I heard from others that they liked the Ensenada race? What was bad about it?
We got on the bus at 8 am, didn't actually have a driver until 9. While driving through town with all of our bikes on the back of a flatbed trailer, almost every bike took damage. Mine wore multiple places on the frame down to the carbon and many people got scratched stanchions. After the first stage we waited another 30 min for the bus to pick us up again. The 30 minute transfer was more like 90 min and they put out like 15 gallons of water for a couple hundred riders. By the time my bus group got there it was all gone.
As I was going down the third stage a local was in my way jumping up and down. As I rounded the corner I realized he was warning me of the trash fire that was quickly overtaking the trail. The flames jumped the trail two riders behind me and the whole stage was cancelled. The transfer to stage 4 had us hiking/riding right next to the fire again.
Add to all of that the fact that practicing required having a dedicated shuttle driver and even with that you had to follow the organizer or some other local because it was damn near impossible to find the stages if you weren't a local.
Outside of the fire, I didn't have an issue with the actual stages, but they sent everyone down what was supposed to be a pro only stage because they didn't finish building the other stages on time. I didn't have too much issue, it was definitely scary at points, but I know some people tried petitioning to have it cancelled for some groups and some people straight up walked the whole top half and took like a 30 min stage time. For a stage that gnarly, there were not course marshals at the most dangerous stuff and there was just a single ambulance at the bottom. If you crashed at the top(which was the most dangerous part), it would have been at least a 20 min hike down as there was zero escape routes.
Everyone In my bus all had the same attitude that it was a once in a lifetime race and they wouldn't go back.
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, so I'm not too worried about 10P for me. I would love a full MM, Pirates/Fall Line to the bottom (not part way, all the way), Going Green, Turtle, or something like that. Something more substantial than 10 minutes worth of racing.
