Welsh 2 Day Enduro

[Hubert Carpet]

You may have seen references to "The Welsh" in recent posts from UK members and I hope you will be interested in further explanation.

For the benefit of non UK readers, the Welsh International 2 Day Enduro is probably the best clubman time-card enduro in the world. It has been running as long as there have been bikes to ride it on and is around 160 miles on day 1 and 140 miles on day 2. Running across the incredible mid-Wales landscape, it covers a lot of the ground used in the 1983 ISDE and is the only endure in the UK that is allowed to run over 180 entries. There are usually 650 entries and in the age of the Web, the entries are all gone inside an hour of entries opening with riders coming from all over the world. And it's on next week.

http://welsh2dayenduro.com/

It includes the iconic Strata Florida road that dates back almost 1000 years and was originally a pilgrimage route to the Strata Florida Abbey. It crosses a river many times along the route and it usually rains pretty hard round the event leading to interesting going. This was last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ3KxecBQj0

This is really one for the bucket list, I recommend it. If you are ever in a position to ride an event overseas, this is the one and we don't see many US riders although entries come from Australia, Iceland and all over Europe.

If you want the weird version, try it in Welsh, boyo. Like most UK folk, you won't understand much but it gives a great flavour of what it's all about. Sidecars too.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GKHL0plRc

[Westfield]

Bike is all done and ready, not sure about me !!! It's an amazing 2 days in beautiful countryside.

[Hyde]

Good luck.

[Hubert Carpet]

Won by Paul Edmondson on a 300 RR Racing.

[rotor]

I had one of those last weekend, man those stock tires suck in the mud

[Westfield]

I came off on the road yesterday, 2 broken ribs and a hole in my left arm which is yet to stop bleeding - But the main thing is I finished !!!!

[Ptssmith]

Shit... what happend?
The last special test of the day was an ice rink.did you bin it on the wet roads back to the paddock?
I Bust my Knee on the 3rd test on day one but i manned up and rode day 2 made the times on both days in Clubman but the specials were a bit slow..
Good laugh though, i did manage to pop both fork seals within an hour of starting so a few of the 20mile rutt and whoop sections was a bit rough on the arms.

[Westfield]

On the road between check 3 and 4, front washed out and I went down. Rode probably 4 hours with broken ribs which wasn't any fun at all. Yeah Crossgates was interesting last thing in the day.

[twmtatenrost]

nice to see the Beta brand out in force. I was on 2014 400rr.
clean until check 9 on the Friday then lost 6 mins coming off in the Irfon. gutted. Church Farm was as slippery as ever.
Great event do you agree?
twm