The Erzberg Rodeo
How difficult is the Ezberg Rodeo?
Of the 500 people who entered the motorcycle race in 2011, only nine of them finished it. Held each June since 1995, the Ezberg Rodeo is a motorcycle race in the Austrian Alps that requires participants to race up the side of a working mine. Each year, about 1,500 riders qualify for the competition and about 500 people actually participate in the race. However, only about a dozen people ever actually finish. The issue is the slope that the motorcycle riders travel up in the race.
It is extremely steep and difficult to get up at high speeds. Motorcycles in this race, which is sponsored by Red Bull, routinely flip over and land on the drivers. This leads to a lot of mishaps and ambulance rides down the mountainside. Still, the Ezberg Rodeo is more popular today than ever before, with competitors from 40 different countries taking part each year.
