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”
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.
Rockguarz have also come on board for each race and will be prize at every race to different category each race.
www.rockguardz.com 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 FormatSunday 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
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!)
Enduro World Series, 5 days = £65
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?
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.
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