2016 Scottish Enduro Dates and Venues

The dates and venues for the 2016 Scorrish Enduro Series have been released – you may start frothing with excitement…. NOW!

March 12^th and 13^thDunkeld
April 16^th and 17^th Fort William
June 11^th and 12^th Glenlivet
August 13^th and 14^th Laggan
September 10^th and 11^th Dunoon
October 15^th and 16^th Ae

Dunkeld and Dunoon are both new venues (with awesome names, FWIW), but they’re claimed to “reflect the aims of the series – to take riders to great new venues, face new challenges and experience awesome riding.”

Frazer Coupland is a Series Partner: “We have gained significant experience over the first two years of the series, working with a variety of land managers, trail builders and local enthusiasts – ensuring that participants get the very best experience at every round. It is very important to us that communities have an opportunity to benefit from the economic impact of the events and that the destinations benefit from the legacy of the Scottish Enduro Series. We will continue to build upon this in 2016.”

The 2016 races will again host the Enduro Lite category, featuring slightly shorter, less technical courses. This is a great idea; it’s an excellent way for people to dip their toes into what can be seen, sometimes unfairly, as an overly technical race format.

Entries for the Series open on Monday the 20^th October; just as with the 2015 races there are 50 discounted season tickets available for £250. Entries will be fixed again at £50 per race and £40 for the Lite Category.

For more details click here.

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.