Do the “roll of honour” rules say anything about flexstems and thudbusters?
Pretty sure that’d come under ‘suspension’. Do flexsems count as suspension? Or just an annoyance?
OK, honest question, I’d be interested to know:
The reason we’ve set these criteria is to keep it as a distinct challenge, not just a CX event in name that gets dominated by mountain bikes, which I’ve seen happen to other events. There have been MTB events on the SDW for years (we’ve been doing our own for 20), but I don’t know of another CX one like this. The fact that riding it on CX bike sounds a little bit insane is, we hope, part of the appeal. We wouldn’t be into this whole off road biking thing if we didn’t like a little bit of stupid every now and then, would we?
So to get to the question – how important is it to you to meet those CX criteria if you plan to take part in the event? We have stated that we’ll let anyone ride on any bike. The only difference would be getting a finishers medal and your name published on the main list on the website. We’re getting a lot of questions and feedback about this (it seems to have sparked a conversation at least!) so I’m interested to hear what everyone thinks.