The Terror gets REAL

Last year’s Tenterfield Terror was supposed to be the first round of the first Australian Hard Enduro Championship. It was a huge success (ADB #489), but then COVID shut the whole thing down. This year, it was all systems go for a new, improved Tenterfield and AHEC take two, but this time the TT itself had to be abandoned, but not for want of trying.

Pent-up demand generated by riders training in their bathtubs during the pandemic saw entries for the Grassroots Enduro Australia event filled shortly after they opened, with a full field of just over 300 lining up for the awesome terrain in the Rocky River area, just east of Tenterfield.

But Mother Nature hadn’t finished challenging organiser Greg Peterson, with heavy rain falling in the area just before the event so the usual beautiful camping area beside the Timbarra River could not be used. Organisers and local landholders worked tirelessly to slash new, smaller campgrounds to cater for all.

FLOODING

This year’s event was in the same area, although the start and finish lines also had to be moved because of the flooding.