[Event] Dirtopia All Mountain Enduro

[Dirtopia MTB Events]

Event Name: Dirtopia All Mountain Enduro
When: 18 February 2018
Where: Delvera, Dirtopia Trail Centre, Western Cape
Category: Enduro

ALL MOUNTAIN ENDURO

Sunday, 18 February 2018

 

Venue: Delvera Farm, R44, Stellenbosch

Start time: 07h30 - Dirtopia Trail Centre (Delvera) & registration opens at 06h30

 

Timing: Have to 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.

 

Pre-entry cost: R375 for non-members and R350 for Amarider members for one day. Please note that ONLY pre-entries will be accepted! Includes permit & refreshment station.

 

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Payments must be received when pre-entries close, otherwise your entry will be subsequently cancelled.

 

General:

Product prizes from Leatt, Csixx, SRAM Giant & Falke. Medals to all finishers. Trail Centre open all day for snacks & drinks, Dirtopia Café sells sandwiches and have lunch menu. No private picnics please.

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

 

MORE ABOUT ENDUROS:

The first event was held at Dirtopia MTB Festival, Greyton in December’12

 

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! 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.

 

Four stages planned for this event.

 

Support

Waterpoint with fruit, Red Bull, nuts & jellies etc will be placed at a strategic point (Pepper Tree) 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.

 

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. And yes, perhaps your skinny tire 29’er carbon hardtail is perhaps not the best choice of bike, although the course will certainly be rideable on it! At the Dirtopia Enduro, you’ll still be climbing. We will make most of the jeeptracks and roads ‘neutral’ or ‘liaison’ sections with singletrack downhills the timed stages. The overall descent of the race will be more than the uphill.

 

For further information contact Dirtopia on 021 884 4752 or email: entries@dirtpass.co.za and visit our website: www.dirtopia.co.za

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[Piston ZA]

Will be there, for my first enduro event. Looking forward to it!

[FrikkieMeyer87]

Didn't think I should start a new thread for this, so I just wanted to say a massive thanks to the event organizers for a well planned enduro, all the people who made an effort to help me find my lost car keys as well as the hikers who found it and returned it to the office, and then a big thanks Calvin, Luke and Johaan for sticking with me up and down the mountain. You guys rock!