People mocked and yet still it sold out.
There’s a good piece on Pinkbike at the moment from Brian Cookson re. the Enduro insurance fiasco and he quite rightly points out that that insurance companies and cycling feds view Enduro as essentially competitive DH stages with non competitive XC linking stages, like it or not it came under the ‘gravity’ banner and all that entails….poss line of site marshalling, higher premiums for organisers, increased risk for British Cycling etc.
Steve Parr got a hard time on here for his decision but it was interesting to read the head of the UCI echoing his thoughts. Enduro is in limbo at the moment, riders see it as a standalone discipline and can’t understand the confusion and risk averse nature of everyone else involved. Parr is right in trying to get a national and then international Enduro body set up for itself so the sport isn’t reliant on the UCI, British Cycling etc.
Anyway, rant over…..well done to all who got in, I didn’t so I’m doing some grass roots DH stuff this weekend instead!…that is after the better half has dragged me round Badminton Horsey nonsense on the Saturday though!….all good stuff, Sunday is even meant to be dry isn’t it?