Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Flawless victory!

I have a pair of Vittoria tubeless ready that I suspect will not mount on any of the rims I own.

Go home Vittoria, you are drunk.

I stopped and made some pasta:

You can see the front wheel, waiting, it knows.

Get the tyre on a radiator to warm it up, Enve rim in the garage until you're ready for round 2.

They'll stretch

If the herne hill race is at 1 tomorrow what time are people getting there for?

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Cheers!

Challenge tubs at only £29 in planet x sale:
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/TBCHGR33/challenge-grifo-33-700c-tubular-cyclocross-tyre

@Dammit didn't see you at Herne Hill today, it's Ben from Brixton CC, was looking forward to seeing what machine you might be on!

this was well fun, nice to rep team LFGSS / LFGSS Ladies with @youramericanlover

@Dammit didn't see you at Herne Hill today, it's Ben from Brixton CC, was looking forward to seeing what machine you might be on!

Hi, and no - I've been ill for all of 2016 so far, and whilst the mud of Herne Hill would have provided ample camouflage I thought I'd spare the other racers the (horrifying) prospect of "back splatter".

Greg Lemond did the back splatter in a tour so it's pro for roadies.

I recall it was along the lines of this......

Greg had gastric flu and his sickness seeped through his shorts and onto the back wheel, he was easy to find in the peleton as there was a huge gap in riders behind him..... :)

It's just taken me 45 minutes to hang out the washing due to two trips to the reading room which brooked no delay.

You'd certainly have gotten away with it today. Super wet but with hard ground not too far underneath the slop made for some good racing. Plenty of strong riders in the seniors, what with Nationals next week. I was pretty happy with 6th (I think) given that I've ridden bikes very little in the last two weeks.

Tubeless setup was good. The XLs corner alot better than the XMs, even with more air in them. I could probably have gone a little lower on the pressure, but burped air on a rocky descent in Yorkshire last week, so I played it safe.

Andy was singing the xl's praises too.

Yeah, they were superb. If I'd had them on at Herne Hill on Friday @Chalfie and I would've won. For definite.

Pew pew pew!

XL's?

Vittoria XL. Pretty similar to a Dugast Rhino or Challenge Limus. Available for cheap from Ribble, though they are 160tpi and not 320 as they state. Yet to try them out in thick, clogging mud which may be where they struggle more.

More durable for HH too

and more replaceable.

All part of my simplification process, hopefully I can cut down from three tubular wheelsets, which I've been dragging around for the past few years, to one tubeless wheelset.

Decent spacing between the knobs though, so hopefully they'll clear well enough. Will probably get the chance to try that theory out soon.

Stick them on, bit of sealant, tubeless valves and wallop?

Yep. Both mine went up without any sealant last night. (Although I obviously put some in later).

I needed my homemade bottle compressor, but they popped onto the rim easily enough with that. Then they were pumped up and shaked around a few times to seal up some tiny leaks in the sidewall, but that's to be expected with any non-tubeless tyre being run tubeless.