Get ready for an amazing season ender mountain bike festival in Moab on October 12th to 14th! Long known as one of the world's most iconic mountain biking destinations, Moab has played host to riders from far and wide. Moab Rocks takes some of Moab's best classic and new routes including Captain Ahab, Porcupine Rim and Mag 7 and combines them into a 3-day masterpiece of all mountain XC riding with timed descents. Moab Rocks will present not only the best in Moab riding, but also the best in Moab culture, with daily socials featuring beer from Moab Brewery at Swanney Park and a wrap up party at Bar M Chuckwagon.
In recent years, the Moab mountain biking community has worked tirelessly building epic singletrack trails and growing its reputation as a mountain bike Mecca. Moab Rocks will work in partnership with the Moab Trails Alliance, Moab Trail Mix, and under permit from the Bureau of Land Management and the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
TransRockies Events pioneered Mountain Bike Stage Racing in North America with the TransRockies Challenge in 2002, and the 3-day race format with the TR3 starting in 2009. Poison Spider Bicycles has brought its expertise in Moab's mountain bike trails and community to Moab Rocks.
Dates:
October 12th-14th, 2013
Route:
Stage 1: 29.8 miles, 4,200 feet of vertical
Stage 2: 32.7 miles, 5,000 feet of vertical
Stage 3: 30.9 miles, 3,500 feet of vertical
Registration details, routes and Maps
HERE.
Fees:
Launch Sale: $399 June 6th-June 30th, 2013
Early Bird: $449 July 1st-July 31st, 2013
Regular: $499 August 1st - Race Day
Earn $100 off a 2014 entry by volunteering for trail maintenance on Tuesday, October 15th!
Includes:
Starter jersey, final banquet dinner, pint glass, daily beers from Moab Brewery, marked route with two aid stations daily, medical/rescue support, chip timing, prizing, and fundraising for the Moab Trail Mix.
Field Limit: 250
-dual XC and enduro format leads to some conflicts. Enduro guys want to have a clean run and are willing to wait at the top, XC guys will keep going and might not want to get out of the way!
-Chip only timing is not super reliable when not backed up with a stopwatch. They had to drop one of the 4 stages because they couldn't get times for it. As well, many racer's runs were not timed.
-Bits of flagging tape on trees is not an acceptable way to mark a course, especially with no course marshalls, and no timers.
This is NOT an enduro race. It is an XC stage race, where you can see how you rank on the descents. /rant
More than twice the price of BME races, and this is not even a series?
Why pay 3x the cost, for the privilege to race the trails mixed in with spandy bandits who can't navigate a 6" drop on their hard tails? Really, what could me more frustrating than racing "enduro" stages mixed in and stuck behind a slew of highly untechnical riders? I just don't see this appealing to anyone who normally races enduro events ( read series ).
[Edit] And I REALLY want to commit!