Cyclocross - CX and SSCX races and training

Fit a chainguide "ring" either side of your chainring like this: http://fcdn.mtbr.com/attachments/downhill-freeride/87354d1120070009-stinky-mrp-chainguide-anyone-got-pics-mrp.jpg

Fibrelyte make them: http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/fl/fl_cycles_chainguard.html

Must be a pretty long, but clean and tidy, list.

It just got longer

anyone racing central league at welwyn tomorrow? any idea what the course is like? I've really not been riding much over the past month so say hello as you lap me

It's mostly held on a grass field with a slight gradient across the whole thing which they make the most of by putting in loads of hairpins up and down the hill. Lots of corners and lots of short climbs. It drains well so will be dry.

Unless there's fog, raced there once in fog, the ground became wet and unrideable even on the flats and you couldn't see jack. It was brilliant.

That on the north side of the road? Can get a little muddier there. They seem to be favoring the south side lately.

Good luck on Sunday @Jon. - are you riding singlespeed?

Thanks. Why change what I know? Though it looks like the course features a lot of road, so may not be best place for a singlespeed. Primary objective is to avoid getting lapped.

I think that would be my approach too. I'd be surprised if you're lapped, very surprised in fact.

I'll be cheering you on remotely.

live UCI world cup live now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdwpuPMUQFw

A master class by Matthieu van der Poel. That's 2-2 between him and van Aert in World Cup rounds this season.

Van aert has better hair.

Could we keep this thread spoiler free pls... :(

The onus is on you to not be too idiotic even you now are lfgss.

Top racing in the ladies race too

Agreed. I enjoyed very much.

If the weather stays relatively dry as forecast between now and next weekend can anyone hazard a guess at the likely ground conditions at Cyclopark for the regional champs, will it be like the last round at Bethlem ( hard and fast) or the mudfest at Ardingly?

Good womens race again - men at 15

Hard to say, Cyclopark can vary so much just by using different sections of the park. I'd think it'd be hard and dry, but I turned up there two years ago in similar conditions and it was muddy and slippery as hell.

thanks Andy, I was trying to work out wether to stick with the x-ones I've used all season or switch to the mud tyres I bought after Ardingly where the x-ones got a bit clagged up towards the end

I think I'll give the cyclopark a ring later in the week and see what they say

another great days racing in the DVV

I think it's on here somewhere, but two years ago I confidently predicted that Cyclopark would be mud free, only to get there and watch the Youth race plodding through all the mud. It was grim. The year before the race had been on a lot of the MTB trails, and they were hard packed gravel mainly, so there was no mud whatsoever.

I'm broken after today though, that course was brutal. My hands ache, my shoulders ache, my legs ache and as for my gooch, well the less said about that the better.

I'm glad I took the decision to do some training and watch the pros in the afternoon....