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POC Scottish Enduro Series Round 4: Innerleithen, The Boot Camp Of Champions.

It’s perhaps easy to work out who raced the fourth round of the POC Scottish Enduro Series, they will be the person slumped over their desk, half asleep and gibbering incoherently about midges and 10,000m of climbing, with occasional outbursts of ‘Rider’.

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Trans BC – A Riders Perspective

First off, before anyone starts writing useful comments, I’d like to point out that the Trans BC isn’t actually a transient race that goes across British Colombia. The reality is that only a small part of BC’s enormous 944,735 km2 area is covered. It also doesn’t allow riders to transition themselves from one day to the next like I’ve experienced in other Trans style races. Instead, a big yellow school bus does most of the miles which lets riders enjoy quality over quantity as they start and finish each day in some of the best riding destinations that Interior BC has to offer.

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Hill and Ravanel win Enduro World Series in Aspen Snowmass

Round six of the Enduro World Series, the Yeti Cycles Big Mountain Enduro presented by Shimano Aspen Snowmass, will go down as one of the closest fought races in EWS history.

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Enduro Maiden 2017- The Woman’s Only Classic Returns

Women’s mountain biking is experiencing a massive boom with Women’s bikes and products being a huge growth market. We grow in confidence every day but taking the step to enter a big race is still intimidating, Will I get in the way? Will they start taking down the tape before I even finish? Women’s only races attempt to put the fun back into racing, removing the fear factor and welcoming everyone from their first enduro onwards.

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Why?- Fabian Scholz considers the burning question of why we race.

San José – Costa Rica, 4 am. Even at this early hour I’m wide awake in my bed in the Barcelo hotel. I arrived in Costa Rica last night after travelling for more than 20 hours, a journey that was frustratingly riddled by delays. In two days time I’ll be in the depths of the jungle to pin on a number for an enduro stage race. In moments like these, I think as I untangle myself from the bed sheets, it’s easy to question why one races.

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