Thee ~OFFICIAL~ IL2RMB CYCLOCROSS (CX) Thread

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2009/12/05/english.cyclocross.nyc.cnn

thanx :)

cutty r u wearing a BARBOUR there?

no, nicholas k

CX seems like it would be a perfect fit for the winter games. what gives?

too much mud, not enough snow??

might have to do with its intl sanctioning body being bundled somehow into summer games. i think they control which bike events are in the olys at all. this year they voted to shitcan the indiv track pursuit event i think, one of the more popular track races

that makes sense. bit of a shame tho!

i saw something that suggested the UCI put the omnium in because the track cycling program would be done inside three days if they'd stuck with the pursuit. idiots!

lol i think we have the current omnium world champion, i should shut up

The omnium is very olympics though.

I'd like to see an even more modern pentathlon: CX, downhill, Road TT, Road Race, Madison.

still pissed at the removal opf Madison from the olympics, I was going to get tickets for that.

kinda shits me that swimming gets all those events, which seem to be there just so a phelps / thorpe type can rack up multiple golds. they should chop out some of that dead wood and redistribute, if they absolutely can't have any more total events.

first ever cross 'season' starts this weekend in melbs! i am going to take a cowbell.

amazing gif w/ me standing in background, arms crossed:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2sae6p4.gif

Roel Paulissen, the Belgian cyclocross champion in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2009, has tested positive for doping and has decided to stop competing alltogether.

DAMN! that's mountainbiking not cyclocross :-( (got confused because Cyclocross champ Sven Nys, who now also does mountainbiking, is next to him on the newspaper's picture with the article). Sorry

http://www.bigringriding.com/post/1057806468/chook

a... powerful image

http://www.cyclingnews.com/reviews/rapha-cross-jersey

cx course forces racers to leap sharp tank

― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 02:05 (9 months ago)

that is the rapha cross jersey

― la monte jung (cutty), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 02:12 (9 months ago)

thats a shark down there!

― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 02:14 (9 months ago)

actual lol @ this

Assuming I can pull a new bike together, I'm going to go to a local Lerner to cross event in a couple of weeks. Again I'm hamstrung by the fact that most cross events are out of town. I need a friend with a car or a car of my own.

first CX race:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs343.ash2/62326_436430753140_697723140_5277548_6177420_n.jpg

had to start in the B's as opposed to C's as they made me start as a cat 3. ddb got 5th in the C's!

hell yeah!

running tubes or tubeless?

oh i forgot to mention i flatted. fucking clinchers. next time i run tubeless. tubulars tires are too expensive for me right now but they are the best option...

long sleeve ss bonus points

Nice.

Bought new cx/shopping trolley frame in London. Has been lost in transit by continental. Sincerely hope this is not a permanent loss.

>:| no fucking way that sucks! rules on luggage loss internationally are different from those within usa, right?

So I went to local cross skills workshop which was a lot of fun, I wan neither the fattest nor had the fanciest bike. A little disorganised as the pro coach had pulled out due to sickness but the fee was refunded and they still had three certified coaches, mainly working on bike handling skills. I managed a great face plant; whilst doing little loops practicing dismounts and remounts I spied Buick hubcap and stopped to toss it to the side, going round again I stuck my wheel in the sink hole it was covering and went over the handlebars, bruising both ribs an pride.

They're organising a ride sharing list for races, none of which are in town, which is good.

i <3 cyclocross

bruised ribs suck.

dunno if this should go in cx or lolz. cx race from the 50s in i think ireland

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158426667514240

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=834UmlaXXAM

cant see jaxon's, but check this starting at 1:30- a "ding dong battle" from 1964.

Another old clip - just awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Fs1QtsOY

^ that's the clip i tried to link to. they spend more time swimming in (and trying to throw their bikes across) rivers than they do on their bikes.

Not a UCI compliant course, but they need something tougher than a UCI namby pamby course for the real men of Northumberland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpBC_jkItI&feature=player_embedded

hahahahahahahahhahahaha

happens to the best of em

just captures that flat dazed ghost coasting no idea what gear your in post wreck zombification so well. the incessant cowbelling and beer spray just adds the funnies.

that is just golden. shell-shock!

dudes, has anyone got the link to that vid from a couple of months back with some dude shredding some singletrack through a forest on a CX bike? (it's not that lance ad for nike either, this was different)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1298/5183371846_2da8b822e8_b.jpg

(sorta glad i was thru with this before those guys knew what to do with it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XueDiqpFlto&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdAYsK7CRs&feature=player_embedded

uh

flemish....country...about cyclocross????

it'd be cooler if they had exploding colliding helmets at the end

monday night is a strictly american holiday

I have a teammate up in Bend for CX nationals...

There is a prologue TT to determine start order!!!

Course looks epic:
http://twitpic.com/3e594e

http://stevetilford.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/todd1-500x333.jpg

crosspost with homoerotic imagery thread imo

http://projects.chrismilliman.com/

pretty dope imo

9 Ball Diaries is on NetflixWI

have a great time. i've lost track of you gbx, i should search ilxor to see yr adventures. if you get back up here and wanna give ski instruction, lemme know, i always take lessons.

i'm now on lap 7/8 of koksijde, and what MVDP does is so next level. the power is insane, but the fluidity AND precision AND power are equally amazing. he's taking 10-15 seconds per lap off people. Even when he momentarily goes off-line due to his aggression, it's just not a thing. the other super-elites are tri-podding along the same sections he RIPS, and they're still in the top 5. VDP is won't likely need to tripod today.

i haven't been adventuring much! honestly been pretty sedentary lately d/t work. that'll be changing soon, though, as i've taken a new job much closer to home. got some time off coming up and am gonna be up in silverton for the first time ever in january B)

MVDP is just insane

went 2 cx nats this weekend, that were fun

good frites?

i opted for some cheese curds at the brewery afterwards

my first time actually going to a real cx race, what a frikkin hoot. even just as a spectator i can see why my buddy, who's now an official portland cyclocross dad, has gone so bonkers for racing. makes me want to check out the nm scene next year

What flipped me out seeing website and name of the 2019 town name was that the 97 or 98 Nats, wayyyy before cx was quite a thing, was sites in my neighboring town, Lakewood, CO. My teammates who’d only upgraded to elite that year were able to race the big time nats event, riding over with their spare wheels on their shoulders. I mean, they got lapped and out, as I recall, bit still. Slow me was just cheering and handing up h2o. *feels antique*

anyhow, sounds really fun.

get to see hecht race? seeing him race as a ~16 y/o against the local pro/elite cat in cx in ~2014 was amazing. usually, when i see those guys my reaction is "wow, they're so small/slight in the real," size-wise.

but even as a kid, hecht was the opposite- i was like, "HOW IS HE SO DAMN GINORMOUS?" he looked like a free safety. pure power. glad to see him do well.

I did get to see him! I did not see this, however:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6HCjKlls3r/

great angle, terrible circumstance.

Namur World Cup round definitely worth watching. I’ve been watching more women’s than men’s the last year, but the men’s on this one was cracking. In women, Honsinger makin good in her new jersey.

raced cx 2day for the first time

good stuff