Video: Damien Oton & the Orbea Fox Enduro Team Take On eMTB Racing in the Gruelling 2020 Epic Enduro

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KavuRider (Nov 4, 2020 at 4:51)

Cool video!
I think eMTB racing is still finding it's place. I imagine a sort of moto-enduro style would be cool, but in places that perhaps wouldn't be able to support motos. Super long stages, with ridiculous climbs and some tech downhill. You would have to be strategic on how you used your battery power. Kind of like managing your fuel/tires in auto racing.

I think it could work, just not sure if there is any market/money in it.

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Edendino (Nov 4, 2020 at 6:31)

Because this is the language that most people in the world understand. This Italian rider speaks Italian to the camera and most people who watch this video don’t know what he was talking about. It’s stupid and even a bit primitive IMO

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Edendino (Nov 4, 2020 at 6:45)

For anyone who’s curious, the comment above was as a reply to another 2 comments which were removed, apparently. The first comment was saying that it’s 2020 and still some professional athletes can’t speak English.

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frorider2 (Nov 4, 2020 at 7:15)

@Edendino: it’s 2020 and easy to generate a transcript in English for subtitles....

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Maxcommencemal (Nov 4, 2020 at 8:30)

I'll pretty sure that he's speaking Spanish, but you're correct. The hard of listening can always turn on captioning in YouTube like I did, my Spanish is probably far worse than his English.

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Rubberelli (Nov 4, 2020 at 6:24)

Hey, where are the women? Watching Pinkbike Academy?

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brajal (Nov 4, 2020 at 1:45)

charging batteries is the real game in between

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salvafc (Nov 4, 2020 at 2:08)

The quality of Orbea's videos are in another level.

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PauRexs (Nov 4, 2020 at 5:51)

Nicee I imagine just one guy did all this amazing job... into the other hand redbull can´t put a drone onto their DHWC...

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nedsded (Nov 3, 2020 at 23:35)

whats in the box

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msusic (Nov 4, 2020 at 4:31)

Poor batteries, motors and chargers had it really hard. Semiconductor lives matter!

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marxrydz (Nov 4, 2020 at 11:11)

is there any info on this race? Location? Website? Next year's dates?

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Clemounet (Nov 4, 2020 at 16:47)

www.epicenduro.com

It takes place in the "Montagnes du Caroux", around Olargues, France. The French round of EWS was supposed to run the next day in the same area.

Yet no information about next year's race...

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Maxcommencemal (Nov 5, 2020 at 3:45)

According to my sources it's not happening in 2021. It's usually in mid May, so that doesn't really leave them enough time to organise it for next year after delaying this year's edition.

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nukedchipp (Nov 5, 2020 at 9:52)

dazzling and then not so dazzling.

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jakemcab (Nov 3, 2020 at 23:23)

eMTB. Gruelling, epic, toughest, suffering?

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EnduroManiac (Nov 3, 2020 at 23:44)

The other dude was not on an eBike. Most of the racers are not. in fact. But with such a distance, it may be even exausting on a eBike. Maybe not for Oton though.

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Matt115lamb (Nov 4, 2020 at 0:29)

If you race at 100% on an emtb it’s as gruelling as any bike , you go faster ! Have you tried one and rode flat out for an hour ?

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tabletop84 (Nov 4, 2020 at 3:46)

@Matt115lamb: it's exhausting but not as exhausting as on a acoustic bike. The motor always assists you only if you would go plus 25km/h on flat ground it will be more exhausting.

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Rubberelli (Nov 4, 2020 at 6:14)

@Matt115lamb: Haha! If you're at 100% heart rate on a moto, it's as grueling as at bike! I'm not slagging ebikes, but just pointing out there is a reason many ebikers ride their pedal bikes once a week to stay fit (most that I know do this).

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bikegreece (Nov 3, 2020 at 23:36)

Yeah, yeah right..

Video: Damien Oton & the Orbea Fox Enduro Team Take On eMTB Racing in the Gruelling 2020 Epic Enduro

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