![]() Usually there’s only one practice run down each race stage, leaving a much bigger portion of your success dependent on your bike handling skills at speed, rather than your ability to memorize lines. It’s the feeling of companionship throughout the race that's so very special to enduro – you race individually but you partake and complete the course together. If you keep moving, you can hold a relatively comfortable pace back up the hill which allows for an opportunity to catch up with those around you. ![]() The sections where you move from the end of a ‘special stage’ to the start of the next are called ‘liaisons’ and can certainly have time pressures involved, especially in high level international racing, but often this is where the social side of this discipline comes into play. Often, cross country is a loop repeated multiple times and downhill is a race from A to B, so the typical enduro race is a big loop with several ‘special stages’ (often referred to as just ‘stages’) where you race from A to B. To us, enduro has the very best parts of cross country and downhill poured into one heck of a cocktail made up of endurance, action, technical skill and companionship. ![]() In short, if the disciplines of cross country and downhill had a love-child it would be enduro.
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