[Closed] Why I hate enduro riders

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Hates a strong word mate.

They are still cyclists, end of day.:)

Not sure I heard any whinning, just people saying the pedaly bits made it tough. Just a statement of fact not a complaint. Looked great to me, I'm thinking of doing a couple of enduro's next year and the more pedaling the better for me.

Great trail!!

Is enduro XC on a full sus and in DH gear.?

Nice video.

Day off.

It's made decide to go to Gisburn.

So that's enduro, is it?
Looks like mountainbiking

Only managed a minute of that. Bit peddaly peddaly peddaly peddaly off.

Ever raced sirromj?

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If it's scored as a rant, I agree. But I think it's probably a troll, posing as a rant. It's irritating, unfair to the point of being irrational, but something that a lot of people are going to feel qualified to weigh in on. We'll see where the post count gets to, but I'm thinking it's at least A 4/10 in the troll/rant category.

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If you want to see people whinge about pedalling you should go to an uplift day. A bus ride to the top then a gentle 30sec slight incline has people off pushing and moaning about hills 🙄

So Enduro? = For when riding around a trail centre becomes to hard to navigate and you need to pay an even higher price to ride between two tapes so that you don't get lost 😉

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OP is envious of all the bright colours! 😀

That looked like fun 🙂

Video needed a few more people falling off in comical but non injuring ways, mind.

#Endooro is trailriding with a clock ticking that isn`t STRAFFA.....

Looks great!

Just like a normal bike ride really

Is enduro XC on a full sus and in DH gear.?

the video made it look a bit tamer than it was, but even so it was quite a tame round. think they deliberately tried to wind it in a bit after the Grizedale one? also probably expected much worse conditions hence using more of the all weather tracks rather than the fresh cut stuff. all good fun.

I'm thinking of doing a couple of enduro's next year

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Theoretically I should do ok 🙂

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The only whining I see is from you. They're just commenting on the course.

#Endooro

Shirley...

Never done a 'Enduro' but I finally got to ride Gisburn last weekend,really enjoyed the place.
As said above those riders aren't whinging they're just commenting on the course.The only whining is from the OP..

Whiney person comes on internet to whine about enduroists whining

It must be Friday !

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Pedalling...? When I were a lad we carried our bikes up th'ills.
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In fact, last weekend we carried our bikes up th'ills. 6,500 ft of hike-a-bike in a 20 mile "ride"!

That's not whining, #endurowhining is pretty distinctive, it's what we all did after riding stage 6 at this year's tweedlove ews. It's just like trail whining only you wear yellow shorts and have to pay £50 to do it.

Give them a break, 100% grinz factor can only be maintained by riding a fatbike - everyone knows that!

Get a coffee bud ! pointless whinge 😐

Everyone should race at least one Enduro - they're absolutely amazing fun.

I have to admit, I can see how that vid's a challenge to deal-with. Turn the audio balance to the right and you lose the "pedally pedally whine whine" but then you have to deal with the irritating "guitar guitar whine whine".

You [i]can [/i]just hit mute and watch some people riding their bikes, or indeed go for a ride yourself.

Never know, you might lighten up a bit 😉

Hate is a strong word.

Hate leads to the dark side. Well not any more, the FC closed it because the wood all went rotten.

I might be in the minority but I thought that looked good….

Looked alright, that. Didn't see any whinging, just some riders observing what sort of riding they'd been doing (pedally, in case you missed it) 😉 . They all looked pretty happy about it though.

PMBA series looks good, doesn't it? Might have to go and play at being pack-fodder at a few rounds next year. 🙂

I'm pack-fodder. 50th to 29th so far this season in my age group in PMBA's sister series the Welsh Enduro Series. I've not yet decided if I'll race the newly added final race at Dyfi or not or leave it until next year now. It's been loads of fun and the guys at the pointy end are as fit as butcher's dogs and deserve lots of respect. They only complain because it's all part of the image of Enduro to complain about pedalling. If there was no pedalling it would be DH. If there was too much pedalling it would be XC. So somewhere in the middle with a gravity bias is where Enduro sits and the technical skills required for some events is on the DH side of things.

This year was my first season doing a few Enduro rounds.

What other kind of racing can you do where a World Cup DH racer comes to race and have fun riding alongside us normal folk on a weekend off? Hats off to Harry Heath at The Marin race. The following weekend he was sat in the hot seat for ages at the World Cup DH.

Yeh, bloody enduroists - I keep passing them on my mtb while commute

they never say hello do they ?

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[i]Is enduro XC on a full sus and in DH gear.? [/i]

Yes, and judging by the vid few of them even needed a Camelbak so no doubt a short 'lap' 🙂

Is enduro XC on a full sus and in DH gear.?

Go ride one! Take your XC bike and kit, you'll be fine!

does the ard rock enduro count? in which case its been moshed by beardie singlespeeder-ists on rigid bikes that cleaned all the climbs and were jolly quick when compared to the enduro masses overall

great video, made me want to join the club.... the Enduro club.

Oh, hang on, I already ride my bike so I must be Enduro!

I was told by an Enduro racer's life partner in a ridiculously patronising fashion that I "shouldn't base any tyre buying decisions on the basis of what he uses cos the riding he does is so much more extreme than anything you'll do."

She went on to add that he raced a couple of EWS rounds and that the terrain is substantially more difficult than ANYTHING in the UK. Antur, BPW or Fort Bill included.

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Yes, and judging by the vid few of them even needed a Camelbak so no doubt a short 'lap'

Ah don't get my started on this bollocks, bottles are more #enduro so now us that still wear camelbaks are basically emergency water bowsers and tool lenders for every damn idiot that's come out with no kit. But will still tell all their mates and the internet that ditching the camelbak is definitely the way to go, it's just waaaay better man. I might be shit at racing but I'm claiming joint share of 14th place at EWS for keeping Wym Masters going 😆

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I was told by an Enduro racer's life partner in a ridiculously patronising fashion that I "shouldn't base any tyre buying decisions on the basis of what he uses cos the riding he does is so much more extreme than anything you'll do."

She went on to add that he raced a couple of EWS rounds and that the terrain is substantially more difficult than ANYTHING in the UK. Antur, BPW or Fort Bill included.

It is though, and you probably shouldn't unless you ride at a similar level. No doubt you were straining against the crushing irony of the fact that there have been rounds of the EWS in the UK, but in general the terrain is a lot more challenging.

The fact that most riders who had the luxury of doing so chose to ride their "trail" bikes as opposed to "enduro" bikes for the UK and Irish rounds is a good indicator.

That's my nephew on the opening screen still.
He doesn't wear flouro, as you can see.
He enjoys them and is entering lots more next year.
His bike has a equipment stowage pod in the down tube so he doesn't use a camel back, just bottles.
I'd like to try an enduro but its a little too costly for me and I'm sure I'd do a lot less well than I think I would.