Video: Cyclocrosser rips down Whistler’s A-Line mountain bike trail

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what bike is that? not that it would help me

@eadm, It’s the new Giant TCX cyclocross bike.

@eadm –

It’s the 2015 Giant TCX Advanced Pro 1 (https://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/tcx.advanced.pro.1/18742/76161/)

Yoann (not Yohann) Barelli is a Giant Factory Off Road racing the EWS (Enduro World Series), not a cyclocross racer. Though he’d probably do very well at cyclocross events but his disciple is gravity racing…

Follow up, are those 6″ rotors on the front? Must be nice to be that light/low bodyweight…

@satisFACTORYrider. Yes it is (on a UCI barrier). Dude, try double bunny hopping a road bike ~16 inches on a wet grass false flat in traffic sometime. Hilarity will ensue (for everyone else). There’s a reason there’s a lot more people landing groomed jumps than hopping barriers. We’re not poor bike handlers.

-cyclocrosser who only bunny hops the little barriers

Back to disagree. Tables are just speed and a little pop. Barriers are not just a simple bunny hop. Add the fact that someone is probably right next to you.

<-Jumps the cx bike at the bike park & would rather run the barriers than get the timing wrong in a race when exhausted.

As a regular ‘easy’ barrier bunny hopper and CX-bike-on-a-BMX-track hooligan, I completely agree with Mike. Sequentially bunny hopping real barriers in a real cross race is way harder than tables with a slammed seat. Especially 10 laps in. Remember, your local cross promoter is probably nowhere near UCI regulation.

Like watching a bobblehead video !

I should’ve expanded. Given the same conditions- dry/solo I think it would be nbd for this rider to do the same with cross barriers. Comparing a jump skill playing in perfect conditions to a cross race during bad conditions is stupid. Jumping anything well needs speed&traction. I’m sure a cross rider may also have a hard time hitting a uci Bmx step up or squashing a table at race speed in traffic.

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@badbikemachnicx, please show your working. Did Road Bike Party show that road bikes are now just trials bikes with drop bars?

@K11 Because flat (no lift off), lack of adequate speed, and saddle height/handlebar drop. I could probably hop 6 inches higher with a 6 inch lower saddle, but you need to ride the rest of the course with power. Same reason descents are sketchier: hard to get behind the saddle when it’s steep. I don’t know, maybe I should run a smaller frame with a dropper post. That would be hilarious, but I’ve done races where I later thought my XC bike would have been faster…

@sspiff Nothing like catching a wheel with 1 to go… I’ve stopped hopping part way through a race once tired.