Think of it as a bit like a rally- instead of doing laps like in most XC races, you have special stages which are timed, and you ride between those untimed but still under the clock. Focus tends to be on descending and technical skills but some of them like to throw in horrible climbs to shake you up.
You just need to be a bit careful with enduros, because the UK has a bit of a history of using the term for endurance racing. Wrongly, to be blunt, but it's too late to fix easily now. So you've got your gorrick enduros and the like, which are a totally different kettle of fish to the gravity enduro series or an innerleithen mtb racing enduro.
Enduro might have been suitable for an endurance event (although obviously "endurance" would be more suitable) if it weren't already being used for other types of event. It's like starting a new type of running event and calling it a marathon.
Right, so you're saying that the downhill kind of enduro were around first?
Gotcha. I hadn't realised that.
I thought they'd used the name enduro, because motorcycle endurance events had been called "enduro" for what seems like all of eternity.
Sounds like they put the wrong name on the event to begin with, then, since what you're describing sounds more like a rally, or a raid event, not an enduro.
Been reading about this a bit this morning - I hadn't realised that a motorcycle enduro wasn't a race as such, it seems more like what car rallies used to be about aeons ago - try to cover a set distance in as close to "par" time as possible?
Strange.
I've definitely seen Eurosport coverage of "enduro" on motocross bikes which was more in fitting with the traditional (wrong?!?) British use in mountain bike enduro - in fact, take away the mountain bikes, give them motoX bikes, and it was the same thing.
All of which means I'm now more confused than ever.
The critical thing to remember is to never call it Gravduro, because if you do you are a complete censored .
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What annoys me though, is that I was happy in my little Matrix-world where everything made sense, and Enduro was a perfectly sensible name for the thing I've known for years to be "Enduro".
Then North "Morpheus" Wind comes in and spoils it all.
Dammit, I want back IN to the matrix.
The critical thing to remember is to never call it Gravduro, because if you do you are a complete censored .
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What annoys me though, is that I was happy in my little Matrix-world where everything made sense, and Enduro was a perfectly sensible name for the thing I've known for years to be "Enduro".
Then North "Morpheus" Wind comes in and spoils it all.
Dammit, I want back IN to the matrix.
Right, how I'd always thought it works with motorbikes, is that the official definition of an enduro is a time-keeping event, while a rally is just an overall timed event. So I guess that'd make xc enduro most like a mc rally, even though earlier on I described "gravity" enduro as being like a rally, because I meant like a car rally not an mc rally
Where once there was confusion, I bring confusion.
But, where you can get a bit more certainty is that for pushirons, the original and most established use of it is for gravity-style enduro, and that's also the UCI interpretation of it. Now fair play, the UCI's only real job is to make road bikes heavier than they need to be and to forgive drugs cheats but it's still relevant.
I used to race Enduros, on motorcycles in the early 80's. They were just bloody long motocross races doing one or a few laps of a long course instead of 20 minutes lapping a short track.
Some were spread over a few days like a rally, Paris Dakar style.
So that's an Enduro, and if you disagree you are wrong.
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You just need to be a bit careful with enduros, because the UK has a bit of a history of using the term for endurance racing. Wrongly, to be blunt, but it's too late to fix easily now. So you've got your gorrick enduros and the like, which are a totally different kettle of fish to the gravity enduro series or an innerleithen mtb racing enduro.
Why is "Enduro" not a suitable term for an endurance event?
Enduro might have been suitable for an endurance event (although obviously "endurance" would be more suitable) if it weren't already being used for other types of event. It's like starting a new type of running event and calling it a marathon.
Gotcha. I hadn't realised that.
I thought they'd used the name enduro, because motorcycle endurance events had been called "enduro" for what seems like all of eternity.
Strange.
I've definitely seen Eurosport coverage of "enduro" on motocross bikes which was more in fitting with the traditional (wrong?!?) British use in mountain bike enduro - in fact, take away the mountain bikes, give them motoX bikes, and it was the same thing.
All of which means I'm now more confused than ever.
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What annoys me though, is that I was happy in my little Matrix-world where everything made sense, and Enduro was a perfectly sensible name for the thing I've known for years to be "Enduro".
Then North "Morpheus" Wind comes in and spoils it all.
Dammit, I want back IN to the matrix.
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Right, how I'd always thought it works with motorbikes, is that the official definition of an enduro is a time-keeping event, while a rally is just an overall timed event. So I guess that'd make xc enduro most like a mc rally, even though earlier on I described "gravity" enduro as being like a rally, because I meant like a car rally not an mc rally
Where once there was confusion, I bring confusion.
But, where you can get a bit more certainty is that for pushirons, the original and most established use of it is for gravity-style enduro, and that's also the UCI interpretation of it. Now fair play, the UCI's only real job is to make road bikes heavier than they need to be and to forgive drugs cheats but it's still relevant.
Some were spread over a few days like a rally, Paris Dakar style.
So that's an Enduro, and if you disagree you are wrong.
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If you're riding a motorbike. But you'll get the OP disqualified with advice like that.
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