HOW TO FOLLOW THE ENDURO WORLD SERIES

The Enduro World Series final's date is getting closer!

After Chile, Argentina, Irlanda, Italy, USA, Canada and France, the competition comes back to Finale Ligure!

On the 30th September and the 1st of october 2017, the best bikers in the world will compete with each other on the most stunning and challenging trails in the world. During those days,the atmosphere all around is cheerful and unique: Finale gets more lively than it already is; bikers from all over the world, professional teams, stands and sponsors gather together and create a proper village that lives on mountain biking!

The event takes place on a really geographically wide area that doesn'a allow the live internet or tv streming...the best ways to follow it are, therefore, two: by keeping up to date through social networks and websites or by being on the spot with te riders and athletes!

In that period, the Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and mainly the MTBFINALE.eu pages will be updated costantly with new contents and news from the field.

How to follow the EWS if you stay at home

Following the event fron the outside does not look easy then. Here are some of the many platforms that will take a deep glance to the inside of the competition, side and backstage events included!

Facebook

  • Enduro World Series - Here you will find all the official informations about the event: pictures, results and even the mechanical details about the pro bikes of the athletes.It will be possible, then, after the very event, to watch a brief video about the specials, the athletes, the specifics of the course and many other multimedial contents on the topic.
     
  • MTB Finale Ligure - Our facebook page will be updated everyday with pictures, results, and info everyday different and taken from the field.

Websites

  • Enduro World Series - The official website is full of important and detailed contents: you will find not only every stage's description but also maps, details of the competition, precise informations, news, videos race feed and many pictures
     
  • In the FANS” section of the EWS you will be able to find all the live updates about the qualifications and the competition itself. This part of the webtite includes info both for athletes and fans
     
  • MTBFINALE.eu - As an informative website, there will be informations and news about the event almost live and from the spot
     
  • Pinkbike - The Pinkbike blog is still the best website to be updated on the international mountainbike world all around. This mainly in a moment like this where the Enduro is getting bigger and bigger beacuse of its abilities to melt together the challenge between man, bike and terrain.

Helmet cameras

  • In the case you wanted to know precisely how are the specials of each stage, or if you want to experience them in first person, the headcam of the athletes is the right solution! You can follow the social network pages of teams or athletes you'll be able to find the headcam record in the days before the race. The major teams to follow are Yeti, Canyon, Specialized, Trek or Cube.

When the qualifications end, and the proper race starts, we start talking about results, problems, mechanicals and everything that concerns high speed on rough terrains. You'll then be able to find all the live results on the Enduro World Series Website, in the "FANS" section, "Race Feeds" / "Results".
Following the EWS Twitter profile is a really good way to keep up to date on the last news: it actually gathers together many accounts of many athletes.

Another nice platform mainly for pictures and videos is Instagram. A lot of insiders use this social network.

  • @world_enduro - this EWS official profile gives you backstage info, updates and results

The most detailed version comes from the athletes anyway...they have the best point of view in the whole event:

  • @greg_callahan - Cube Team athlete, has the first stage win in his hometown trails in Wicklow (IE) in 2014
  • @curtiskeene - Specialized Team athlete, frequently updates his social profiles
  • @endurojc - Jérôme Clementz, Canondale Team athlete, wins the EWS in 2013, he is one of the ost competitive characters of the circuit
  • @richie_rude1 - Yeti Fox Tean athlete, at the top of the ranking, he is a young, strong talent
  • @annekebeerten - GT Team athlete, she is one of the fastest riders
  • @kelleymtb - Yeti Fox Team athlete, starts his professional MTB career aout 4 years ago and he is one of the most stylish riders
  • @jaredgravesmtb - Specialized Team athlete, icon of the Enduro world, vince l'EWS nel 2014
  • @hannahbarnes66 - Specialized Team athlete, she has one of the richest Insta profile

If you want to get some amazing backstage photos you have to follow the riders-photographer

  • @matt_wragg
  • @svenmartinphoto
  • @davetrumporephoto

After the event has ended, when the race os over and the results are out, there is one more passage to follow: every tuesday, a video will be pulished with all the highlights of the weekend. In 20 minutes will be put two days of the most thrilling events of the mountainbike world!

How to follow the EWS on track

Following an EWS stage is not like following a Downhill or Cross country cup. It takes place on a wider terrain area, therefore it is important to know the main passages of each special to be in the rightplace at the right moment.

At the same time, at the end of every special it is likely to find the athletes stopping for a bit of a recovery talking to the audience before going on with the following climb.

Staying in the central square of Finale is another good place to stay thanks to the atmosphere and the live commentary about the race

Last but not the least, the athletes MUST be supported in any kind of way...strange clothes or tools clanging are the basics that everybody should bring with himself to cheer them up...after these...everything is allowed! The stranger the better!