2009-10-31 Sat - Halloween Cyclo Cross "Muddy Hell"

Cunt.

And yes, but none of my forks will take knobblies. I think.

If only my bro still had his Pomp, that would be awesome. If I can borrow one with knobblies i may get involved.

What about you andy?
I can lend you some forks.

Cunt.

And yes, but none of my forks will take knobblies. I think.

If only my bro still had his Pomp, that would be awesome. If I can borrow one with knobblies i may get involved.

What about you andy?

My cyclo cross bike is being built at the moment, we're just waiting for Madison to supply the right length spokes for the rear wheel. I may pick it up this weekend if the spokes arrive tomorrow. :-)

My cyclo cross bike is being built at the moment, we're just waiting for Madison to supply the right length spokes for the rear wheel. I may pick it up this weekend if the spokes arrive tomorrow. :-)

don't tell me you are getting a new cyclo cross binke and riding the 3 Peaks CC this year

The 3 Peaks will have to wait (but is on my list of events I'd like to do!).

None of you are going to believe what I am going to do to my surly to make this work.

But it will be awesome. Oh yes. AWESOME.

I've started thinking about how to get my bike set up and was wondering if Winston or someone who knows about cross can give some advice. What do you think would be good FG/SS gearing for the course - I was thinking about 60" (I use 70 - 73 for the road). Can you recommend some good, cheap, all round cross tyres?

holy piss, andy was telling me about this yesterday! im in! well if i can use my ss mtb...? cant wait!

yes you can....

I've started thinking about how to get my bike set up and was wondering if Winston or someone who knows about cross can give some advice. What do you think would be good FG/SS gearing for the course - I was thinking about 60" (I use 70 - 73 for the road). Can you recommend some good, cheap, all round cross tyres?

It's one of the faster cross courses, and cross is in general faster than XC, however if there has been significant rain the infield grass becomes VERY heavy going and this makes up a significant portion of the track....

these are what I used on my mtb for cross, but you can probably go thinner / slicker:

Thanks Winston - the only time I rode the course was on normal 2.2" XC tyres and the grass draaaaaaaaaaaaged. I almost gave up each lap because of its soul destroying properties! Just ordered some cross tyres which look like good allrounders so they should be a lot better.

big cash prizes for the main categories!

Winston, will you have an over-50-fat-first-timers category? If not, I may have to volunteer to help rather than ride.

do both!

there's now an event page: www.rollapaluza.com/cross

and the requisite facebook event

I've got a 29er, can cross tyres go straight on it? Not sure if the rims will be too wide. If I can what cross tyres should I get for this track? If not should I just go for the thinest 29er tyres?

Might give the race on the 26th a bash to see what I'm getting myself into, is it ok to enter on a MTB when I've never done this before or is that pretty bad style?

think most London crosses allow mtbs

Now with online entry (with small fee):

Click here for the novice / mtb / SS / Fixed race
Click here if you want to enter the "main race" or youth categories

What age do you have to be to qualify for the vets race Winston?

1. are you a BC member?
   

I am. And I turned 40 in March so my BC license shows me as a 4th cat.

clarification: born 1969 or earlier

Thanks. I'll enter the old codgers race then. :-)

andy, you'll be up against me, if I can get some nobbly tyres and some spd pedals. How much running will be involved?

Just tried to enter but keep getting "Error saving entry".

Will try later. Please save a slot for me in the Vets, Winston.

first time we've used this service, three people have entered in the last 30 mins!

Andyp has entered the vets but it still won't accept my entry. Will have to try from home or am I being very stupid?