EWS-E Tweed Valley

[Mountainebiker]

Well that was fun, but tough.The hardest part was the transitions

That was the same with the Finale ews-e: the transitions were really hard and you really had to push the whole time(actual pushing for some of the time!!) I think they do need to be hard so that you need a good level of fitness and so that its not just ews with a motor...but maybe not quite SO hard!

Definitely at Finale it seemed that the organisers were out to prove that ebiking wasn't the easy option!

 

[R120]

Well that was fun, but tough.The hardest part was the transitions- I’m in two minds about whether the transitions should be made tough just to make a harder loop.
I reckon I’d have preferred small climbs mid stage, easy transitions and one more stage..

7th out of nine in Vets, but I was quicker than Rob Warner on the climb stage

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Awesome stuff!

 

[Mountainebiker]

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Just saw some of the raw footage. It definitely looked like the Scottish weather added another layer of difficulty!

Good work getting up/down that in one piece!

 

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Stage five raw footage

 

[routrax]

I saw the EMTB vid, looked very slick and slippy! Good work!

 

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Stage 6 3G

Gutted that I forgot to film stage 1!

 

[Gary]

Just as well TBF... Raise your gopro angle. Your footage is unwatchabru

 

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Just as well TBF... Raise your gopro angle. Your footage is unwatchabru

I know, normally use a chin mount but they're banned at EWS. Had to use a breakaway on top and I buggered up the angles!

 

[Redders473]

Afternoon lads just asking a question really i raced the ews 100 at tweed valley and next year I'm going to do the EWS E race instead how many actual batterys do you need for the 100. 3 or 2 and have one charge after the first loop ???

 

[Part timer]

Depends on the charge speed- I would expect 2-3 hours between loops 1 and 3 for charging, if that helps! The 100 is a monster of a day though, and having to be battery careful would not be fun. I'm switching the other way and riding the 80 next year- I didn't really enjoy the transitions, they were slogs for the sake of making it harder. I'd rather the hard bits were the stages.

 

[Redders473]

Depends on the charge speed- I would expect 2-3 hours between loops 1 and 3 for charging, if that helps! The 100 is a monster of a day though, and having to be battery careful would not be fun. I'm switching the other way and riding the 80 next year- I didn't really enjoy the transitions, they were slogs for the sake of making it harder. I'd rather the hard bits were the stages.

I think on a fast charger and two batterys you could probably make it round. How much bty did you have left at the end of 50 and are the transitions timed even for novices??

 

[Part timer]

No timed transitions, but the stages do close sharpish and the guidelines don't allow much rest. We only just avoided a time penalty for being late back too. I was pretty much out of battery by the finish (630Wh Shimano), about 2 miles range left (and the EP8 is optimistic about range), I was battery saving from the start and rode mostly in Eco. Next one is in June so the trails might be slightly drier, but some of those transitions were battery sapping gloop. All I could think of was how much less hassle it would be using the forest roads- and how I could manage another stage with the battery saved in that case!
It was a fun day out though!

 

[Redders473]

No timed transitions, but the stages do close sharpish and the guidelines don't allow much rest. We only just avoided a time penalty for being late back too. I was pretty much out of battery by the finish (630Wh Shimano), about 2 miles range left (and the EP8 is optimistic about range), I was battery saving from the start and rode mostly in Eco. Next one is in June so the trails might be slightly drier, but some of those transitions were battery sapping gloop. All I could think of was how much less hassle it would be using the forest roads- and how I could manage another stage with the battery saved in that case!
It was a fun day out though!

So on the E50 did you do 2 loops or just the 1 ???

 

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1 loop, have you see the maps? We did loop 1 but missed out stage 3, then over to loop 2 for stage 6.
Stage 1 was grim, 2 ok but not the most fun trail, the others were quite fun but they were the easier trails used

 

[Redders473]

1 loop, have you see the maps? We did loop 1 but missed out stage 3, then over to loop 2 for stage 6.
Stage 1 was grim, 2 ok but not the most fun trail, the others were quite fun but they were the easier trails used

I was looking at the map then so did you have to do 2 power stages then

 

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Nope, just the first one- stage 10 was only used for the second time round loop 1. They did stage 1 twice but it was only timed the first time through