{"id":19924,"date":"2015-05-28T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/05\/28\/the-enduro-world-series-lands-in-scotland-for-round-3-tweedlove-r2644\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:53:05","slug":"the-enduro-world-series-lands-in-scotland-for-round-3-tweedlove-r2644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/the-enduro-world-series-lands-in-scotland-for-round-3-tweedlove-r2644\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enduro World Series lands in Scotland for Round 3 – TweedLove"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Enduro World Series has sailed across the Irish sea and landed in Scotland for round three of the series, the Cannondale Alpine Bikes World Enduro at TweedLove.<\/p>\n

Swapping the Emerald Isle for the equally green hills of the Tweed Valley, that\u2019s about where the similarities between these two races end. If Ireland was a fairytale, Scotland is more of a suspense story – complete with all the plot twists the genre implies. With eight stages, two long days of racing and a weekend of wild weather in store, who makes it on to the top step of the podium is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n

Riders will be up against eight stages across two days, with an intense 2,695 metres of climbing over 93km. As well as the physicality of the liaisons, the stages themselves are technical – many riders found themselves caught off guard by them last year. Steep drops and dark forests tripped up a lot of racers, but not Tracy Moseley and Nico Lau who secured the win here in 2014.<\/p>\n

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One rider expected to do well here is man of the hour Greg Callaghan. Riding high after his momentous win last weekend, there\u2019s every chance the Irish man could do something special. He\u2019s familiar with the trails and placed in the top ten last year – he\u2019s also at an advantage that he\u2019s used to riding in the wet.<\/p>\n

The area has produced some outstanding talent over the years, so there\u2019s plenty of local riders capable of mixing things up at the top of the table. Scotland\u2019s Joe Barnes had his first taste of the podium when he came third here last year and he was also on form in Ireland last weekend, he was on course for a top three finish until a puncture ended his race. Former downhill world champion Ruaridh Cunningham won a stage here last year and will be looking for more of the same, but unfortunately a crash in practice has ruled out local hero Gary Forrest. In the master\u2019s category living legend and former world cup downhiller Crawford Carrick Anderson will be looking to make his mark, whilst in the women\u2019s race all eyes will be on Peebles\u2019 own Katy Winton.<\/p>\n

Also right at home on these trails is Chris Ball, Managing Director of the Enduro World Series, who lives just a stone\u2019s throw from the race. He said: \u201cThis weekend\u2019s race is going to be really different to Ireland and not just because of the weather. The trails here are much steeper and two full days of racing means managing fatigue will be really important.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough race, but the trails are so much fun and the fans here are so enthusiastic that I think all the riders are in for a really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neil Dalgleish, TweedLove\u2019s Director, said: \u201cThe Tweed Valley has got something to test every rider, and that\u2019s reflected in the stages. It\u2019s two big days in the saddle so fitness will be key, but there\u2019s plenty of skill needed on the technical sections too. The possibility of rain means that conditions will be tough – it\u2019s going to make for a very exciting race.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut TweedLove is about more than just the racing, it\u2019s about the local riding community coming together to work really hard, put on an amazing event and showcase what is we do here all year round – and that\u2019s ride the first class trails we have in our back yard. It\u2019s incredible to see the way the local area has embraced this event and I couldn\u2019t be prouder of what we\u2019ve achieved together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Enduro World Series has sailed across the Irish sea and landed in Scotland for round three of the series, the Cannondale Alpine Bikes World Enduro at TweedLove. Swapping the Emerald Isle for the equally green hills of the Tweed Valley, that\u2019s about where the similarities between these two races end. If Ireland was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[493,531,3968],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-enduro-world-series","tag-ews","tag-tweedlove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}