Off Roading Helmet cam video from my latest race

[Steve St.Laurent]

Thought you guys might enjoy seeing the craziness that is an east coast enduro. This was from my race on sunday in Indiana. This is pretty tight but not as tight as it sometimes gets. The real tight stuff I wouldn't dare have my helmet cam on because it would get ripped off my head.



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[AMink]

Looks like Barkbusters are a good investment! Thanks for the video.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Uh yeah, bark busters are mandatory equipment around here. I saw one guy at an enduro a few weeks ago that didn't have them and he was crying (literally) - I'm sure he gave up.

 

[fest3er]

Geez, gramps! Pick up the pace! Yer gettin' lapped!



Uh, uh. No way. Like Don Rickles, I'm too old for that s... stuff. However fast you were goin', I'd be less than half that, and prolly closer to 1/4!

 

[brods]

Cool video. Reminds me of single track mountain bike racing days. How do the riders communicate the need to pass? You guys got horns or just bump tires or something?



What makes it an "east coast" enduro? Last I knew Indiana didn't count as east coast :-laf







PS is your web page link in your sig supposed to go to deluxepokertables.com?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Most of the enduro's east of the Mississippi are considered east coast enduros as opposed to west coast. Our are run through deep woods, their's are run on ridgelines, etc (generally). You scream and yell to the guy in front and rev your engine quickly to let him know your coming, either that or you hear the engine behind you and know someones coming up behind.

I have to change the website link - deluxepokertables.com used to be a site I owned and I had my personal page on it as well. Forgot that I had it in my sig - thanks.

 

[BILLUA]

Steve, thanks for the VID,



I spent 6 years racing on the Rocky Mountain Enduro Circuit and miss it!



I have to say, your course was WELL marked!



Cheers,



Bill

 

[dsherman]

Looks like Barkbusters are a good investment! Thanks for the video.

Not to mention Cutting your handlebars down a bit :-laf:-laf

I did some enduro Rides in South Dakota and also in Georgia that look like that .

It was fun but it was just a lot of work :-laf:-laf

 

[macdaddy]

Steve... .

Cool vid. Makes by hip hurt just watching it. Did you ever get the clutch all the way out?.



Thats very similar to some of the trails in the Northwest,but tighter still.



Mac

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Yeah, the clutch got all the way out but you are on it constantly. The first two fingers on both hands never leave the levers. No doubt you have to cut down the bars here too - I have 3 inches cut off mine.

The results came in for the event and I am now in 8th place out of 51 riders in my class for the season.

 

[Matt400]

That was cool Steve, thanks for sharing that!

I have seen tight stuff like that on the west but just a short section like a few minutes not for ever and ever like that... whew! Thats 200 EXC terrain for sure.



Was it hard to pack the camera stuff and how well did it hold up?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Not hard at all. I use an ATC3k helmet cam that is all self contained and waterproof. It records on an SD card. Here's a picture of my setup. The only problem with the setup is that it sticks out a bit from the helmet and I can't run it in the truly tight stuff that we go through because it would get ripped off. That first section in that video is fairly tight but we have MUCH tighter stuff we go through. All of that was rideable and almost none of it was less than bar width. The truly tight stuff will be the width of my radiator shrouds and you have to turn your bars, pull forward while leaning one way, get one end through, then lean the other way and wiggle the bars as you pull through to get the other side through, then push your legs into the radiator shrouds to get them to clear. 2 enduros ago we had 8 straight miles of trees like that, all first gear, less than bar width (and none more than 6 feet or so apart) bar banging tight.

 

[Matt400]

The truly tight stuff will be the width of my radiator shrouds and you have to turn your bars, pull forward while leaning one way, get one end through, then lean the other way and wiggle the bars as you pull through to get the other side through, then push your legs into the radiator shrouds to get them to clear. 2 enduros ago we had 8 straight miles of trees like that, all first gear, less than bar width (and none more than 6 feet or so apart) bar banging tight.

I like a challenge but 8 miles of that stuff is insane. I don't think I could hack it with you guys.

 

[scootergmc]

This reminds me of the time I rode a Honda 110 ATC into a tree. Took a mad header. It was my first motorized crash. Good times.