The 2022 EWS-E

[Surly]

Highlights from the first race of 2022 EWS-E @ Tweed valley, Scotland

I can only dream of such smooth, flowy trails.

 

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And i must add i think it's shocking that the GBR women don't have a main sponsor.

 

[Rás Cnoic]

Great onboard footage of the loops here. Jesus it looks brutally hard!

 

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I don't know if it's just me but.......... i don't mind the terrain, i ride it everyday, but FK those trees.

 

[Captain Slow]

Surly, now I'm curious where do you live and what are the trails like there? The trails I see don't look too different than the trails where I live.

I live in a suburb of Vancouver, so we have our North Shore trails, Squamish is a short drive away and we of course have Whistler.

 

[Surly]

I live on the top of the Pennines in the UK, they are known as the backbone of Britain, trails are a bit bonkers, all gnar but different types, mainly super rocky or mega muddy, there is no 'flow' it's all 'attack' so much so i have to do my interval training on the canal as you can't control your heartrate intervals in between 'attacks' on the moors. I do long for flowy trails, but i'm glad i ride and train up here, it's gritty, bleak yet beautiful, pretty much as the Brontes describe.

 

[Captain Slow]

Ah, the comment makes perfect sense now.

We're lucky here to have lots of gnar (it is the world famous shore, after all) but we also have lots of flowy trails. So it's nice to be able to choose what type of riding you want to do on a given day, or even on a given run.

 

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Round 2 EWS-E, Petzen-Jamnica on the Austrian/Slovenian border.