I am fully aware that the wheels are the same but it's still an mtb frame although I hear what you say .Basically if the organizers think you are not riding a cx bike and entering into the spirit of the event you are liable to exclusion
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How does the Three Peaks Cyclocross race work?
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Hehe. I'll try to drag you into the finish this time!
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There's some proper rubbish being put up on here by some contributors.
I might suggest to John that the race is limited to riders residing within 25 miles of Horton which would probably solve a lot of the problems raised on this thread.
I dont come on here often and cannot believe that people spend their time focused on matters such as frame angle differences between 29inch mountain bikes and cyclocross bikes.
It is much better to be out riding the roads and running the fells working towards an improved time. I will no doubt call this thread to mind this sunday when i pass down the back of PYG on the club run to Halton Gill.
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Basically if the organizers think you are not riding a cx bike and entering into the spirit of the event you are liable to exclusion
Sounds like a religion, but thanks for the honest (and calm) explanation. Genuinely appreciated.
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you are liable to exclusion
though of course there'd be nothing to prevent you riding there anyway except you'd be shunned and not win any prizes
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I dont come on here often and cannot believe that people spend their time focused on matters such as frame angle differences between 29inch mountain bikes and cyclocross bikes.
You'd be amazed at the razor/coffee machine/car/kitchen knives/camera/etc threads then. It is middleclasstrackworld.com
When I did the 3 peaks it wasn't even an issue; cross race, cross bike, simple. Unfortunately the internet seems to act as a kind of plonker magnet...
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Unfortunately the internet seems to act as a kind of plonker magnet...
As does the 3 Peaks race it would seem.....
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Sounds like a religion
Are you sure? Which religion did you have in mind? I wouldn't claim to be familiar with every religion in the world but as I understand it very few of them have any strictures regarding the use of cyclocross bikes.
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though of course there'd be nothing to prevent you riding there anyway
apart from the marshalls that is who'd be liable to stop you, it being private land with no ROW.Posted 1 year ago # -
Do i get a t-shirt to say that i raced because to me that's the most important thing ?
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apart from the marshalls that is who'd be liable to stop you, it being private land with no ROW.
they would have no right to stop you, and if they tried to grab you that would be an assault, so they could only shout at you
I wouldn't claim to be familiar with every religion in the world but as I understand it very few of them have any strictures regarding the use of cyclocross bikes.
"like a religion" in terms of irrational conformation to strange rules.
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they would have no right to stop you
I'd imagine that given the event was taking place with permission of the landowner - which would have been gained by agreement amongst other things that the event organisor is supplying marshals to control access - they would have status of landowner's agent. In which case they have every right to stop you, and use reasonable force, which would include grabbing you if you ignored their instructions. It's not actually quite as much of a free-for-all as you sometimes imagine.Posted 1 year ago # -
As does the 3 Peaks race it would seem.....
This really has put a bug up your ass hasn't it?
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Possible re-post, but this a phot from the 2010 3 peaks Cyclocross race featuring Mr. Nick Craig. Flat bars, quite narrow, but still flat
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Already been done, flat bars are banned for 2011. And it is a cross bike with cross tires etc but flat bars.
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Ah bugger
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"like a religion" in terms of irrational conformation to strange rules.
All bike races have rules, hence it is much more "like a bike race", than it is like a religion.
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I really can’t see what all the fuss is about. Rules are rules.
Cross bikes at the 3 peaks.
MTBs at mayhem.
And when I was doing HtN it was anything apart from unicycles because of my totally unfounded bias against the people who ride them (they are probably lovely).
If you don’t agree then it is not the event for you. Or, if you don’t agree strongly enough, organise your own event with your own rules. Nobody will stop you.
If John says cross bikes then its cross bikes. His race. His rules.
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they would have status of landowner's agent. In which case they have every right to stop you, and use reasonable force
I wonder if that is the case ?
I really can’t see what all the fuss is about. Rules are rules.
but they don't drop graven on stone from heaven or spring from the very earth - each rule should have some justifiable reason other that "it just is".
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The 3Px is a religion for some, it is also an anachronism and a fantastic one at that.
I presumed that flat bars have been banned to try and preserve the anachronistic character of the event, nothing wrong with a bit of eccentricity, why not preserve it? We need such madness it's part of our national identity.
I've ridden it well into the teens of times, first time on a road bike with cross tyres squeezed in, no one was upset (pre internet days so we didn't have all this fuss), stopping was a challenge though.Beg borrow or steal 'cross bike and ride it - then you get it.
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nothing wrong with a bit of eccentricity
conformist eccentricity ? Is that like having tattoos ?
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OK simon... How would you run it? What would be your rules?
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Simon doesn't do rules. He's a peaceful anarchist.
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I want to know. For 48 years it has been wrong. Time for a new broom and Simon seems like the man to do it.
Come on Simon.
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What would be your rules?
no engines or aliens. Don't kill your competitors unless they deserve it.
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Splendid. Is that the best you can do?
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Is that the best you can do?
what else do you need ? Necessary and sufficient does the job.
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I've been trying to think of a metaphor to use to describe arguing with sfb over this subject, but simply can't picture anything as gently yet persistently as utterly soul destroying...
I told you all a page or so ago; he's like one of those grabber claw machines at the seaside amusement arcades, just gently yet inexorably kills any hope you have by a perfectly balanced constant drip of apparent dimness.
If he was a bird, he'd be a woodpecker if we all had wooden heads....
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If he was a bird, he'd be a woodpecker if we all had wooden heads....
no a seagull, I like to watch them enjoy flying - and I could still crap on you
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