Mud
This list of dirt road races on the Flickr Back Road Bike group got me all jealous that none of them were local, then I found out about the Toronto Paris-Roubaix Challenge. It’s really tempting but I’ll proably decline… with my leaden winter legs, just the mud slog to the lighthouse got me all tired out on the weekend.
Two things I noticed on Saturday:
1) A lot of other cyclocross bikes out there on my ride to the lighthouse. This supports my hypothesis that if fixies are the new rollerblades, cyclocross is the new fixed gear (which would make offroad fixed gear the new roller derby).
2) While riding my ‘cross bike, I get to feel undeservedly smug about everyone else on the road… even the dude on the Jake the Snake who passed me and would have dropped me spectacularly, except he turned right to stay on pavement while I kept going straight into the mud. I feel almost as smug as I did on my fixed gear back in the ’90s, before the fixter fad got ridiculous.
Filed under: RidesPosted By: Adam