Ride My World hopes to highlight that at a participatory level, enduro is thriving

Have reports of enduro’s death been greatly exaggerated? Well, yes.

Every enduro event will be listed on one calendar. A new ‘Global Ranking System’ – powered by a ‘Performance Index’ and ‘Event Tiering’ – intends to allow riders to build their own race season, from world level to grassroots. Culminating in an annual Enduro Riders Championship event aim to connect every level of enduro racing.

Full details of the Global Ranking System, Performance Index and Event Tiering methodology should be published in the coming weeks.

One platform. Every event.

Launching this September, Ride My World (RMW) is a new platform for global-but-local enduro racing open to every rider and every race.

Ride My World: “Like many riders do, from pros to weekend warriors, the team behind RMW have spent many long evenings chatting about what enduro is, and if reframing the philosophy towards the sport could first be cultivated and secondly made possible. Conversations with riders from across the performance spectrum, event organisers and brands about a connected, global approach to ranking and calendar-building have been underway for six months.”

Every enduro race will be on one global calendar

Riders can find and build their own season in minutes. Filter by level, date and location and export the whole thing to a personal calendar.

Enduro race organisers can claim their listing for free, reaching new riders with ease. An events management platform, currently in testing, will let organisers manage entries, promote their events and run their race weekends directly through RMW.

A ranking system for the whole of enduro

The Global Ranking System is a points and ranking system spanning grassroots, regional, national, multi-day stage races, unique epic races and international level events powered by the RMW Performance Index. Every event will feed into one world leaderboard. Your best six results count towards your 12-month-rolling ranking.

Chris Hutchens, RMW CEO and Co-Founder: “Over the past few months, we’ve sat down with riders from across the globe, from those racing every weekend near home to the ones who’ve competed at the highest level of World Enduro. The conversation kept landing in the same place. Riders want variety, adventure, and racing that actually feels like theirs. Not every rider can follow a global series, and we wanted a solution that gives a broader base of riders the chance to compete and stand out.

“What kept coming up alongside that was a sense of missed potential. There’s serious talent racing in local and regional scenes that never gets seen beyond it, simply because there’s no pathway connecting that racing to anything bigger or the resources aren’t there for a rider to achieve this.

“That’s what the Global Ranking System and Performance Index sets out to fix. Instead of a single fixed calendar, every rider can build their own, picking the events that suit them, whether that’s a full local season, a run of continental races, or a mix that stretches further afield and includes global events. As it all feeds into one shared ranking system, none of that racing happens in isolation: a strong season close to home still counts on the global stage, and riders can measure themselves against their mates, their region, or riders worldwide.”

The Enduro Riders Championship

The Enduro Riders Championship will bring together riders qualified through the Global Ranking System alongside wildcard entries for an annual, 400 rider, multi-day event to find the “best mountain bike enduro rider in the world”.

RMW will organise and host the inaugural edition drawing on the teams combined experience in event organisation and decades of riding and racing experience. Future editions will be open to bids from organisers and destinations around the world.

Tracy Moseley – DH and EWS World Champion: “With news that Warner Bros will no longer organise the World Cup series for enduro I personally feel like it’s now an incredible opportunity for enduro to press the restart button.

“What began in 2013 as a mountain bike discipline that brought competition to the kind of riding we all love to do – riding with friends uphill, testing our skills downhill and enjoying new locations while riding the best trails in that area. Enduro will never be a TV sport but it’s a sport for the riders, for mountain bikers who love to ride bikes on great trails.

“It’s not all about international events; it’s about supporting the sport and events from grassroots upwards. I love the concept and look forward to seeing it play its part in bringing back my favourite mountain bike discipline.”

A transparent platform built in the open

RMW is releasing all of this as a working, evolving thing rather than a finished product. It iss actively inviting feedback from riders, organisers and brands.

Simon Ruszala, Co-Founder, Ride My World “Enduro already has everything it needs: brilliant races, organisers who pour their lives into them, brands that care. What it’s never had is anything joining them up – a rider’s result doesn’t help the organiser who put the race on, and the brand backing both doesn’t always get the value out of it. That’s why it had to be a platform. The sport is fractured in too many places for a spreadsheet or a rulebook to fix – it needs one shared foundation everyone can plug into. Build it on data from the start and it keeps giving back: every season the picture gets sharper and everything on top of it gets more useful to riders, organisers and brands alike. So we’re building it in the open, and we’ll keep changing it to support what’s most valuable to the sport.”

At the moment, the best place to keep up to speed with Ride My World’s news and updates is its Instagram: @ride_my_world