Colby Raha has made a habit of leaving it to the very last moment, and just like clockwork, he pulled another miracle out of the bag at X Games Quarter Pipe High Air 2025. If you’ve listened to the latest Riders Lounge Podcast, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

This time, I was joined again by my mate Clint Esposito from Two Wheels to Freedom, and we unpacked all the chaos that unfolded in Ventura. QuarterPipe is always unpredictable, but this one? This one was next level.

Corey Creed looked like he had it in the bag. He was solid, going bigger than anyone early on, and with the clock ticking down, it really felt like the gold was his. But of course… Raha waited until the final jump, as if he was just building the suspense for the Netflix documentary. One last run. One MASSIVE send. And boom — the whole leaderboard flipped.

It’s classic Colby. Calm under pressure, thrives in the chaos, and somehow always finds that extra gear when it counts. The crowd went mental. Judges had to triple-check the tape. Creed looked gutted — and who can blame him?

In the episode, we dig into the battle between Creed and Raha, how the whole QuarterPipe format is changing, and why this discipline might just be the most exciting thing in FMX right now. There’s also some behind-the-scenes chat, a few rabbit holes, and probably too many jokes — but hey, that’s what the Lounge is for.

If you missed the live event, don’t worry — this podcast recap will catch you up on everything that mattered (and a few things that didn’t). Grab a drink, throw on your headphones, and get ready for some proper moto banter.

Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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It is with the heaviest of hearts to write this, but Jayo Archer has passed away leaving a void impossible to fill for his friends, family and fans around the world.

While it is early news, we respect the wishes of friends and family and hope they are able to grieve easier without scrutiny during this terrible time.

All I can say right now is, he was one of the best guys I had met in Freestyle MX. His personality, attitude and positivity was infectious. He was so humble, easy to talk too with no ego associated with the level of success he had achieved and the limits he was pushing.

My thoughts are with his family and friends right now. This will be the toughest of times for them but to know that we all respected Jayo so much.

If you would like to listen to our Podcast and hear how passionate he was about the Triple Flip, tune in here on Spotify:

I’m absolutely gutted to hear this news.. I really can’t believe it. But I’m so glad that he was able to do things that almost no one else in the world would even attempt. He reached for the stars, he was a hero to many and a truly great human. Qualities I can only hope we all aspire too.

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Before I get the finishing touches on the audio version for Spotify etc, here’s the video created with the help of Grant Lucas and LW Mag while I was in South Africa.

I caught up with the newest Gold Medallist at X Games in Best Whip and now the new KING of the Whip, Julien Vanstippen to find out where this dude came from to blow us all away with those insane whips!

Check out the full interview in video at a pub in South Africa here:

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It’s not possible.

After watching Josh Sheehan stomp one of the gnarliest things ever seen on a dirt bike, the Triple Flip at Travis Pastrana’s house on the biggest ramp set up we’ve seen in FMX, the typical catch cry was – we’ll never see that landed on a regular set up, not to mention in competition.

We’ve heard it all before, but one thing I think you set your watch too… finding gnarly rippers who are willing to push physics and their body to new limits.

Enter 2022 and it’s down to two guys. Jayo Archer and Harry Bink who are pushing to land the Triple Flip in FMX Competition.

Sheeny even chimed in to give it a bit of a shot while Jayo was working on it at Freeform’s training location on an even bigger ramp set up than we saw at Nitro World Games.

But it was still so big, with so much chance for instant death that the guys managed to work out how the Moon Booter could be adjusted to make it happen.

The two guys who are competing against each other and the history books then trained together at Harry Bink’s 5060 compound on the Gold Coast in Australia to try work out exactly how to get the 3 full rotations into the BigAirBag Air Pit. This huge pillow of air still can hurt when you come down wrong, but it allows the riders the ability to continually keep trying the trick with so much less risk than a Foam Pit or, simply going to hard dirt.

Taking the advice and some parts from Levi Sherwood who must really be thanked as well for helping to expand the sport to this point, the guys were ready.

So with Nitro World Games in Brisbane, Australia ready to go, these 2 warriors defied all odds and landed the first ever FMX Competition Triple Flips.

What were they up against?

• In a competition – when it’s your time to ride, you have to go. Even if you’re not feeling it
• Pressure of thousands in the crowd and millions watching around the world
• Waiting almost 30 minutes for the team to get the ramp into place, while you’re trying to stay composed
• 2 days earlier having the event postponed due to rain. Sitting and waiting does not help nerves or anxiety
• 1 month earlier Harry rebroke his ribs which were broken in an X Games crash 3 months earlier
• Jayo coming back from a broken femur from simply landing in the airbag while training for the Triple.

So how did it happen?

At Nitro World Games in the final event of the night being Freestyle Motocross Best Trick, 5 riders had already attempted or landed their best tricks. And now it was time for Jayo Archer and Harry Bink to attempt the Triple Flip.

Jayo’s name was first on the order, so he had all the pressure to try the triple onto the airbag landing for the first time. No one had attempted it, only onto the Flat foam pit style Air Pit.

Jayo rolled in with the weight of the world on his shoulders and pulled the Triple Flip clean as a whistle and only just bobbling a little on the landing with a bit of an airbag bounce, but he rode it out. First attempt!

With all of the celebrations going on, it was another 15 minutes before Harry Bink would land it. With advertising breaks and interviews, Harry asked for 2 warm-up jumps where he did 2 Double Flips, holding the rotation as long as possible and stalling his body out.

On his first attempt, he was looking good but unfortunately washed out. Bent the front end a little bit but was otherwise ok! Somehow he crashed a Triple Flip and survived to try again. After getting the bike straight enough to jump again, he stomped the second Triple Flip absolutely perfectly!

While he required 4 bites of the cherry before landing it, Harry Bink won the event with 99 / 100 score and Jayo Archer on 98.33 / 100.

But with history made, Jayo was the first rider to land it and receiving the Lego Innovation Award, both riders on the same night landing and Harry taking the win. Jayo won even more, by proposing to his long-time girlfriend Beth and getting ‘Yes’ as the answer.

Other than splitting first place two ways, it was a fairytale ending to what could have been a nightmare scenario if anything went wrong. This is still one of the most dangerous things we have ever seen in any action sport. And somehow, in one night, two riders landed it and survived to see another day.

If you don’t have time to watch it but you’re driving or just listening to Spotify.. you can listen in here:

How did it start? Let’s watch Sheeny land the first ever Triple Flip here:

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Do you know how hard it is to get a Live feed in the middle of a stadium with 45,000 fans also trying to use their mobile phones?

Well, it’s hard!

So I filmed some short clips, sent it through to Clint Esposito since we couldn’t do a live cross and he put together all the FMX clips into one YouTube clip above.

Find out how the first ever WSX went, all the background info, behind the scenes footage and everything else.

It looks like they’re coming out of the box hard with this new series and can’t wait to see it go bigger!

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Red Bull came out with the second warm-up video on YouTube before the final competition session which will be aired later today on ESPN+ / ESPN2 and dammit, it’s even better than the previous video which already blew us away!

We finally get to see the full set-up from the jump Tyler Bereman sent over 180 feet, transferred out and just going nuts.

While that was easily the biggest and most gnarly jump on the course, a few smaller things actually stood out to me even more.

Watch when the absolute legend and OG of FMX, Jeremy Grandpa Twitch Stenberg sent some 3rd gear backflips around one of the gnarliest courses.

To see the old man just sack up and send it with the young bucks was awesome and you get to see the real natural skill this dude has, even after more than 20 years at the top of the sport.

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Seeing these guys and girls turn up, see how gnarly the place will be and then try jump it for the first time is the real reason Freeride works.

The comp is sick, but this is better!

Check out Tyler Bereman’s imagination here. Full results coming soon.

And we’ll get an interview with JVS who killed it at the event for his first time around next week!

Watch Episode 1 from practice day below and stay tuned for Episode 2 dropping on Friday, Sept. 23 with practice days 2 & 3 highlights.

For the full competition, tune into ESPN+/ESPN2 on Sunday, Sept. 25 @ 5:00 p.m. ET.

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Kruz Maddison, the son of FMX legend and Hollywood stunt man, Robbie Maddison talks about his first ever show when he joined his old man in the new family business.

I can’t imagine how many nerves Kruz would have had, but it looks like he took it like a champ and we can’t wait to see him progress over the years with one of the best teachers he could ever get.

#kruz #maddo #firstshow

Thanks to Freestyle Kings and Anthony Younan for the extra show footage.

To watch the full interview, check it out here: https://share.recast.app/v/8N7xl?referrer=8Plb2