{"id":15450,"date":"2022-06-23T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/pol-tarres-and-his-tenere-700-make-history-at-erzbergrodeo-2022-11\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:32:08","slug":"pol-tarres-and-his-tenere-700-make-history-at-erzbergrodeo-2022-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/pol-tarres-and-his-tenere-700-make-history-at-erzbergrodeo-2022-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Pol Tarres And His Tenere 700 Make History At Erzbergrodeo 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, another Erzbergrodeo is officially in the books, and what a wild ride it was, with many veterans calling the 2022 course the most grueling in the competition’s 26-year history. <\/p>\n

This year’s event, the third of eight stops on the Hard Enduro World Championship circuit, was filled with gut wrenching scenes of riders and bikes being devoured by 35.2 kilometers of harsh terrain that included fields of massive boulders, near vertical hill climbs, plunging descents and single track that zig-zagged through thick, muddy forests. Riders also had to survive dust and mud and near triple-digit temperatures. <\/p>\n

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Of the 1500 riders who entered the Red Bull Erzbergrodeo this year, only 500 qualified for the main event. Of those 500, just one raced it on an adventure bike: Pol Tarres, the Spanish trials champ, who’s become so well known for videos of his superhuman romps aboard a series of Yamaha Tenere 700s. While his most recent film, terrible 7<\/a>follows him as he breaks a Guinness World Record for reaching the highest altitude on a twin-cylinder motorcycle (20,203 feet), taking on the Erzbergrodeo on the adventure bike is by far his most ambitious quest to date. <\/p>\n

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Pol was no stranger to the notoriously difficult race, having entered aboard more conventional two-stroke mounts three times prior to last weekend’s event, finishing all three times and even landing in the top ten in 2019, the last year the event was held. Anyone who follows the Erzbergrodeo knows that kind of a track record is a nearly impossible feat on its own. To illustrate, out of the 1500 riders who entered this year’s race, only 500 could qualify for the main event. How many of those 500 crossed the actual finish line? just 8<\/p>\n

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And while Pol wasn’t one of the riders to get a checkered flag, his ride did bring him through checkpoint 17 of 27 in the allotted 4 hours, which is nothing short of miraculous. <\/p>\n

When we first reported Pol was taking on the world’s toughest enduro race on his Yamaha, he said that in order to finish the race, it was imperative he start in the first row of 50 riders. Those coveted spots are won or lost in the event’s Iron Mountain Prologue time trials held the Friday and Saturday before Sunday’s main event. Pol’s Tenere gave him the advantage of speed, though not in his favor this year was a change to the Prologue course that made speed less of an advantage than it had been in years past. <\/p>\n

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While Pol did bag a first place trophy for winning in the multi-cylinder class at the Prologue, he heart wrenchingly ended up placing 52nd in the qualifying event, just two spots from being able to launch from the front row, unfettered by the event’s inevitable carnage and subsequent queues. <\/p>\n

And the backups this year were spectacular. At one point we saw Pol jump off his Tenere and mount the bike of the rider ahead who was blocking his line up a technical, forested climb. Pol easily popped his competitor’s bike from its stuck position before returning to ride his Yamaha through the tricky section. <\/p>\n

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During the live streaming of the race, Red Bull commentator and 5-time Erzbergrodeo finisher Darryl Curtis said of watching Pol sea-sawing the T7 through a boulder garden called Machine: \u201cI can’t think of anything worse in my life than riding that thing around the Erzberg.” And he’s right! Who does this kind of crazy shit on an adventure bike?<\/p>\n

Yet Pol Tarres seems to enjoy every minute of it. Ever since he and his T7, a new build<\/a> each year, made their debut in the Echevarria Brother’s film The Seeker<\/a> in 2020, the 28-year-old Spaniard has become a history-making machine. And now he’s become the first rider to race Erzbergrodeo’s main event and reach checkpoint 17 on a twin-cylinder bike. <\/p>\n

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But Pol wasn’t the only rider making history in Eisenerz, Austria, this year. Manuel \u201cMani\u201d Lettenbichler took an early lead and rode his KTM to a definite first place finish, making him and his enduro champ dad, Andreas Lettenbichler, the first father and son to have won the Erzbergrodeo’s main event (and on Father’s Day no less ). Mani’s winning time was 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 51 seconds.<\/p>\n

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In second was Spaniard Mario Roman, followed by Trystan Hart, the first Canadian to podium at Erzberg. Billy Bolt and Alfredo Gomez came next, then Michael Walkner, who made the best time ever for an Austrian rider, who arrived to huge cheers from his home country fans. And perhaps the biggest hero of the day was multi-time ‘rodeo winner Graham Jarvis, who was favored to triumph in this year’s event after two consecutive wins in the lead up. <\/p>\n

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