Any Cross Riders?

Looks very convincing too.

here's one of tony pretending to race...

Oops,not as inclusive as I first thought. Here's a more Junior rider!

Here's a few shots I took from a meet in North Essex back in November...Hopefully shows a competitive but inclusive side to the sport in terms of age, gender and choice of mount.

i've only ever done one 'cross race. it was on a school playing field somewhere in oxford i think. the field was on a slope so they'd levelled off bits of it to make pitches and in between each pitch there was a 45° bank. so the race just looped round through some woods at the top, cut round to the bottom of the field and then meandered up and down the banks about five times. it was like purgatory, lugging your bike up a stupid bank, riding it for about five yards and then binning it back down again. this race is where i was first introduced to the concept of 'lurking' where you let the leading guys pass you so you don't have to do another lap... the wooded section near the end was full of lurkers