Friday, November 26, 2021

  1. No one wants to race after Iceman 
  2. Difficult for promoters to lay out a course
  3. Hard on the parks
  4. Return on investment 
  5. Rob rarely shoots cool CX pics
  6. Tough on equipment 
  7. USA cycling 
  8. Scheduling conflicts 
  9. Too many categories for the promoter to jumble 
  10. Over thought courses
  11. The weather 
  12. It’s not cool anymore 
  13. Inability for promoters to post results in a timely manner 
  14. No one wants to race after iceman 
  15. No Sunday races, eliminating any shop employee or people that work Saturday 
  16. No big cool race.
  17. It’s fuckn hard
Why cross is dying.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately very accurate

Anonymous said...

Agreed.It definitely needs to be simplified.

Joe Brown used to design the Tailwind courses - he did a good job.

Anonymous said...

Don’t know what you got, till it’s gone.

Anonymous said...

courses designed for cat 4s.
grass crits with small MTB features.
no cross skills required.
paying cat 3/4 masters the same as the elites.
gravel saturation.
Mtbrs showing up and taking podiums with 2.2 tires on courses designed for mtbs.
no series.
no more clinics.
If you put on a race last year, you were "deplorable"