Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
I know a few on here follow the road cycling & mountain biking so thought I'd start a thread for all bike racing.

I've been watching some of the cyclocross this last few weeks on GCN+

Van der Poel, Van Aert and Pidcock all cost themselves race wins on the last lap of races with technicals or errors this last week.

Young lad Cameron Mason been getting some good top 10s.

First time watching it and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Amazed they can race at that level of intensity so often.
I haven't ignored this thread, it's just that I am currently (unsuccessfully) trying to get back into bike racing rather than watch it. You would have thought this would be easy, but in my 25+ years absence from the sport it has changed completely, and not for the better. The main focus of clubs now seems to be to facilitate rides so that members can parade their very expensive bikes to a cafe and back.

There is no cycling equivalent to Parkrun, and no EOD events either. As a skinny former fell runner, and middle distance runner, I thought hill climbs would be suitable. Until I saw the price. Here are details for the national champs race last year, a 1500m uphill time-trial, on public roads, to the Ponderosa car park at the top of the Horseshoe Pass - for £35!!!!!

https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-details/23349