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Posted by: 23jayhawk---------------------

This may be a dumb question, so have some mercy here for someone who has not ridden an enduro. What do you do if something really serious comes apart in an enduro? Smash a rim, break a frame :whiner: , whatever, but that bike will not be rolling out of the woods. How do the sweep crews get you out?


Posted by: ride_red_15---------------------

ya get a tool kit, and break it down into carry-able pieces. Honestly, no clue, ive always wondered that too.


Posted by: yzeater---------------------

At the Budd's Creek HS they have a big six wheel thing they haul people out of the woods with...one time an xr4 got stuck about 5 feet under mud on it's side in at the bottom of a hill...how's that?


Posted by: Milquetoast---------------------

It's just another part of the unbelievable bargain of paying $20 to $30 to ride an enduro. You get an all-day trail ride that is totally legal, no cops are going to hassle you all day long. you never hit the same trail twice. Don't need any special equipment (just follow the guys with the computers). AND, if you wad it up, just wait there a bit and the race sponsors actually will send someone along to pick you up! Does it get any better?

It's pretty rare that you'll have a wreck on the trail that won't allow you to be able to at least roll your bike out behind a tow bike. Even if that happens, I wouldn't worry about it. The enduro folks really seem very close-knit and always want to help. Every time I crash or just stop to take a rest in an enduro, there are people in full race mode that stop to ask me if I'm OK. "I'm fine, just fat and slow" I tell them. :whiner:


Posted by: justql---------------------

At most enduros while you may be several miles from camp usually you are only a few miles from a road. The sweep crew usually knows the shortest and most direct way out. They usually have quads to pull bikes out. I've even seen quads with cradles for the front wheel to pull the bike out like a wrecker. They WILL get the bike out. One good use for quads.


Posted by: WoodsRider---------------------

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It's just another part of the unbelievable bargain of paying $20 to $30 to ride an enduro. You get an all-day trail ride that is totally legal, no cops are going to hassle you all day long. you never hit the same trail twice.


While that's not exactly true, you'll never have to worry about getting stranded. There are always plenty of people help get your bike out of any "impossible" situation. I know this from the first hand experience of pulling people and bikes out of the woods as well as being carried out of the woods on someone's back and having my bike loaded in my truck when I got back from the hospital.


Posted by: gasgas01---------------------

I sheared my water pump cover off at an enduro in the bershires and the sweep riders told me the quickest way out was an uphill push for about a mile. I have to give credit to those guys for helping me push it out because even with 3 of us pushing it was the hardest workout i have ever had. If they wouldn't of helped i think i would still be out there.



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