I have been looking at [url= http://www.ukcyclocross.com ]http://www.ukcyclocross.com[/url] and found an image and it got my thinking, when did cyclocross begin?
There is a pic here from the 1950
[url= http://www.ukcyclocross.com/photo/circuit-of-the-claypits-1950s?context=latest ]http://www.ukcyclocross.com/photo/circuit-of-the-claypits-1950s?context=latest[/url]
At the start of the last century
here's a [url= http://blackbirdsf.org/cx/ ]linky[/url] to some pics once it had started to get really established (in the 30s)
I would imagine as soon as the second one of these was finished:
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It started as a development from using bikes in the trenches in WW1 so early 20's although usually as point-to-point races. It became circuit based in the 30's and the first CX World Champs was in 1950.
the 50s? arrivistes!
check this out
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/christopheoncx.html
That is amazing, i thought it was a newish thing.
nah, it's just become trendy in the UK and the states recently.
so this makes me think; when was Mountain biking invented, it must be about 50 years later 😯
Leggyblonde - that site is brilliant. Check out this guy:
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Isn't that the bombhole from Hit The North 1?
Looks a bit steeper to me (although considerably less muddy). Blood-thirsty crowd looks familiar though!