All mountain

All mountain/Enduro(AM) bike category typically provides 125 170 millimeters (5 7inches) of rear and front suspension travel and stronger components than XC models, while still providing overall weight suitable for climbing and descending on a variety of terrain. While traditionally called All Mountain riding, this style has been adopted to the Enduro World Series. There are two formats of Enduro racing. Big Mountain Enduro is mostly similar to a DH course, but is much longer, sometimes taking a full day to complete, incorporates a few climbing sections to keep riders challenged. Gravity enduro uses an equal amount uphill and downhill on paper, but the uphill segments are not timed. Typically, there is a maximum time limit on how long a rider has to reach the top of the climb. There is also a third all mountain genre called super D this style of race is more similar to XC, but has sustained climbs followed by sustained descents. A super D course has climbs that are less technical than the descents. Enduro racing is seen as the everymans race in North America, and while there are still extremely high level riders such as J