To help me psyche myself up to buy one 🙂

Maybe one of these

Now lets see some used ones.

'07 Trek XO2. Don't look anywhere as tidy now though. 😆

Dolan multicross. Very happy with it.

In use at the Three Peaks CX race last year (pic by Steve Makin)

Rushup Edge in about Feb this year (sorry for the quality, mobile phone camera)

And not long after it was first built up with road wheels on it

Bodge-job Pompino in Todmorden:

Ooops. Meant to say it's been updated with Rolf wheels and Dugast tubs.

Some nice ones here 🙂

Then there's also these babies:

My back-up 'Cross bike:

And also this:

A retro, steel, Dolan 'Cross bike which I've singlespeeded. (Pictured here when I geared it up and put some 23mm slicks on it for a Club 10). In it's usual guise it's geared at 42×18 and has 32mm knobblies. SUPERB, comfortable, nippy, go any where, do anything bike. Love it.

Purchased off the forum.

Mine. Custom built by a frame builder friend of mine.

This is Paul….He managed to get his Kona Jake The Snake up 3000ft!!!

Another Uncle John

Obviously not a 'real' CX bike with racks, bottle holders etc

Mostly used for commuting.

I get to post this twice in one day 🙂 On-One Ti CX

My windfarm bike in its natural habitat

Another crosslight here.

And a pompino.

surly in monster mode

can a Speccy Tricross be considered CX ?

San Jose

Frame and fork will be for sale soon if anyone fancies it?!

Another Kona Jake, in Audax mode

Thurman, when's the Western League restarting this year?

Got a fair few from our CX race last year

more sloshing around on here

Oh and the Vapour is an ace bike. Got to give mine a bit of love and then drag it out to NW league later this month

Hiya,

First Western League race is on Sunday 13th at Gloucester Boating Lake, but I can't wait that long – I'm off to Wellington on Sunday to do the SW League's first race.

Incidentally, thanks to a resurgence of interest in the sport in recent years there are three new/additional races in this year's calendar; two in WsM and one in Cheltenham). So 14 rounds in total!

That's great to hear, I'm sure Clubber will send the word out to the LVIS boys. Can't make the first round myself, but we'll definitely be along for some of the later ones!

Good man. As ever, Bristol hosts the most races (Ashton Ct, Purdown, Conham River Park) so it'd be good to see some of you Brizzle-types there. Or further afield, for that matter.

Yeah, been off to look at the BC site and I see the dreaded Purdown course is my first local one. 😉

Any idea what the WSM course is going to be like? Do they have a venue in mind yet?

so is a speccy tricross considered CX ?
i'd suggest so – capable off road in COMP guise , as my commute now dictates 😀
brilliant fun !

so is a speccy tricross considered CX ?

Direct link to the pic won't work but it's here:

Specialized Tricross in race action again (photo by Richpips)

another 'not really a cx bike' pic, my roadrat in cx (ish) mode. Think it needs some carbon forks or some less harsh steel ones.

Well done folks – just the inspiration I needed.
09 Vapour from Square Wheels now ordered.
Now just got to wait for the kind folks at Cyclescheme to sort the paper work out. 🙂

Keep the pictures coming though.

THE STIG

Sorry Geoff, but I hope you're luckier than me. I ordered my Genesis Croix de Fer in mid July through the cyclework scheme. The paperwork was done within a few days and everything sorted. Except the bike. Where is it? Who knows, probably in a container on the high seas somewhere, but it's looking unlikely that I'll get it before the first Scottish CX race at the start of October.

Spoke to a bike shop chappie today, (not the bike shop/chap I ordered it from as he's only capable of saying it'll be here next week) 🙄 and he reckons the Genesis bikes won't be in the shops till mid October. I hope I'm wrong, and I really hope you get your bike quickly, but you might have to wait a few weeks for it. Sorry.

B. 8)

Beagleboy – I feel your pain. Fortunately, for me, I know that the bike I am getting is already in the shop in Strathpeffer. Its an 09 model and quite possibly one of the last few 56cm ones available in Scotland.

I hope yours arrives soon – and anyway, a cross bike with discs 😯
Whatever next!

Another 3 Peaks vet and Western League regular.

Giant by name and…

How about mine –

Andy! Be good to see you at a race or two again.

(Chas).

(BTW, how the **** do you reach your bottle cage way down there??)

errrrrrrrrrrrr i've only got one 😳