Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Good pics. It seems like CX has changed a lot since then!

Not too much, similar scenes can be seen every year on the 3 peaks.

Seems a bit unfair to allow people to have two bike within one race IMO, I read somewhere that people do this a lot on the three peaks cyclo cross challenge.

Ithink it's fairly reasonable, it allow the race athletic and not technical. If you consider the cost of travelling to and entering at least 8-10 league events a second bike is hardly a prohibitive cost.

As for the three peaks? Two years ago I saw someone coming off Ingleborough with a broken top tube. Having made the effort to enter and train for the event, it would have been pretty harsh to make him run the entire rest of the event with a bike on his shoulder. I doubt even Rob Jebb would have been able to make the finish on that. As for everyone else, getting across the finish line in a decent time is hard enough without gruelling miles of bike humping on the road and off.

Important update, the National Championships in Sutton park this weekend have been postponed. Seems a pity while we're having proper cyclocross weather.

Ithink it's fairly reasonable, it allow the race athletic and not technical. If you consider the cost of travelling to and entering at least 8-10 league events a second bike is hardly a prohibitive cost.

As for the three peaks? Two years ago I saw someone coming off Ingleborough with a broken top tube. Having made the effort to enter and train for the event, it would have been pretty harsh to make him run the entire rest of the event with a bike on his shoulder. I doubt even Rob Jebb would have been able to make the finish on that. As for everyone else, getting across the finish line in a decent time is hard enough without gruelling miles of bike humping on the road and off.

I see your point about cost and the exceptional case of the chap who had a frame failure but it still seems wrong in terms purity of the race, swapping a bike half way through a race just because it's more suitable for that section (which is what I understand happens on the three peaks race, road bike for one section cross for another e.t.c).

Not too much, similar scenes can be seen every year on the 3 peaks.

Is more of an extensional race though rather than the norm? I thought it was more generally a field with a few twists and man made boards to run over?

http://vimeo.com/11695455

Skills.

Nice vid.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5684963/

All you need to know about CX... ;-)

^ funny

get involved!! race

he's a pretty good rider. nice vid

he needs to do it fixed and brakeless (bit of a cheat with freewheel/gears and brakes)

The UCI has approved disc brakes for competition in the 2010-’11 cyclo-cross race season. The ban was lifted via a newly issued document entitled, ‘Rule Amendments for Title 1,’ which was posted to USA Cycling’s website late Friday morning.

And there I was thinking UCI was incapable of making decisions! I can't wait to see Hydraulic STI shifters..

I see your point about cost and the exceptional case of the chap who had a frame failure but it still seems wrong in terms purity of the race, swapping a bike half way through a race just because it's more suitable for that section (which is what I understand happens on the three peaks race, road bike for one section cross for another e.t.c).

Wrong. Road bikes aren't permitted anywhere in the 3 peaks and havent been for years.

And there I was thinking UCI was incapable of making decisions! I can't wait to see Hydraulic STI shifters..

Disc brakes and shouldering bikes are a bad idea. Should remain banned.

Disc brakes and shouldering bikes are a bad idea. Should remain banned.

Care to explain why? Are you reasons based on solid evidence?

I raced last season with disc brakes and had no issues shouldering the bike.

I second Andy P.

It is an extra thing to cause damage when shouldering I guess and could be nasty if you grab a disc?
I am personally more worried about getting an Eggbeater in my kidneys when I shoulder!

It is an extra thing to cause damage when shouldering I guess and could be nasty if you grab a disc?
I am personally more worried about getting an Eggbeater in my kidneys when I shoulder!

That was the logic in the original ban and it was one of the rare UCI decisions with some logic.

And to me things that seperate mountain bikes and cross bikes is not necessarily a bad thing. Oh and then there is the aesthetic perspective, thay are, and certainly look overkill on a cross bike.

It's a winter sport anyway, stfu on this thread till october!

RPM, it is a winter racing sport, but I kinda want to take the cross bike to the trails before then... is that too much to ask?

The first cross race of the season at HH is just over 2 months away.

I use my cross bike all year around, but then I don't race it (yet). It is more fun in the summer (faster) than in the winter so silly not to ride it.

new york trails..

I messed that up.. is there no edit button? I lose.

http://vimeo.com/14625492