Cross Clash Day 2
Breakfast from http://www.cyclo-sportif.com/
Day two of the cross clash had me cursing threaded headsets as well of my sense of loyalty to my customers, who’s bikes I put ahead of my own in our queue. And that my friends is why I’m riding a 10 year old trek multitrak that I had collecting dust in the garage.
This course was my nemisis last year, breaking my collarbone in two place. This year, all that was broken was my spirit and my pride. One of the joys of riding a POS bike is equipment problems. I would normally get really pissed about that sort of thing but when you are cat-3 pack fodder racing for 26th place, who cares right?
The bumps on this course detroyed the already destroyed headset so I had to get a pit bike. Two minutes in the pits doesn’t really help with position (neigther does being last in the random call up). The plus side was that I got to just ride the course as fast as I could, but not worrying about position. I would look back to make sure there was at least one person with a derailleur behind me (we were racing with the single speeds), as long as I wasn’t DFL I was OK.
LOVE the climb
LOVE the descent
LOVE everything about the course except for the headset destroying bumps.
