2023 Maggot Racing Thread

[Bunion 2020]

Holy shit Jamal, just to finish the 100 on a day like yesterday is a feat. 2nd????? You are a badass.

[bennymac]

Well done Jamal! Great job pushing through the pain and getting on the podium!

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Big Sky BME was......wild. Take some of the steepest/rowdiest tracks in North America and cover them with peanut butter/actual flowing rivers. The most continuous rain I have ever seen in the mountains this time of year in SWMT. Super fun time shredding with maggot thefortrees! We were back and forth on stage times much of the weekend. I actually BROKE MY FUCKING CHAINRING FROM PEDALING. Insanity. I was in a super heavy gear pedaling into the start of stage 5 and next thing I know I'm lawn darting off the trail. Yard sale, broken hand guard, broken dropper lever, couldn't figure out what the fuck happened. Not sure I even broke the plane of the start timing equipment. They voided my time luckily. Scrambled to put the cockpit back together and then about to drop in and some other racer was like, "Dude your chain is off..." Look down and my chainring is broken in half. No damage to the teeth. I hadn't hit it on anything all weekend so I somehow just broke it from watts I guess lol.

I had to run a pretty long stage chainless which was fun and frustrating because there was quite a bit of pedaling on the stage. I lost a solid 2-3 minutes because of it. Down in the pits there were actually a couple guys who said they had bent their chainrings from pedaling but never completely broken. The guys in the Shimano tent hooked me up with a new chainring and chain and it was back to racing. Stages 6, 7, 8 I did really well on. Without the chainring explosion and chainless stage I could have been close to a top 10 in expert 21-39........which is a stupid huge category with too many damn kids in it lol. I would have been 3rd in 40-49. Next year finally I won't have to race children who have had sick modern bikes their entire lives lol.

Anyway racing is the fucking best.

[thefortrees]

Wish I had more pics, it was an epic race! Had a blast ripping around on Thur/Fri practice and sat/sun race days with WRG.

Conditions went from Hero dirt to full on mud-luge between stages. So god damn fun…

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

^^ adult slip and slides with trees everywhere. Good times.

Anyone know of other enduro races later into the fall? Whitefish is this weekend and I'd end up single if I went to that one last minute. Jackson is over Labor Day and I will be in Colorado. Ashland for CES is the same weekend I will be in Sedona. One of the CDC races in Mid/Late Sept???

[thefortrees]

I just signed up for Canadian enduro league sun peaks, sep 23/24.

https://canadianenduro.com/sun-peaks

[BigHerm]

Mbaa.net

We got:
Sunrise enduro 9/24 - BME was here this year, eastern AZ
Mingus 10/29 - pretty sweet jank trails between Prescott and Jerome
Hawes 11/18 - my favorite Phoenix area zone (Mesa)

[Iowagriz]

Anyone going to Dakota Five-O next weekend?

Falcon or xtr?

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[Falcon3]

Anyone going to Dakota Five-O next weekend?

Falcon or xtr?

Yup I’ll be there. Im in the city campground starting Friday, PM me and we can meet up! If we don’t meet up beforehand, I’ll be the idiot riding a 50 mile XC race on a 170 enduro bike….

[evasive_MT]

2024 Montana Enduro registration opens tomorrow at 09:00 MST. Same stops as 2023, more sponsors and swag.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

2024 Montana Enduro registration opens tomorrow at 09:00 MST. Same stops as 2023, more sponsors and swag.

Shoulder surgery pending. I might be in I might be out. I turned 40 in January, but I can't race in Masters because I wasn't 40 on December 31st 2023? Is that correct?

[Roxtar]

2024 Salida Enduro is open.

Pretty cool format. You can race it in two different ways:
-Every Wednesday eve, Apr 3-Apr 24 they race one of the stages and add up your time.
or
-Apr 27 is the single day event.

It's a fun chunky course.

[Roxtar]

I turned 40 in January, but I can't race in Masters because I wasn't 40 on December 31st 2023? Is that correct?

Usually it's the opposite. Your race age is your age at the end of the current year.
Last year, at 63, I got beat by three 49 year olds all racing legally in 50+ masters.

[evasive_MT]

Shoulder surgery pending. I might be in I might be out. I turned 40 in January, but I can't race in Masters because I wasn't 40 on December 31st 2023? Is that correct?

What Roxtar wrote. Your racing age is your age at the end of the current calendar year. You can race Masters.

[Terrapin Ben]

2024 Montana Enduro registration opens tomorrow at 09:00 MST. Same stops as 2023, more sponsors and swag.

This is the year I ride from the summit of Rendezvous Mountain. w00t w00t!

[evasive_MT]

This is the year I ride from the summit of Rendezvous Mountain. w00t w00t!

It’s at the top of my list every year. Last year I worked the end of stage 1 with a good buddy from the area, and he’d never ridden that until race day morning when we set out ahead of the racers. He kept laughing and yelling “holy shit!” and “what the fuck” the whole way.

[toast2266]

Registered for Whitefish. Been a while since I've raced, so it'll be good to try to figure out how to go fast again.

[Eluder]

Registered for Whitefish. Been a while since I've raced, so it'll be good to try to figure out how to go fast again.

Shit, if you are slow then I must be....

[toast2266]

Shit, if you are slow then I must be....

I'm heavier than I used to be, so I'm hoping that extra girth will mean I can go downhill faster. Extra gravity. A brick enduros faster than a feather. Or something like that.

[Eluder]

Usually it's the opposite. Your race age is your age at the end of the current year.
Last year, at 63, I got beat by three 49 year olds all racing legally in 50+ masters.

What Roxtar wrote. Your racing age is your age at the end of the current calendar year. You can race Masters.

I wouldnt be surprised if the website needed updating but the MES registration page says otherwise:

Masters – Ages 40 and up! It’s not your birthday on any given day that matters, it’s your age on December 31, 2023 that matters. If you’re 40 at the end of 2023, you can compete in Masters (note: you don’t have to).

Thinking about it, but unsure if I need to spend $120 to prove I'm as slow as I use to be.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

I wouldnt be surprised if the website needed updating but the MES registration page says otherwise:


Thinking about it, but unsure if I need to spend $120 to prove I'm as slow as I use to be.

Yes I'm assuming the MES site was just using the language from last year. If I don't get surgery I'm racing masters this year!!

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[evasive_MT]

I wouldnt be surprised if the website needed updating but the MES registration page says otherwise:


Thinking about it, but unsure if I need to spend $120 to prove I'm as slow as I use to be.

Thanks. I passed that on to the web guy.

I “raced” pre-MES Helenduros. I had no expectations or desire to compete, but I liked being part of the community and supporting the scene. These days I’m a lot faster than I was then. Now I rate myself as local not-slow.

[toast2266]

Thinking about it, but unsure if I need to spend $120 to prove I'm as slow as I use to be.

To be fair, I think you'd be spending $120 to prove that you're even slower.

[smmokan]

Bumping this up since there's no 2024 or 2025 thread... Just signed up for both the Squamish and Pemberton Enduros in late April / early May. Anyone else doing either? By no means will I be "racing", it's more of a survival thing for me. Racing those Squamish trails is slightly terrifying.

[evasive_MT]

This has been up on our socials for a while, but our website guy hasn’t updated the site yet. Registration should open March 1 again.