A Guide To Cyclocross

This could be a typical cyclocross race, where you're riding down a grassy bank, through some trees, into the woodlands. Races take place on school playing fields, football pictures, something similar to this. You get some difference in terrain from rough ground from grassy pictures to something like this.

Obviously, it's going to be muddy if it's in the winter, so you need knobby tires to grip the ground, so the bikes always got a purchase on the ground. They follow a very short course generally speaking, but it's very compact. This could typically be some cyclocross obstructions, which are found in many courses throughout the UK and on the continent.

Heading up towards the grassy bank, I may have to dismount, depends how hard it is, on some days you can ride up it on other days its very boggy, very wet, very muddy, you may need to get off and run. Pick it up; go over the obstacle like this. Go down the other side, re-mount your bicycle and off you go again.

Dismount off the bike. You pick it up. Leap over the top of it; I'm doing it a lot slower than you'd normally do in a race.

Mount the bike and you're on your way again. So, in a typical race you come across an obstacle like that maybe two or three times a lap. On my bicycle here, I'm engaged in a low gear now so I can get up this grassy slope, which although it doesn't look very steep can be fairly hard on a cyclocross bike.

Generally speaking, the finish is on the road section part, where there is kind of a sprint finish for the line, similar to a road race. And that is a guide to cyclocross. .