I think we need to face up to the fact that football is truely a global game now .Very few teams get hammered constantly unlike the emerging nations dod in the 70s.Look how Greece have improved as well as some of the Asian countries and the African nations produce quality teams now
Doing cross doesnt count for a lot .From the way you write you come across as a fit oldgit! so give it a go.It's a great weekend .Make sure you enter on Thursday it fills up quickly.We stay in the caving club hut at the start .It costs a fiver a night we make a weekend of it Friday to Monday .
How do you pull up then without being attached try pedalling properly with only one leg to see what I mean, you would just lift your foot off the pedal
Having used both I can say the rack mount one is much stronger and stable the seat post mounts are weak and wobbly.The rack mount is a axle and a headset rather than a weak coupling putting more stress on a seat pin especially off road
proper tagalong the best one is the old Islabike type that fits onto a carrier with a quick release lever rather than the poor quality ones that go round the seatpin
I did 125 miles in 7hours 20mins on an mtb with slicks on and full panniers.Hell of a tail wind from Cornwall to Somerset.Best100 mile timetrial was 4: 08 :17 but that was the day the comp record went to 3:27