Words by Stefan Westerveld

Last race of the season of the BC Enduro Tour for the Kona Gduro Team-Germany ! Riding in the Vosges is always special. With a feel to be in between middle-earth and ancient European history there is always superb trail riding and a committed local scene who take care of those trails.

The Vosges have a good amount of varied trails. It can be super smooth and flowy but we have also those huge rocks and steep technical descents to deal with.

And Saint Die didn’t disappoint us. With two technical steep descents, a super flowy natural single trail and three more in between this was a fun race. It was once again a one day blind race with 1400hm and 31km to graduate. Being still on my upscaled HEHEI I struggled with the most steepest stage 3 and crashed in an off camber corner. But rest of the race felt really good, not too much climbs and fast and technical descents. That’s what we like at the end of the day we reached a strong ranking in the top 10 and top 20 in our classes!

Thx to former racer Jerome Clementz who is one of the organizer of the BC series! Excellent job , buddy! But season here in Europe isn’t over yet. Two more races to come!

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Stay tuned!