MICKEY DENONCOURT: Bicycle racing is a really, really hard sport. You really, really, have to suffer to be good at it. Cross racing is the pinnacle of suffering in bike racing. The races are short,...
MICKEY DENONCOURT: When you're doing a cyclocross race, you might show up at a place that's completely flat, sort of like where we are right now. And it might be the slowest race...
>> Court: This is the Easy Motion Neo City and as you can tell, it's kind of setup to be a city style bike. We've got front and rear fenders, front and rear lights and...
MICKEY DENONCOURT: The most important part of any cyclocross race is the start. You start with everybody else, you know, lined up on a couple of rows. You know, you want to get there. If it's...
Dear friends where at Park Burcina, in Northern Italy and we're here to record the first images about the absolutely new Banshee model the Legend Mk1. It's one of the four prototypes...
MICKEY DENONCOURT: For me, personally, the way my bike fits and stuff like that, when I'm doing a good tempo across a field section or something like that, I'm often in the saddle and...
Hello and welcome on my blog about cycling tactics and strategies. Today I will tell you a story about drafting and paceline. Several years ago, I was racing a Cat 1 race in France and after several...
MICKEY DENONCOURT: Riding in the mud is probably one of the defining features of cyclocross as well. To go quick in the mud or stay on your bike in the mud even, one of the big things that you want to...
MICKEY DENONCOURT: Things that we can take from experience if we were mountain bike racers when you're riding cross are sort of looking ahead, choosing good lines, riding hard stuff, being...
When you're riding a sand section, there's always the possibility that you're going to get bogged down and have to get off the bike. When you're getting off in the...