Red Bull Video: Going to the Limit

Here’s a great 3 minutes video from the Red Bull Hard Enduro Feed including some action but primarily letting some of our Extreme Enduro heroes talking about “Going to the Limits”.

The fact that Red Bull is dedicating a channel to Extreme / Hard Enduro really helps A LOT raising the awareness for our sport and the incredible performance of the Extreme Enduro riders. Thanks once again to the team around Hans Harich and Jeff Pakosta! Fantastic job!

Letti on his way to Hell’s Gate

Red Bull did a nice little feature about Andreas “Letti” Lettenbichler going to Hell’s Gate. It’s great that Red Bull recently decided to launch a dedicated Enduro Channel, this will help our sport to get more popular and make people understand what (Extreme) Enduro is all about.

Also it’s a great gesture of Red Bull to feature an athlete like Letti, who is not a part of the Red Bull athlete family. Respect!

Kenny Cowburn deserves the credits for handling the camera and showing that he knows what the life of an Extreme Enduro rider is all about: Getting up at ridiculous early times in the morning, travelling long long distances, having long long exhausting days and do all this in parallel to your every day job:

Updated KoEE Ranking after Hell’s Gate

After the results of the Hell’s Gate are official, the new KoEE Ranking can be checked here.

The 9th edition of the Hell’s Gate was a great experience, the number of finishers … doubled compared with 2010 and 2011: Four riders actually made it to the incomparable Hell’s Peak. Thanks Fabio and Piero for the great support!

Graham’s performance has been astonishing again. Arriving at Hell’s Peak, Graham dropped to the ground and for a moment I was afraid that there could be something wrong with him. The photos below captured that moment, the last one is of my favorites from the weekend because it really tell’s a part of the Hell’s Peak story.

The last helping hand at Hell's Peak ©Carsten M. Steffen

Graham (at the very bottom of the photo) devastated after arrival at Hell's Peak ©Carsten M. Steffen

Hell’s Gate Result

Here’s the preliminary result of the Hell’s Gate 2012:

  1. Graham Jarvis (UK, Flite Husaberg)
  2. Jonny Walker (UK, KTM) 4 minutes 2 seconds
  3. Xavi Galindo (SP, Husaberg) 16:23
  4. Cody Webb (USA, Beta) 21:50
  5. Andreas Letti Lettenbichler (D, Husqvarna) 23:24

The top 15 list will follow after the results are official.