Tom , Pride Of Yorkshire!

[Richard A Thackeray]

Pidcock takes the UK first Senior World Championship

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spo...in-the-world-cyclo-cross-championship-3547886
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/60176876


There'll be celebrations in Leeds, particularly Roundhay where he's from
It was a nice coincidence that he won his Junior World Championship 25 years after Hammond....... who won it in Roundhay Park!



I'n certainly not denigrating Zoe Backstedts wonderful achievement by writing this

 

[matticus]

Couldnt quite believe it - a BRIT winning the World CX! And we won TWO categories!

(interesting to see Pidcock carrying a bottle - and using it several times. I've never seen a bottle in a CX race - my frame doesn't even have the bosses. INEOS Marginal Gains??)

 

[dan_bo]

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It was the superman position wot did it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@matticus

I was surprised by that, but in the (Eurosport) commentary, it did state that present regulations (not sure if just in UCI sanctioned races?) don’t allow a bottle to be passed over
If a rider wants another bottle, they have to pit & change bike!!

 

[Milkfloat]

It was the superman position wot did it.

I wonder if he could have been DQ'ed for it.

 

[cougie uk]

Couldnt quite believe it - a BRIT winning the World CX! And we won TWO categories!

(interesting to see Pidcock carrying a bottle - and using it several times. I've never seen a bottle in a CX race - my frame doesn't even have the bosses. INEOS Marginal Gains??)

Watching his cross races over the last few weeks he has seemed to need a bit of energy in the closing laps. That course was perfect for having a bottle.
And looked like the bike had a double chainset? You'd not get away with that on most euro cross courses.

 

[matticus]

@matticus

I was surprised by that, but in the (Eurosport) commentary, it did state that present regulations (not sure if just in UCI sanctioned races?) don’t allow a bottle to be passed over
If a rider wants another bottle, they have to put & change bike!!

I certainly wasn't aware of that reg - I'm not much of a Rules Lawyer anyway, plus it's just never been an issue at races I've ridden or spectated.
(I've done *one* race in September when it was so warm I did want a drink, but it was no hardship to manage without - only 40minute races for us, and an hour would probably have been ok.)

(For those with even less CX knowledge than me:
- the races are generally in cold weather, and
- bottle cages can be an impediment to carrying the bike (and are somewhere else to gather mud).
So very few race frames will have them. )

I didn't notice the double chainset @cougie uk !

EDIT: there ya go https://www.cyclingweekly.com/produ...ed-for-sundays-cyclocross-world-championships : a front changer and a bottle cage. They'll be all the rage when September rolls around!

 

[Alex321]

I certainly wasn't aware of that reg - I'm not much of a Rules Lawyer anyway, plus it's just never been an issue at races I've ridden or spectated.
(I've done *one* race in September when it was so warm I did want a drink, but it was no hardship to manage without - only 40minute races for us, and an hour would probably have been ok.)

(For those with even less CX knowledge than me:
- the races are generally in cold weather, and
- bottle cages can be an impediment to carrying the bike (and are somewhere else to gather mud).
So very few race frames will have them. )

I didn't notice the double chainset @cougie uk !

EDIT: there ya go https://www.cyclingweekly.com/produ...ed-for-sundays-cyclocross-world-championships : a front changer and a bottle cage. They'll be all the rage when September rolls around!

That was a fairly unusual cyclocross race, with no mud or sand. I didn't see anybody change a bike during the race at all, although the pit crews were standing ready with them.

 

[T4tomo]

How to stop 8 Belgians tactically attacking you...ride straight off the front

Chapeau!

 

[cougie uk]

That was a fairly unusual cyclocross race, with no mud or sand. I didn't see anybody change a bike during the race at all, although the pit crews were standing ready with them.

Reminded me of razzing round the park at the end of a long hot summer. Definitely not a normal criss course but that doesn't take anything away from his win.

 

[BrumJim]

Reminded me of razzing round the park at the end of a long hot summer. Definitely not a normal criss course but that doesn't take anything away from his win.

When you see the competitors in short sleeves and shorts, no gloves, drinking during the race, then you wonder what you are actually watching. I think the weather and course suited Tom, but wouldn't have bet against him winning in any conditions with that field.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There is a Summer series in Yorkshire, as well as the archetypal winter CX series

 

[matticus]

There is a Summer series in Yorkshire,

How can you tell?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

How can you tell?

The mud & rain are warmer