Ryan Connell is a young gun from Wollongong NSW who is spending 3 months racing 12 of the biggest Enduro events on the planet. With a aim to just compete and push his racing boundaries, here is his account of the first round of the Enduro World Series in Punta Ala.
Wednesday
Marco Fidalgo and I arrived in Milan at 12:30pm after a 4 hour flight from Portugal where we’re currently located, picking up our bags and bikes from the oversize area we swiftly shot over to the car rental centre where we had pre booked a car. Once we got there it turned out that none of our credit cards were acceptable, we quickly scrambled to find a car big enough and cheap enough, €420 euros later we did. Loading the car up we flat sticked it to Punta Ala resort at some ridiculous speeds, crazy Europeans. I fell asleep in the back whilst Marco drove. We arrived in Punta Ala resort at 6:30pm in the pouring rain which was also forecast for the following days practice, my friend Marco a professional Mtber from Portugal dropped me at the resort with these Italians which I was to be staying with. And to my surprise they didn’t really speak much of the English tongue, so I went to bed. …View More





















