From Oct. 5 until Oct. 7 the world’s most skilled gravity riders will launch, whip, and flip their bikes at a height and distance typically reserved for commercial airline traffic. There may be no other event that symbolizes the daring, the hubris, the, for lack of a better adjective, holy shit-ness, of gravity riding at the 2012 Red Bull Rampage. To read all about the event, click here.

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