Aycliffe Velo Cycling Club are proud to announce their Cyclocross event to be held behind the Oakleaf Sports complex in Aycliffe on 13th October 2018.
This is grassroots amateur cycling and we’d love it of you could come along and support us; either by taking part of cheering on the cyclists. There’s 3 races on offer, 12pm is the Under 12s, 12.30pm U16s and the main race at 1.30pm. Check out the web link below for more information.
Cyclocross is a discipline within cycling that is a crossover of mountain biking and road biking. Back in the day in colder climates, riders needed a way to keep riding their bike through the winter months. A standard road ride was too long and cold. A mountain bike ride could have snow and other inconvenient factors along with being too long as well. They needed a way to ride that limited their time in the cold as well as was hard enough to keep them warm. The answer was cyclocross. Cyclocross is a cycling discipline that is ridden on a short, technical course of pavement, grass, dirt, mud, sand, and snow which includes features such as barriers and run-ups which force riders to dismount their bike.
We’d like to promote the youth races and invite any local kids with a functioning off road bike, mountain bike or cyclocross bike, to come along and give it a go. The u12s race is between 10-15 minutes which makes this achievable for most kids of that age; helmets are compulsory. We hope to see you on the day.
www.tlicycling.org.uk/onlineentry.aspx?event=2706
