The first day of school is a pretty good analogy for the first race of the season. Nobody has seen each other for several months, everybody gets back together in one place and there are the obvious questions on people's minds. Who got lean? Who got fat? Who has a shiny new toy to go and play with? Swapping off-season stories and sizing up the competition, the world's elite enduro racers descended on Nevados de Chillan, and as practice opened many riders saw their friends and rivals for the first time since the season ended.
For safety reasons, practice here in Nevados is very strictly structured - on Thursday riders could practice stage two in the morning and stages one and three in the afternoon. On Friday it was stages four and five in the morning and the long stage six in the late afternoon. This was so the organisers could make sure there was proper medical support on each stage - as stages two and six are long tracks that start a ways out from the beaten path, they are also technically demanding, so you wouldn't want to be getting up to race pace unless you were sure there was someone to help if things got ugly.
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i just threw up in my mouth...
lol.
talk about having no clue.
who ever wrote that needs to be taken out and shot, then ran over by a carbon v10 with 26 inch wheels.
besides, i believe in the 70's we called a jump on a bike without a takeoff a 'bunnyhop'............
it hasn't changed people.
and for the record, nobody bunnyhops their skateboard over the channel on a backyard vert ramp.
god, enduro is gay.
i got suckered in by the nice shots of the volcano.......should have never even read the the picture comments.
i gotta go watch bob hannah supercross reruns on youtube to just respect myself again.............
At the last Bluegrass enduro tour in Dabo (France) my guess is that 1/3 of the field was german. Or is that cause you guys speak so loud??? Don't think so!
So blame the USA now
Well only one rider from Canada in Finale Ligure. I guess they're just not into this mountainbiking thing at all
Men: Maes, Nicolai, Clementz. One second separates them.
Women: Chausson, Moseley(+11), Ravanel(+15).
Makes me want to buy me tickets to Chile right now!
Amazing pics, @Matt .... BUT - What's food like, compared to Liguria and "trofie al pesto" or a nice "fritto misto"?
Live timing...Martin Maes 1st at 1st stage!
This venue looks surreal. Makes me want to visit.