Shhhh! I think I hear cowbells in the distance…

If you haven’t heard Cyclocross season is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to glue up the tubies, procure your fine embrocations, and be able to say “I put on my new skinsuit” and not have it be creepy.

Ever wonder what a CX bike would look like if Christmas threw up on it?

Only in CX racing can we get excited about ugly bikes. Sure, those swanky Iglehearts are bad ass. And the Quantonium injected, Unabtainium alloy/Carbon fibre mix frames weigh like ½ a pound and are at least 63% more vertically compliant and 72% more laterally stiff. But there is always something special about the ugly franken bike most of us race. And there is something to be said about putting $600 wheels on a $100 bike like I will this year. My wife sure had something to say about it… My current cross frame only has 2 dents and the stays only have two coats of touch up paint. That’s practically brand new for a CX rig.

Anyway, registrations are opening. All the OVCX races this year are on Bikereg.com for one stop shopping. We have Huber’s Apple Cross and the Lionheart CX as pre-season races this year. And for the first time the Ohio Valley gets a USAC Regional Masters Championship race.

This week all the practices are starting and next week the weekly CX TT series in Cincinnati starts. Since the road time trial is called the “race of truth”, I am dubbing the CX version the “race of it’s-not-a-lie-if-I-believe-it.”

Hup-hup buttercups.