Sunshine and Light

Ooh, Pretty!

This is the result of one lap of racing. You have to figure after 5 hours on top of the car at 70+ mph, some of the dirt has blown off too. So if you think that there were only 4 or 5 of us in the pit, and about 30 racers, most guys accumulated 2 or 3 times as much mud on their bikes, and still had to try to peddle, try to shift, and try to get their cleats back on to the peddles. Bear in mind cyclocross requires the riders to jump on and off their bike.





Check out the brakes in this pictures. Think of the cables attempting to slide through thick mud to open and close the brakes. Imagining that? Fortunately mud is soft in case of an ungraceful dismount.

Finally...the catch with having a pit bike is that at the end of the race, there are TWO bikes that look like this that have to be cleaned. Fortunately my husband loaned his bike to a friend for use during her race, and her husband washed it pretty well before returning it.

This weekend should be fun!

Labels: CX

posted by MyHusbandRules @ 8:54 AM