My favorite place to ride a motorcycle is in the dirt. Whether that's just trail running on something like Royal Enfield's Himalayan 450, hitting up my backyard's dirt bike track on Niu's XQi3 or Dust's Alpha1, or railing along some single track on whatever has the knobbiest of tires currently in my stable, there's no better place to be.
And that experience, along with the handful of concussions I've had over the years, has always drawn me to the idea of running either the Erzbergrodeo or Romaniacs' enduro races.
For the uninitiated, these are hard enduro races held over a couple days and multiple stages. They're rallies, but held on two wheels and go through some of the toughest terrain imaginable. We're talking boulder gardens, single-track log crossings over rivers, the deepest of deep mud puddles, and incredibly steep inclines on loose surfaces. Basically, they're hell on Earth. And they look fun as all heck, so long as you're just out to have fun. If you're competing like Mani Lettenbichler, well, that might be a different story.
