At the start of June, the PMBA Enduro Series returned to Calderdale and Lancashire for the fourth time, with stages spanning Lee Quarry and Havok Bike Park. They’ve been in touch with a media pack including many images and a video.
A record 380 people signed up for the event this year, which covered a 23 mile loop including the moors and woodlands between Lee and Havok. Thanks to good weather preceded by a very dry spring here, most trails were bone dry and dusty, save for the deep woods that remained quite greasy. As well PMBA’s media, there’s a great video by Ali Clarkson below.
In modern terms, we reckon this rider is now actually 5 degrees away from FULL enduro.The eagle eyed among you will spot this is a local rider for round sponsor and Singletrack Premier dealer Cycle Factory.Havok Bike Park has been going a few years and gave people some greasy respite from those endless dusty, bone dry trails at Lee Quarry. It’s just awful to see it so dry round here…Shapes AND bonus gurn.The hills at Lee Quarry look smaller than this when you’re riding around them.Smiles all round.Riders were certainly throwing some very good shapes, judging by the photos!
Glasgow-residient, Hebden Bridge-native trials rider Ali Clarkson came down for this round, and it was his first enduro event. He did nice vlog of the whole thing, with course commentary for most of the stages too:
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
