Tag: mud
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Huttcross 4: Fight Club
Click or not: Huttcross 4: Fight ClubRacing is life. Fifteen bucks buys you a ticket to ride. Like-minded souls forget the social constructs that dictate hierachy, ditch the stiff working week threads, let down their hair and kick back to relax in the ambience of blood, mud, sweat and heckles. The only thing that counts here is how hard you can pedal. And… …
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Huttcross 3: In The Eye of The Storm
Click or not: Huttcross 3: In The Eye of The StormJuly usually heralds a freshness in the air felt by a resilient crew of vollies gathering for dawn raid on a corner of parkland. This year, it brought severe weather warnings. The downpours probably kept the leviathan visitor happy in our harbour, while the damp stuff guaranteed prime habitat for grass-dwelling mammals most content frolicking… …
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The Great Plus +/- Minus Experiment
Click or not: The Great Plus +/- Minus ExperimentWith a new innovation seemingly rolling out every week in mountain biking, it’s easy for some of them to get left by the wayside, while others slip seamlessly into the mainstream and take over as a new standard while you weren’t looking. When 27.5 or––650b as it was first known––hit the scene, it seemed only… …
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That Makes Cyclocross In Belgium
Click or not: That Makes Cyclocross In BelgiumEven a promo video for a helmet gets the Belgian blood pumping. Belgium is the heartland of cyclocross. The discipline is more popular here than any other country in the world. This nation is the birthplace of great champions and the home of the most prestigious races. Laurens Sweeck from ERA-Circus explains a little bit… …
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(Off) Road Racing For Crossers
Click or not: (Off) Road Racing For Crossers“The most amazing race the world doesn’t watch.” The clickbait title and the muddy-kneed thumbnail of this video that came across my YouTube recommendations caught my eye like another episode of Wyn TV chit chat. I was intrigued, it suited my millennial ten minute attention span and it was a race I’d certainly never heard… …
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Hüttcross 17.?? – Moonshine & Posses
Click or not: Hüttcross 17.?? – Moonshine & PossesThe state of ’cross now is an interesting thing, Pat observed. What- I offered, like it used to be kind of a low down punk scene, but now we’ve come away from that? Sort of like it’s still got its punk element, but now it’s finding its own self, yeah. I always had this vision… …
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Ridden: Teravail Cannonball Tyres
Click or not: Ridden: Teravail Cannonball TyresWords: Kristine Ford Photos: Brett Kennedy On my very first mountain bike ride about five years ago I was given some pretty sage advice: “Trust your tyres.” This advice has stayed with me and been my mantra whenever I’m freaking about the terrain I’m riding. I say it over and over while trying to negotiate… …
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Set Clocks to Slide: Hüttcross 2017 Kicks Off
Click or not: Set Clocks to Slide: Hüttcross 2017 Kicks OffIt’s like Jonty says: one minute you’re just trying to go about your life, the next minute you’re plunged straight into hell. Forget the catch cries of ’cross is coming. It’s here. And there is nothing your husk-filled lungs or jammy legs can do about it. The first round was about as good an introduction… …