An EnduroCross Primer...

As if riding a dirt bike off-road wasn't brutal enough, Eric Peronnard brought EnduroCross indoors to the United States and this is where riders such as Taddy Blazusiak, Geoff Aaron, Ricky Dietrich, Destry Abbot and Mike Brown compete inside an arena where all can see just how hard this really is. If you've already witnessed this , you likely already know that these guys just ain't right and when referring to "These Guy's" it's debatable whether it's the riders, or the promoters that deserve that classification.

It Could be that the idea to bring this indoors was so the people who don't get to see what really goes down in the woods can see it all taken to an extreme and condensed down into an indoor arena with seating such as the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada or the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma where they can witness the challenges these riders face and all the crashes and get offs that go down in off-road competitions.

What Makes Up An EnduroCross?

If you haven't been watching Enduro-X anywhere and you're sort of out of the loop as to what this is all about, here's a primer on what to expect.

First of all, an EnduroCross (AKA EX) is started with a SuperCross or Motocross style start where the riders launch from a backwards falling start gate with a short dash to the first turn where things really start getting ugly, as they're usually faced with a log that is just inside the first turn, then it's on to every off-road element imaginable such as sand, water, tires, logs, rocks, more logs that are positioned in ways that make them the most difficult to cross such as having them positioned after or in a water crossing where they get good & slick from the water being carried across. It's almost a test of who can stay on their bike the longest.

Get this...
Once this party gets started there are riders that will double logs into a water crossing with perfect timing (usually landing in the water just before or after another log) not only that there will be riders doubling sets of tractor tires and logs that don't even seem ride-able and if a rider comes off the bike somewhere it's a pretty sure bet that their bike will be used for traction as this really is a no holds barred brawl...

An Enduro Cross event to a casual observer may seem to be some kind of plan to take the riders out, and if the riders seem to make it through then it's got to be a test of whether a dirt bike can survive, it could really be described as the toughest form of racing there is and the bottom line is that since the riders that compete in these events are usually so good at racing other off-road disciplines that an EnduroCross laid out any easier really wouldn't even be a challenge.