[Event] Dirtopia All Mountain Enduro - Welvanpas Trails

[Dirtopia MTB Events]

Event Name: Dirtopia All Mountain Enduro - Welvanpas Trails
When: 11 June 2017
Where: Val du Charron, Wellington, Western Cape
Category: MTB

ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO - WELVANPAS TRAILS

Sunday 11 June

 

 

Start/finish Venue: Val du Charron, Wellington

Start time: 09h00 & registration opens at 08h00

Pre-entry cost (closes 7 June. Pre-entries only!):

 

R375 for non-members and R350 for Amarider members for one day. Four stages minimum. Up to six stages.

Please note that ONLY pre-entries will be accepted! Includes permit & refreshment station.

General: Product prizes from Leatt, SRAM, Csixx, Giant & Falke for top three male & female and also other age categories depending on amount of entries. Medals to all finishers. Coffee will be for sale from early morning with two types of pizza’s from the restaurant that you can order.

Join the DIRTOPIA ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO group on Facebook to stay updated on all events and info.

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Directions to the venue:

Visit ww.vdcwines.co.za

 

 

 

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Support

Waterpoint with fruit, Red Bull, nuts & jellies etc will be placed at a strategic point to assist with rider support. The beauty of the format is that you can relax a bit at this station and catch your breath before tagging into the next Special Stage.

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Enduro Riding:

Have you done an Enduro event? Then you know what it is about! If not, then here is a summary: riders get timed only on certain sections, which make a very social event, especially at the refreshment station where they re-group. The atmosphere is relaxed with no rush anywhere, except when you gun it between check points!

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Total distance of riding not so relevant as riders ride to special stages in their own time and the timed stages are more like downhill racing, although all type of riders can attempt it. Protective gear recommended.

 

 

 

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Timing:

Must own an Amarider Trail Tag. R100 or take a yearly Amarider membership of R225 and a Tag is included! Watch out for the TAG POINTS at the beginning & end of each stage.

 

 

Timing will be managed in real-time with @trailtag and riders will check in and out of the Special stages. This means that riders will enter special stages 1 by 1, so no bunfight to get trail position on the singletrack

MORE ABOUT ENDUROS:

The first event was held at Dirtopia MTB Festival, Greyton in December’12 and proved to be a lot of fun. Since then Dirtopia has organised more than 20 of these kind of mountain bike events.

The concept

Based on the successful Mavic Trans Provence concept the idea is to bring riding and the results linked to it back to mountain biking and away from the current endurance-only formats. That said, it is not the idea to make the race highly technical as per downhill racing, but simply to focus the competition on the trails component of the sport

At the Dirtopia Enduro, you’ll still be climbing and even be timed on some of these sections. We will make most of the jeeptracks and roads ‘neutral’ or ‘liaison’ sections. You will still be required to ride these. The overall descent of the race will be more than the uphill.

 

For further information visit our website: www.dirtopia.co.za

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[OemD]

Hi Guys...

 

Dont know what wrong with my brain today. Been without my bike for a week, so maybe im getting withdrawal symptoms.

 

Can you please explain what this event is all about....ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO - WELVANPAS TRAILS

Sunday 11 June....

 

Please use short words and draw a picture if u can...will go for a nice long ride tomorrow then I will be back to normal..I hope...

 

Enjoy the weekend.

[Mohs]

Hi Guys...

 

Dont know what wrong with my brain today. Been without my bike for a week, so maybe im getting withdrawal symptoms.

 

Can you please explain what this event is all about....ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO - WELVANPAS TRAILS

Sunday 11 June....

 

Please use short words and draw a picture if u can...will go for a nice long ride tomorrow then I will be back to normal..I hope...

 

Enjoy the weekend.

http://www.dirtopia.co.za/index.php/all-mountain-enduro

[Mohs]

Hi Guys...

 

Dont know what wrong with my brain today. Been without my bike for a week, so maybe im getting withdrawal symptoms.

 

Can you please explain what this event is all about....ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO - WELVANPAS TRAILS

Sunday 11 June....

 

Please use short words and draw a picture if u can...will go for a nice long ride tomorrow then I will be back to normal..I hope...

 

Enjoy the weekend.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Beginners-Guide-to-Enduro-What-the-hell-is-it-2012.html

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Ups aren't timed. Downs are. Individual starts 30s to 1 min apart. Ride against yourself and those others behind and in front of you. If someone catches you pull over as soon as you can to let them past as theyre clearly MUCH faster than you. Multiple stages across technical terrain incl DH trails.

 

Drink beer after. Talk ***. Enjoy.

Edited June 2, 2017 by Myles Mayhew