Brett Rheeder


Brett Rheeder is a professional freeride mountain bike rider from Mount Albert, Ontario. Rheeder is a 2013 Munich X-Games Slopestyle Gold Medalist. In 2016 he won the Red Bull Joyride for the first and only time in his career.

Career

In 2013 he won the first Gold Medal in Slopestyle at the X-Games in Munich, and in 2013 and 2014 he won the Vienna Air King. In 2014 he won the Bearclaw Invitational and came second at Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and Red Bull District Ride in Nuremburg. In 2015 he won the Munich Mash, and won the first two events in the Crankworx World Tour in Rotorua, New Zealand and Les Deux Alpes, France. In 2016 he won Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and in 2017 he won Crankworx Les Gets and came second at Crankworx Innsbruck. In 2018 he won Crankworx Rotorua and Red Bull Rampage on October 26th, 2018 after five Rampages, as well as coming second at Red Bull Joyride and Crankworx Les Gets and Innsbruck. In 2019, he won at Crankworx Rotorua for a record third time and also won at Innsbruck, as well as placing second at Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and Red Bull Rampage.
With Brandon Semenuk, Rheeder is part of the Trek C3 Project, which came first in the Freeride Mountain Bike Factory Team Rankings in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Personal life

Rheeder is from Mount Albert, Ontario. He originally played hockey, then switched first to cross-country cycling and then to slopestyle.
In 2020, Rheeder announced that he would be temporarily stepping away from the Crankworx Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour. In an Instagram post Rheeder cited that regaining his creativity in slopestyle riding and stepping back from the stresses and injuries associated with competition would be the best option to preserve the longevity of his career.

Sponsors

Rheeder's bike sponsor is Trek and he is affiliated with the Trek C3 freeride team alongside fellow mountain bikers Brandon Semenuk, Casey Brown, Ryan Howard, Emil Johansson, and Cam McCaul. His other sponsors include Fox Racing, Clif bar, Shimano, cbdMD, and Smith Optics.