Mini Enduro - Haldon Forest Sunday 9th March

Mar 4, 2014 at 5:30
by Chris Roberts  
You can come and race it all in one day with 3 timed stages and easy transitions with no timing so they do not affect the overall standing. It’s a great fun day out racing with your mates.

The great success of the Mini Enduro races is to bring new riders into racing enduro. So if you have never raced an enduro before or just want a bit of fun racing enduro away from the pressure of the UK Gravity Enduro series, come and try the Mini Enduro.

The Mini Enduro is title sponsored by One Industries and will be called the “One Industries Mini Enduro”

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The race is also round 1 of the Trailhead The Trailhead Bicycle Company Senior Series, riders in the Senior category will scored points at every race of the Mini Enduro for an overall series prize from Sandy at the Trailhead Shop in Shrewsbury.

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Rockguarz have also come on board for each race and will be prize at every race to different category each race. www.rockguardz.com

During 661 Mini Enduro at Haldon Trail Centre Bullers Hill Exeter United Kingdom. 10February 2013 Photo Charles Robertson
Haldon has great and varied range of tracks the race will use the off piste trails and just use the blue routes to link them all together and keep everyone going in the right direction.

It's got to be one of the easiest places to get to just 5 minuets past Exeter on the M5 by Exeter race course.

The Format

Sunday 9th March 2014

9.00am to 12.00pm Stages open for Practice with medical cover and marshals
12.30am Racing starts – Fastest first
4.30pm – Podiums – Top 3 in each category.

Distance will be around 10 to 20 miles including the stages with practice in the morning and then racing in the afternoon you will cover around 20 to 30 miles.

Three stages all timed live so you have instant results exactly the same has in our mini downhill races. All three stage times will be added together and fastest cumulative total time will used for the results.

The race order is:

Pro-Am
Senior 18-29
Master 30-39
Veteran 40-49
Super Veteran 50+
Open 17 & Under
Hardtail 12+
Women

Haldon Forest has countless trails dotted around and is the perfect venue for a race of this type. Entries now open on the
British Cycling website.

Email chris@minienduro.tv

Full info on www.minienduro.tv

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42 Comments
  • 9 0
 Looks cool, especially with a ht cat but £45? Really?
  • 1 1
 ^^seconded. I'm entering the next round at FoD which apparently is £30 ish??
  • 1 0
 pretty sure all the rounds are same price.
  • 1 0
 Maybe mate but I'm sure I remember reading on their facebook page that FoD was 30 plus a couple of quid booking fee. It would seem a bit strange to have different prices for different venues though. And 45 is pretty steep.
  • 1 2
 its only about £4.50 a minute, or 7.5p a second.
  • 1 0
 FOD is £47
  • 3 2
 I can't really believe people are complaining about the price.

Chris is the most honest race organiser in the UK, and certainly is not trying to rip people off and take a massive chunk of the entry fee to pay for an expensive car or house!

There are loads of overheads that go into organizing a race of this size.

Medical cover for the day will take large portion of the entry fee, then you have to pay the FC for the use of venue. Marshalls and Timing equipment also equate for a large cost, and then there is the other expenses which soon add up such as course tape, refreshments for marshalls, transport etc.

People will happily pay £3500 on a brand new Enduro bike, £250 on kit, £100 on a Garmin, but won't pay £45 to have a great day of fun competing against others...
  • 4 2
 what has the price of bikes and kit got to do with anything?
  • 2 1
 lol book an uplift and have more fun. or the London to Brighton off road for £35 Smile
  • 6 3
 Just to reply to the cost.

If you factor in a push up downhill race costs £30 to race, then it should cost more like £90 as we have to have 3 times of everything,
marshals, medics, timing, 3 different courses to set up and all the extra signage and its takes an extra 2 days longer to set up then a downhill race.
Plus we have to everyone out to the stages its not like downhill where the marshals can walk up the hill to there positions we have to transport them out to the stages along with everything else. this is not any easy thing to do or organise

The cheaper enduro races use the sport ident timing which is where you swipe in at the start and and then you have to stop and swipe in at the finish to stop your time. so not really a race more orienting.
  • 5 2
 The Raceface circus of dirt in Plymouth uses the same timing system as the EWS (jaguar) and only cost me 25 quid to enter. £45 is ludicrous for a local event, if you want to justify charging that much show a breakdown of the costs. Also XC races are just as long and have just as many marshals and they are are rarely over £25 to enter.
  • 1 0
 For the BC insurance we have 3 Commissionaires one for each and marshal and medics on each stage, i cannot comment on other races as they have completely different cost in how they organise there races and different land hire charges.
  • 3 0
 I have to say the Mini Enduro format that Naked Racing are putting on is brilliant. Last weekend I competed in the Night Mini Enduro at One Planet Adventure Llandegla in North Wales, a fantastic event where everyone who entered had a blast. The marshalls were excellent & the stages were great fun.
To anyone looking at having a bash at this format of racing... go for it. Myself and a friend have now entered in to the Scottish Enduro Series after the fun we had.
  • 3 1
 As far as I'm aware, no fresh lines have been cut. Last years event used existing trails, & I would guess it'll be the same ones used this time around. The local Trail Building Crew did all the donkey work before the event, without any reward, not even a free race entry, let alone £1000 cash!
  • 2 2
 There is a new stage this year and we not using the last stage 3 as this was really muddy last year. The venue is hired off the Forest Commission who we pay for the trails. Also a donation has been agreed which we will pay to local trail builders.
  • 2 0
 Good call, it will be appreciated by the Trail Builders up there I'm sure Smile
  • 3 1
 I'm entered - my first MTB race.

I reckon £45 is a bargain for a day's entertainment and is only a small part of the cost of fuel/getting there, eating etc. It's far more complicated to time an event like this than a downhill race as you need more marshalls, extra timing equipment linked across multiple stages and to try and put it all together into a set of results at the end of the day before everyone goes home.
  • 2 0
 really fancy doing this as its my local, but sorry I not willing to pay that much to enter a race.

Just out of interest if it was compulsory for every rider to have a race licence, which gave them insurance (british cycling fed) would this help reduce entrance fees by removing hideous insurance cover for the event.
  • 1 0
 No Licence required to race but the insurance is a factor in the costs, but not the biggest cost.
  • 5 4
 Yeah ok it's £45 to race but they have to pay for timing equipment and the marshals and actually organise the event, plus after all that there probably isn't much left and actually at FOD they give a certain donation to the trail builders every race last time I heard it was £1000
  • 2 2
 DH races are cheaper than that and include uplift
  • 2 2
 I'll challenge you to find a cheaper DH race with Uplift for less than £45.
  • 3 0
 Challenge accepted. PORC Downhill Series. £20 to enter the race (3 timed runs) on a Sunday, £10 for UNLIMITED uplifts Saturday AND Sunday.
  • 2 1
 I think the trails being used are all fresh cut and running nice

im keen to do it but its a 500k round trip plus 45 quid fee to race 3 stages, so I guess Ill pass

I rode it last year and it was a good race (apart from the pros and locals taking shotrcuts between stages!)
  • 1 0
 Would love to come but too far for us Northern monkies, going to stay local and do the Gisburn Enduro next month which is a reasonable £37 and only 50 miles travelling round trip.
  • 3 1
 Yeah £45 is very steep for a one day event with probably 3 stages at 2-3 mins each.
  • 3 1
 yep same as last year too expensive for me. where most dh/enduro races cost £25-£30. what gives guys.
  • 4 1
 Haldon Enduro, 1 day = £45
Enduro World Series, 5 days = £65
  • 2 3
 Which EWS is 5 days?
if you look at the Scottish EWS round they have 600 riders taking part who paid £65 with that many should it not be £32.50 each?
  • 5 1
 3 days practice, 2 days racing... Its a world series event. You honestly can't compare this to be the same caliber.
  • 2 1
 Quantaock Pete i was comparing the price the same as you.

Does the EWS for the 3 days of practice will they have Medics and marshals on all stages?
I know for a fact for that the EWS races i have competed in they have no marshals or medics during practice.
This is major cost and all adds to the cost of an event.
  • 1 0
 I am not an event organiser so will trust your judgement on this then. We had organised a trip to the event with the University club but when we saw the price only 2 of the 10 still wanted to go. I have no right to tell you what price your event should be, more just disappointed that I couldn't personally go. Hope you have a good day.
  • 2 0
 I do understand that it cost money and we always offer the a free entry to anyone that can provide a marshal or we pay £45 cash for a marshal which ever they prefer. We are lucky that with this race being so close to Exeter the Uni had found us a coach load of marshals for the race.
  • 1 0
 But haldon has been utterly destroyed though... the storms and the forestry commissions vehicles have destroyed the trails. Is this going to be done primarily at cafe side?
  • 1 0
 Maybe people should decide whether is worth £45 after the event based on how it turns out? Just a thought... I'm tempted even though its a trek to get there
  • 4 1
 yeah that ain't cheap mini race big price
  • 1 0
 Where's the best place to find dates for more north wales/west races? Cheers
  • 1 0
 www.borderline-events.co.uk
nakedracing.com
both put on races around the NW & Wales

also the British Cycling website is a good starting place to find events. Not sure what type of racing you are looking for but Antur Stiniog in Ffestiniog are putting on a DH weekend in July that I highly recommend.

www.anturstiniog.com
  • 1 0
 Live in blaenau, do antur 3 times a week after work, great for fitness, was looking at starting to get into a few enduro's at llandegla and cyb etc they don't have many
  • 2 2
 I thought all the trails were un-ridable because of fallen trees ?
  • 3 0
 All the off piste stages we are using are clear of trees.
  • 1 2
 The whole idea of mtb is for it to be fun and if your spending £45 on racing then your not gonna have fun.







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