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With rain forecast for this, the latest event put on by the One Industries Mini-Enduro team in the fantastic location of The Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire), I knew this was going to be very different to the norm! I had been sitting on a set of the Michelin (cut-downable) spiked mud trail tyres for several months, but not had a chance to put them to the test. Finally they were fitted to the big...

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When Valentina Macheda and Manuel Ducci decided to go to the Chilean start of the Enduro World Series, they called Alex Lupato and as photographer, Matt Wragg. What they experienced you can read here: After a winter of dreaming about this trip, finally we arrived in Chile for the EWS! You always think the moment of departure is a long way away, but only a moment later you find yourself telling the stories from the trip… But we’ll start at the beginning.

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As we drove past the ‘Game Cock’ and ‘Spread Eagle’ pubs I had a sense that Lancashire folk are blessed with a unique sense of humour, and indeed the opening round of the PMBA enduro in Gisburn was unique. I have been to a few enduros recently, and it seems like a lot of organisers are constrained to a ‘wheels down’ approach, Kev Duckworth and the team behind Empire Bikes / PMBA on the other hand...

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With a time of 1:26.956 Michal Prokop won the prologue of the first stop of the Specialized-SRAM Enduro Series in Terlago. He will start with a lead of 1.554 seconds in front of Marco de Col and Martino Fruet (+2.165) – Martino raced on a hardtail! The fastest women was Anneke Beerten (1:39.700), Antje Kramer in second (+9.789) and Raphaela Richter in third (+11.729) place. In the masters category Remo Heutschi has been 0.682 seconds faster then 4x world champion Joost Wichman and Nino Antic (+0.843). Here you find the pictures of the prolog and a short bike check of the bike of the prologue’s winner, the Specialized Enduro 29 S-Works from Michal Prokop.

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Hot off the press, some big news on the USA enduro race scene. Shimano has just agreed to be co-title sponsor of one the biggest race series in the USA.

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