February 23rd, 2007
Proper Cross
There’s some nice cyclo-cross history written by Joel over at black bird ess eff.
In the early days of ‘cross, racers had to ride uphill, against the wind, both ways, in the snow, with hornets chasing them the entire time. Here at blackbird we have the photos to prove it. Monster runups, deceptive trench jumps, thicket pushes, water hazards, steep chutes and other things the like of which rarely, if ever, show up on a modern ‘cross course (at least here in the states…), and certainly not at this magnitude.
Well worth popping over and admiring solidly built Frenchmen - no racing whippets - pushing fixed wheel bikes through thickets, clambering down yer actual cliff faces, and avoiding the spectators terriers.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 am
Your links are boo-booed.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
Were boo-booed.
I spotted it when I re-ran the XHTML validator.
February 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
This line: Well worth popping over and admiring solidly built Frenchmen - no racing whippets - pushing fixed wheel
- is doing the chopped in half thang on IE.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Working on IE6 for me at work.