Here it is!

The first round of the California Enduro Series.

Georgetown Ca. was host to the Enduro event for the first time in history & we all got to be the first racers with number plates aboard our favorite mountain bikes!

So incredibly stoked to race out here as I got the chance to ride here once just over a year ago with the California Expedition shuttle services & the MTBNorCal race team.

This year I have had many changes happening in my life and I was simply too busy to get up and pre ride this race course. I still wanted to come and give it my all going in Blind & I did my best to ride well and smart.

Ended up finishing about mid pack or 11th place in my expert level category of men 30-39years old. Felt pretty confident and calm most of the day even being on a brand new bike & having not seen these trails in over a year.

Huge thank you to Shaun from N1Bikes.com for coming through to help me get on this Rocky Mountain Instinct just 2 weeks before this race! He has so many awesome bikes in stock at his store in Tennessee. From Rocky Mountain to Ibis & Intense he’s always got many bikes available in stock! Give him a call and mention me “Bike Somm” and have free shipping delivered to you wherever you may live.

The Rocky Mountain Instinct 29 did very well for a race like this.. I felt pretty good on it too for only having ridden it about 7 or 8 times before race day. I did feel as tho my confidence was lacking a bit where things got really high speed and chunky, as I’m much more accustomed to smashing aboard my old Santa Cruz Megatower with 170mm front & 166mm rear travel Vs. the Instinct’s 150mm & 140mm build. All in all it’s hard to compare two completely different bikes entirely in any sentences, but I really enjoyed changing pace and skill sets by seeing how another bike feels and handles in a more “True Race Fashion”

I’m happy to be able to say that things will be changing even more soon with a new job opportunity I’ll be taking up with Norco Bikes! More on all that in another video later on..

With much more to come, I hope to keep making more racing style videos and document more of these awesome events and my adventurous life journeys.

Thanks for watching everyone enjoy the Full & Raw Uncut Shredding from the first ever California Enduro Series Georgetown Enduro 2022 ⛰🏁🚴🏼 💨