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1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:57 am
by Josh.E
http://ht.ly/2Zbrc
This is awesome. We are PANSIES these days!
Re: 1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:43 am
by Lister Farrar
Thanks Josh. Love the commentary: "There's the cheese manager from Tesco's!" I think I know where Monty Python gets their inspiration... I'm pretty sure it started outside a pub; might be key...
Hmmm, the Thetis, Stewart, Hartland, Colquitz valley loop could have some of that. Maybe a swim across Kilarney Lake? Rappel down the bluffs at Thetis? Bike toss for distance in the Interurban mud flats? Now, where's the start finish pub?
Re: 1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:46 am
by gav_eaton
Wow, I feel like a real wimp now! Only in Scotland could cyclocross be that crazy!
I really think we could use a couple of waist deep river crossings in Cross on the Rock....I wonder if Di2 can handle full submersion!?!
Re: 1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:17 pm
by Paul C.
Lister and Josh
Thanks for your on-going , informative and sometimes funny,....... cycling updates, reports and videos. Who needs the internet with friends like you?
Re: 1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:49 am
by Lister Farrar
Found the event site that this video reminds me of. The Three Peaks race in Yorkshire, England.
The home page photo made my knees weak:
http://www.3peakscyclocross.org.uk/index.htm
Interesting how they get permission to ride one day a year, on trails that are normally closed to bicycles.
http://www.3peakscyclocross.org.uk/cour ... ning.htmas
Re: 1950s cyclocross race
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:25 am
by gav_eaton
OMG - I just realized the race is 50km!!!!
That's a bloody long way to race a cross bike on terrain like that!