Replying to the post about Kirroughtree. The ‘wild’ trails are so good in Kirroughtree. Forget about anything you have heard in the past from other events. Kirrouightree as a riding destination is a must.

We are aware of the confusion that having two series called British Enduro Series has caused and have been keen to get this sorted for you. We have approached the organisers of the other BES series on a couple of occasions to try and seek a simple solution for you. However, this appeared to fall on deaf ears and so we have taken the decision to change the name of our series and put an end to the confusion. We WILL still be running all of the events at the venues shown on our website in 2016 and beyond. We WILL be giving you the chance to give us your ideas and feedback as the season approaches and develops and we WILL leave it to you the riders to decide which series you would like to race. We believe that our series will speak for itself in the quality and enjoyment of the brand new trails we will be creating for you in some of the best riding destinations across the country. So…what about the name? This is your series. What would you like to call it? UK Enduro Series perhaps? Something else? Let us know what you think and we’ll pick seven people at random who suggest sensible names and give those people a free entry to any single round for 2016 (7 entries to be shared by 7 people).

Get creative. This is your series so please give us your suggestions.

As an extra we are fully behind the Enduro Federation that the Enduro Event organisers started. Steve Parr was a main driving force of this and I hope that I is still going to be involved.

We believe that the Federation would be a better voice for the sport of MTB Enduro compared with BC.

Where MTB Enduro and our British Enduro Series Stand.

We are not involved with Si, BDS or thankfully BC.

The series is supported by Marin plus a growing number of other sponsors, I will releasing this news out over the next week or so.

We started looking at running a national series this year, and would have run with or against the UKGE crew.

We have published dates and we have venues sorted, we will release the venues when we release the full website on the 9th October, if we can publish the site before that then we will.

The venues are fresh and we will have proper infrastructure in place to make our series worthy of a national series. We also have the backing from great sponsors who are investing into the series.

As some of you are aware I am happy to push the boundaries with technical tracks, and this will continue through next year, and we will also have some more pedally tracks so that we can find the best all round rider for 2016. I feel that enduro is a test of fitness and skill, our series will bring that out in the winner.

The format isn’t changing from the Mondraker Enduro Series as it worked so well. We need to explain the one day or two day format better, and we will get resolved on the new website that is due to be released on the 9th October. We will not have timed transition times or seeded start times, without these the races have a more ride with your mates feel. Personally I feel this is important. We all want to have fun and ride with our mates with a fair bit of banter thrown in. The feedback from the riders this year totally supports this format.

As for the overall result, we have seven rounds in 2016. We are going to allow one round to be dropped from the series – whether that be the riders worse result or one they cannot attend due to injury or other commitments and so on. So basically your 6 best rounds out of 7 count.

I can’t stress this enough though. IF THE RIDERS HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SERIES THEN PLEASE SHARE WITH US – THE SERIES IS YOURS AS MUCH AS OURS. We want the riders to feel that this is their event series so please talk to us.

So finally we are trying to deliver what we feel the riders want from a British National Series #BES2016 and, importantly, a fun weekend/season of riding. We are going to deliver a non-elitist series for you the riders. Hopefully we have come across the right way and we will attract more riders into our sport of Enduro

Feel like I am jumping into a lions den!

I second Scott

Si could you email me at events@redkite-events.co.uk or ring me 01591 610130. In my opinion we need to resolve this asap.

Good evening everyone. To put the record straight:

We have been planning our British Enduro Series for about a year now. I made it clear at the last meeting of the Enduro Organisers meeting.

The series is the evolution of the Red Kite/Mondraker series. We have started a new company to run the series and also to give us a chance to rebrand the series as it’s own identity. Red Kite will continue to run with it’s mini marathon/challenge type events.

We will be using one of the UKGE venues in 2016. So you can expect to be racing on some brand new venues. This will be worthy of a national series. Anyone who raced one of our races this year will know that we do not mess about when it comes to tracks.

We are not using the Tweed Valley or Dyfi. Trust me on the venue choices.

We have some great sponsors already lined up. Marin are the title sponsor. Other sponsors will be announced over the next few weeks.

There is no ‘official’ British Enduro Series. British Cycling to my my best knowledge still do not recognise Enduro as a valid format.

I will not be getting into a spat with Si.

Any other questions post here and I will answer.

I have a 58 plate one. Tough truck, good offroad, went to Morzine and back for the passportes a few weeks back and averaged late twenties mpg doing 80-90 mph the whole way, carried four bikes in the back with a truck top on. Generally for day out I put a rack on the tow bar.

It does eat front wheel bearing every year at £50 a side. apart from that toatally reliable and very car like for a huge 4×4. Just don’t expect it to fit in multi-storey car parks to well.

Much better than the Ford Ranger it replaced and the Mitsu L200 I test drove.

I have a 2015 Dune (the base one) great bike, no problems and so good to ride. Just go and get one.

Route and the 5 timed sections all marked out for the Empire Cycles Enduro this weekend. Weather looking promising for the weekend. Beer is on chill, free pasta at the Drovers Rest Restaurant on Saturday night for the riders.

Online entry at http://www.redkite-events.co.uk or enter on the day (subject to a surcharge)

The Empire Cycles Enduro round 1(formally the word gravity was in the title) is this weekend.

We have chosen some great timed sections, none of which have right of way on them – so the timed sections are races. The sections in between ride with your mates at your on pace. Start when you want, riders will be set off at intervals on the time sections, great cafe halfway round (used all winter at our XC series), free pasta on saturday night at the Drovers Rest, more riding Sunday, free beer when you finish each day.

We are using a proper ‘chip’ based electronic timing system. The timing will be spot on.

Camping available.

Entry online at http://www.redkite-events.co.uk. A few riders are doing just Sunday.

Red Kite Events are running a 130k challenge on the 23rd June (as well as other shorter distances) supported by Continental Tyres, Nuun, Muke Bar. http://www.redkite-events.co.uk for more details.

got it, email me with your address at events@redkite-events.co.uk and I post it to you tomorrow.

Thanks to all the riders, medics (they where out there and in radio contact), marshals, timing guys (times out later this week), the land owners, Nuun, Continental Tyres, Mule Bar, Green Oil.

The orange arrows where not there when put our arrows out on Friday, so sorry for the confusion just before the split. Most of the riders said they had a great day out, maybe a bit too much fire road climbing – we will cut out some of the fire roads at the next events as much as possible. Routing was affected by the snow and that the farmers had not been able to move ewe’s and lambs.

Our next MTB challenge will be the Elan Valley (Rhayader) – proper old school mountain biking – basically a big tough day out – very little fire road (maybe 10k of fire road and even less of tarmac) buts lots of ancient tracks, water splashes, big moorland sections, long downhills. I have worked for 6 months with various organisations to get permission to do this ride – it will be worth it. 9th June http://www.redkite-events.co.uk

The 4th Round of the Red Kite Events XC series – report written by Cycle Tec, Builth Wells.

At a crisp -1c at 8am, it was set to be a cold one and with frost after frost this week, the ground would definitely be hard but slippy at today’s Red Kite XC round 4. A sprinkling of snow had fallen overnight but no more than a dusting and the odd flake continued to fall through the morning. A strong field of riders from near and far gathered on the start line and at 10:45am the race was off with a long leg-burner climb followed by a steep, rooty, off camber descent with stumps and dips. At first pass under the bridge through the brook, Cycle-tec rider Johnny Pugh had a steady lead over XC Racer’s Phil Morris with Cycle-tec’s James Nixon and Dave Evans close behind. At the end of the first lap the order remained steady as Johnny Pugh increased his lead. As the laps continued to pass, the order of the leading group was constant although Phil Morris managed to extend the small gap on James Nixon. The technical sections took more and more skill to traverse cleanly as each rider passed through, polishing the race line into an icy challenge. Johnny Pugh finished his 5th lap seconds short of the 90 minutes so embarked on his final lap – pushing others to continue on a further lap where they thought they were on their last! Final result: 1st: Cycle-tec’s Johnny Pugh, 2nd :XC Racer’s Phil Morris, 3rd: Cycle-tec’s James Nixon, 4th: Cycle-tec’s Dave Evans, 5th: Towy Rider’s Carwyn Davies. Fantastic to see so many having a go in the freezing conditions, especially those who had such huge smiles and words of encouragement as they were being lapped, keep it up all!!! Red Kite Events – well organised events at superb locations.

Next round of the XC series is on the 17th March at Coed Trawllm. Check out their website http://www.redkite-events.co.uk for more info on the winter XC series and Red Kite Events summer events.

Our 5 year old son was put onto a pump back in August, so much easier for us and the school to control his sugar levels. Takes the worry away from the school as all the carb/insulin calcs are down by the pump

Link to the website is http://www.redkite-events.co.uk The site is getting a make over in the next couple of weeks. Just waiting for Mercedes/EuroCommercial to update us. The site is fully working and is taking online bookings.

No need to worry about our summer events, we have a strong enough team to be able to cope with the three different events. Each event has it’s own seperate team, the start/finish and at least one of the feed stations will be shared.

Dont worry Red Kite Events will be bringing you excllent routes again, and possibly the best feed stations in the UK.

We also have support from Mercedes Vito/EuroCommercial, Continental Tyres, Nuun, Mule Bar, WhackJob, Strata Medical.

Got a set of winter tyres for my Merc Vito back January. They have been excellent in the snow over the last week. Living in Mid wales we have plenty of snow and we have some faily big hills. Not got stuck once. They are also much better when there is standing water on the roads.

neil
http://www.redkite-events.co.uk

Thankyou for the feedback. The XC format was a new format for us at Red Kite Events, and I admit we under estimated the complexity of counting riders doing laps. The two distance format did not help. We will be sorting out this issue for round 2 and we will have a working solution. The aim is to have lap times and placings down to last place.

We will be staying at Coed Trawllm for all the remaining rounds – it is a great winter venue (warm and dry cafe with nice food to hang out in after the racing is done), the owners love having the riders there, it has a lot of route options, bike wash, toilets etc etc. It has to be better than a forest car park in the mid winter. We will be changing the course every round so you will not be racing the same course each round.

The feedback I have had so far points to a 90 minute race.

Hopefully the numbers will support two races at each round i.e. the average riders go first and the fast boys/girls will start 90 minutes later. I am sure that will give everyone a better race.

The car parking will also be improved or the next rounds.

If anyone has any other ideas comments then please email me at events@redkite-events.co.uk.

We will also be running a summer series as well as our ‘normal’ challenge events.

neil
http://www.redkite-events.co.uk

bigger wheels fitting in the holders – i.e. the lift out of les get?

Coed Trallwm is pretty much unridable due to forestry works. is not worth the effort in going there. the rest of the area is still good. we are riding in crychan forest (south of trallwm) on sunday 10am.

elan valley is still riding well if a little wet.

we got our youngest a spesh hotwalk, best thing ever, year later got him a ‘proper’ bike and within 5 mins he was riding around without ever using stabilsers. he still has the odd cheeky go on the hotwalk.

with the back seats down in my discovery 2 i can get my size large spesh fsr in fully built and standing up.

thanks for the praise, see you in may.

i am signed up to the leader course in february. will let you know

Try the Red Kite Bike Bash. http://www.redkite-events.co.uk Really good riding, good food at the feed stations, people even got birthday cakes last year if their birthday was on the day!

http://www.redkite-events.co.uk

he was riding with a first responder so got treatment quickly.

neil
red kite events

‘A top weekend. Any news on the guy that crashed on the Saturday just before the first beer stop?’

that would be gareth, a local rider who should have known better, still in hospital and due out on wednesday. really bad cut to his leg, infected. it may have been his knee cap coming out that caused the injury. get well soon mate.

gareths knee:

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/374323_1942009449560_1822171363_1315823_1552767984_n.jpg

try bawdsey and the secret at shingle street.

head down to llanwrtyd wells and we will show you round for three days, different rides each day. guiding by two qualified guides. no charge.

i can suggest places to stay but would recommend the drovers rest (as recommended by Chips from the singletrack) in town, say neil recommended you.

neil
llanwrtyd wells cycling club

contact me via http://www.redkiteevents.co.uk

if the box is stuck in standby mode it is dead and give up.

if not try, unpluging power. hold the backup button down, switch power back on, keep finger on backup button till all the lights appear on the box and you should get software download message in black and white on the tv. takes about 15mins to perform a full download.

if this fails new box time, assuming lnb etc are ok.

neil
mid wales satellite and aerials

thanks to everyone who made the effort to attend in possibly the worst may bank holiday weather ever!

we will be going ahead again next year but maybe not on a bank holiday during school hols.

we have sportive in sept, see our website http://www.redkiteevents.co.uk

thankyou to:

castel howell – our very kind sponser

drovers rest llanwrytd wells – for providing the food and time

strata medical – event medical team

john @ john lloyd racing (crc marathon) thanks for supporting us

everyone else who helped.

‘Bloke arrives looking like he’s been dragged through a hedge backwards, and walks through the house with his boots caked in mud’ – you could have been his 5/6th customer today. hence a slightly dirty look.

‘Cant run cable around eaves as more than 8 bends and the signal gets to degraded, isn’t allowed to run cable over roof as thats a two man team job’.
– sky policy is to run straight down from the dish with any cables and then fix at low level around the house. this is save practice. however, all ‘engineers’ are trained to the same standard and pretty much the same kit. two man teams really do not exist anymore. if the guy was a subbie or working for a business partner he will be getting £10-£16 quid for the job. why should he bother doing a job which sounds difficult and very time consuming.

Cue rebooking the job for a double man team …. in two weeks. – i bet you do not get a two man team.

if you want the job done properly go to a independent and pay decent money to get a decent job done. 😆

in rough order:

morris marina 1.7
metro mg
renault 5 turbo
series 2a landy
citroen ax (cheap to run whwn living in the south east)
vectra sri estate
range rover 3.9 efi classic
discovery 300tdi
rang rover p38
discovery td5
subara imprezza estate
bmw 740i

currently

bmw 530d
new shape transit
fiat panda

dont forget the cambrian bike fest is on just down the road. three days riding in mid wales, http://www.redkiteevents.co.uk

nant yr arian is well worth the the trip.

also llanwrtyd wells area – best to talk to the guys at http://www.redkiteevents.co.uk or ask in the drovers rest restaurant for route advice.

elan valley is also worth a visit – plenty of published rides to follow or ask neil at the bike shop.

quick preview of the cambrian bike fest course on the 28/29/30th may 2011. http://www.redkiteevents.co.uk

bmw 530d

all four tyres wore out at the same time. over £200 per corner for the run flats. swapped to normal tyres and paid £90 each, better handling afterwards.