Welcome to the MBUK x Scott Dirty Half Dozen – a series of six magazine features where we're going to get stuck into different challenges that we feel every mountain biker should try. Over the next few months, we'll be trying our hand at everything from DH racing and multi-day enduros to epic rides in big mountains and overnight adventures. But first on the tick list is 24-hour cross-country racing. And for a pair of first-timers, what better event to start with than the Strathpuffer – a dark, cold and much-feared endurance test, held in the Scottish Highlands, in January.
In the April 2019 issue of the mag – on sale now – you can read about our experience of the race. But the Strathpuffer isn't just a gruelling event for the racers, it's the support crews who have to stay awake, fuelling the riders, making sure they're warm, ensuring they're on schedule and keeping the motivation up. We were lucky enough to have our friend Tom Marvin from BikeRadar helping us out. This video is an account of the race from his perspective...
Our Dirty Half Dozen series is supported by Scott Bikes. For this event we raced on their Spark 910 model.
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