Chris Horner’s Cyclocross Essentials
Dec 14th 2009Fun Stuff & HTRWW & Video
So now that the domestic ‘cross season has (more or less) wrapped up, it’s time to reflect. Did things not go as well as you’d planned? Did the big investment in equipment and training still not pay off on the results sheet?
We at Cyclocosm think that, next season, you could benefit from a better approach:
[right-click for iTunes-compatible download]
There’s also a version on YouTube and a more-or-less complete list of source material.
And we also have t-shirts and a variety of other Cyclocross Essentials merchandise.
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Jon Shea on 14 Dec 2009 at 1:59 am #
Amazing, Cosmo.
EDnl on 14 Dec 2009 at 9:11 am #
Fantastico! Thanks for the laugh. (One thing: crowd control is by Bart Wellens, not Erwin Vervecken).
ryank on 14 Dec 2009 at 9:16 am #
This is fantastic. I really want Erwin Vervecken’s Guide to Crowd Control.
Al on 14 Dec 2009 at 9:28 am #
Gold!
Brayt on 14 Dec 2009 at 10:02 am #
Excellent work Cosmo.
cosmo on 14 Dec 2009 at 11:23 am #
Gah! No wonder it was so hard to Google. My apologies to both racers.
iamtedking on 14 Dec 2009 at 11:42 am #
Please pardon my near swearing, but that was freakin’ hilarious. I love the Angry Pirate and Are These Fake Yet?
Hulkster on 14 Dec 2009 at 1:15 pm #
Brilliant.
Jake on 14 Dec 2009 at 3:12 pm #
So that’s Bart Wellens, not Erwin Vervecken?
LeGimpe on 14 Dec 2009 at 3:42 pm #
Karate Kid Bart Wellens
DJ on 14 Dec 2009 at 5:00 pm #
great work!
Nick on 14 Dec 2009 at 6:37 pm #
Nice!! Just paypaled my money over. Hope this helps me improve as much as my zipps.
Anonymous on 14 Dec 2009 at 6:38 pm #
That’s funny, you’re making fun of Chris Horner and you don’t even know what the 3 time World Champion looks like.
cosmo on 14 Dec 2009 at 7:13 pm #
First of all, Wellens and Vervecken don’t exactly look night-and-day different.
Secondly, it’s not like the kick picture is a particularly clear shot of Wellens’s face. The source image I used even has text on it identifying the kicker as Wellens right on it—I just mis-remembered who the kicker was from 2005 and never bothered to check.
dave on 14 Dec 2009 at 11:52 pm #
A+++++ would buy again
Anonymous on 15 Dec 2009 at 1:37 am #
Yeah, Belgians, they all look alike. Misremembered? Pulling out the Clemens defence, you must be from Boston.
project letour on 15 Dec 2009 at 2:07 am #
tres bon!
Anonymous on 15 Dec 2009 at 5:23 am #
the step and hop haha
rainbow on 15 Dec 2009 at 5:37 am #
I don’t get it, why is chris cross?
CD on 15 Dec 2009 at 7:49 am #
I love the people who disregard the greatness of this video only to point out that they are true superfans and are disgusted that you would confuse Wellens and VerVecken…people like this are why motorists try to hit us on our rides.
elanoregon on 15 Dec 2009 at 7:25 pm #
Genius. Thanks for the laugh. I regularly use all these moves on the course and, yes, at the Disco.
LDR on 17 Dec 2009 at 1:33 am #
“. . . people like this are why motorists try to hit us on our rides.”
Great line! Can I steal it?
sean on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:07 pm #
that anonymous guy is real tough with the anonymous name
League on 21 Dec 2009 at 1:42 pm #
Almost as good as the “Performance” video from MC Spandex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4
Cyclocosm – Pro Cycling Blog » Dodging The Broomwagon on 31 Dec 2009 at 2:00 pm #
[...] during the off-season is to step up your skill set—nothing like a few slow weeks to take down a big project or [...]
sausageparty on 06 Jan 2010 at 3:51 pm #
Wellens, schmellens, for some real real punchy action trawl around video sites for Richard Groenendaal giving it to spectators on different sides of the course. He’s got a good right cross for a skinny biker. Vervecken is taller than Wellens and would have struggled to maintain balance whilst administering the roundhouse kick. Bart’s low centre of gravity paid dividends in this instance. That and some fast releasing pedals….