Of all the crazy extreme sports cyclocross races are comfortable with the craziest! What drives people to normal thinking, with only a slightly modified road bike cross country race to drive - in the winter on a dirt Matschweg? As an explanation caught here not even George Mallory's famous answer to the question of why he wanted to climb Everest, "Because it's there." For the 1.5 to 3 km long race courses the lack of navigable underground is characteristic, so that the Drivers must carry their vehicles over large distances: topsy-turvy world! However
is Cyclocross not a newfangled pastime a scattered handful madman. Its origin, this traditional sport of fitness training in France as the riders in the cold season - even today many mountain bikers ride in the winter season with the Crossers, and vice versa - and after the Second World War, known in Germany. While the cross-field insertion is currently more popular such as the U.S., it is in this country has become almost a fringe sport. The
to change again, especially in Karlsruhe: Next Saturday, 8th November, makes the SKS-Germany Cup Cross, the highest German cyclocross race series, the first time in the Günther-Klotz-conditioning unit. And according to the will of the organizers, it should not not be the last time: "In recent years, the Cross Sport fortunately experienced a revival," Florian Hock says of the cycling community Karlsruhe. "The trend today, however, faster to Race. The mud-slinging with Grime-Encrusted drivers are now on environmental grounds and concerns of the park departments around the grass in their parks largely to the past. "In the approximately two-kilometer circuit in Karlsruhe next to an asphalt 300 meters long start-finish straight, the" Mount Klotz "The pivotal point of the race. As with the famous open-air festival "The Festival" offered to viewers almost unrestricted view of events and calls the participants also an excellent driving skills from. "Whether, dismantling or traverse, who is physically and technically not up to snuff, the competition difficult to control, "the organizers promise. The most famous German Cross driver, Mike Kluge, had carried away even to compare to the 1985 World Championships course in Munich's Olympic Park: The races are technically demanding, very quickly and for the spectators worth seeing especially the three-time world champion said after a track inspection. To
points it goes on Saturday in the following categories: Elite, U23, junior, youth, students, Masters, women, juniors, female youth, students and MastersÜ50. The former German-Cross-Master and cycling expert Kart Migel most looking forward particularly to the young race: Learning "The trip in the area work around the youth on a bicycle, to later dominate in the ever-increasing road her bike. " But the race go-known professionals such as the classics specialist Marcel Sieberg and André Greipel, with 21 victories in the International Calendar - four of them at the Vuelta - the most successful German racing cyclist of the year. The racing spectacle in the Günther-Klotz-conditioning starts at 10.30am.
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