Uplifts? Who is racing an enduro with an uplift? Even mandatory practice doesn't give you enough shuttles to practice usually. We get 3 on Saturday for Beauty this weekend, for 6 trails. The briefing info says you will need to do at least one complete ride to the top as well as shuttles to get to see all tracks.Despite the notion of Enduro racing being downhill focused, fitness is still very, very important.
Even with uplifts, you need to be able to perform after 3-4 hours on the bike. It is tiring
So, being fit is important with uplifts and even more important without.Uplifts? Who is racing an enduro with an uplift? Even mandatory practice doesn't give you enough shuttles to practice usually. We get 3 on Saturday for Beauty this weekend, for 6 trails. The briefing info says you will need to do at least one complete ride to the top as well as shuttles to get to see all tracks.
I haven't done a race in 6 years where there were uplifts race day. Buller used to give you a chairlift mid race, purely to get the event through on time. Still over 1000m of climbing.
Fitness foe me, isn't about managing the climbs, its about having legs for the descents after the climbs. YMMV.
*cough its called DownduroUplifts? Who is racing an enduro with an uplift?
Oh god. Please don’t call it Enduro then.*cough its called Downduro
Yeah we had one here in rAdelaide during the Tour Down Under Festival of Cycling.
It attracted the Enduro crowd and the DH crowd, 5 stages of a gravity enduro with shuttles to the top.
That’s more like the other discipline…with a French name…that I can’t think of.There was also the Thredbo super enduro where you had unlimited chairlift to record your best time on all 3 tracks. Not a hill I would like to ride up to then do each of those trails....
Fat Mans XC is Downcountry, keep up.Flowduro is XC with descents (aka xc for fatties)?
Explains a bit.I like me some D.
partly true, but its not hard to recognize what a fat old bald guy is doing on the trails - gravity is his [or your in this case] friend, he's as faddy as they come, and wouldn't know what a a GE event looked like if he pretended to help run one.
Hey! I might be fat, old and bald…….but…what way that other thing you said?partly true, but its not hard to recognize what a fat old bald guy is doing on the trails - gravity is his [or your in this case] friend
An Anti-Gravity Enduro has timed up hills and untimed descentsOh god. Please don’t call it Enduro then.
So.
Flowduro is XC with descents (aka xc for fatties)?
Downduro is enduro for the DH fatties?
Oh god. Please don’t call it Enduro then.
So.
Flowduro is XC with descents (aka xc for fatties)?
Downduro is enduro for the DH fatties?
Yeah, I'm the same. I was Masters series champ 5 years ago and used to get a few podiums but now days I'm hanging around at the back of the field and still a few places off the podium in Super MastersFor sure, it’s competitive with the old guys. I regularly face off against 2 Aussie WC DH riders who are still fit and fast, and a couple of Elite XC crossover guys. And there’s getting more entering too. No old hacks are just taking it up on a whim, they’re all very seasoned riders.
In my last few years of masters, I looked at the super masters times, and was always in the podium mix, now I’m in there, the field has grown, and times are way faster than before, and despite me getting faster, I haven’t cracked a podium.
Love it though, I give it a crack, but main goal is to get down safe.
Nar xc for fatties - they just give me a better handicap or drop me down a grade or 3 - I foresee me racing against 5-7 years olds soon if they drop me many more grades.....aka xc for fatties
Got any lower classes? Asking for a friend.I foresee me racing against 5-7 years olds soon if they drop me many more grades.....
Cheers for that.Got any lower classes? Asking for a friend.
One bloke had his kid on the wee ride 'racing' against the other kids on balance bikes....... Actually if I could get someone to do that for me I'd be set.Got any lower classes? Asking for a friend.
I’ll do it with you. Will the Wee Ride carry my weight?One bloke had his kid on the wee ride 'racing' against the other kids on balance bikes....... Actually if I could get someone to do that for me I'd be set.
I’ll do it with you. Will the Wee Ride carry my weight?