FMX legends blast desert dunes
By TMX Archives on 27th Oct 15
Two Freestyle Motocross legends got a close look at the stunning Rub' al Khali desert south of Abu Dhabi on their motorcycles ahead of Friday's season finale of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour. The closest championship battle in the sport's history concludes at the famous Corniche on the Arabian Gulf in Abu Dhabi.
ABU DHABI (United Arab Emirates) Two Freestyle Motocross pioneers, Ronnie Renner and Drake McElroy of the United States, went on a jump- and trick-filled expedition of the world's largest contiguous sand desert to warm themselves up and Abu Dhabi up ahead of the fifth and final stop of the 2015 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
Renner, a superstar of the freestyle world and an Red Bull X-Fighters expert, took McElroy, an FMX pioneer and legend in his own right who is also one of the Red Bull X-Fighters judges, out into the Arabian Desert for a mind-boggling late afternoon ride into one of the world's most beautiful deserts with its spectacular dunes and amazing reddish sands.
The Rub' al Khali desert south of Abu Dhabi, which is part of the larger Arabian Desert surrounding it, is filled with imposing sand dunes of up to 250 meters high and spread out over an area that is 1,000 kilometers long and 500 kilometers wide.
France's Tom Pagès and Clinton Moore of Australia will face off in a fight to the finish on Friday in the closest showdown ever in the 15-year-history of Red Bull X-Fighters. The two have had a brilliant season in the sport, where the world's best FMX rider perform gravity-defying tricks off their bikes while flying 15 meters high and up to 30 meters in distance. Pagès and Moore are in a dead heat with 280 points each atop the World Tour standings.
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