Robin Goomes is the primary girl to win the Pink Bull Rampage. The historic occasion was years within the making, representing an enormous step ahead in ladies’s mountain biking. She did it in type, too, aboard her Customized Barbie-themed Yeti SB 165.
Goomes clinched the victory with 85 factors, touchdown two massive backflips. The flips additionally earned her the Utah Sports activities Fee Finest Trick Award. It wasn’t all flips for Goomes, both. She wowed the judges with a 41-foot drop and cleaned the highest technical chute.
Judges mentioned her line was a nod to the old-school Pink Bull Rampage runs, which have been technical and spoke to the spirit of freeride.
Barbie Will get Gnarly
Goomes’s bike is one other piece that turned heads on her Pink Bull Rampage runs. It’s a Yeti SB165 with a singular Barbie theme. We’re not speaking Barbie touches; we’re speaking full-on motif, all the way down to re-styling her sponsor’s logos within the Barbie vibe.
Customized Yeti SB 165
Robin Goomes pilots a Yeti SB165 sporting an fascinating wheelset from ENVE: the all-new M-Collection M9 27.5″/26″ Professional mini-mullet setup. That is an athlete-only model of the brand new M Collection wheels launched this week (full particulars right here). The M9 hoops are laced to ENVE’s Innerdrive hubs, which function an outsized customizable ratchet system.
Suspension-wise, Goomes rocked as SR-Suntour RUX downhill fork. Element-wise, Goomes opted for a combo of Shimano Saint and XT. The Shimano theme carries over to the brakes and rotors (however no Barbie paint job).
Gooms is a Kenda athlete and prefers the Pinner Execs with ACT casing for gnarly programs like those she confronted this week.
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The ladies’s broadcast will air this night on October 10 at 9:00 pm ET/6:00 pm PT, simulcast on ESPN+, Pink Bull TV, and Pink Bull Bike’s YouTube channel, with a spotlight present on Sunday, October 27 on ESPN2 at 5:00 pm ET/2:00 pm PT. Watch the lads’s broadcast on Saturday, October, midday ET/9:00 am PT on ESPN+ within the U.S. and on Pink Bull TV in all different nations.
