Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

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What bike?

MTB

Five fucking times!

Real shame because it looked like you were in a great group with lots of changes of position.

Time for a chain keeper!

Time to go back to singlespeed

lol

Besancon World Cup was a good race! Well worth a watch if you haven't caught up already.

Besançon

ftfy

thank you! I'm a lazy typer.

Don’t tell @fredtc, but my irrational loathing of Iserbyt has gone, replaced with a growing sense of respect after his performances in the last two WC races.

Conversely he just annoyed me more. This weekend. I think Sven has had a word with the team...Trek seem to be a lot more physical towards iserbyt now.

wahooo!!!

but in all seriousness he's been out and out the best racer of the year so far. I don't think he's go what he needs to beat Wout and Pidcock this coming weekend though. Is Boom the sven nys course?

amazing ride for pim ronhaar at the weekend too - was beautiful to see toon cheering him at the finish.

I’m not sure sticking a leg out to try and trip him up is entirely within the rules.

Or trapping your opponent's foot in your wheel.

Agree hes been best rider of the year.

Sven's course is Baal.

Ronhaar was on fire.

Ronhaar was on fire.

Aerts was on fire about cheering him!

Edit: Spoiler alert

Agreed on the above, that was one of the best races this season so far. At the end the most consistent rider won. Had Aerts not given up at the end of the last lap he could have been close enough with Iserbyt when he made that mistake.

"given up"

He was fucked. Didn't he throw a gel away at one point?

yeah, he made a mistake as he was exhausted then couldn't get back on the wheel.

In other news I just found this, which I haven't listened to yet, but I'm fairly sure is musically outstanding

https://www.mixcloud.com/ValentijnBE/viv-de-cyclocross-eli-iserbyt-official-fanclub-mega-bus-mix/

2 laps before I think, but yes they both were fucked.
What I mean is it looked like he could have held that 4/6s gap till the end, which might have been enough against that mistake

That was somehow worse and better than I thought.

https://cxhairs.substack.com/p/number-57-is-special-for-maghalie

Number 57 is Special for Maghalie Rochette with Memorable Silver at World Cup Besançon
“It took me 56 tries to finally get it. 56 times of failing my goal and trying again."

^ this is pretty good

Jesus that is shit

I'm excited to get home to listen. I hope it surpasses https://soundcloud.com/sporza-661716440/de-zdenek-stybar-song

Nothing will ever beat Kevin Pauwels' rap

https://www.cxmagazine.com/kevin-pauwels-shows-bling-bmx-rap-skills-video-bwah

BWAH