Members of Florideah Swamp Fest team from Orlando, Fla., ride past the judges table while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
Members of GWagon team from Orlando, Fla., fall into the lake while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
Spectators react as a team competes in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
A map shows the course layout for Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster, which lands at Cranes Roost Park in Altamonte Springs on Sept. 27. (Courtesy of Red Bull)
Orlando-based professional wakeboarder and Red Bull athlete Guenther Oka speaks about Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster during a press event at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
Members of the Born to Thrive Coaster team from Orlando, Fla., crash, while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
Members of Indymegasaurus team from Oveido, Fla., fall into the lake while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
The Mad Bikers team crashes while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
Seminole County Comissioner Jay Zembower speaks about Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster during a press event at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
Members of GWagon team from Orlando fall into the lake while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park on Saturday in Altamonte Springs. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
Celebrity judges Dwight Howard, left, Meagan Ethell, center, and Zack Fairhurst show their scores for a team competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)
The Lauwe Knaks are seen during Red Bull Stalen Ros 2024, The Hague, The Netherlands on Sept. 7, 2024. The event lands in Central Florida as Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster, representing the first time the European event comes stateside. (Marcel van Hoorn/Red Bull Content Pool)
Orlando-based professional wakeboarder and Red Bull athlete Guenther Oka, left, stands with public officials, from left, Seminole County Comissioner Jay Zembower, Altamonte Springs Mayor Pat Bates, Jason Siegel, president and CEO of the Greater Orlando Sports Commission, and Guilherme “Gui” Cunha, Seminole County’s director of economic development and tourism gather during a press event for Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
Altamonte Springs Mayor Pat Bates speaks about Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster during a press event at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
A decorated tandem bicycle demonstrates the idea behind Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster during a press event at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
Jason Siegel, president and CEO of the Greater Orlando Sports Commission, speaks about Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster during a press event at Cranes Roost Park in Altamone Springs on Aug. 6, 2025. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel)
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Members of Florideah Swamp Fest team from Orlando, Fla., ride past the judges table while competing in the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster event at Cranes Roost Park, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Thirty teams, chosen from more than 300 applications, competed on custom, rollercoaster-themed tandem bicycles across a 300-foot obstacle course over water with drops as high as six feet. Teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and distance. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Orlando Sentinel)

