Good friend of mine did the 3&4 round of the Canadian
enduro championship last weekend. here is his pix and report. He took a third. Just thought you guys might like to check this out. Looks like a killer event, i should have gone.
All the pix - http://trav.smugmug.com/gallery/8900930_54dYt#P-1-15
My buddy trav...
The story (Ken and Ron are friends from the north)...
myself, pete wisner, mike decker, the larsen's, and few others from WA
went up to Penticton last weekend to do round 3&4 of the canadian
enduro championship.
we got to visit some with ron and ken. ken is member of the hosting
club (SODBC), and ron did a lot of the setup for the extreme test.
Both Ken and Ron received awards from the promoters for all their
work. they were both working their butts off the entire time. ron was
out working by 5am every morning and all over the place. ken seemed to
be busy keeping things organized. as we left monday morning they were
unloading an excavator to tear down the extreme test and claimed they
would be working most the day to fix trail as well.
It was a really cool event. first off the fact that the course started
at the base of a cool ski resort and ascended to the summit of the
mountain, I don't think you'll find that in the states except for
maybe ski resorts on private land. the course was a lot of fun. the
event was very well organized and I took for granted that we were
going to a canadian "national"... everything seemed over the top
compared to the local events and made for a fun time. not quite the
scale of WORCS, but close.
each day the PRO and A class ran the course 3 times with 3 tests each
loop except for the first loop the enduro section they did not time.
the first test was a "cross test" consisting of MX and a bit of woods,
like mini WORCS track. the corners were setup perfect and even an MX
spode like me felt like a hero at times. next an enduro section which
consisted of a down hill mountain bike trail and some flowing single
track through the woods. then ron's extreme test, which on saturday
was a total ass kicker and they ended up toning it down for sunday
stating that they "ran out of Kleenex". the rest of the course was
transfer sections, mostly single track on some cool mountain bike
trails. about 25 miles each loop and 8 tests total.
saturday was exhausting. the enduro test had a hill climb that
ascended 4000' and by the 2nd lap it was completely chewed up with
bikes spewed all over. they had to re-route for sunday moving the
enduro test and add new transfer section. as a result they had to
through out the enduro test on saturday.
on our 3rd lap they held back the PRO and A classes at the tests to
let the amatuers get through. so we got to see some of the canadian
pros ride the extreme test and MX section. Bobby prochnau is an animal
and just charges everything like a mad man. BMW had a hired gun on
their 450 that was putting on a show, not the fastest but was holding
the 450 on the rev limiter and styling through everything. some dude
from the Yamaha team was doubling the culverts, which just seemed
impossible with their placement.
enduro championship last weekend. here is his pix and report. He took a third. Just thought you guys might like to check this out. Looks like a killer event, i should have gone.
All the pix - http://trav.smugmug.com/gallery/8900930_54dYt#P-1-15
My buddy trav...
The story (Ken and Ron are friends from the north)...
myself, pete wisner, mike decker, the larsen's, and few others from WA
went up to Penticton last weekend to do round 3&4 of the canadian
enduro championship.
we got to visit some with ron and ken. ken is member of the hosting
club (SODBC), and ron did a lot of the setup for the extreme test.
Both Ken and Ron received awards from the promoters for all their
work. they were both working their butts off the entire time. ron was
out working by 5am every morning and all over the place. ken seemed to
be busy keeping things organized. as we left monday morning they were
unloading an excavator to tear down the extreme test and claimed they
would be working most the day to fix trail as well.
It was a really cool event. first off the fact that the course started
at the base of a cool ski resort and ascended to the summit of the
mountain, I don't think you'll find that in the states except for
maybe ski resorts on private land. the course was a lot of fun. the
event was very well organized and I took for granted that we were
going to a canadian "national"... everything seemed over the top
compared to the local events and made for a fun time. not quite the
scale of WORCS, but close.
each day the PRO and A class ran the course 3 times with 3 tests each
loop except for the first loop the enduro section they did not time.
the first test was a "cross test" consisting of MX and a bit of woods,
like mini WORCS track. the corners were setup perfect and even an MX
spode like me felt like a hero at times. next an enduro section which
consisted of a down hill mountain bike trail and some flowing single
track through the woods. then ron's extreme test, which on saturday
was a total ass kicker and they ended up toning it down for sunday
stating that they "ran out of Kleenex". the rest of the course was
transfer sections, mostly single track on some cool mountain bike
trails. about 25 miles each loop and 8 tests total.
saturday was exhausting. the enduro test had a hill climb that
ascended 4000' and by the 2nd lap it was completely chewed up with
bikes spewed all over. they had to re-route for sunday moving the
enduro test and add new transfer section. as a result they had to
through out the enduro test on saturday.
on our 3rd lap they held back the PRO and A classes at the tests to
let the amatuers get through. so we got to see some of the canadian
pros ride the extreme test and MX section. Bobby prochnau is an animal
and just charges everything like a mad man. BMW had a hired gun on
their 450 that was putting on a show, not the fastest but was holding
the 450 on the rev limiter and styling through everything. some dude
from the Yamaha team was doubling the culverts, which just seemed
impossible with their placement.
Great report and pix, though.
