Cross season 2017/18 chat

Have a good one, and I hope you are all done and dusted before the rain arrives!

Good luck.

Definitely worth doing this event in the future, the course is excellent, with a arse-clenchingly scary downhill that requires total commitment and holding your nerve, and some really tricky technical bits that tested your skills.

It was evident that not racing for over a month had dulled my form, but I think I'm coming down with the cold the rest of the family have, so that might explain why I struggled. Was lapped twice by Jon Dennis, who won.

Oh well, I enjoyed it and that's the end of my season so time to assess and start thinking about goals for next season.

Chapeau @andyp looked like a tricky course.

I thought Jon had crashed at one point, was approaching a tricky section and had the marshall yelling at me to slow down just after Jon had lapped me (again), but it was Oli (pastry_bot on lfgss) who'd stacked it. A couple of laps later Laner stacked it in front of me at exactly the same spot.

So yes, some really tricky bits. But the decent was fearsome, in the dry it would've been fun as long as you picked your lines carefully, but in the mud the ruts were deep and if you got it wrong, it was almost impossible to recover from.

Nice one Andy. Hopefully I can do a bit of summer cross, not done a single race in that series yet.

Am guessing you got rained on too. At least I finally wore my Rapha shower proof gilet on my ride. Good bit of kit.

Who was the guy racing naked ?

Well he had his cock and balls covered.

That was in the ride what you like race. 20 mins of riding around a muddy hillside in a thong. I bet he’s still trying to get warm again now.

It's like 2009 and Dale all over again.

To be fair, he was probably pre-pubescent in 2009...

Ah ok.

I'll ask in here.
Pretty sure I used to be able to hammer it on the hoods (for a given value of hammer) and stop by hoying on the brakes from the hoods on my caadx. Finding it difficult to do on the xla. No components have changed. Do the bars need to come up/ bars rotate/ levers move up?
Should I just get a fit?

Similar amount of lever travel as before? If less you won't get as much leverage so will feel like hard work when hoying.

TIL ‘hoying’

Lack of hand strength from not riding much over the past year?

Realised trp spyres.

What I swapped with Andy.

Hand strength might be an issue.

Resists wanking “joke”

I still want to know what hoying is tho, unless it's that ^

@Demeaux am too having issues with brake pull. Is 'cold age' (old age + cold).

Also @Sam :

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p­hp?term=Hoying

flipping heck!

Ahem.
Hoying = Throwing.

I think I'm used to TRP hydros.
Might have to look at these trp spyres. I wonder if the mechanic set them up "race" (i.e. just scrub speed off) rather than "normal" (fucking stop now!).

Named after Sir Chris Hoy, who used this method as a way to gaining psychological advantage over his team mates and rivals.

Now I am really confused. Hoy didn't have brakes!

He didn't want them when he was on the Billy mill roundabout.