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Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Why would you carry your bike up a hill - to then either carry it down - or ride down really slowly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmVqxVJvao

madness!

Brad · **Posts:** 1147 **Location:** Chingford

Its because they are scared of falling off and getting dirty

chatman · **Posts:** 2755 **Location:** Riding my bike somewhere

Get a good MTB bike there not one of those drop bar things..... and your fly past them...

Noel · **Posts:** 734 **Location:** South Woodford

Surely that should be considered a Duathlon

Crash · **Posts:** 161

This is a serious case of "I found a great route but brought the wrong bike"
on a proper bike those descents would just be a gentle ride

martyn748 · **Posts:** 138 **Location:** Felixstowe

Cyclo cross riders are a very stange lot and I have met a lot in my time.

Why buy a bike that is not great at on road, and almost uless at off road so you then have to carrier it everywhere??

Evil · **Posts:** 355 **Location:** Hertford

Does anyone else have a little masochistic voice inside saying "go on, give it a go!"

SteelAl · **Posts:** 155

Evil wrote:

does anyone else have a little masochistic voice inside saying "go on, give it a go!"

Oh yes.

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Why would you carry your bike up a hill - to then either carry it down - or ride down really slowly.

..and some may ask why spend 45 minutes pushing a heavy bike up a hill just to ride it down for 2 minutes

It's all about the challege: man, machine vs nature (free form or sculptured).

Anyway isn't cyclecross just MTB Circa 1980s?

Just love the atmospheric music; feels like you are watching an epic in the lines of Dr Zhivago or Ben Hur.

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