Cyclocross - whats the point?
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Calvin27
Eats Squid
Unless you get dirt drops. They are heaps better and I'd even say better for longer rides. Only problem is descending you either pick the drops which means you are super aggressively low (read
tb) or you are on the hoods (read: can't brake well). I take the cx out on fire roads when it's been raining hard, sometimes I give it a smash on the single track if sections look dry. Getting out and running? Not sure, I ride because I hate running.
I find these ultegra discs quite powerful really, esp. through skinny tyres.
Can't argue with the second part though, but same as running a rigid single speed really, there's obviously something fun in the challenge element of doing it.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
You could always flip the drop bars so they are up...that would solve your issue nicely.
bikeyoulongtime
Likes Dirt
OK, OK. I need to spill the beans, and this is the absolute truth this time*.
Cyclocross would have lived and died a happy life in the merry beer soaked fields of Belgium, but for my nefarious plan to generate an industry devoted to making my commute more fun. It's just too plain fucking hard to push a mountain bike to work and back every day, and too plain fucking boring to ride a road bike. So of course, I've spent the last twenty years traversing the globe secretly faking end user data, consumer surveys, sales figures, race attendances, customer expectation charts, you name it. All to build an entire industry devoted to serve my whim for a better commuting bike.
Looks like it's paid off handsomely!
*sort of. Well, it could be - but you'll never really know, now - will you
Cyclocross would have lived and died a happy life in the merry beer soaked fields of Belgium, but for my nefarious plan to generate an industry devoted to making my commute more fun. It's just too plain fucking hard to push a mountain bike to work and back every day, and too plain fucking boring to ride a road bike. So of course, I've spent the last twenty years traversing the globe secretly faking end user data, consumer surveys, sales figures, race attendances, customer expectation charts, you name it. All to build an entire industry devoted to serve my whim for a better commuting bike.
Looks like it's paid off handsomely!
*sort of. Well, it could be - but you'll never really know, now - will you
mitchy_
Llama calmer
ease up! can be a weenie with a CX bike. :lol:CX bikes are like road bikes for people who aren't weenies. Don't care about the sport as such. Running = LOL.
Boom King
downloaded a pic of moorey's bruised arse
Ease up! You only just got married!ease up! can be a weenie with a CX bike.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Would love to go back to 1 x on the front, but this bike currently has a set of road wheels fitted with slicks, works alright as a roadie too IMO. Don't know if I'll ever go full road as I have done over 4000km on this bike in 6 months, most of them on slicks as it's been winter, otherwise that would mean 2 bikes with twice the outlay and half the K's. Doesn't make sense really...
steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
Having read this thread I'm just more confused now.
Nick Njegac
Likes Bikes
10 speed or 11?
Ackland
chats d'élevage
'Sif you cross chain for photos Billy! Perfect chain length though
merc-blue
Likes Bikes and Dirt
ease up! can be a weenie with a CX bike. :lol:
Out of curiosity what do you guys recon of your TCXs?
Currently tossing up between a TCX or Bombtrack Hook...... two completely different bikes one appeals to my desire for fancy bits the other to my desire for asthetics
Ackland
chats d'élevage
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
Copped a look at the 2016 Focus Mares CX bikes in both alloy (AX) and carbon (CX) the other day...both look pretty but the carbon jobbie is sensational in the flesh
mtb101
Likes Bikes and Dirt
like that Giant, would almost make a perfect road/gravel bike I reckon.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
New chain fitted yesterday too at same length, have changed my stocks to KMC SL's, someone else runs them too ?
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
10 speed with S700 brakes, Red cranks and Red front mech and an X0 type 2 rear derailleur... the X0 was a great idea by the bloke I bought it off, zero chain slap on rough trails.