Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Not a fan of those spiral things, add little to a race other than distance imo.

Should be the first muddy one of the season tomorrow, given all the rain this week.

that muddy off camber though...

are you doing the central league?

Negative, Eastern. My parents live nearby so I'm tieing in a visit.

I was going to do the same but I can't find a way to get my bike to Fakenham and back from Norwich without a 20 mile or so ride so will go Central. good luck

Looking to do a event, I am Suffolk based, which would be a lesser baptism of fire?

The Spiral of Despair really should be on a proper slope. Then you're constantly moving through left off camber, climb, right off camber, drop. The constant switching makes it a good technical feature and makes attacks hard but lapses of concentration expensive. It's even better when it's sloppy because you could need to jump on and off the bike a couple of times with each pass.

central is usually a bit easier than london league, both in terms of course and depth of field. I have no idea about the eastern though, but given it's in norfolk and it'll be wet and muddy you'll probably be at a disadvantage against those with webbed feet

Unfortunately if you make it challenging with a camber you then get people sliding through and under course tape, which then turns the race into a game of snake and ladders. Seeing as the whole thing is closed off it also makes it difficult for a marshal to repair when it all goes wrong.

Hempton (eastern league) is a mix of heathland and wooded bits. A steep bank that needs a run up and a few tricky descents. It'd be tough but it's a proper old school cross course. Central League is unknown to me.

That never really happened much in Sheffield. A couple of tape breakages but the wealth of spectators meant it usually got fixed pretty quick. No unders that I ever saw. It's only a gentle off camber and most people try to take those sections high

I was watching that, imagining a little caption at the bottom of the picture:

"Spiral of doom" appears under licence from LCCA.

Anyone want to try a baby limus (tub)? Just taken mine off to try something slightly different. Still in great nick with no rot, backing tape nicely attached and not too mucky.

£10 collected from br3.

this seems a pretty good deal with a spare pair of wheels

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trek-Crockett-7-Cyclo-Cross-bike-56cm-/192024617078?hash=item2cb58f2076:g:tuQAAOSwKOJYJbGU

Today could have gone better.

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Stacked it trying to hop the barriers.... What a dick.

Managed to disentangle my self and straighten my bars. Shoulder took a hefty knock so lifting the bike over the bars was a bit painful, but otherwise in one piece and no damage to bike :)

Stacked it trying to hop the barriers...

Did your enthusiasm exceed your skill level, or did you just get it wrong?

Glad there was no major damage.

Just went at them too fast. Not enough time after the first (successful) hop before the next...

Tbh I am probably pretty lucky not to have broken my collarbone, certainly went down hard enough.

Oh well, that will teach me not to get cocky.

I managed to stay on my bike today at the Eastern League race at Hempton. I did headbutt a tree, but it was only a glancing blow as I skidded underneath it. My helmet's looking a bit secondhand though.

Anyone want to straight swap a pair of baby limus clincher for limus clincher? I'm going to go baby limus on my tubs and run clinchers for deep mud.

My tyres are 4 weeks old and have been used for under 100k.

https://youtu.be/KbqWiHg5EMY

Yesterday's super prestige race

I managed to stay on my bike today at the Eastern League race at Hempton.

Can't say I managed to do the same. Somehow bought down by some tape that a junior just ahead of me had managed to catch. That ended any chance of catching the leader.

Great course though, worth the long trip, provided you can avoid puncturing.

Any reason for the front brake to judder with the fork? Not applying the brakes hard enough? More so evident at slower speeds.

disc or canti?

What brake, canti,V's, disc and what fork.

Could just be as simple as take it all off, clean everything and reset.

Are you running cantis?

If so it's because of the amount of cable between the hanger and brake, the fork flex causes it to fluctuate between tight then loose causing judder. Get a lower hanger, switch to mini v's or just live with it.