Results: World Enduro Series Round 3 - Les Deux Alpes

 he's f'n killin it! He wasnt even gloating about switching to enduro like everyone else, this is just side training!

 awesome to see him in serious competition...thats a pretty stacked top 10.

 Yeah, he did surprisingly well

 Jerome Clementz, that guy who beat both Blenki in 3rd and the 10x world DH champion in 2nd, may beg to differ.

 That makes no sense... Are you implying Clementz is ready for the DH world cup? He's not.

And your second example proves his point, not argues against it

 Blenki spent most of his off season riding enduro just to keep the fitness up anyway

 When was the last time Blenki was regulalry hitting the podium then???

 Back in 2010 when Gee won the overall, Blenki won 2 qualys, was often on the box and was in 3rd overall just ahead of Gwinny (right before his break-out season)

 I'm not saying Clementz is "ready for the DH world cup" and that's exactly my point - he beat two top WC downhillers anyway (including the best DHer of all time). Hard to claim that DH is somehow the dominant discipline of mountain biking based on that.

 @Socket. Based on rate of speed down a course, there is no question that DH is in a different league then enduro. As far as dominant discipline is concerned thats open for personal opinion, so fair enough. Would Clementz spank the DH world cup? Who knows, he hasn't yet. When retired downhillers like Barel and Vouilloz are able to enter his world of dominance and compete that has to say something to you other then what your typing.

 Clementz won the first stage by 25 seconds and then cruised. He could have destroyed the DH riders if he needed to.

 Yeah, I don't see a reason to say one discipline is better than another. I do agree that the World Cup Downhillers can do better in the Enduro races, than a racer like Clementz could do in a DH cup, thats all I meant. Just a testament to how hard the downhillers are working now days.

 "The transfer from DH to Enduro appears to be a lot easier than the other way around." Who's gone from enduro to DH? But yeah, DH needs the ultimate bike handling skills. If you then train for endurance and learn a few tactics, you're bound to do well. Looks like some of the DH and 4x boys lost it on the long first stage.

 The transfer from DH to Enduro is definitely easier. I believe even Jerome was a former DH champ in France, as well as an xc contender. But what all of this really goes to show is how awesome ENDURO is as a MTB style. The rider with the best all around MTB skills is the one who wins! Jerome won stage 1, the one with the toughest climb, and stayed consistently with the top guys' time in the other much more DH like stages, dominated by the lapierre (full dh)team, nico2, bruni3, blenki4. Having said that, GRAVES could have smoked everyone if he hadn't missed a line in s1.

 Well enduro hasn't existed long enough for anyone to "go from" enduro to anything really (since there's not really any established dominant "enduro specialists" as such yet), but my original comment was regarding the "dominance of DH as a discipline". I think enduro racing is simply an awesome format, where technical skill, fitness, strength and tactics all really play big roles, and riders of pretty well every background can enjoy it and have a good crack at it, without the results being hugely biased towards the fittest rider (like XC) or the ballsiest and most technically proficient pinner (like DH).

 He wasn't clearly opposed to such contenders by the past I think... With the range of Riders here in the EWS, no place for any mistake, cause those guys are quick as f@ck, and you lost a lot of places! But i'm sure he can do well, if he can put clean runs together in a same week end!

 I think Affy was suffering from a nasty cold so wasnt at 100%

 Graves was way faster than Clementz, but that turn missed in the first run cost him almost a minute and a half!!! He is the man I'm rooting for...

 And his teammate Barel was 116th in stage 2!!! Puncture!?
Could have been in top 10 without their issues...

 Drop his stage 1 result, and Loic is in 2nd, too bad for him, wonder what happened, looks like he was killing it otherwise.

 Stage 1 had a massive MASSIVE long uphill. It might be why.

 I thought the same thing!! Could this race be to close to the next WC DH race?

 The next WC DH race isn't until 27th of July or something I think so that doesn't make much sense

 Him and Sam Hill are at Andorra right now riding the new track.

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