Hi all, I am struggling to decide whether to use the term “All Mountain” or “Enduro” or “Freeride” to describe non-XC non-DH more-descending-than all-day AM rides like
1. the “Steptoe to Death Metal” ride described here
2. rides which my Italian and Dutch journalist friends describe as Enduro (for Italians Enduro means between All-Mountain and Freeride, you would be quite happy to get a lift up and ride down on your bike which could have 160 mm travel; here’s the Elvis referred to in 1. on one such ride
or this is another similar local ride
I know that in UK Enduro means marathon…for Dutch (and Germans as well I think) people Enduro means much more technical than XC.
I am tempted to use the two terms All Mountain and Freeride (mentioning uplift), and underlining the Alpine similarity,
1. ‘cos these are the categories into which we’ve classified rides in the guide we’re writing to Sardinia (ONE RIDE LEFT TO DO)
2. the Enduro word seems too open to different cross-european interpretations
I ask ‘cos we are starting to discuss with publishers Versante Sud translation into either English or German, and need to describe what the riding’s like here.
Ta Peter