as in ‘Enduro riding’? to me it conjours images of massive distances and self sufficiency, but the bikes seem to be overbuilt for that kind of thing? sorry for the numpty question!

Enduro to me would mean long distance, as in Endurance

probably just a marketing scam to make people buy bikes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enduro

What is ‘Enduro’ ?

Can mean pretty much anything.

It’s not Downhill though, unless it’s Enduro Downhill. 😉

It think it generally means “riding your bike”.

I think its a bit of marketing gumpf – mbr had a feature a couple of months back on “marathon” bikes they were taking to roc d’azur – which is 50km.Hardly a “marathon” really when a lot of “enduros” here are 50km.Don’t know what point I am trying to make here….ah yeah,that’s it – its gumpf.HTH.

To me, ‘Enduro’ is anything that involves riding for more than an hour without a tea & cake break, or pub stop. Though I guess it’s more likely to be what shinsplints says – just marketing gumpf.

NONE of my riding at all involves going for more than an hour without a cake/flapjack/jelly babies/fruit pastilles stop ! 😀

Enduro = Having a day out on your bike where a 3ltr hydration pack is justified

In MTB terms it probably has its roots in Motorcycle Enduros, long distance off-road motorcycle races.

Enduro = my bike, although I reckon it’d be a pig in an actual enduro

“enduro” that to me means what I did in a previous life…..

it seems strange that ‘enduro’ bikes are not the sort of thing to be riding in ‘enduro’ races!? 😕

The avalanche enduro at kielder this weekend was suited to ‘enduro’ type bikes. It was racing, mostly dh, but pedally enough to mean a full on dh bike would have been no good.

as i thought then, blurry gumf. cheers 🙂

another word for longer distance innit. at least 40miles I’d says qualifies as enduro. …and if it involves riding round in circles for four hours Im not interested.

shinsplints – I think the ‘marathon’ at the roc d’azur is 80kms. It’s usually held the day before the ‘roc d’azur’ on a bigger loop.

Always confused me. To me Enduro= endurance= long distance efficient riding. Therefore maybe comfortable hardtail or short travel light full suss

It’s all Specialised’s fault – the Specialized Enduro should have been called the Epic because its built for “epic” days out, and the Epic the Enduro.

Same as Web 2.0. A load of old bollocks.

I did like the word Endurism in that German vid the other week. Good combination of Enduro and Jism definitely very continental European. Well done those chaps. More new words please.

In this country the word Enduro has seemed to have got mixed up with long distance endurance type rides. Marathon everywhere else. Elsewhere, Enduro is the type of riding mentioned above in the Avalance cup, and comes from motorbike enduro type events.
A bit of a confused marketing term over here I think. If you are getting an ‘Enduro’ bike for long distance endurance riding, you’re going to be getting a bike a bit overbuilt for such a task, unless you are a bit overbuilt yourself also.

Although the term enduro often applies to any type of long-distance, off-road motorcycle races, its true technical definition usually refers to a set of rules, varying by the events’ governing body, that specify exactly when a rider should arrive at certain pre-defined locations along a prescribed route. The object of the event is to arrive at those locations exactly per the defined schedule, with early or late arrivals resulting in penalties to the riders’ scores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enduro

Err those blaming Specialized have the bullet bang on target…. Enduro is an american term coined in the mid 70’s to rename a modified version of what the Europeans called Time and Reliability trials that combined bike reliability with self support and placed a time penalty regime to work out who was the best.

Specialized marketing folks naming the bike the Enduro, probably intended to rub some of the glam and tech of motorbike enduro into cycling then dominated by riders always looking for lightweight bikes that meant were not necessarily expensive. Perhaps if is lucky the early organisers of the first uk enduros did not choose to name the events ‘Nomads’ 🙂

The nonsense of naming a bike Enduro when it is built like an armoured tank could be alikened to a situation had the company that created the vacuum cleaner had been called Blower.. today nobody would be hoovering their carpets. Anyone likely to blower their carpets today?

Maybe the off-road motorbike & Specialized link is to do with the noises that you’re s’posed to make when riding an Enduro. Seem to remember that ‘someone I know’ makes the ‘ring ding ding..ring ding ding..brrrr..ring ding ding’ noises whenever they’re in a tricky off road section..ahem.

If everyone wasn’t in a rush to congratulate themselves on how terribly clever and cynical they are, perhaps they would notice that actually it’s not just a marketing term, and the Specialized Enduro is very well suited to Enduro events, like the Kielder Avalanche trophy that I just did (which btw is a great format).

Most people, including the top pros who won, were doing it on 5-6″ travel all mountain bikes similar to the Spesh Enduro.

Grumm – looks like a fun event but not anything I’d consider to be “endurance” in the true sense of the word. Mind you I’ve done 10 Ironman triathlons so I think I’ve got a slightly warped perpsective of what “endurance” means.

Good for you – I agree that the name could be slightly misleading, especially if you choose to ignore the actual definition and origin of the term quoted above. It wasn’t particularly hard in terms of endurance even for someone not very fit like me – it did however copy the format of a MOTOCROSS ENDURO.

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I used to race motorcycle enduro when I was in the UK.
There are 2 main types of enduro (first type is most number of 5-10km laps in 3 hours approx is winner & the other type is with time ‘window’ limited cross country sections based on a average speed with some chrono sections to decide winner) but the common factor is that they are held over much longer distances or times than moto-x and you face the challenge of natural terrain rather than artifically prepared moto-x tracks..

To me, Enduro is a long/day ride, e.g. a time and reliability ride suited to comfy XC bikes. I like this sort of thing.

But I can see the downhill Enduro as being ideal for the Spesh Enduro type bike. I’d love to try something like this – I’d be cr@p, but that doesn’t matter