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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
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Nice pics!
How's the dismount/remount?
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Permalink Reply by Oscar Kaaber on
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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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So on the dismount, are you bobbing up and down like a horse on a carousel?
Serious question.
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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
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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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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.
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