The reason 'cross and fancy drivetrain parts don't mix
Thanks to Chuck D for the photo. I always laugh when I see cyclocross bikes with Record, or Dura-Ace, or Red. Unless you're a sponsored pro, that's just advertising that you either A) don't race, or B) have more money than sense.
if you can finish a whole race on just 1 bike with the shifting still working then it's not muddy.
Mud is when they bike stops moving before you making it half a lap to the pits, and then the pit bike stops moving before you finish the lap to pit again.
Needing to pit twice a lap. That's cross. And that's when you'll find out that Dura Ace is worth more than it's weight in gold for cross.
Thanks to Chuck D for the photo. I always laugh when I see cyclocross bikes with Record, or Dura-Ace, or Red. Unless you're a sponsored pro, that's just advertising that you either A) don't race, or B) have more money than sense.
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I didn't shift much, but when I did, it worked surprisingly well. The bike was awesome, I wish my legs were the same.
I don't see much mud there.....
if you can finish a whole race on just 1 bike with the shifting still working then it's not muddy.
Mud is when they bike stops moving before you making it half a lap to the pits, and then the pit bike stops moving before you finish the lap to pit again.
Needing to pit twice a lap. That's cross.
And that's when you'll find out that Dura Ace is worth more than it's weight in gold for cross.
Pfah. What do Welsh people know about mud?
Nothing, that's what.
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