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@pmbaenduro: absolutely, I feel there should be more a a defined line though for what is a “national” level race compared to some of the races that are “grassroots”. There’s a place for that and rightly so.

@weeksy59: Enduro here seems to be a little lost, no consistency with event format, schedule between the series and or organisers. UKGE in the early teens was another level. It now seems to be about convenience racing which is popular and these events sell out. Some of the issues with UKDH are seen in enduro and vice versa. I’m aware of the reasons why BC don’t get involved with enduro and it’s a shame that they see it that way. Currently if anyone wanted to race EDR they have to either win a EDR 100 race and get a golden ticket to a EDR World Cup race or be on a UCI team. There is no other way to do it, not even if you win the British national series overall. There is lots of good riders who are restricted by this. As per similar issues in DH to race world cups. A lot of these issues start at home with the national cycling federations and how much they support racing and the riders doing so. Everyone is quick to shoot down the UCI and ESO but sometimes you have to look closer to home…

Good to see another year with a “National series” would be great if British Cycling fully got behind the discipline of enduro, this would help push things forward up to a world level, perhaps BC will sanction a National champs this year..? It would be great to see for a National series with a minimum distance and race time ie 30km 1000m ascent +12 minutes of race time, along with ebike categories having climbing stages, we have the venues!