Ever wondered what's the appeal of cyclocross?

[smutchin]

Wonder no more. I mean, doesn't this just look like sooooooo much fun?


View: https://youtu.be/c4XxUWcZeJs

 

[raleighnut]

I'd sooner see em trying to go up it.

 

[I like Skol]

Ride that no problem! Having done a couple of CX races I can vouch for the poor bike handling skills of many of the riders. It would seem many do not ride off-road apart from at the race itself.

Of course, I could just end up sliding down gracelessly with the rest of them....

 

[Slick]

Sorry, I just don't get it.

I do go and watch my mates daughter compete, which is fun but they aren't sliding down in mud like hippos.

I also wonder how they keep their rear mech on the bike?

 

[dan_bo]

I also wonder how they keep their rear mech on the bike?

Sometimes they don't.

A good cross course can be a right laugh though. More should try it.

 

[Slick]

Sometimes they don't.

A good cross course can be a right laugh though. More should try it.

More a spectator sport for me I reckon. I was at the British Cycling Let's Ride in Glasgow on Sunday and some geezers were trying to convince me to give cycling speedway a go. There was a bit of a needle match between Glasgow and Edinburgh that did look like good fun.

 

[Threevok]

Eating soup with a fork

 

[Milzy]

Sorry, I just don't get it.

I do go and watch my mates daughter compete, which is fun but they aren't sliding down in mud like hippos.

I also wonder how they keep their rear mech on the bike?

I don’t either. It should be mountain bike riding off road or road bikes on road. Growing sport though, massive in places like Belgium.

 

[screenman]

I raced cross on and off for over 30 loved it.

 

[dan_bo]

https://nwcca.org.uk/calendar/

I'll be missing the first two (Holidays) but after that.....


Time to work on leg speed.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Did a couple of races when I was 21. I thought I was quite fit...........I wasn't.

 

[screenman]

I don’t either. It should be mountain bike riding off road or road bikes on road. Growing sport though, massive in places like Belgium.

I was racing cross long before mountain bikes were invented.

 

[smutchin]

I also wonder how they keep their rear mech on the bike?

My cross bike is a singlespeed.

 

[smutchin]

I was racing cross long before mountain bikes were invented.

There are some brilliant vintage CX videos on YouTube to prove that there's nothing new about the sport - and in fact, they also show how very little has changed over the years...

View: https://youtu.be/H9_Fs1QtsOY

 

[screenman]

No river crossing nowadays, I remember one at Enfield that was quite deep and the surrounding area was covered in snow.