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[Dolly]

Some great bike handling skills there.
More importantly looks like great fun.
Has anyone ever done any cyclocross ? - I don't mean racing just messing about

[webbo]

i've done some,mainly racing but my efforts were more like messing about.did the 3 peaks a couple of times.

[Dolly]

You mean Yorkshire 3 peaks ?
Good effort if so - I'd have have thought it was more like fell running with a  bike than riding 

[jfw]

my boyfriend did the three peaks last year - its still definitely a cycling event - its not the same route as the running route - its a lot longer with linking road sections thrown in.

my chaps got 2 brothers, one who fell runs and rides - and regularly wins the three peaks (til last year where he came second) and the other who's taken up fell running in the last few years - i thought like you the fell running would out - but my fellers cycling pipped his bro's fell running (ooh the family rivalry).

you do have to do carries up each hill, but then there's the "run down" vs. "ride down risk puncture" decisions, and the rocky ride nightmare of pen y ghent lane as a descent

[webbo]

You mean Yorkshire 3 peaks ?
Good effort if so - I'd have have thought it was more like fell running with a  bike than riding 

yep that one.its a bit of tradition in my local cycling club.one of my mates has done it about 20 plus times.
there used to be a relability ride in the peak a couple weeks before  the 3 peaks.which folk used as training.started in glossop over the snake before you get to lady bower turn right on a green road over the hill to come out in hayfield and back to glossop on the road.