it's "downhill lite". it's incredibly boring to watch. it's industry marketing to sell people more bikes. i don't have to "accept" anything about that.
Big deal.....It's XC and Downhill together and you need endurance too. And it's not like it's sole purpose is to compete with DH entertainment. Enduro haters are a funny bunch. At the same time, this PB post does attempt to provoke a reaction with it's headline.
Every now and then I think of my old C'dale Rush carbon. I really loved that bike. I really did. But that bike just didn't love me back. Actually, I should be quite happy that I've managed to survive through those years with just a handfull of scars.
Hell yeah the bike's ok. The bike rode him down into the glory hole... used his carcass as an air bag!!! No disrespect to the guy. I just calls 'em like I sees 'em. Hell I'd say it if it was me.
Looks like the "Grey Earth" trail, aka DAY THREE of the MAVIC Trans-Provence 2015. Had the pleasure of riding it this summer. Sickest trail ever ridden. Over took Squamish as my fave riding destination. Half Nelson still best trail in the world (...so far)
Anyone know if the rider was ok? more people are more concerned about making a joke than if someone is hurt. PB is getting (is) getting pretty cringey.
bro stuff like this happens all the time now. enter what is essentially a DH race on an ill equipped bike, what do we expect....? enter a race, take your chances
Did not look like a nice crash. It's about time that enduro started to abide by the same rules as xc and dh in terms or track taping, identifying hazards with signs, Marshall numbers, medical cover locations etc.etc.. I hope the rider is OK.
If you looked geez , the track is taped. Tape won't do fuck all to stop gravity or momentum. I think you might have meant netting. You don't have any choice where the you're going to land if your not expecting it.
@betsie, I've never done an enduro that didn't have track taping, marshall numbers, medical cover locations etc, it's completely standard. It's pretty much the only way it can work tbh.
Hazard signs are less useful for us, it's more like downhill than XC in that regard- XC has to deal with unpracticed laps and roadies-on-knobblies, enduro is generally practiced and when it's not the riders should be capable of dealing with the terrain. (some races do try to add hazard signs, it's not generally very useful, especially since everyone has different skillsets so what's a hazard for you may be nothing for the next guy- and vice versa. So you ride a section, see there's no sign, assume it's easy then it's not because it does something you're less good at. Or someone else sees a sign, slows for a "hard bit" and it turns out to be just a bit of muddy steep)
Tweedlove enduro had excellent signs "Woo scary rock!" and I think the other one was "Crazy fallen tree feature"
You don't have to tape an enduro with continously tape from top to bottom, signage, etc. Etc. Trust me. I have raced enduro and I tape dh race tracks. The is stuff in an enduro track tamest would never get past a Dh chief com on track sign off. There is lots of stuff on a wc dh track that would not get past one of bc chief coms. Trust me. I know.
@duzzi, I guess you don't like the Friday/Monthly fails vids either then? Plenty of life threatening crashes there too. At least we know the guy got back on his bike and completed his run.
he finished the race as he started it!!
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Hazard signs are less useful for us, it's more like downhill than XC in that regard- XC has to deal with unpracticed laps and roadies-on-knobblies, enduro is generally practiced and when it's not the riders should be capable of dealing with the terrain. (some races do try to add hazard signs, it's not generally very useful, especially since everyone has different skillsets so what's a hazard for you may be nothing for the next guy- and vice versa. So you ride a section, see there's no sign, assume it's easy then it's not because it does something you're less good at. Or someone else sees a sign, slows for a "hard bit" and it turns out to be just a bit of muddy steep)
Tweedlove enduro had excellent signs "Woo scary rock!" and I think the other one was "Crazy fallen tree feature"