Chequamegon
September 15th, 2008 |I have never done it. I hate mountain biking.
However, I have told a number of people that it’s a road course. It’s easy to be dismissive of something you have never had an experience with.
Timmer explains why the Chequamegon race should not be so easily classified.
21 Responses to “Chequamegon”
it’s a cylocross course w/ no barriers, a local ‘roadie’ raced on a bridgestone xo-1 in ‘93
It was awesome as always. There are a number of sections of dirt road, and there is no single-track. I think you should try it next year Smithers, I really think you’d have a good time.
@Little d: never. and by never I mean never ever. not in ten million years. not on your life. not a single solitary snowballs chance in hell. I mean it. I hate mountain biking. I am so not kidding on this. I promise you that I will never ever do another mountain bike race so long as I live.
didn’t you have similar contempt for cyclocross not too long ago?
@T3: As opposed to MTB, I never had contempt for cyclocross. I only doubted my ability to do it successfully. I have always felt that cyclocross is beautiful.
MTB is dumb.
Smithers doesn’t know how to have fun riding a mountain bike on a trail in the woods. How sad.
Smither’s is like the Karl Rove of Mt Biking. Hate, Hate, Hate
I wish I still had access to all my qbp emails from 1999 when you actually did try mountain biking and were at least semi-enthusiastic about it….
or maybe the author of the email misquoted you.
I know one guy that does have complete contempt for cyclocross. He says “Why would you want to get off the bike? WTF? Now that is just stupid!”. He says he is going to show up at CX race just to give people sh!t. I tell him that’s probably not a good idea.
There’s haters in every camp.
Mt Bikers that say “stupid roadies are stupid in spandex” and roadies that say Mt Biking is dumb and both camps look at the track and shake their head.
Don’t get it…
He’s going to need mad skills. It is possible to do some of the local races without getting off the bike. Of course they don’t conform to UCI rules…
Ya Little D, such attitudeness is rampant, which is really stupid. I don’t get it either.
Now what I don’t get is why people need water bottle handups in a CX race. It’s only 60-freakin minutes. Sven Nys don’t need no water hand up!
anybike/anywhere…it just so happens that a cyclocross bike is the best for the midwest….i was doing a mountain bike race in ‘99 and i mentioned cyclocross to another guy and he told me a mt. bike race w/ a cx bike would be an unfair advantage…right on
@Little d: of course, MTB is not really dumb.
XO
You mean you wouldn’t even ride this?
http://bobbrowncycles.blogspot.com/
mtbers are dorks in general. Went over to worth 2 nite and there’s some old fart lecturing me about not riding the trails when muddy . I explained I had been walking around the muddy pArts and that 99 percent of the trail was dry. He replys that walking around the muddy parts widens the trails and we can’t widen the trails for some Reason and this whole conversation is taking place in an area that’s been bulldozed and part the trAil was scrunched last fall by heavy equipment yet somehow me walking around a mud puddle is a major crime. I don’t know who the trail Nazi was but I’m sure he spent good share of his evening making sure people got less enjoyment out their local park. All right , a dork too. At least I’m not a triathlete– biggest wankers on the planet
my 5th chequamegon this year. Divine. It’s more like a cross country ski race than a bike race…your own time, talking/laughing with people, great scenery.
Chequamegon may be a road race, but only in the sense that Paris-Roubaix is a road race. It’s a lot of fun. A pure power race.
@Bill Basso: I have no power, I am pure finesse.
Its not a road course.