wtf at 7:52? duuude. Clutch MURDER!! Will work for clutches. 'Hard enduro' is an understatement.

I gotta say, Idaho has some of the gnarliest single track. The camera does NOT do it justice. Way to go Morgan, that was a good job for the terrain. You got some big balls just to even try this, let alone film and post for the world to criticize on the interwebs.

Bro...that looked like a real biatch 😂 swear I got winded just watching. Hats off

That looks like so much fun !

This is awesome your up in my neck of the woods. Idaho has some awesome single track and enduro stuff.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

It’s an amazing state

Incredible. I love how you push yourself, you try new things, and constantly are looking to improve. You sure seem to be winning in this game of life!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’m trying

@NSR969

Жыл бұрын

I’m not making fun of Morgan, he’s awesome, or any of the other riders. I understand wanting to push oneself and trying new things, it’s just that it has to have a good ratio of FUN. I enjoy RIDING my dirt bkes , Not dragging, pushing & pleading them up and over roots & rocks on 45 degree incline. I want to see my wheels rolling. I DON’T want to see another riders gloves grabbing my front tire, gasping for air trying to help me pull my bike up a hill! In one of Morgan’s videos, I heard him say about Hard Enduro, that he doesn’t get it. I don’t get the enjoyment of the self inflicted misery. Hard Enduro is compared to draining the water out of a swimming pool, then filling it with sand & trying to swim in the pool, while another swimmer has you by your ankle trying to drag you across the pool! WTF? The other parts of the race course were okay. But that hillside scene looked like mass casualties everywhere. “Hard Enduro” will have to improve the courses, or it will be a Fad & go away like SuperMoto/Super Motard did. Love your channel, Morgan, keep up the great content!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

@@NSR969 I definitely don’t get it but I can see how it drives some people to want to be better at it.

Absolute awesome job pushing through for the full 6 hours even though you Didn't finish. Great job Morgan!

Well done 😅🍻

I live for hare enduro...the struggle is real. Your channel and honesty is amazing. My hat is off to you sir.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

From a TN/KY harescramble xc guy, this looks awful 😂. I’m sure the memories in hindsight will be great but good god I can see myself having the “this isn’t even fun, why am I here” vibes while doing it lol. Congrats on conquering a new challenge and letting us non-hard enduro racers watch

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same way haha

You are the man Morgan. That took a lot to conquer.

Same age here. I’m not bald, but dude I’m jealous of all that hair!

@highlandcycles

6 ай бұрын

😂🤣

Morgan! Hope you enjoyed, it is a whole different ball game this hard enduro stuff. It is awesome and I think the more you go to the more addicting it gets! The best part is the community, nicest two wheel community that I have ever experienced.

@crosslinkedcomponents4494

Жыл бұрын

20:04 is the same line I took through that section. Needed help on that root.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

I did. I agree that the community is amazing! Not sure I’m cut out for it but I am so glad I went. It’s motivating me to get better and more fit for my kind of racing.

@GoldenAppleGamers

Жыл бұрын

@@highlandcycles It’s amazing how fast you can progress once you start seeing the “hard stuff”. It’s hard to imagine what to ride before going to a race. Really addicting once you start making progress

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

@@GoldenAppleGamers problem is that Colorado doesn’t have anything that steep or that open that’s legal. I need access to a ski resort

You did excellent work there man!

That looked intense! Very awesome though. Love watching it

clutches🤗

That was BRUTAL!! 🤘🤘

Way to go!

Nice work! It's very difficult to take on something new, especially when you know that, by it's nature, it's going to be difficult. Good on you!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

Nice work, Morgan! I love watching, but count me out. I like the wind in my face. Not my face in my hands.

That looked brutal! Congrats on riding that man you rode great ! Love your content, keep it comin! BRAAAAAP 🤘💯

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

i wonder if a more aggressive tire (thinking like the IRC M5B) would have been better overall since it looks like the toughest parts of the race were the hill climbs.

@danielhuffman9284

Жыл бұрын

My favorite tire from IRC .

Good work. Its nice when you meet someone on the trail and you team up and push through.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

You got that right!

Wow!! That looks brutal !! Awesome job 👍

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍

At least you gave it a try, Morgan. Personally, I have never enjoyed racing anything. Competion is not why I ride. I ride dirt bikes and mountain bikes for the joy and happiness that it gives me, and I saw none of that there. Love that new XC W, BTW.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. There was a lot of joy and happiness, just a different kind

Loved that video couldn't help my self trying to help u up those hills felt that i was there!thx morgan definitely takes hart and sol to do that race ! 🤘

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

🤘🏻

You thought you sucked at dirtbikes before, then you do your first hard enduro, then you know. Im in the same boat, but i happen to love this shit BECAUSE I suck at it. 🤣

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Nice!!

Confucious say, red boots, white socks and sweaty feat make pink socks... also, steep hill with no run for 6 hours make for worn out clutch... At least you can say you gave hard enduro a whirl at least once... Congrats on you're effort! I bet you were sore the next day!

Love the bike name.. Loretta 🤙🏻🤙🏻

That looked painful😂I would not have finished either

@highlandcycles

11 ай бұрын

It was out of hand

Riding an enduro bike is much more rewarding than pushing, pulling, dragging and lifting it.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Agree. The good guys do

Hey goodjob out there!! Whats your thoughts on the IRC vx40 front tire??!?!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty good. A little soft for my tastes but not bad

@jonathoncatterson8901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback enjoy:)

Hard Enduro is the Manliest form of motorsports!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

It’s manly but I think the Isle Of Man is more so. Rarely do people die in a hard enduro

Is there anything you could have done to better prepare yourself? Aside from entering bronze class?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

More weight lifting but more importantly, worked on finding traction in the most ridiculous situations.

What size sprockets do you run?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

13/52

LOL been there done that and it’s brutal. The physical level you need to be in is ridiculous huh. However if I could ride Better that would save LOTS of energy. We are definitely not all tryston hart 😂

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Agree

How long in real time did it take to get front the bottom to the top of the hill climb?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to check but I’m guessing about 45 min to an hour

It's funny how in the beginning he is complaining about the start position, by the end he is happy just to make check one.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. The start position makes a big difference in these races. The more people ahead of you the harder it is to get by the bottleneck. I am not good enough to make new routes.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Also in the beginning I honestly had no idea how hard it was going to be. I do now.

Look at you bonding with your fellow "racers"

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah. Yep. It’s more of a big moto mixer

Hard Enduro is like trench war! i love me high speed desert runs. if you want to do this stuff you need to be fit as fook!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Agree

If you had to do it again would you use a different tire?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

No. I think the tire was spot on. But after talking to some more experienced guys I would have drilled the mousse balls with a bigger drill to make them softer

@snirtbike

Жыл бұрын

What size of hole did you run? And what size is reasonable to go to?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

@@snirtbike it was the smallest drill that mitigator makes. I think it’s about an inch. Not sure what the right size would be but you could probably do 2”

Sounds like your motor doesn't like to lug.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

It does. That’s all me

How did Adam do?

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Not sure. Better than me for sure

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

Amen!!

That does not look like my idea of a good time.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

It is definitely type 2 fun.

Just think, you could've stayed home and put vise grips on your ears and had just as good a time. At least you tried dude.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣 true but I wouldn’t have met the cool people or caught big fish in Montana on the way back.

@williamcrotts7054

Жыл бұрын

@@highlandcycles State record trout in Gunnision.

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

@@williamcrotts7054 yep. In one of the hardest sections of river absolutely filled elbow to elbow with fishermen. And I ride here all the time. Fun to see something new and much harder than anything in CO

What a shit show!!! Lol. Way to be there.

Okay……wait……where’s the fun in all of that bull shit? You can have Hard Enduro. I don’t see the point in a full day of frustration & destroying yout bike!

@highlandcycles

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya. But the good guys float through it. It’s a weird thing. You just want to get better at it.