The XCO racing is bloody brilliant. I can recommend it to anyone.
Its way better than it used to be years ago when it was just narrow bars, flat fields and no more challenging than a road race.
Much more like racing round techy trails with proper drops, jumps and gnarly stuff.
There are racing FS bikes with droppers now. No difference to what we use for Afan / CyB on a weekend.
I’ve watched all the races this year on Redbull TV – some of those courses have bits in a lot of us would struggle with, never mind race round.
The last race had Schurter doing whips off table tops and drops – easily as entertaining as Rat boy doing whips off the DH jumps.
Perhaps a write up or article on the race / their training / the bikes etc. would be good.
I have to go to Pinkbike and Redbull TV for it at the moment.