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ENDURO BAG
“To finish first, you must first finish.”
- Rick Mears.
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY CHIPPS
KIT BAG IS OUR CHANCE TO HAVE A NOSY INSIDE THE BAGS CARRIED BY RIDERS FROM
DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE MOUNTAIN BIKE TREE. EACH BAG HAS BEEN REFINED OVER
THE YEARS BY ITS OWNER – ADDING BITS WHEN THEY’RE NEEDED, CHUCKING STUFF OUT
THAT’S JUST ADDING WEIGHT AND BULK UNTIL, HOPEFULLY, THE RIDER ENDS UP WITH THE
PERFECT COMBINATION OF USEFULNESS AND PORTABILITY FOR THEIR PARTICULAR NEEDS.
THIS ISSUE WE LOOK AT THE INCREDIBLY COMPREHENSIVE SET-UP THAT
TRACY MOSELEY TAKES WITH HER TO EVERY ENDURO RACE SHE DOES.
Enduro racers just carry a tube, a CO2 and a multitool,
right? Not if you’re Tracy Moseley. She likes to be prepared
for absolutely any eventuality, especially if she’s going to be
out on the hill for a 60km race day over several hours. And
while her bike is meticulously maintained by her husband
and mechanic James, things can and do go wrong. And if
you’re fighting for every point in a season-long campaign
like the Enduro World Series, then a broken bike that can’t
be fixed trailside can put an end to a year of hard work. In
fact, at the final race of Tracy’s EWS overall victory in 2015,
she carried a whole spare Di2 rear derailleur, such was the
pressure to finish with a working bike and get in the points.
We got Tracy to unpack her bag immediately after she’d
just won the 2017 TweedLove International and these are
the unedited contents of the bag she raced with, down to
the 250g of nuts and apricots she forgot she’d packed.
While much of this stuff is rarely needed by Tracy,
it’s preparedness like this that helped her win three
consecutive years of the Enduro World Series. And the pits
at TweedLove were full of stories of other riders Tracy has
helped to get going again when they’d been stuck trackside
in previous events.
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