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Aaaaaand...we're off! After what always seems like a far too long break, the racing season is once again upon us. Down in New Zealand, the media squids have already strapped on their race plates, and while we wait for the start gate beeps to once again ring out over the jungle to signal the start of what promises to be an epic, season-long battle for glory, feast your eyes on what awaits our riders. Let's pretend the weather isn't threatening to move in...
Kung Fu Walrus. With names like this you know the trails are all about fun. Richie Rude in audio. - photo Sven Martin
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Even the Maccas here are mad about bikes. - photo Sven Martin
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The Santa Cruz gang did a sweet little road trip from Nelson to Rotorua in Jamie Nicoll's bus. To commemerate the trip a few of the lads got a tattoo. Sweet as bro. - photo Sven Martin
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Katy Winton with an anti-Brexit top cap. Scottish Pride. - photo Sven Martin
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Jerome's got a fresh new colour and a new bike.... - photo Sven Martin
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Fresh grippy Michelin Prototypes for Jey C. - photo Sven Martin
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Rider briefing for the field. The main item on the agenda was the weather which looks set to hit us on Sunday. Fabien Barel in audio. - photo Sven Martin
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Some of the riders have been in NZ for awhile already taking in some South Island racing. Damien Oton fresh off a NZ Enduro win. - photo Sven Martin
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Chris Ball on the brand new trail of stage one, Te Rua. Possibly my favourite stage of the whole race. - photo Sven Martin
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More of Chris Ball on stage one. Highline gap is the way to go for this section. - photo Sven Martin
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Jacob McSquidins Danny Macking it. Martin Maes in audio. - photo Sven Martin
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John Colthorpe is your most local media squid this week. He knows all the high lines on stage three, Hatu Patu. Mark Scott in audio. - photo Sven Martin
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Rotorua is all about culture and nowhere more so than at the BIKE Culture shop. Here the workshop is front and centre and what the guys have built their reputations around. - photo @maddogboris
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And off they go to shred some sick trails in Rotorua. - photo @maddogboris
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Chris Seager media squid bar turn. - photo Sven Martin
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Stage seven ends in the Dodzy Skills park, where if you take the wrong turn you end up on the jump line. - photo Sven Martin
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Some custom Maori themed decals on Dan Wolfe's Transition. - photo Sven Martin
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Two sets of tyre marks, two different approaches to the same corner. The inside line is drifting no brakes and the outside line is fully locked up squid. - photo Sven Martin
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Some of you might recognise Jimmy one of the main CWX operators. Its pretty good to see that the people running these events are all proper bikers at heart too. - photo Sven Martin
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Loam goodness. - photo Sven Martin
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Chris Ball high line option on stage five, Riff Raff. - photo Sven Martin
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Duncan Philpott on a beautiful piece of trail. Stage five. - photo Sven Martin
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Jacob Gibbins with the bar tweak bum kick out, number one move of a media squid. - photo Sven Martin
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Matt Delorme low line option... - photo Sven Martin
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This used to be a full forest two years ago. Top of Frank n Furter that leads into Riff Raff and Rocky Horror. - photo Sven Martin
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Nico Turner can turn. EWS editor gets his one day out of the pain cave. - photo Sven Martin
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EWS media recce day. We get to shuttle what the riders have to pedal. All 64km of it. - photo Sven Martin
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Bikes all clean and shiny, ready to get wild and dirty! - photo @maddogboris
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Squid Central. - photo @maddogboris
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EWS Organizer Chris Ball giving last instructions to his filmers and photographers. - photo Sven Martin
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Always good to have the Media Center in a nice restaurant. - photo @maddogboris
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EWS photog Duncan Philpott capturing the EWS media recce posse. #mediashootingmedia - photo @maddogboris
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Kate Ball is always taking care of all the media guys...here she is handing out mediaplates and zipties in the morning before the riding starts. - photo @maddogboris
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One more rider spotted cruising arround in Rotorua City. - photo @maddogboris
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Team Ibis went for a color-coordinated cruise to explore Rotorua. - photo @maddogboris
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Private Hotel Pit in Rotorua. #howtheyroll - photo @maddogboris
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Bikes finished, just waiting to hit the trails... - photo @maddogboris
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Everywhere in town you can spot mechanics working on bikes in front of their hotels. #madforit - photo @maddogboris
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When you miss the media recce to scout for Deep Summer and you can´t find your rider, you are happy to meet Max Schumann and go shooting with him instead. - photo @maddogboris
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One more of Max because he is rad and he was the only rider I could shoot today. Stay tuned for more as the riders put rubber to dirt and start practing their lines. - photo @maddogboris
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Race #1 of the 2017 Enduro World Series season takes us all the way down to New Zealand for the Giant Toa Enduro. Set in the lush jungle of Whakarewarewa on the North Island, this magical, mystical venue offers up 7 stages of racing that will see the riders tackle 64 kms and 2000 meters of climbing...in a single day! May the best man and woman win.
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