ABOUT US
We are a passionate group of Mountain bikers that enjoy all aspects and disciplines of the sport.
The group started about 2 years ago in the year 2018 at one of the local MTB events.
We noticed that there was a massive contingency of older male riders yet we knew that with all the pro riders involved in that specific event that it was the ideal oppertunity to have young and upcoming riders meet huge personalities in the existing cycling scene in a very relaxed environment that was the Enduro at the time.....yet the oppertunity was missed. We made it our goal to from then onwards have the youth very much involved in all our events....
It is a well known fact that Sabie is a massive attraction for Mtb'ers and that the surrounding areas is not being uitilised to its full potential...the same goes for the rest of the towns in Mpumalanga of which includes Nelspruit, WhiteRiver and Waterval Boven, all being prime examples.
We systematically approached the relevant Land owners and all felt that the existing Mountain biking scenes focused alot on the competeive Cross Country (XCO) side and not enough on the technical and all out having fun side. The format that attends to these issues is called Enduro....
Since the format is not well known in Mpumalanga and had a stigma of being very difficult and very technical as the format Enduro, we had to take the approach of first showing people that an Enduro is actually the normal trails being ridden every weekend but that the focus shifts to the trails...the fun part!!
So we had our first Trail Awareness weekend, over a long weekend, Friday we shuttled a Trail called Blue Cheese in Nelspruit, Saturday we Shuttled a few trails in Sabie and the Sunday we peddled the trails on MTO White River.....a resounding success with plenty youth joining us on all three days...
What was asstonishing was that everyone wanted to return to all the trails we rode but to bring friends and family with the next time. So we did it again end of last year where we focused over a weekend all the riding in Sabie and we even aranged Bell's Cycling to have a trailer with 12 Top of the range E-bikes to test on both days for anyone who was interested. An even bigger succes!!!
The concept grew and people started to enjoy the riding again since the whole family was involved...the dad that usually can not keep up in a race with his son are all of a sudden very competitive but still having all the fun.
We approached the local schools and everyone signed on to have their kids attend as many of the Enduro events as skills and lessons events but still have a competetive attribute to it as an Enduro Lite version.
The Lite versions will also be open to the older persons interested in getting their feet wet in the format of Enduro. Those that enter the Lite version and are older than 18 will enter as non competetive open class Men and Women. To enjoy the ride with their kids maybe....
Since the Enduro format has the aspect of a gentle and slow paced climb to the top of the trail this usually creates the atmosphere of jovial and relaxed again giving the younger riders the oppertunity to mingle with their hero's in a calm and fun environment.
We therefore committed to have 5 Enduro events this year 2020.
The first one to be at MTO trails WhiteRiver 4th April
The second one will be at Trailworx Nelspruit 16th May
The third one will be at Mankele on the 18th of July
The fourth one will be at Tranquilitas Waterval Boven the 1st of August
The last and fifth one Enduro will be at Sabie on the 26th of September
With our inaugural series we hope to grow the sport of Mountain biking in Mpumalanga and shift the focus more to having fun and including more of each family in every event and moving everyone out into the open air and enjoy nature to the fullest.