Thee ~OFFICIAL~ IL2RMB CYCLOCROSS (CX) Thread

personally i think all monstercrossers should get the hell off my lawn

i was xfering data and found some back in the day shit, i think this is 12/2000

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/cx00sm.jpg

those guns ;_;

red guy is....tired?

lapped, im sure.

kidding i dunno, it was a steepish runup tho

damn dude, i need to hit the vitamin cottage.

it is weird to see a picture of cx that is in the desert

my experience (wholly vicarious) is via chicago cx'ers and tales of misery and woe from muddy wisconsin fields in horrible weather. or from trendy blogs that feature craaaaazy pacnw ss racers wearing muck spattered ballerina outfits in the rainforest

guy in jeans looks pretty fresh

not exactly desert, but yeah. over my left shoulder and behind me in pic is red rocks amphitheater.

that venue when wet is hellish adobe mud, and on my first warmup lap i pulled out no fewer than 25 goatheads. (the joy of tufo latex-works perfect for that).

my teammate is the number one ranked cat 2 in the country in CX:

http://www.jonathanadlerracing.com/blog/2009/11/23/whitmores-landscaping-super-cross-cup-weekend/

LOLZ:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2516/4150113264_2de865a237_o.jpg

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

cx course forces racers to leap sharp tank

that is the rapha cross jersey

thats a shark down there!

THE REAL LOL IS CUTTYS STUNNA SHADEZ!!!

theyre great. a teammate raced in vintage 80's cazals once

lol, i'm in the video at the end:

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/sports/2009/12/05/natpkg.cyclocross.cnn

zch, cuttye, ddb = BROZE!

does zch have a stogie?

totally!

RAD!

amazing

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/4161055290_dc59d61b54_o.jpg

lolllz

YES

classic

looooooooooooooooooolll

pointed out cutty on CNN and gf says 'where's his doobie?'

"he vaporizes"

THIS PIC IS EPIC LOLZZZZ!!!!!!!!! thx STEVE!!

awez, but its the shoegaze of bike, because a couple times a lap yr so hypoxic, thats all you see

The requested video is not available.

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

gbx where is the shirt available from??

It looks like Joey had about as "good" a fall as could be expected. What a Joey, though.

haitch, i don't know! just c&p'd from another bikey board

Joey is OK!!!

in 2011 racing cross dressed as evel knievel doesn't seem remotely cool to me.

so apparently SHHHHH sram is releasing road shifter/brake levers that are hydraulic disc compatible

that is dope imo

without a transfer box at the headset? sweet

transfer....box?

that will be awesome. the clunky boxes are pretty atrocious.

still don't know what u r on about

one current solution to using hydraulics w/ road levers is to run standard shift cable to a transfer box which contains a converter and fluid reservoir

http://road.cc/content/news/32381-taipei-sneak-peek-trp-parabox-hydraulic-junction

http://www.cxmagazine.com/drop-bar-hydraulic-disc-brakes-cable-pull-adapter-for-cyclocross-cannard
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/eurobike-2010-trickstuff-cyclo-cross-disc-brake-converter-27723

that's... bizarre on a few counts. like, a really small barrier. then a right side dismount-- ur doing it wrong. then woooooooooooow!

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Have been reading "Slaying the Badger" and it mentions that Bernard Hinault's coach at La Vie Claire told him to go an learn right side dismounts for CX as a winter training exercise. He then used both side dismounts through the rest of his cross career.

http://i.imgur.com/gmzfl.jpg

CX in SF is kinda hilarious as Indian Summer temps soar to about 90F, warmer weather than any road race all year.

Pretty amazing GoPro sponsored aerial helicam footage of the above race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZs0mTiUBlM

http://exit17.net/bloggy/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/319273_297250563619254_164899780187667_1354718_684643538_n.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/4161055290_dc59d61b54_o.jpg

ahahahahahaha

zk smokin a stogie... classic.

pov cockpit cam of that triple flyover that gbx posted a few posts up^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339MM3MWyUw

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1365/lobsters.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kKD5t.jpg?7736

not exactly sure what's going on in that pic

it still rulez

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33w1zuDzn1qkvy8lo1_500.jpg

I'm in love

No idea if paste will work here but worth seeing.

http://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=mfca6b534#/watch?v=pgbeLZ4_4mU

http://25.media.tumblr.com/12a1a97dc4a18fff9f0e27aa8ef93af2/tumblr_mggvba0lRM1qb4spao1_1280.jpg

us mens live stream in 15 min

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usa-cyclings-cyclo-cross-championships-live-streaming-on-sunday

VOS absolutely crushing the worlds, they should let her race the men this afternoon.

So I never made it to the worlds, but watching from home has been great.

So many thinks while whistling past this graveyard.

Just watching Koksijde (or however it’s spelt). Watching MVDP is a thing of supreme beauty. I hoped Iserbyt would make a go of it after Tabor. He is great, and seeing the almost literal David and Goliath thing is cool.

Now, the bad is that it’s boring enough that by far of my viewing focus and enthusiasm is women’s, and that’s been great to watch. del Carmen is such a great speed/power/handling combo.

Anyone out there?

i haven't really been watching, but i'm going to nats with a buddy in a couple weeks. he's totally turned into a portland cyclocross dad

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