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No Kimberly the word "gay" isn't an insult. Never has been. It's a genre of sexuality. I haven't disclosed mine.
And neither have the vast majority of Enduro racers, which implies that your use of 'gay' is associated more with a particular value than a sexuality. If you're equating gay with the strikethrough then that isn't sexuality either.
C'mon.. who here doesn't recognise this flag in the internationally recognised colours of "Enduro"?
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nice troll mtbel, bet you are racing 'duro on a road bike still
actually its spelt kimberley!
Despite the negative comments (and some of the funny ones) 'Enduro' does seem to be the most complete form of MTB racing.
DH is very skills orientated and could be seen as one dimensional because of that.
XC is fitness orientated and could also be seen as one dimensional in that respect.
Enduro encompasses the skillset from DH (if the courses are technical enough) and the fitness of XC (if the transitions are tight enough)....whats not to like?
The annoying thing from a personal perspective is the industry jumping all over it and coming out with nonsense like 'Enduro shorts' or 'Enduro shoes' or 'Enduro bikes'....despite the fact that the same model was on sale a year ago but labelled Trail or All-Mountain.
For me Enduro describes a racing format only...my bike is a Trail/AM bike that i use to race Enduros.
You don't need a 160mm gnarcore lifestyle accessory to race Enduro. Just a bike.
It's what downhillers do when they grow up.
We had a new bloke on site, standard "introducing..." email comes through and it says in hobbies and intersts that he enjoys "Enduro Mountain Biking".
So I thought I'd welcome him to the area and invited him out on a ride one evening. He was slow and crap (we when I'm saying that it's saying something as I am the very definition of mediocre) and I asked him about Enduro Events, he had never entered one.
Apparently riding a 150mm carbon Scott around Swinley (his local trails) is Enduro...
All the gear...
Hmmm...
I came last in my first enduro race.
I came 7th from last in my second enduro race.
I came 26th from last in my third enduro race.
But I would still class enduro racing as a hobby and interest. Am I crap? Am I allowed to class it as a hobby?!
As an aside, if only based on the races I did last year, I would say that the people who enter are in the top 20% of quality riders in the UK (or wherever the spread is that they are willing to come from to enter the race). I'd happily stand by this statement given that the same names appear time and time again on Strava as the fastest riders. Its no coincidence that these names are those you see on the entry lists for enduro races.
As an aside to the aside 😉 I can quite happily make it into the top 5% on most DH strava segments I ride, but, as above, my enduro race results don't reflect this.
So, even though I'd happily say enduro is a hobby of mine, I'm not technically any good at it. Go figure.
If you enjoy something, great, that's surely all that matters!
We had a new bloke on site, standard "introducing..." email comes through and it says in hobbies and intersts that he enjoys "Enduro Mountain Biking".So I thought I'd welcome him to the area and invited him out on a ride one evening. He was slow and crap and I asked him about Enduro Events, he had never entered one.
Apparently riding a 150mm carbon Scott around Swinley (his local trails) is Enduro...
But surely you don't need to be good at something and compete in it to call it a hobby.
He might be setting himself some strict times limits for riding from one descent to another at Swinley, then riding down them as fast as he can trying to shave seconds off his PB on Strava.
Probably not though...