DaysUnknown is about going deeper into enduro and lightweight adventure: understanding how the sport works, finding more ways to ride, becoming a better rider and learning from people with experience worth sharing.
It began with me—an enthusiastic amateur, keen to get involved and, if I’m honest, a little scared. Everyone else seemed to know what they were doing; I appeared to have missed the briefing. That made me audience member No. 1.
But DaysUnknown isn’t simply a record of my riding. My curiosity is the starting point; the aim is to preserve useful answers, hard-won lessons and stories that can help other riders go deeper too.
Enduro is the centre of gravity. Lightweight adventure means trail and dual-sport riding, smaller motorcycles, multi-day routes, navigation and travelling light—not the heavyweight adventure lifestyle.
DaysUnknown is organised around four questions: How does the sport actually work? How can I remove the friction and ride more? What will help me improve? And what can I learn from people who have already done it?
Every story begins with the same question: Tell me about one day from a ride, race, trip or expedition that you still think about. Then we ask what the rest of us can take from it.
Six Days Field Notes follows the people, preparation, culture and stories surrounding the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE).
Enduro doesn’t ask you to be fearless. It seems to attract people who are curious about their limits, willing to be humbled in public and ready to help when the same thing happens to someone else. It rewards patience, persistence, the willingness to ask for help and the ability to laugh when a good plan disappears into a bog. Riding shows you what you do when you’re tired, frustrated or out of your depth; adventure asks many of the same questions, only farther from home. What you learn is rarely just about the motorcycle.
Understand enduro. Ride more of it. Get better.