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Round 2 is fast approaching – Mt Beauty 27th April – Enduro Magazine has written a little plan for your long weekend – Read it here
With Round 1 as successful as it was (281 riders and smiles all round), all eyes are now on Round 2 up at Mt Beauty. Team Mt Beauty have got more than just the 6 and 3 hour VES round planned to encourage riders to go up for the weekend.
The team have been out on the trails recently and sent us a little update on how things are coming along:
The awesome prize-pool is growing by the day, with generous donations from a number of businesses including Enduro Magazine, Alpenhorn holiday units, Snowview holiday units, Milawa Cheese Factory, Café Derailleur and local restaurants Stockpot, Skaffieri and Flour + Water.
See you in the hills in a few weeks!”
With 1.5 points factor this is a round not to miss! Entries are open through Entry Zone
What a fabulous day for a MTB race – perfect conditions (well perhaps a little dusty!) and over 280 riders headed to the Kurrajong Picnic Ground for the Crazy 6hr and the Mildly Confused 3hr – first round of the Vic Enduro Series for 2013.
All levels of riders can compete in an Enduro and they were all there yesterday – from elites like Paul van der Ploeg (who smashed the 3hr event) to the GMBC committee members who managed to field a team whilst running the event! Lots of people put on their Crazy Sox – along with the smiles on their faces as they pedalled out the laps.
Lisa Jacobs (1st place in 6hr Womens team “Roadies in Disguise”) and Scooter (Impact Massage) who came 9th in the 6hr on his Single Speed!
Thanks to the GMBC crew who helped with setup and pack up, our fabulous marshals, the guys from Entryzone who did the timing (worth every penny!) and special mention to Club Preso Rich Grant (suffering from a pinched nerve) who managed to do a couple of laps in the GMBC Committee team and still give everyone a hard time on the mic. Congrats to all the winners (see below and checkout the details on the Results page) and to all the riders who pedalled around the lovely (but relentless) Kurrajong course – who said this was the easy Enduro??
Special congrats to the junior team of Caleb Royes and Rhys Carr who won a $250 prize for the best socks.
What this Series is all about – fun. Caleb and Rhys collect their $250 prize for their “Crazy Soxs”
Crazy 6hr Podiums
Solo Male: Stuart Brown, Will Geor, Shane Roberts
Solo Female: April McDonough, Jacqui Lovett, Clare Vlahapoulos
Solo Male 40+: Tim Jamieson, Rod Barnard, Guy Falla
Solo Female 40+: Lisa Page, Michelle Possingham
Male Team: Apollo Bikes ( John Groves, Nick Morgan), Yoghurt Truck (Luke Fetch, Richard Irwin), Yes, I’m an idiot (Lucas Sproson, David Collins)
Female Team: Roadies in Disguise (Lisa Jacobs, Chloe McIntosh), Bean Biking (Rachael Baggallay, Kylie McInnes), Santa Clara (Anna Carruthers, Lara Zeccola)
Mixed Team: Don’t tell Ben (Ross Wilkinson, Melissa Anset), Phlipper & Lopaka (Gary Angee, Phillipa Birch), Kat & Him (Kat Feldmaier & Brenton Jukes)
40+ Team: Carbon Fibre Footprint (Leigh Barrett, David Scarlett, David Rusden), No Bagging Allowed (Paul Muir, Alan Flaherty), Macchiato Lungo (Mario Sciavarrello, Alex Randall)
Mildy Confused 3hr Podiums
Solo Male: Paul van der Ploeg, Warrack Leach, Paul Redenbach
Solo Female: Jade Forsyth, Dora Bettridge, Monica Campi
Solo 40+: Reece Stephsn, Stuart Morgan, Nick Grosso
Junior Pairs: B Double (Joel Boucher, Nick Butler), Prestige Worldwide (Caleb Royes, Rhys Carr)
Other awards
Craziest Sox: Caleb Royes & Rhys Carr, Special mention – Jenny Lambert
Crazy Sox & Ridiculously wide handlebars: Steven Sullivan
Single Speed Demon: Scooter Vercoe
Wrong Category: Michael Brill – Who came first in the 40+ Solo Men with 13 laps
If you are looking for photos you can head to our friend Russell Woolnough’s site here or check out our other friend Stephen Rowe’s snaps here
Again – Congratulations to Geelong MTB Club for putting on a fantastic First Round. We now look forward to Round 2 – Mt Beauty where the points will count to 1.5 for the Series – Bring it on!
The 2013 Series is fast approaching and excitement builds about this year’s list of 7 races. Allot of research was carried out along with many discussions amongst your Victorian MTB clubs about the series direction and we are very pleased to be bringing you this year’s Series.
The Series will once again bring together Victorias Premiere Enduro events into a series that in 2013 has 7 great days of racing. New to the series though for 2013 will be the 3hr events. We have seen over the past few years a few clubs successfully run 3hr events in conjunction with their 6 hour Enduro which has prompted the series to include the 3hr in every event bringing you continuity through the year.
The other big change this year is in the categories. Don’t worry you still get to race in the same team as last year whether it be triples mixed or pairs men, the difference is that categories of 2 or 3 riders are combined. You following?
In detail what this means is that teams of Male Pairs and teams of Male Triples are competing for the same podium, fun huh. So you can either stack that 3 person team or go for racing prowess and bragging rights of being a highly placed 2 person team, the choice is yours. We think it’s going to bring some great racing in the Mixed and 40+ categories and hope that it will encourage more participation in the women’s category.
3hr events will only offer Solo Men and Women (NO 40+) but include a Junior teams category which we hope will help to encourage junior development and participation in the sport.
Series points are accumulated with team names. So if you have to swap some riders during the year that’s fine, just make sure you keep the exact same spelling of the team name to keep accumulating points. Teams best 5 race results count but you have to have participated in a minimum of 4 of the Enduro series races to be eligible for price money.
Round 2 at Mt Beauty and Round 6 at Dallas Brooks Park are both 1.5 points bonus rounds – so if you’re going to head to any rounds make sure you schedule in these two.
You ever wondered where prize money comes from for the series? Well from every rider entry in the series we collect $5. At the end of the series this can add up to as much as $10,000 which then gets divided up to all the category winners and posted out along with medals.
In a wrap up we hope you can be part of the 2013 Series and look forward to a great year of racing.
Categories for series will be:
Solo 3hr – Men, Women, Junior Pairs
Solo 6hr – Men, Women, Men 40+
Teams 6hr – Men, Women, Mixed, Open 40+
Big Hill Events Race Report:
The Buxton Bootcamp in its first year has stamped its authority on the Victorian race scene as an event not to miss in the future.
Over 260 riders took part in the event on the weekend that started with perfect weather and ended with a perfect day. With comments after laps of the course like “I don’t care what anyone says, that was better than drugs” and “That was more fun than having 2 super models in your bed” (censored version of comment) I think Buxton has a few more fans of the park.
The great work of James Cowell from DSE and the Murrindindi cycle club was evident as the 14.5km 100% single track course just kept pleasing riders all day. But how could it not with sections like Spider Gully and Off Camber just a few of the course highlights.
In the solo mens field the two Chancellor boys set the pace high to start with and from the outside it may have looked like they were working together, what both being Giant factory team riders and all. But on course it was anything but! At first it was Sam setting the pace and Scott responding but after 3hrs of racing Scott put the hammer down and opened up a small gap on his cousin. Sam spent some time in the dirt there as the pressure mounted but soon found his rhythm again and it came down to the last lap. His technical ability was too strong as he took the win in just over a 10 second margin. Stu Brown was out of the chaos but riding strong for a convincing 3rd place position. In the women’s race it was a close affair between Katie Chancellor and Clair Vlahopoulos with hardly more than 5 minutes between them. Katie who had the series all wrapped up got off to a slow start but by the 4th lap the flow was changing and she was on the comeback. It was all too late though and Claire held on and took a great win.
The pairs race saw Scott Nedham and Rohin Adams the event director set a consistent pace all day to win both the Pairs category and the overall event in pretty convincing fashion.
In the 3hr event the racing was fast and furious but Amity Mc Swan and Peter Kutchera were just too strong for the field. Both actually set the fastest laps for the day so it’s no wonder they went onto win.
The event directors of Big Hill Events want to thank Tourism Victoria, DSE, Murrindindi cycling club and all the riders for having made the event such a great weekend of racing.
We especially thank all those that supported both Challenge and remembrance day with charity donations.
Here are the series results after 8 rounds of the Victorian Enduro Series in 2012. There has been some close racing through the 8 rounds and some of the categories are going to come right down to the final round to decide. Dont forget you or your team name have to compete in a minimum of 4 rounds to be eligable for series prize money and your best 6 rounds of points count towards the total.
Final round is the ‘Buxton Boot Camp‘ on November 11th at the Buxton MTB Park.
Well done to all the competed today in the Fat Tyre Flyers Burn the Fat 6hr enduro.
Perfect weather, sensational course and a great run event. Below are the results for the event.
We look forward to seeing you all at the final round – Buxton Boot Camp.
Series results will be uploaded soon.
Updated Burn the fat Results Summary_A
Updated Burn the fat Results Detailed_A
First things first, apologies for the delay in the series results, A few issues with the internerd at this end have meant updates have been hard to come by.
The issues are all sorted now, so we are back on track.
The series results are now up to date in the series points section, as of round 6, so after the Gippsland race.
The next round is Castlemaine, with a move from Jubbaland to the Walmer state forest, we look forward to some new trails for this iconic event.
A great write up by female solo winner and all round nice girl, Amity McSwan.
Photo: David Bailey
Last weekend was the annual Rock Hop at the Dallas Brooks Scout Camp in Upper Beaconsfield. I learnt to ride a mountain bike here, so this is a place I really enjoy racing.
Leading up to the day a few things weren’t looking too good. Firstly, the weather and the amount of forecast rain for the 3 days before was very grim. And a quick look at the entry list on Entryzone showed a pretty thin field. But on the day it turned out to be all good. The rain had stopped, there was a good amount of riders in most categories and there was also a good amount of mud to make the day a fun one, and some spectators too. Some people don’t like racing in mud but I love it, it keeps things interesting and the track just keeps changing all day. Sometimes it gets better and sometimes not.
As always, the Dirtriders Mountain bike club had set a great course. The loop for the day was predominantly single-track with two small sections of fire trail, a few good pinchy climbs and a couple of challenging rutted descents. It was definitely a good day to have a mud tire on the back.
There was a mass start that went straight into single track, which was reported to be very orderly, given the small field. The main competition of the day was to be in the men’s solo category and maybe a tussle in the top two men’s pairs.
In the men’s solo 6 hour category there was a consistent lead all day by Sam Chancellor with fourteen laps, who was riding like a machine, and also rode to the event and then home again, which is a long way already without a 6 hour solo race in the middle of his Sunday road ride. Closely on his wheel was Peter Kutschera most of the day, who finished up third after a mechanical, behind Stu Brown, both on thirteen laps. Well done also to Rik Symes in the 40+ category with a solid lead over second place.
In the men’s pairs there were the most entrants for the day. For not quite 6 hours, after gentlemanly negotiation near the end, the Fitzroy Revolution Team and Bikes Direct Team were on the chase. For the first six laps Bike Direct dominated until Duncan Murray caught them, but then John Groves took the lead again when Ashley Hayat was snoozing momentarily in transition. In the final laps the lead changed back and forward five times until Ash made it to the front on the final fourteenth lap.
The women’s field was a little thin on the day. Only two women ended up starting in the solo 6 hour category, with Katie Chancellor deciding to do something else after two laps leaving Amity McSwan chasing riders in the men’s category to keep the pace up, finishing in first place with ten laps in just over five hours.
In the mixed pairs Ben May and Rishi Fox took out the win over Courtney Lee Shoy and Josie Simpson with a solid lead of nearly twenty minutes with twelve laps.
In the 3 hour, well done to Angus Rodwell and Liam Jefferies with some fast and close times in the men’s solo and to April McDonough in the women’s.
Thank you to the Dirtriders Mountain bike club for a great course and well organized race as always. And thanks to all the riders, spectators, coffee ladies and the barbeque ladies who turned up on such a freezing cold day to make it a really good race. See you at the next one in Albury on the 30th of June.
The series results are updated and now available on the series results page.
Massive thanks to Captain Pencil Russ Baker for putting these together.
As usual, any queries please send them through to info@vicenduroseries.com.au and they will be taken care of.
