listening to this while working, sounds like someone wrestling with a cordless drill.

I was actually thinking that the race was not that hard until the dry river bed part, that was gnarly and brutal. Good job

Right on man - absolutely killer! Incredible course. F'n Brutal. This video is a great example that the best upgrade you can do for off-road riding is... CARDIO.

Man that was amazing. You actually get a better feel for the effort being put in by the rider and the bike.

Go Tucker, GO Ebikes!!! Arm pump is REAL, you keep pushing Hard, STuddly race. HUGE thanks for sharing this video!!

Interesting results, I added what people are riding based on various posts. 1 SAM BIRD - EM - 53:32 2 JOSEPH TOOLE - XEMX1- 54:47 3 JASON SMITH - EM - 59:12 4 BRETT BALDWIN - Surron - 1:06:38 5 TUCKER NEARY - EM - 1:10:07 6 ALIS SANDULESCU - EM - 1:16:14 7 JOHN UYEHARA - EM - 1:16:48 8 EDDY WALLACE - Surron - 1:19:26 9 DUSTIN LANGSTON - Cake - 1:26:29 10 GRANT MORTON - Surron - 1:28:40

YES! I been checking obsessively for TKO footage! THANK YOU SOO MUCH!

Great work Tucker! You and your videos inspired me to buy my first Sur Ron 2 years ago!

I have arm pump just looking at this footage! The track was brutal you did great! So happy to see EM doing so well!

Good ride on brutal terrain Tucker 👍 It's been a long time since I've had the pure pleasure of riding with arm pump.... it sucks! Congrats on that 5th place. 👏

Ahh man that was so intense and extreme, I wouldn’t even attempt to fly a magic carpet across those super gnarly dry river beds. I use to race moto-cross back in the 80’s, this is on a completely other level. No wonder your arms were burning, mine were just watching ha ha. You are awesome and so is that guy who came first. I love this sport!

The rock garden was diabolical.

Well done Tucker! Other than the creek beds of huge river rocks, that trail looks like a lot of fun! The arm pump is killer; I went on a 4 hour trail ride near Georgetown this last weekend and it gets so bad you lose that fine throttle control and can't modulate your speed. The downhill was such a relief to my sore arms.

Looks like a proper enduro track. I get armpump just by looking at the riverbeds :D

Very nice riding!!💪🏾😎,that rock section 🤯

That was exhausting to watch. Awesome riding!

Brilliant work Tucker and all the future world champs

lmao that track designer was like: lets get em go up that cliff full of huge rocks

Incredible what a different experience this is… great job man!!

Really good video great ride the bike is amazing, if i had a spare 10G would love one of these

Wow! That looks really exhausting. Great job!

Yeee awesome job! Right on Sam Bird, one of the legends here in Hawaii 🤙🏽

Thank you for sharing that and you did an amazing job!!

That bike will never be the same again. You'd almost have to hate sometimes to put it through that brutal punishment.

The future of things to come! 🤙🏽⚡️🏁🏆

That looked awesome. Thanks for uploading a video of the full track!

Absolutely amazing event!!!!

When you take of the goggles is the moment when real Enduro begins🤣

That looked awesome!!

That was impressive man! Such a long race. I kept losing the trail, you did awesome staying on track.

Pretty major track very brutal bro!

Brutal ride - Thanks

That looks so fun , wonder if my aging self could manage to finish that in one piece . How do practice for that madness and gotta hand it to the build of those machines to not get destroyed by that kind of insane course . Amazing !

Had a little hard time keeping up with em. Props for trying

Very impressive, congrats!

Nice work! Looks like the EM worked out well.

AMAZING WOW ! Best video since I've been interested in it ! That is to say since i own a surron. Incredible track 😍 It would have taken me 3 hours but I would love to be able to ride such a spot 😁 Good job dude 👋

You killed it man! Good job ECR.

Fantastic!😍

Great video. I had questions about these electric bikes in rocks/rock gardens, etc. and they've all been answered completely. Electric bikes can certainly get the job done. Where can one purchase an EM Escape R? I can't seem to locate any in the Northeast.

That's some rocky stuff dam

Great perspective on what you guys go through. If your fatigued and out of breath, I'm guessing that a heart attack would be imminent for me!

Nice ride. There seems to be something missing? Bike handled the.technical stuff more than I thought it would. Thanks for posting.

What were the average time differentials betweeen the ebike class and the gas class?

It’s mad!! Combustion engine motor cross looks and sounds so much more exciting but I have a Surron i use it off road a lot having had a few 4 stroke motor bikes. The effort of racing around a track is still hard work Apart from the 4 stroke kick back that nearly breaks your leg while kicking it over 😆

This video put me over the edge. Time to sell something for an e bike 😂

dude your a beast

Congratulations to everyone that finished! I’m curious why no Freerides or Altas in the race?

I enjoyed this video a lot man, great effort 👏. Do you think the KTM would have been better with all those big rocks?

No return springs on those foot pegs or just stuff getting stuck in there?

So cool to clearly hear the breathing and cursing of the footpeg.

Looks like a nice race! Was EMs trials suspention adequate for those rock sections? Was there enough teavel in a fork?

Nasty nasties ! I thought you were in the lead as there were no other bikes in view. I wonder how much you used the clutch or were even able to pull it in after holding on for an hour. How did you feel this light weight bike did compared to a full size 2 stroke with bigger suspension and power and weight ?

What's the bike and setup? Great video!

No ktms I see. I want that em bad. Awesome footage and great racing.

as a result, do you need a clutch, or can you do without it?

Super cool. Looks kind of bizarre, almost like you're racing a trials bike or mtb at dirt bike speeds.

Great job! seems like that bike was a good choice, need a better spring on the peg though. Which Yamaha was that?

I'm exhausted!

I wonder how many Sur Ron foot pegs are still in that riverbed?

Great ride Tucker I can definitely sympathize with the arm pump. It was my biggest enemy racing either MX or cross country. I found if I rode my YZ 125 I didn't get it hardly at all but on the 250 it was bad warming up and stretching helps breathing and try to relax

How do you charge you're bike at these events?

Well done! What e-bike did you compete on?

8.18.22 Fantastic ride Tucker. How do you think the Stark would have done? Those rocks were terrible. At least was not raining. To bad you developed arm pump. I have seen some of your test rides that lasted longer and no arm pump before the arm pump showed up in this ride. Did you happen to come across a person named Ed Fessler. He rides a KTM free usually the Master A class.

The rock section was insane.I didn’t expect the bike to be able to handle it

You did great given the circumstances. Probably would have placed 3rd or 4th with some exercise and better pegs. If you didn’t have custom tuned suspension that would have saved your arms… that and exercise and diet. When I saw the rock gardens I was like NOPE… if I did this run all my effort would go into quality of life upgrades, suspension, rearsets/pegs, full hand guards, tires, then I would train for a triathlon for 3 months running up to the race. There is a very specific regiment for triathlons with an increase then decrease in difficulty with a focus on diet and recovery at the end. The week before I would be very focused on dietary needs and the day off especially. I wonder how many people forgot to fill their drink containers with no-xplode and forgot to eat a bunch of carbs or whatever their fav is before hand. Everyone has their own way of carb loading for triathlon but I wonder how many of these riders didn’t even give exercise and diet a second thought. I watched the video on the top bikes and one thing I saw a lot of was suspensions from downhill MTB or dirt bikes. One guy said he had a boxxer and that’s not a proper suspension. He didn’t say I have an Avalanche Racing Boxxer. Nobody that I remember mentioned any suspension tuners. I don’t own a single stock fork for any of my MTBs I have a stack of forks. At least 8 and a few spare shocks. Every single rear shock is Avalanche Racing, Push Industries or Volsprung Suspension modded. Half the forks are the same names with 3 of them being hybrid coil spring conversions and one being a double spring conversion from Avalanche (both sides are sprung on a fork that normal only one side is). I assure you that those mods reduce the beating your body receives and increases your traction and ability to overcome obstacles. One guy had a blown rear air shock on a Sur Ron… yeh but he had a modded motor and controller if memory serves. Someone was bragging about 20,000 watts!!! I didn’t see a single spot where that would have mattered. Get a bigger sprocket… gear the bike so it can barely reach whatever the top speeds people are known to hit is. Honestly unless you plan on placing podium you don’t even need to hit the top speeds. A few MPH under is fine. Too many people focused on raw power!

Excelent !! Great Job. Awesome race, congrats for the 5th place 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼⚡️ Maybe the position chart will name the brand of the E-dirtbike. For example: Surron, Talaria, EM, freeride, etc.

wow!

Sick , think I'm gonna race next year . How many miles was the course ?

Words of encouragement you're the man do it dude rough Rider ya are. I do a little track prep first that looks brutal. Punch itt and go

I am curious to see which setups work better than others and what ideas will come of this for improvements. The Stark Varg is coming.

Tucker - do you believe that the comparatively light weight & maneuverability of the EM left you more or less beat up than full size & travel suspension would have been ? .. did you use the clutch often ? One things for sure , EM has plenty of power.

Looks like once the bike is around 25mph, it can't even wheelie over obstacles. Am I correct?

Nice

How much battery did you end up with at the end?

Yea my Boy Sam won 1st! Congrats on your race as well!

Not a single KTM electric bike? Wonder why. Great Video as always!

Man that track is a real punisher on that rough stuff ain't it. I have a question people race legitimately on tracks like this? Hard on equipment.

i love the electric dirt bikes but its nothing like the smell and sound of a two stroke 😀

Yamaha? Are they allowing conversions?

How miles?🤔

Nice run man! That was a good lead, those foot peg really messed up your run. The arm fatigue is no fun and it will for sure hinder you from holding on the bike. I sub’d looking forward for more races. You got me really looking into these ebikes.

That looks painful to do. Respect, that is not easy.

Awesome! Yamaha has an Ebike?

Congrats... Now the big question. Clutch must have or not needed? 😁

Love the idea!!! But that track tho… a little heavy on the boulder’s for those electric bike’s… especially those SurRon’s 😂 What kind of suspension were you running… Fox? Edit: Wait you were riding a SurRon?! Props no matter what type of suspension because they don’t seem to have the ability to grab the bike with your knee’s… at least the Talaria has a little better ergonomic’s in that department. You should have ride that electric KTM I’ve seen in previous video’s, that probably would’ve done a little better on the rough stuff No?

Everyone is worrying the bikes won’t survive.. turns out the riders didn’t haha

Why not with the e-Xc?

Whats the range on that bike if you ride like that?

the little laugh XD 1:05

Solid ride all the way. Do you wish you would have taken the KTM instead?

looks like helemano crew ride or die C class

You honestly could’ve really been up there if your conditioning was more dialed, looking forward to hopefully seeing you send it again next year!

That's not quite Carl's Diner, so what's it called? Carl's Deli?

Wow! I gotta say I’m impressed and was shocked that your batteries lasted past the 15 minute mark!!!! Well done man. I think if you worked in your fitness some you could have won this event.👍 And just how cool would it have been for you to beat those factory Yamaha bikes!!!!????!!!!

thank god you didnt choose the much heavier KTM. Have you never ridden for an hour before at race pace? Maybe you have race day death grip

Idk what anyone says that was seriously some tough riding and gritty as fuk!! The mx bikes had the advantage because of thier tire sizes. And that they can easily roll over those rocks where a smaller/thinner tire gets caught up. Whereas the bugger tires glide over alk that chunky stuff that is incredibly strenuous and much slower to ride through. If you had a larger set of rims and larger tire I think you easily would’ve taken them

I would have problems walking my dog on that

You were doing great until you weren’t :/ Nobody knows unless you’ve been in a race, thx for the vids

My KTM does better over boulders than my EM, in my opinion. Watching ECR-TKO is much better than spending a hundred dollar bills at 3am in a sketchy strip club in an abandoned crack house.