As said the cross check isn’t light but fun and changing the fork dropped a fair amount of weight. I’m not sure if the singular would be much/any lighter?

Paintwork didn’t appreciate the wet garage so had to get it resprayed

If we all liked the same things the world would be a very dull place 😉

(And stw forum prob wouldn’t exist. Discuss.)

Schrickvr6, emailed you

I’ve got cheap shimanos which have been great except when on proper (mtb) trails, even in the wet*

*For cx brakes I mean, not compared to discs

Thought I’d leave this link here for future reference

Think there are non folding grifos for about twenty or folding which never seem to be on offer (a good sign?) from places like zepnat. I’ve started using them but had 4 sunny, dry races so far so no idea how they’ll fare in the mud. Fango is challenge’s dedicated mud tyre

I use to use Air B latex tubes and they would do the same.

Could you use them after they’d done that? tube looks bit mangled and sounds like losing air

Lol @ qwerty

don’t have freeview 🙁

edit: working now 😀

can’t get it on the red button? What am I doing wrong?

wiggle have some unpadded dhb bib tights for £17, haven’t used them yet but seem decent.

just done a very dark place. Hurt. Hope this translates to better cx results

Yeah last week was a light week for me with only 2 sessions and a race. What do you do in the sweetspot and under and over sessions?

I’ve got the hunted and a very dark place, might look at getting revolver though.

I need to practice my remounts which are pretty bad and some time in the mud will probably pay off as winter draws in. Chapeau on your result, still impressive!

Can’t remember what pressure I run, I’m about 72kg. They are the non folding clinchers, not sure how soft the sidewalls are compared to the other grifo clinchers?

Cheers, yeah I had read about the tyre suppleness being a key factor. I’m on grifos but the cheaper of the clincher versions. Normal tubes until such time as i can afford a set of tubs then 😉

Thanks for your help

Maybe I’ll add an optional skills or low intensity run on Sundays depending how I feel.

Cheers for the advice, intensity and focus seems to be the name of the game which makes sense given the races themselves.

Btw ever used latex inner tubes, worth it? £8 michelin ones from crc at the moment

Cheers guys, I’ve got a turbo trainer and sufferfest so maybe a week might be:

Mon – Turbo 1 hour
Tue – open water swimming 1 hour (season almost over so change to skills on cx bike)
Wed – Run – intervals 1 hour
Thur – Road ride 1-2 hours or cx bike skills session
Fri -rest
Sat – Race

What do most people do the day after a race? Complete recovery or a skills session?

Good question re aims etc:

Did a few races last year and enjoyed them so decided to have a proper crack this year. Done 3 races already this season, def feel stronger than last year thanks to reasonable road riding through summer. However, the fields have become much larger – almost 190 a couple weeks ago so my results look worse: 122, 112 and 133 so far 🙁

I’m riding single speed so always going to be a challenge but want to get into top 100 over next few races and a top half finish before end of the season. Possibly bit optimistic but I think I can do it with the right course (last weekend every place I made on the climbs was cancelled out by the long flat straights on the back half of the course)

Like everyone else I haven’t got a great deal of free time but only race on the Saturday. I wouldn’t say I’m skilled but judging by races I’ve done I can make up time on the ‘technical’ sections.

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Had a crap experience with impsport a few years back so I’d prefer to stay with endura tbh but I’d consider something cheaper if knew the quality and customer service was there.

cheers for the replies, I’ll see what the boss reckons

Use leopard, trek discovery and morvelo tops on the road bike and one of these when ‘competing’

emailed them as not had link to paysite, unless you lot want to point me in the right direction

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Smoking a cigar as a punishment? Not exactly a beasting…

Cheers clubber

Doesn’t look like anyone has taken 2001 yet so I’ll have that one please. It’ll be pretty cool whilst out riding my LeMond…

Headset has gone digital 🙁

Clubber, that’s weird? Think you said before though that clear-black are better at the dark end (ie little/no sunlight) end of the spectrum than the VR50s?

Lol at squatting, anal squinting?
Cheers guys, won’t have much cause for a dark lense
tbh but wanted ti check how folk got on before got these glasses covered in sweat.

But still great? Did you get another lens for sunny conditions?

Cheers guys, I’ll prob stick with them. If I found I struggled on really bright days I guess I could invest in a dark lense in the future. Although they’re about £70!

wow if mine go that dark then im laughing!

i asked them to order a new race, if it’s loose then I said I’ll apologise unreservedly (and I’ll buy them beer)

Ahem, it is a king..

Apparently it’s ok for a crown race to be loose.

And you can’t face steel frames.

So now you know

No they were on that bike before the respray, the headset was new to me but second hand so poss the race was oval, even so they should have realised when they tried to fit it IMHO

cheers al but I’ll just get the edinburgh one, prob same money as a rebuild kit