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National Trophy Round 3, Southampton: Full Detailed Results
Results now in from the British Cycling National Trophy in great detail
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How to climb a hill in Cyclocross
Great vid from the Scottish Cyclocross boys over on youtube....
Added by Dave Haygarth on November 8, 2011 at 12:37 — No Comments
Preview: Geoff Bewley Memorial Cross 2011, Otterspool Park, Liverpool
(Originally taken from the North West Cyclocross Association here)
Saturday 12th November see’s the North West Cyclo Cross League return to Otterspool Park for the 2nd time in a fortnight. Organised by the Liverpool Century Road Club, the Youth event will start the racing off at 11am with the main event starting at 1pm.
LIVERPOOL CYCLING…
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Ode to a Dugast
A fitting poetic tribute to our long loved Rhino over on the Condor Cycles blog here
Some moving words
And it may be just me
But the sidewall's better
On a FMB
Added by Dave Haygarth on November 3, 2011 at 10:30 — No Comments
TRP Parabox workshop vid
Interesting fiddlyness for those interested in disc brake…
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National Trophy Cyclo-Cross Round 2, Leicester, Full Results and league tables
Full results from all events today in Leicester attached here re as a zip file containing separate xls spreadsheets. …
ContinueAdded by Dave Haygarth on October 30, 2011 at 21:00 — 2 Comments
Knog Muddy Hell video
Great video here from Oliver Townsend on the Premier Night-time Halloween Cyclocross in South London - Knog Muddy Hell !
Muddy Hell 2011 from Oliver Townsend on Vimeo.
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 28, 2011 at 15:43 — No Comments
Rapha Super Cross series -
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 27, 2011 at 15:30 — 1 Comment
Knog Muddy Hell 2011: Bigger Crowds, Bigger Obstacles, More Mud, More beer!
Warm weather drew huge crowds to South London's Herne Hill stadium for the third edition of the annual Knog Muddy Hell Cyclo-cross festival.
Course designer Phil Glowinski ensured that spectators had clear views of six major obstacles, the wall of death, mud pit, whoops, bridge, "big air"…
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 27, 2011 at 11:43 — No Comments
2011 Rapha Super Cross Official Results
Round 3 and Overall Series Results.
Alexandra Palace London, 23rd October
1. Paul Oldham (Hope Factory Racing)
2. Jody Crawforth (Hargroves Cycles-Trant-Next-Specialized)
3. Lee Williams (Team Wiggle)
4. Nick Craig (Scott UK)
5. Stephen Adams (Sigma Sport-Specialized)
6. Kenta Gallagher (Scott UK)
7. Dave Collins (Hope Factory Racing)
8. Luke Grivell-Mellor (Scott UK)
9. Steven… Continue
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 25, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments
The perfect spine chiller of a warm up for the Super Cross: Knog Muddy Hell
Night-time cyclo cross race - 5 - 10.30pm, FREE to SPECTATORS the night before the Rapha Super Cross Finale ...
Herne Hill Stadium, Burbage Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9HE
MUD GUARANTEED.
Now in it's third year the hugely popular Muddy Hell is this Saturday. The weather forecast is fine but organisers Rollapaluza are guaranteeing mud as well as a new, higher wall ride section and they have also dumped 3 extra tons of sand in the pit section
For…
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 20, 2011 at 19:23 — No Comments
Rapha Super Cross set for fine finale this Sunday
All to play for going into the grand finale of the Rapha Super Cross Series at Alexandra Palace this Sunday (October 23), with Hope Technology holding a two-point lead over nearest challengers Scott UK. Novice riders will be racing for the first time in the series and are warming up for the tequila shortcut.
The opening two rounds saw 650 men, women and children, from tots…
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NWCCA Round 5 Boggart Hole Clough – 16 October 2011 – Results and Pics
There were murky grey conditions early in the morning at Bogart Hole Clough in Manchester to greet racers with the going a little soft and wet in places for the Manchester Wheelers Cyclo-Cross Race, Race 5 in the North West League.
But with a DJ spinning some of our favourite tunes, Ian Bury’s knowledgeable and sometimes cheeky commentating, and some warm Autumn…
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Rapha Super Cross series - Elite Race field announced
- Hope Factory Racing
- Charge Bikes
- Hargroves Cycles-Specialized-Trant-Next
- Rapha / Great Britain Development Team (all under-23s)
- Sigma Sport-Specialized
- Scott UK
- Team Wiggle
- WINDERMERE guest team: Wheelbase.co.uk / Cannondale
- HUDDERSFIELD guest team: Crosstrax . Special…
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 13, 2011 at 18:50 — No Comments
National Trophy Round 1, South Shields: Full Detailed Results
Full results attached from today's first found of the National Trophy series in South Shields.
File is a zip file containing xls spreadsheets of all events.
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Another £1k bike with great spec
Good review of the new Specialized Crux over on the road.cc site.
Continue"You could buy the Crux Elite on a Saturday teatime and happily - well, maybe not happily but certainly painfully, race it Sunday morning without changing a thing. Unlike some other 'cross bikes that look like they've been cobbled together out of the parts bin to surf the current wave of popularity, or others that have a road bias with gearing that's too harsh in the mud and tyres that are rubbish it in, or…
Added by Dave Haygarth on October 7, 2011 at 16:42 — No Comments
Rivalries Heat Up for Rapha Super Cross Series
On Saturday 15th October, the current and former national champions will lead their teams in the first of three races in the Rapha Super Cross series. Hope Factory Racing and current National Team Champions, Hargroves Cycles-Specialized-Trant-Next, will be racing on three specially designed and challenging courses, starting with Brockhole House, Windermere, in a week’s time.
The big rivals of the series, Hargroves…
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Whyte cyclocross range - prototype to the shops
It's a hard thing to fairly review a bike and try to assess what's going on that's different to other bikes. The Whyte CX bike makes this so, so much more difficult, because it's so, so different in so many subtle ways to the core of what's going on in cyclocross. That in itself is a pretty bold statement... one of the defining qualities of cyclocross is that it's a bit on the edge and people…Added by Dave Haygarth on September 2, 2011 at 18:00 — 3 Comments
Paul Oldham interviewed on 3 Peaks blog
Just uploaded an Interview with Paul Oldham - who'll be the first male senior national british champ to ride the 3 peaks Is Paul going to Helwith Bridge to win?Added by Dave Haygarth on August 17, 2011 at 23:22 — No Comments
For Sale: Brand New FMB tubulars / Green Michelin Mud treads
A very very special rare offer coming up here at cost price.... these two tubs, brand new 32mm FMB carcases with used (but as good as you'll get) green michelin mud treads on have come up for sale after a recent large order to FMB in France - they're now surplus to requirement (the rider ordering them has to take a…
Added by Dave Haygarth on July 14, 2011 at 14:35 — 1 Comment
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