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Hi everybody, after reading a couple of articles on cxmagazine.com i found this nice little forum. I thought an introduction, a couple of words and a picture of my ride would be appropriate :-)

I started riding cross this winther, so this is my first season. Normally i ride my roadbike, but lately i discovered the fun of taking it off-road. This resulted in putting CX tyres on my track wheels and squeezing them on my 26" MTB frame - the bike is only temporary but it turned out better than expected:

Setup:
 - Klein Pulse II 16" MTB frame
- Token carbon forks
- Syncross seatpost with SLR saddle
- Sugino Mighty cranks with 34t ring and heavy old SPD'z

 - Navigators track wheelset with 16t cog and Continentel Speed King's
- 120 mm 3t Arx-team stem with FSA handlebars and Fi'zik tape
(fixed + brakeless FTW!)

I know the bike is silly, but it's fun to ride and it even got me a first place in the amateur class at my first CX race - further more the spectators love to see you try jumping the barriers whilst your cranks are spinning like crazy.

Cheers Oscar

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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Grosenbach on December 11, 2012 at 7:36am

Nice pics!

How's the dismount/remount?

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Permalink Reply by Oscar Kaaber on December 11, 2012 at 8:26pm

In the beginning it was rather difficult, but i slowly got the grip of it.

-When dismounting i normally click out my right leg while pushing down my left, and when the left pedal reaches the lowest point i click out with the left foot (does that make sense?).

- When remounting i try to look as professional as possible :-), and after i landed on the saddle i just do whatever i can to catch the pedals with my feet (especially this is the difficult part).

4 out of 5 times this works pretty smooth

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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Grosenbach on December 11, 2012 at 10:24pm

So on the dismount, are you bobbing up and down like a horse on a carousel?

Serious question.

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Permalink Reply by Oscar Kaaber on December 11, 2012 at 11:15pm

In the begining i was, but now i am swinging my right leg over the saddle meanwhile i push the left pedal and then dismount the left foot when the pedal is at it's lowest point.

- if you dont dismount you left foot when the pedal is at it's lowest point you start doing the horse-bobbing-dance though

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Permalink Reply by Carlos Matutes on December 13, 2012 at 8:15am

Nice! The one cyclocross race I did between my last season in Colorado (2001) and this October was the Texas State Cyclocross Championships.

Since CX in Texas is just, well, silly, I decided to race in costume. On my Cross-Check, fixed.

I agree with you that dismounts/remounts are not as hard as I had thought, but it can be a bit of a challenge to catch the spinning pedals!

I was threatened with disqualification for riding fixed. Not sure what happened with that...

Anyway, welcome, and congrats on the win!

Los

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Permalink Reply by Oscar Kaaber on December 13, 2012 at 6:46pm

Hah sounds great and thanks.

The commissioners weren't to happy with me riding brakeless either so i was told to put on a pair of brakes for my next race, i didn't get disqualified though.