Grassroots Enduro 2024

To be fair I'd say they'll all sell out, some quicker than others. Most sold out in less than 10 minutes last year.

The weather was particularly bad for Mullaghmeen as well.

All about the taking part, right🤔😉😂

Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to get to Hush. I did see that it sold out in 5 or 6 minutes though. Great to see that the demand is still so good for the Grassroots.

I don't think there is any issue walking the stages before hand. You could even offer the give them a hand taping 😉🤣

I suppose it will depend on you battery capacity. I'm reading it that that classic is 26k for 6 stages, so you can add on a fair bit to do 10 stages which will include the power stage. The stage number order isn't post yet so I'm none the wiser to how long they are for the mash up. In terms of stage length /duration they will vary a bit, 2 of the stages should be between 90 to 120 seconds and the longest stage "Da long wan" is 1.95k and will be somewhere close to 6 mins. (of course this depends on how fast you are). This is a savage good stage with a huge variety of some very fast sections and some slower tech stuff, but it's not steep. (but I'm particularly bias as I build 90% of it) 🤣.

"Stages were brilliant. Confidence was lacking. Came off 3 times that i remember. Times were embarrassing. But! I completed it, didn't hold anyone up, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I plan on going back through the summer now to session some of the trails and try build the confidence."

You seemed to have a good day out so.

If you are back up that way again, give me a shout I'd be happy to show you some of the other trails there as well.

Here is a YT video of the stages in Clonmel’s Gravity

https://youtu.be/A7kch79HCzQ?si=dlbd_MO71pRra3YK

Reminder: Entries for Clonmel grassroots are open this evening at 9pm

Good stuff. There will be parking and camping across the road from the entrance to the wood. Race village is about 150m away.

While I know it a nice trip down. If you take the M8 to Cahir your only about 10 miles from the venue.

I haven't seen any 120mm travel. As far as I could see most full suspension are on 140mm minimum. Of course they're are a few lads riding hard tails too.

That said I don't do a huge amount of racing so it's possible there is way more 120mm out there.

What you could do is ride some of the trails you know have been used for some of the enduro races and see how comfortable you feel on them. I know all the trails in the grassroots races, while there is some drops and jumps everything has to rollable.

Come the the grassroots enduro in Clonmel on the 15th. Should be a cracking race from a spectator pov, all the trails start almost in the same spot and run down beside each other, the race village is only 50m from the one trail and about 100m to the furthest trail. With parking only 200/300m from the race village

Honestly I've no idea as I've been there. Sorry

Mad busy few days for myself. I was up there for a few hours on Thursday evening, and almost all day Friday and Saturday taping up, and putting out signs etc, think it was nearly 7pm when I leaving on Saturday evening. I met a few people who were camping over night on the road on the way, so maybe I was talking to you 🤔. One guy was selling a smashing Orbea Occam. Lovely bike.

Yes it was a pity about the rain on Saturday night and Sunday morning, it certainly dampened the trails,but not the spirits🤪. I was marshalling at the entrance to the car park from 8am until I had to hightail it down to marshal at end of stage 3 for the rest of the morning, but I did get out for a spin in the afternoon. I done stage 1 first, on the way up to stage 2, I left my light jacket at the water station, done stage 2, and halfway back up the hill I realized I left the timing chip on the sleeve of the jacket 🥹. So I had to re do it again, which put me under a bit of pressure to get in all the stages. I ended up doing 4 stages in 2 hrs and 16km done. As you said, the stages held up really well considering the rain and the volume of traffic on them. I know a few lads that done some of the stages 3 times. The day brighten up nicely towards the end and was perfect for the prize giving. I think most people went away happy enough, lots of people complementing how easy it was to get from parking to the race village and on to the stage starts. I think that's it for Grassroots in Clonmel, as I believe they move them around every 2 years, I also heard that GR will go back to 4 rounds next year.

I didn't even try to get an entry for Sam's Farm last night. Just to much hassle really