Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Did you ever do a combined London/Central League race there? A field of 200 odd riders. Mental. It was like wacky races.

Hah, no - sounds amazing!

Hillingdon wasn't the most extreme conditions or the most advanced course I have ridden, but I managed 24th (19th affiliated) and it felt great to be back on tubs and sscx.
Had a killer first lap, bonked a bit towards the end of the race and crashed on an off camber with 3 laps to go, shook it of regained a couple of lost spots.

Were you on the green specialized? You came flying past me on the first lap! I think I was 30-something... I basically rode the whole thing by myself until I got lapped but the guys at the front. People in front were too far ahead to catch and nobody behind was close enough to bother me.

Some great rides from 'on here' people today. Well done @Jon. for winning on his favourite course, but also a big well done to @fredtc who was 5th.

I was having a good race, but punctured on the final lap and had to ride the final descent on a flat tyre, but managed to hold off some of the people behind me and only lost 3 or 4 places.

You should've come to Frylands! Was very muddy and slick, with some really tricky corners. A tough hill to climb at the start of every lap though, so not ideal on singlespeed.

Yes Green Specialized. Didnt see the Cinelli, I was looking for you tho.

:-) glad I didn't then. Hulsroy ≠ Hill climbing

Natural descender...

Fearless you mean?

#santaphysique

or geared bikes in my case......I'm just glad to have got through the race without falling over

My cunning plan to ride and clear out the remnants of man flu may by riding yesterday may not have been my one of my best , I feel like I've been run over by a steam roller.

I'm in , never could resist a bridge

Is anyone coming up to the Harrogate Nova New Year's Day Cross?

Unbowed from having to cancel last year's race due to last minute severe flooding the race organisers are back putting on a race at Conyngham Hall in Knaresborough. Early work is already under way getting the course in place and it's looking to be pretty impressive. There's even going to be some closed roads in place on the day.

For additional spectator value, the Go Cross race is going to have a tandem with a blind stoker racing in it. I expect much loud cheering.

http://www.novacross.org.uk/

All CX races should have a water feature :)

Missed out on a top 10 on Sunday at Oldbury Court in Bristol due to crashing a couple of laps from the end on a greasy corner and getting tangled in some tape, oh well - it was good to get a proper muddy cross at last.

Last year it chucked it down during the race and the stream became a knee high raging torrent of ice cold water...

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Enjoyed the reversed course at Frylands. Felt it could have been a touch longer and it would have been nice to include the bombhole but there were plenty of opportunities to crash as it was. Given how my legs were feeling yesterday I should have sat up for the last few laps but puncturing is always a possibility there.

i'm in! hillingdon was my 1st race but missed the start so spent the whole race playing catch up! was a good taster so hopefully i will make the start for this one! lol

Awesome, It should be worth while turning up early. Waffles, gourmet burgers, luxury chocolates, some very nice coffee, mulled wine, mince pies and there is also a fun little pump track on site as well.

like all of the mentioned so i'll have to get there extra early so it digests before the race!

Yulecross entries are live: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/157537/Beastway-Lewisham-YuleCross-2016

More info here: https://beastwaymtb.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/beastway-lewisham-yulecross-tuesday-27-dec-2016/

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you gonna race this?

(gwan, gwan)

I should, shouldn't I?

Yes. Yes you should.

looks for cheap 650b mtb tyres

On my diverge for lé lols

Getting rid of my Giant tcx slr2 frame, fork, seatpost and cranks for Dirt cheaps

Anyone want in?

Where were you last week?