![]() Sipes says he was attracted to the Imagination event by the prospect of trying something new. Ryan Sipes says he was attracted to Imagination by the allure of its novelty. “So coming to this year, it’s kinda like, ‘We already know how big it was, how much bigger can they go?’ Well, they went way bigger than I thought we could go.” “I thought I knew what to expect, when we got there in 2020, it was like, ‘Wow, this is so big, it’s so much bigger than anything I’ve ever seen,’” the 37-year-old Sipes tells CNN Sport. One rider returning for more was Ryan Sipes, a flat track and supercross legend, and 2019’s International Six Days Enduro world champion. The goal for year two was to come back in and just keep adding options and options and options to all the jumps, to more or less create a dirt skatepark.” ![]() “We kind of ran out of time building everything we wanted, so after year one, the course sat there and didn’t get touched for a year straight. After the success of 2020’s debut, nine riders were gathered back in Fort Scott, Kansas for its 2021 successor – where Bereman’s mind took the track to even wilder frontiers. The Red Bull Imagination events take this to the extreme. ![]() Tyler Bereman, Josh Hill, Christian Dresser, Ryan Sipes, Tom Parsons getting ready for their runs at Imagination 2. “It’s having our own form of expression through our dirt bikes and just being able to go out there and have fun and find jumps and, ultimately, just be free on your dirt bike.” To Bereman, freeriding is all about the pure freedom of riding. “The biggest thing I can relate it to, to the outside public, would be that there’s contest snowboarding and then, like, backcountry snowboarding, so riding the powder and the hills, and the same with street skating, there’s contest skating and then there’s street skating where people are just out on the streets and filming.” There are parallels with both snowboarding and skating where Bereman has focused his career. Ultimately, it’s what I would call Freeriding.” “Obviously, in motocross, there’s freestyle, where they’re doing flips and tricks and all that stuff, and I kind of fell in between those two genres there. “I grew up racing motorcycles, and racing supercross and motocross inside stadiums, and then ultimately got hurt too much and had to take a back seat on that,” he explains. The Californian has been riding motorcycles since he was barely more than a toddler, and this variation of the sport is one that he has helped to define. At Bereman’s direction, the builders had the freedom to build whatever they wanted to, “drawing out features from other action sports,” he explains. “We started with nothing, just a rolling hill.”Ī seven-man crew worked for three weeks using tractors and earth-moving equipment to carve out the first Imagination course in 2020. “I have it all in my head,” the 30-year-old tells CNN Sport, grinning out from beneath a mop of blond hair and a baseball cap. Tyler Bereman riding at Red Bull Imagination 2.
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