.
Ari Bikes welcomed Kyle and Rachel Strait to the household earlier this 12 months, which means that is the primary Rampage that Kyle will journey on an Ari. It’s additionally the primary time that each Kyle and Rachel are driving for a similar model.
For Rampage 2024, Kyle might be driving a barely customized model of the Ari Superior Peak which was simply launched in September. Kyle’s bike will get a particular paint job that’s “And Ode to the Southwest,” on condition that the area has been instrumental in shaping Kyle’s profession from trusting his expertise, to digging trails, and naturally Crimson Bull Rampage. The end additionally consists of pearl snap-inspired accents with “engine-turned” silver leaf, and painted by hand pin-striping.
“This place has formed a lot of my profession. As a younger 14-year-old popping out right here for the primary time, I couldn’t imagine the chances,” says Strait. “It’s been 23 years, and that freedom nonetheless feels so actual. The customized paint job on this bike is my means of bringing a chunk of that with me into this 12 months’s Rampage.”
Kyle stays the one individual to have competed in each Crimson Bull Rampage because it began in 2001 when he was 14 years previous. That’s much more spectacular when you think about his crash in apply for the 2022 occasion which left him with a damaged again.
Strait’s Superior Peak began as a inventory bike, however will get 27.5″ wheels entrance and rear (with a 29″ fork), plus a customized rear finish. Ari added a customized seat keep to shorten the rear finish which features a seat keep bridge to stiffen the body. Strait is operating the GA Hyperlink chips within the place for brief chainstays and the excessive BB setting with the progressive shock mount.
Construct Spec Highlights
- Body: Customized Painted Ari Superior Peak
- Suspension: Customized Painted RockShox Boxxer Final 200mm, Vivid Final
- Wheels: Stan’s Movement with Customized Painted Onyx hubs
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Final
- Drivetrain: SRAM X0 DH
- Cockpit: Deity
Watch Kyle ship it on his customized Ari throughout the males’s remaining on Oct. twelfth, at excessive midday EST.
