[Closed] Southern Enduro

Good luck and thanks. I got the email and just subscribed to the channel. Will be blocking out some of those dates, fingers crossed I get an entry.

Looking great Scott - Good to see a new series popping up from people truly passionate about the sport. I think Southern Enduro will be one of the go to series for next year!

Cheers Ben

Looking good. Made a note to make sure I'm about for that weekend

Can't wait to unleash my supreme racing mediocrity on this series! 🙂

Love the posh farm owner kid in the 2nd video.

If you are a wealthy landowner in the Meonstoke / Corhampton / Exton area and want to let me build jumps on your land, please get in touch.

Not too fat from my end of the woods, excellent...

When I used to run paintball sites, the Cowdray (huge landowners in Midhurst/Liphook area) kids came and had a game for a birthday. They loved it and promptly set up a full blown site on their own land.
Maybe need to get them into Enduro instead!

Cowdray (huge landowners in Midhurst/Liphook area)

I'll see if I still have any contact details...

Please

So the series goes on sale this Saturday (christmas present from your other half??) Info [url= http://southernenduro.co.uk/entries-for-the-2016-transition-bikes-southern-enduro-series-will-go-will-be-live-at-900-on-the-19th-dec/ ]HERE[/url]

How are entries after the first day Scott? Will I get away with waiting a couple of weeks or are they selling out like the QECP events?

Only 8 left according to Facebook earlier.

Glad I asked! Got my entry for sport.

Now sold out, cheers for the support guys. Individual entries for round one go on sale 09:00 on Saturday 13th February 2016.

Photo update on the Milland venue build: [url= http://southernenduro.co.uk/651-2/ ]http://southernenduro.co.uk/651-2/[/url]

Can't wait for the first round, especially having ridden my new hardtail enduro gnarpoon for the first time yesterday! Milland track looks like it'll be challenging in the wet... 🙂

If you are looking for venues, when I used to live in the area (90s) there was a SAMS xc and dh race near East Meon. We used to ride there a fair bit and i remember good trails - might be an option? Cant even really remember where it was somewhere along the winchester road

Milland track looks like it'll be challenging in the wet...

looks like it'll get destroyed if its wet...

whats with cutting all teh narrow ledges? is off-camber banned now?

Signed up for all 4 .. Can't wait

Milland is on Greensand - so I think should drain well.

Milland is on Greensand - so I think should drain well.

Van Halen - Member
whats with cutting all teh narrow ledges? is off-camber banned now?

ferrals - Member

If you are looking for venues, when I used to live in the area (90s) there was a SAMS xc and dh race near East Meon. We used to ride there a fair bit and i remember good trails - might be an option? Cant even really remember where it was somewhere along the winchester road

So who's racing tomorrow?

Missed out on milland last time so looking forward to a new venue

Yep. Looking forward to some loamy, drifty action. As long as the car park field is a little drier than last time it will be groovy.

See you there! Propping up the lower order of hardtail class again...

Good luck S'enduroers- I missed out on this as I thought I had other commitments which have now evaporated... Already looking forward to next year!

Should be good, bit drier this time round & wont be going out of the bottom of the car park this time, would quite like the car to make it out without half the field attached to the underside.

Hoping to go one better & get a podium in masters. 4th last time 🙂

I'm there in seniors tomorrow.

Can't cope racing. Just going to not pedal and huck to flat, see where that gets me

chiefgrooveguru - Member
See you there! Propping up the lower order of hardtail class again...

I thought you had a FS? You using the hardtail as an excuse?

I thought you had a FS? You using the hardtail as an excuse?

I do! But this hardtail was new and exciting when the series entry went on sale and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Only took until the last stage of the last round to get some proper flow happening on it... So yes, excellent excuse! That and being more scared of what my wife will say if I crash and hurt myself than of coming last because I ride too conservatively for safety's sake... 😉

Was good fun, milland is a great venue

stage 4 was hardwork, I crashed on the start line, crashed further down , lost my chain

5 was my favourite, hanging on tight as you can for the swoopy turns b4 the fast log jump 🙂

Under 24 hours from the finish of the 2016 series in already getting pumped about the 2017 series 🙂

Hopefully my collarbone will heal up in time for round 1 Scott 😆

Race was great, I was not!
TBH I didn't really try that hard as I found the soft loamy sections hard going so didn't see the point flogging myself to death for a mid pack placing.
Just enjoyed riding the trails & not bothering about going flat out saw me finish way down the pack but I actually had more fun than I did in the first round at Milland.
Stage 4 was unreal at the top, so claggy! The bottom half was much nicer though.
Think 2 & 5 were my faves.
Well done on a fantastic series Scott & team, looking forward to next year. How about a night race at Milland like the QE one? Camping, maybe a beer tent, would be ace!

Southern Enduro Champs stage video

I'm excited

Hope it's dries out by then.

Looks like I need to cut my bars down and get pedalling....

@jam bo - I'm running 800mm bars in that vid so as long as yours aren't bigger than that you should be all good.

Yes hope it dries out a bit by mid April but I was surprised how much grip there was considering it had been raining for most of that day.

760s...

are all the stages around hopcott and bratton?

Wootton and Bratton, Hopefully if this year goes well I will look to go to other areas too, so many possibility in the area.

Edit: 760s how 2016 😉

[quote=scottfitz ]Wootton and Bratton, Hopefully if this year goes well I will look to go to other areas too, so many possibility in the area.
Edit: 760s how 2016

i've only just moved on from 26"....

@scottfitz, not sure if you're aware but at least one of the tracks above Wootton is now closed due to forestry. Not all of it but the lower section which is pretty much gone. I've not seen it myself but read it on a Facebook post but there is definitely logging going on up there. Also the trails have dried a lot since that video was shot

@scottfitz, not sure if you're aware but at least one of the tracks above Wootton is now closed due to forestry. Not all of it but the lower section which is pretty much gone. I've not seen it myself but read it on a Facebook post but there is definitely logging going on up there. Also the trails have dried a lot since that video was shot

That trail was epic and was in the original plan until we realised it went in to a different land owners bit (The bit with the Forestry work). Lucky it was out of the plan about 2 months ago.

Thanks for the heads up.

looking even better

Bit of rain forecast for Friday night but it's so dry shouldn't do much damage.

Big crash last Friday that has knackered my shoulder a bit but riding seems to be ok.

Hoping to be there by sat lunchtime...

Should be there early on Saturday, bit of damp is good-keep the dust down.

Excited, first race of the year !

Well that was absolutly amazing, hats off to the Southern Enduro crew

some brilliant trails, steep, techy, fast, and brown pow!

How'd you get on?

A shocker on stage 2 put paid to my results. Other than that I was pretty happy.

Gutted not to make this one, seen a few pics and clips on instagram and it's looked great!

Family holiday put paid to this one- Scott, I'm sure the Bank holiday would have helped you organisation wise, but could we have it a weekend later next year please!?

See you all at the day/night. Can't wait.

yeah I had an off on stage 2 that has left my beer belly with a nice welt 😯

other than that felt good, Im blaming too many beers on sat night coz by 5 & 6 my legs were getting tired time was 15:10

16.08 for me, well over a minute of that was lost on stage 2. Really couldn't get it together.

Congratulations to Scott and the team for a great event and some fantastic trails! That loam was so good to ride on the steeps!

16:01 for me.. lots of little mistakes and a general lack of fitness - much fun was had though! 8)

Stage 2 was going well at first but the loam was so soft started getting hung up, then I found a tree stump

@Kimbers I think I was drinking at the same table.
Was a good event, I rode like never before. In the never ridden a bike before way. I could blame forgetting my inhaler or my pedal breaking but it was mostly me.

Loved it! Loam for daaaayyyys! Such good stages...Gonna be dreaming about them for the next week 😀

Great 2 days, stages where great, struggled on stage 2 as not used it been so steep!
Suffering at the end throu lack of fitness, 16.15 for me.
Got to ride some great new trail and meet some new people.

Rock and roll lifestyle of enduro race organiser fat cats revealed

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1654090644886370&id=1412942662334504

new meaning to poo sticks!
only thing I say that could of better, would of been having more loos.
4 was not enough!

Pics and results anywhere?

https://www.rootsandrain.com/race5394/2017-apr-16-southern-enduro-southern-enduro-champs-minehead/results/

[quote=gooner69]Pics and results anywhere?

[url= https://www.rootsandrain.com/race5394/2017-apr-16-southern-enduro-southern-enduro-champs-minehead/results/ ]Roots and Rain[/url]

Indeed, more toilets were needed!

The results on R&R aren't quite right though as the wrong data was sent so some names are missing. Should hopefully be sorted by tomorrow - although it does knock my position down a couple of places

Great event, well done to Scott and team.
Trails were a nice mix of steep, flow, loam and roots without too many pedally sections mid stage.

I'd been caught mid stage a few times at the last couple of enduros I'd done so moved down to fun. Fortunately these trails really suited my riding and managed win my class in 13.40, back to senior next time I guess.

I'm coming to the conclusion I just don't have a racing mentality. Guys who I ride with regularly and I would normally be pretty evenly matched with beat me by 10-15s on every stage. (Ignoring the 65s deficit on stage 2, 😳 ) I don't think it's that I went slower than normal, they just push that bit harder.

Good seeing you guys at the weekend, I love that venue and as long as the land owner is happy we will look to go back there.

Loos - I ordered 8 and 4 turned up.

Results - there are around 30 people missing on roots and rain, the timing guys have sent them an updated results list but its yet to be updated on R&R.

Easter weekend - I was somewhat forced into that weekend because of a clash with BES on original planned date. Shame as BES folded after I had booked the venue. Next year the champs will be later in the year I think or at least not at Easter.

Great 2 days, stages where great, struggled on stage 2 as not used it been so steep!
Suffering at the end throu lack of fitness, 16.15 for me.
Got to ride some great new trail and meet some new people

Couldn't think what to write but that sums it up perfectly, what a cracking event 8)

That loamy surface was a bit alien to me and I never really knew how fast I could push it and lost count of how many times I had to put a foot out in the corners 😳 I wasn't looking forward to stage 2 after practice but it turned out to be one of my best stages as I went down it perfectly in the race (Apart from the lack of speed)

It was a cracking event in more ways than one though as I managed to bust a rib going over the bars after a front wheel washout 🙁 Still totally enjoyed the event though 8)

Oh and I got bitten on the leg by some horrible little creature which caused it to swell up and go hard. My leg and ankle now looks like it belongs to Pat butcher 😆

Oh and I got bitten on the leg by some horrible little creature which caused it to swell up and go hard. My leg and ankle now looks like it belongs to Pat butcher

Anti hystemine (or however you spell it) will sort that. Probably a horse fly.

Wanged my race report up on my blog if anyone is interested in having a read 🙂

[url= https://orena45blog.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/race-report-southern-enduro-championships-exmoor/ ]Southern Enduro Champs race report[/url]

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Good write up @orena45 and would you believe me if I told you stage 2 was much gripper when I rode it in the rain in Feb?!?

Cheers Scott. Nah I wouldn't! But I'd take that brown powder over brown slop any day though regardless 😆

Good write up oreana, how the hand?

What day you heading up to grizedale?

Cheers Kimbers.

Hand is absolutely fine, looks worse than it is!

Unfortunately though I took a hit last night dicking about on a mate's DH trail (the one I posted on FB earlier) so now have a very sore and fairly immobile shoulder 🙁 Hoping it heals in time for Nat Champs...if so, I'm heading up Thursday