Valuable Cyclocross Advice

[paczki]

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/christopheoncx.html

[capybaras]

Thanks! I may try that ditch technique to get out of some of the potholes around here.

[paczki]

Les bon temps roulé!

[coylifut]

Les bon temps roulé!

look how long that run is. it's a bit fuzzy, but it looks like the guys are shouldering the bike all the way back to the last man. although i don't want to revert to jungle cross, I'm a bit dissapointed with the direction the courses have taken over the last 2 years. I remember just 4 years ago seeing more than one 50 yard running section on GVA courses. yeah, it's supposed to be a bike race, but cross is supposed to be hard and never a dirt crit.

[zank]

Euro courses are still hard. It's just American courses that have gotten easier over the years. But it does seem that some of the tough Swiss courses of the past have gone away.

[92degrees]

The run up at Southington was a lot tougher looking than that.

[jtferraro]

The run up at Southington was a lot tougher looking than that.

Southington? I think you mean Cheshire!

[92degrees]

Southington? I think you mean Cheshire!


Ha! Yes! All those CT races are a blurrr.

[jtferraro]

I can't agree w/you more re: the Cheshire hill! :crap:

[chrisroph]

look how long that run is. it's a bit fuzzy, but it looks like the guys are shouldering the bike all the way back to the last man. although i don't want to revert to jungle cross, I'm a bit dissapointed with the direction the courses have taken over the last 2 years. I remember just 4 years ago seeing more than one 50 yard running section on GVA courses. yeah, it's supposed to be a bike race, but cross is supposed to be hard and never a dirt crit.

how about that wicked sand run up in seattle the weekend of the uci....

[zeroking17]

Good stuff. I like this quote:

The first advantage of cyclocross is to teach the adherents of this sport to handle their bike.... I know remarkable cycling racers...for whom the bike becomes a discomfort and a burden, as soon as they must dismount to cross a level crossing or a railroad freight car which blocks their passage. They are not familiarised with their machine; they do not know how to carry it, to put it down, to use it as a lever; they look clumsy and always seem to fear damaging their mount or fouling up. If they had ridden cyclocross, the bike would be a practical object for them.

[shinomaster]

look how long that run is. it's a bit fuzzy, but it looks like the guys are shouldering the bike all the way back to the last man. although i don't want to revert to jungle cross, I'm a bit dissapointed with the direction the courses have taken over the last 2 years. I remember just 4 years ago seeing more than one 50 yard running section on GVA courses. yeah, it's supposed to be a bike race, but cross is supposed to be hard and never a dirt crit.


I bet you could ride that section with a modern bike.

[gregclimbs]

one of those photos:

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/images/christopheoncx_g.jpg

reminds me of a magazine I have:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2161692316_83884413ed_b_d.jpg

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[Blue Jays]

Cool find! :beer: