Round seven of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup takes place in Hofstade, between Brussels and Mechelen in Belgium. The domain is cared for by former world champion and co-presenter of the cyclo-crosses on Sporza TV, Paul Herijgers. He didn't design the course, but it has his firm approval. It's a classic 'cross, heavy with mud and sand. It had been freezing in Hofstade the last few days but the night before the race it started snowing and raining and the top layer of the course melted. It's very wet and cold with some tricky patches still frozen beneath. A couple of days training on very narrow tubes (road tyres even) made for some deep grooves. Nijs and Wellens told afterwards they started on 32C but switched to 34C tubes during the race. The perfect pressure was hard to pick.
Download video from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/tmp/ Do not mindlessly click the links, but right-click them and save the file to your computer.
Round seven of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup takes place in Hofstade, between Brussels and Mechelen in Belgium. The domain is cared for by former world champion and co-presenter of the cyclo-crosses on Sporza TV, Paul Herijgers. He didn't design the course, but it has his firm approval. It's a classic 'cross, heavy with mud and sand. It had been freezing in Hofstade the last few days but the night before the race it started snowing and raining and the top layer of the course melted. It's very wet and cold with some tricky patches still frozen beneath. A couple of days training on very narrow tubes (road tyres even) made for some deep grooves. Nijs and Wellens told afterwards they started on 32C but switched to 34C tubes during the race. The perfect pressure was hard to pick.
Download video from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/tmp/ Do not mindlessly click the links, but right-click them and save the file to your computer.
Thanks for posting those, Ewoud. The course conditions were a mess, which made for a good race (at least for second and back - Nijs was strong.)
Subject: Cyclo-cross world cup #7 From: Ewoud Dronkert [email hidden] Date: 12/28/2004 3:06 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: <[email hidden]>
Round seven of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup takes place in Hofstade, between Brussels and Mechelen in Belgium. The domain is cared for by former world champion and co-presenter of the cyclo-crosses on Sporza TV, Paul Herijgers. He didn't design the course, but it has his firm approval. It's a classic 'cross, heavy with mud and sand. It had been freezing in Hofstade the last few days but the night before the race it started snowing and raining and the top layer of the course melted. It's very wet and cold with some tricky patches still frozen beneath. A couple of days training on very narrow tubes (road tyres even) made for some deep grooves. Nijs and Wellens told afterwards they started on 32C but switched to 34C tubes during the race. The perfect pressure was hard to pick.
Download video from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/tmp/ Do not mindlessly click the links, but right-click them and save the file to your computer.
Ewoud,
Even though I am not a big fan of cross, it has been very entertaining to watch the euro cross races that you are providing. Thanks for going through the trouble to entertain the masses...
