2024 Idaho CX Series: Singlespeed cyclocross insanity!
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2025
- This video is an overview of the 2024 Idaho Cyclocross Series. It's a highlights reel of the best moves, crashes, strategies, complaints, suffering, good decisions, bad decisions, weather issues, attacks, surrenders, and other craziness. All on a one speed.
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00:15 Introduction
00:54: Race one, Avimore
03:46 Race two: Eagle Bike Park
08:43 Race three: Eagle Bike Park
12:14 Race four: Eagle Island State Park
15:46 Race five: Eagle Island State Park
17:41 Race six: Lucky Peak State Park
20:56 Race seven: Lucky Peak State Park
24:09 Race eight: Eagle Bike Park
27:46 Race nine: Eagle Bike Park
31:34 Lucky Peak State Park
37:48 Conclusion, podiums, awards
Great season recap! Makes me excited to race CX next year already!
Great content and race analysis as always.
Very cool! Looks fun!
US cyclocross looks like such a vibe
This grassroots racing is so fun. Thanks for watching.
Was that you I ran into at Ridgeline? Putting posters up for the series.
Was contemplating of trying at lest one race this season. Afraid I'm gona cause more crashes then anything else. Hopefully next season.
Wasn't me. Probably Doug, who did most of the promotion for the series. Get out there!
Nice to see some grassroots racing. Close passing but leaving room. You're going to be lining up next time...
Curious of the choice of flat bar vs road bar? Are you still limited to 34c tires?
Flat bar vs. drop bar: I'm just not as good on a drop bar. And I like the leverage a big flat bar gives me, especially trying to muscle around a singlespeed.
No tire rules in this series. Run what ya brung! I run 33s most of the time, but I do have a 38 that I run on the front occassionally on rougher courses.
@@LowAngleAdventures 35 years ago, I was introduced to fixed gear winter riding by the local club. And I have used a fixed for commuting ever since. We have a track here in my town which I rode at regularly. My winter bike has disc brakes and can run either 700x38 or 27.5x2.2 tires. I now ride with flat pedals for the convenience of wearing normal shoes. But in season spd pedals. I have been watching the UCI CX races lately. Crazy stuff!
@@LowAngleAdventures Great video! I am curious as to one of the subtitles on the video -- something about how a rider was at a disadvantage because he was using gravel tires rather than CX tires. I see all sorts of stuff on the web about how wider tires are faster than narrower tires (other than aerodynamics). In your experience, are CX tires (32mm) faster than a gravel tire (40-47mm)? I realize at the elite level you have to run 33mm or less tires at USAC/UCI races, but if you had a choice? Thanks!
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Here's my two cents on tires: Yes, in most cross races -- which include ample grass -- my gut is that narrower tires are faster. Grass is a huge watt sucker on wide tires. I'd add to that I'm a huge fan of wider tires (2.4s) when racing MTBs, which I do plenty. So it's not as if I have a narrow/low-volume tire complex. On dirt there seems to be little penalty to higher volume/wider tires and lower pressures seem to yield only benefits (within reason, I'm sure). For example, I'm 128 pounds and I run 2.4s at 18/19 psi front/rear on my MTB. On smoother courses I run even lower pressure. My 100-pound daughter, who won a state championship last season, runs 2.35s at 15/16 psi. On the cross bike I run 33s at 23/24 most of the time.
The big problem with gravel tires -- in addition to the wider watt-sucking profile -- is that they can't seem to generate the cornering grip on grass that a proper cross tire can. Add in some mud and that goes double. I know plenty of good bike racers who show up to cross races without cross tires and regret it. There are several of those documented in this video. The big square-edge knobs and ample void area (distance between knobs) of a skinny tire drive it down to the dirt below the grass and make it hang on. I'm most certainly an amateur and I run 33s most of the time. If the track has a lot of dirt or is very rough I put a 38 on the front. Same tread pattern tire front and rear regardless of size.