Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Time to invest in a tasty steel custom frame with replaceable derailleur hanger ? Using all the bits from your Boardman.

You're a bad man, 'cakes. I like your thinking, but I fear budget may force me to either get a cheap replacement from eBay, or wait for next year's C2W.

I happen to know of a custom frame builder in Crystal Palace that takes C2W.

La la la, not listening!

Would this framebuilder take cyclescheme for a frame and forks only? Just hypothetically, of course.

Yes, although I suspect the voucher would need topping up.

@lardboy: Go and talk to Paul Milnes.

Talbot, I guess?

Pompetamine with derailleur hanger added on as a stopgap?

I did mean Talbot btw. Bad man perhaps... I'd say a sensible man. Steel, repairable, robust, etc etc.

I'm leaving the Pompetamine as a racked commuter for the moment, I don't want to risk breaking another bike, especially one that's only been on the road a few weeks. Probably paranoid, but I don't want to be without a commuter as that's 90% of my riding.

Oh dear, wonder where I will be visiting next year?

Sydenham, where this bike will probably be stored?

Shaddit! :-)

I'll not pollute this thread any more with my musings. New CPs thread: http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/254569/

Registration for supercross is now open, should anyone be interested. Alexandra Park makes for a good race.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ritchey-Swiss-Cross-cyclocross-cyclo-cross-bike-2013-SEE-VIDEO-/271599159078?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item3f3c924726
(I wish I was a little taller, etc.)

The course was good, but Kris tells me it was run in reverse. So a long grind up a bastard hill followed by a mental dash through the woods.

For comedy effect the Cyclelab rider in front of me on the first corner dropped his bike. The field concertinered and the lad behind me clattered in to the back of me warping my rear rotor and mangling my brake cable. Managed to sort the worst of it and continued in dead last. Caught a few riders up and was lapped once - par for the London league course.

To add further amusement my derailleur cable broke on the last lap leaving me to do the climb in 39/11. This wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but glad to only have to do it for one lap.

Reckon I came in way down the table, but had a laugh all the same.

By the 10th(?) time going up that hill, I was about ready to throw the bike into the long grass. The technical section in the woods was much better, shame that the course was shortened due to a collarbone (and maybe also a leg) going pop in the Vets race.

Good tough love all around.

Nice to meet you today Howard

Good to meet you too. Hope you got home OK after chilling at the beach. My heart sank as got to Brighton as the station was rammed with kind-of-cyclists who'd just completed some kind of L2B event. Thankfully they all piled on the fast train leaving the slow one empty. I could live with an extra fifteen minutes of journey if it was in relative comfort.

Anyhoo - witness my jokes first lap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvNm2cHGXo&list=UUWd_AZaM_U9c4jyAFPaXHxQ
&v=JZvNm2cHGXo

Great fun watching that. Good to see you claiming back the places.

I know i'm a bit behind the curve but where's the best place to find info out about the LDN cross league, Raphacross and similar events?

Glad you enjoyed. Sometimes it's fun to be at the back because nobody goes past you...except when being lapped.

http://www.londonxleague.co.uk/
http://centralcxl.org.uk/
http://pages.rapha.cc/cross/super-cross-uk

Follow rollerpaluza and rapha on twitter or facebook or email for details about muddy hell and supercross. There's also the cyclocrossrider and gritcx digital rags that seem to be in a permanent state of launch. Might be worth a look.

Nice, Ta.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events?discipline=4

Good for finding events from different leagues nearby.

Looks like muddy hell is cancelled again this year :(

Yes, I went to look at the calendar and saw that. Any chance it's a mistake or just how they put in a placeholder? Or do you have the skinny from Caspar?

I've moved to London relatively recently and with a newly built up Pomp sitting in my flat, I'm looking for some advice on some SSCX friendly trails. I've ventured out to Epping and had blast, but I'd like to stretch my wings... Anywhere reasonably accessible from Limehouse/Poplar way would be great - thanks!

Oh and hi - first post n all that..!

@Howard looks like a good course. Gutted I'm missing today's and next week's and possibly the 21St too.