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Yoann Barelli on the trails at Whistler (Facebook video still)Video: Enduro rider Yoann Barelli tackles Whistler MTB trails - on a CX bike
French MTB rider Yoann Barelli has emerged as one of the riders to watch at the Enduro World Series – securing a top 10 in the season rankings last year, and now leader of the Giant Factory Off-Road Team in this season’s competition.
Recently, he swapped his normal ride, a Giant Reign Advanced 27.5 0 Team, for a Giant TCX Advanced 1 cyclo-cross bike – as ridden by Marianne Vos and Lars van der Haar – and put it through its paces on the trails at Whistler in Canada, posting the video to Facebook.
As the out-takes at the end show, there was the odd mishap – but it’s still an impressive bit of riding, with Barelli joining the likes of Chris Akrigg in switching to skinnier tyres for a bit of off-road riding.
Aujourd'hui je suis allé faire un p'tit tour de route et tout à coup, c'est devenu génial hahaaaaaaaaaaa!!//Today I...
Posted by Yoann Barelli on Friday, 24 April 2015
The 29-year-old had a less happy time at the Osprey BC Enduro Series, also in British Columbia, at the weekend – poised to take the overall win, he went off course on the final intersection of the five stage event, reports Pinkbike.com.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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I still think that the handling with shorter handlebar width and long stems makes one wanting to practice more to handle singletracks with a CX.
I tried for the first time last week. The workload was high... lol
Rough stuff clubs and reliability trials started out using 27x1 1/4 tyres so nothing has changed.
The popularity of 29'ers stems from the fact that a lot of casual riding is on fire roads and other less technical stuff rather than actual single track.
Yep, crossers rock! Took mine to South Africa recently to do the Cape Argus road ride (riding 25mm slicks). Used it for a full-on MTB race in the Winelands the week before (with 32mm CX tyres) & it was fine, on trails that would have been somewhere around hard blue/easy red at a UK trail centre. No problems at all apart from fielding endless "what sort of bike is that?" questions. Not sure how happy I'd have been on a proper downhill track though, with no front suspension to suck up my mistakes.
Ace!
Truth is you can ride your CX bike pretty much anywhere- Mine often gets ridden on the MTB tracks in surrey- its just the punctures/bottoming out/rim hits you get with small volume tyres- apart from that no bother.