THIS IS CYCLOCROSS !!!

[@frodo5882]

3:32 That is insane. I cannot believe it...

[@HPCyclocross]

It is Thibault Nys, the son of Sven Nys.

[@frodo5882]

@@HPCyclocross Ah well, then we can expect him to do these things 😅

[@HPCyclocross]

@@frodo5882 This is on the track owned by Sven Nys (basically in his backyard more or less) so he has a lot of practice :)

[@frodo5882]

@@HPCyclocross How is the track called? Can I find the race somewhere on KZbin?

[@HPCyclocross]

@@frodo5882 search for Gp Sven Nys or cyclocross Baal. You wil find footage of several years. This race takes place as long as I remember

[@allieworkman8625]

I am a cyclocross rider who has been riding for about 6ish years now. This sport is some of the most fun I have ever had in my entire life. It's difficult and can be very dangerous but once you start that race, the adrenaline rushes in, and it's just the most rewarding thing to finish a race. The feeling of passing someone and flying through the finish line is one of the best things ever.

[@mjscpr]

Where do you see the danger? Asking as someone coming from road bikes interested in the sport.

[@allieworkman8625]

@@mjscpr Sometimes the start line gets crowded and someone will crash and it starts a chain reaction. other times it's the elements put in a race like flyovers and off-camber turns. Really hope you have fun if you try it! We need more people in the sport!

[@ericnordmeyer6037]

@@mjscpr actually far less dangerous than road racing, I want to say. You are going to crash more often, but rarely with much impact. Your ankles might tell you a different story about pedals... but, go for it!

[@고양샘]

WAoooo~~~~Unbelievable!!!! Marvelous ~~

[@christellelemaire9749]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@murkymurk8305]

Music fits perfectly. These guys are born for this.

[@nathancrick7053]

i am junior in cycling, and have done nearly every discipline, Road, Track, MTB and Cyclocross. Cyclocross is by far the best for me. i held a state tittle for a number of years, and even a National series for 1 year. best experience of my life. love the racing

[@alterego3590]

This discipline of cycling forms the toughest and hardest of all cyclists. Van De Poel, Van Aert, Alaphilippe have all been formed in this discipline, all were champions in this discipline, before heading for road racing. If ever you get the opportunity to come to Flanders and live these races, you will understand the character and the tenacity of this sport - a perfect reflection of the character of the people whom invented it...

[@timl7935]

I did cyclocross in Belgium...hardest sport of my life.

[@arthurvandenbroucke2286]

I am from Belgium and this is an amazing sport !!! This most be an Olympic sport 🥇

[@johns3106]

@Arthur Vandenbroucke The Olympics would suck the soul out of the sport!

[@S.Prestage]

@@johns3106 it's not a summer sport

[@johns3106]

@Sebastian Prestage American football isn't a summer sport either...that doesn't mean it should be in the Winter Olympics!

[@HPCyclocross]

I agree on the part that this is an amazing sport, but to be an Olympic sport I think there should be more nationalities involved.

[@johns3106]

@HPC Yes! A sport dominated by the Belgians and Dutch (and maybe the odd Czech every once in a while) is not really an "universal" sport. I love it anyway (just the way it is)!!

[@betofogo17]

You must have a reliable supporting team to do this. Great cycling skills too.

[@shemshem9998]

really? i dont see how, not as much other cycling categories in my experience

[@montynelson5033]

i'm a mountain biker now, but for a long time i used to cyclocross racing, can't credit this sport enough for giving me mad endurance and just comfort on a lot of different tricky terrain. apart from rock rolls, still hate those 😂

[@mikaelellingson3997]

Awesome collections of clips! Great video! Makes me wish I had a cross bike again, lol

[@marcusbielski7080]

As some one who races motocross, I have mad respect for them🤘

[@Strandjutter]

Incredibly beautiful sport!

[@westisdwn3558]

Great video - definitely the most pure form of cycling :) At this point I’m not sure that the drop bars are even doing anything anymore…

[@martial8574]

That's why there is xc bike

[@lxi_zx6493]

this is an amazing video!!

[@lst1nwndrlnd]

"Daddy, why are all those people on bikes crying" 💪

[@ChrisGoOut]

Amazing pictures and emotions Guys 😍 I love it 💪

[@joshuapocong8489]

Xc rider here this makes me proud of the cycling community ❤️

[@lukasparbst9655]

Cameron Mason on the S-Works at the start hahahaha

[@Mikefngarage]

in the early 80s mountain bikes were a new thing and I was riding road. We did some cyclocross riding dirt roads during our rides. a couple of the guys were totally into it. I Thought hey were crazy all the chances of falling were not my cup of tea. After that mountain bikes became a thing and cyclocross kept on going. I never understood until I was up skiing and talked to the owner of the resort. 2 really bad years of snow in a row. I mentioned what about doing a downhill for these mountain bikers. He said yea we were thinking about it. I bet there will be a lot of people that would show up. because pedaling uphill in the mountains totally sucks. He said yea We may just do that. THat summer they did the first downhill ride on a weekend. Put hooks on the lifts. Tried it 1 weekend and it was a hit. After that they do better in the summer than in the winter.

[@frenstep]

This is at another lvl… had new idea of this new area. Awesome competition for the strong one

[@theworkethic]

It’s not new

[@dcrunicycles]

Thank you from Truckee California. Nice. Some cx in the snow would complete this.

[@HPCyclocross]

I agree, I can't even remember the last time I saw a race in the snow

[@herbertbates4655]

@@HPCyclocross 2005 USA National Championships, and I think Namur was run in snow several years ago. But I take your point. Even here in the Northeastern US snowy cross races are becoming rare.

[@ridgundd7932]

they do its always in the winter on ice field etc but yeah its not so cold anymore then it used to be in belgium thats probably why there is not much footage of that. greetz from belgium

[@jojo-._.]

Okay... So cyclocross is making a bike seem as out of place as possible... No seriously that looks awesome!

[@lenatrespenhofer3316]

Until yesterday I didn't even know that this exist. I thought there were nothing inbetween racing & mountainbike.... that's insane!

[@HPCyclocross]

Haha, in Belgium cyclocross is one of the biggest sports.

[@lenatrespenhofer3316]

@@HPCyclocross a friend of mine from belgium told me yesterday! Glad I know now, wish I had known before.

[@remimartinache1314]

Great as always

[@RubenKeyaert]

best song ever

[@_byrtsi]

I have owned a bike like that for many years but have never seen the sport before. I seem to have been on the right track though: speeding like hell on flats, carrying the bike, taking it to terrain where I shouldn't, and of course, flying over the handle bar

[@Mikefngarage]

we were doing this in the 80s......been around a while. started about the time mountain bikes were becoming a thing.

[@bramrc1246]

How I feel on my way to school when it raind

[@valeriemclaughlin3082]

You are hard core my dear!!

[@clevername8832]

As someone who grew up watching dirt bike moto cross this is hilarious!

[@peterbkrogh]

Why?

[@emausderratsuchende5447]

The real heroes of cycling ...

[@ЮрийНикитенко-н8р]

Вело Это Мощь ,Красота, СИЛА.. Выносливость!!!! Лучший спорт для мужчины, согласитесь... Не мордобой какой-то.....)))

[@KKotaushi]

100%

[@baka4305]

I love how gravel bike is getting alot of spotlight lately

[@outerstellar7186]

OK, I get it! Cycloloss is about losing control, falling, and running, tnx!

[@bramrc1246]

How I feel on my way to school when it rains

[@zubayrbhyat8077]

My god. This is nuts.

[@marcmaurisse7004]

RESPECT vraiment fort !!!

[@sleg8]

Love it. Great 👍

[@ミスターステーション]

I think this race is the most difficult of all bike races.

[@vfgjasminebaker]

Yes it most certainly is!

[@Street_Workout_2007]

Осталось сделать гонку по асфальту на мтб, вот там экшен будет!

[@nishiki7047]

That’s BMX

[@boomshine7]

cross is pog, i respect em

[@robertdewar1752]

Great video. Shame that music came on though.

[@LukaszRogowiczYamaortodks]

For many years I have been wondering that no one will tell these people that MTB was invented 🤯

[@Dmitriy_velogen]

Всегда думал, что Итальянцы и Французы, сымые велосипедные нации. Но оказывается Бельгийци и Голландцы абсолютно такие же веломаньяки. Ван дер Пул конечно же "машина". Не знаю, какие выпускают в Нидерландах машины, он Мэтью точно самая мощная! Красавчег, от него ещё все и на шоссе "заплачат" скоро.

[@markus539]

Do you hate Wout? You only show his crashes^^

[@oleg72333]

They go other the bars so often.. Because front wheel is narrow and handlebar is narrow, and head tube angle is steep

[@антонвласов-з5щ]

Give me please music

[@franco992]

How do the riders pace themselves or is it just max effort for the hour? It looks like there are no sections to allow for recovery or to get the heart rate lower? Must be hard to manage your effort.

[@HPCyclocross]

it depends on the race/track but mostly it is indeed full gas for 1 hour. Especially when Van der Poel or Van Aert participate...

[@franco992]

@@HPCyclocross wow, that’s pretty hardcore. Thanks for replying, loved the video 👍

[@HandlewithcareVibes]

Great compilation

[@optix4204]

When road bikers want some Mtb fun. It’s awesome

[@lrg8737]

Somehow this strikes me as less dangerous than the Tour de France

[@HPCyclocross]

I agree!

[@ohjajohh]

One of the toughest sports there is

[@theriskinator5736]

HPC are you a bike racer yourself?

[@HPCyclocross]

I was one until 2019

[@rfanirban]

This is torture 😂

[@jokopebrianto7176]

Good RB rasa MTB 👍😁

[@SomeUserInternet]

Another great youtube video that I really enjoyed. And I would love to share my favourite sport of cyclocross with people I know. But I honestly can't do it with this embarrassing background sound. Why is it so often that people make amazing video and put some crap background sound(yes, I wrote sound, rather music on purpose)?! There is plenty free neutral youtube music to choose from

[@HPCyclocross]

I really don't understand how you can really enjoy the video but hate the music (yes i wrote music). the music is part of the video and made especially to fit the song. Feel free to mute the video and play a sound ( yes, i wrote sound) you like. I hope you understand that your opinion doesn't mean that something is embarrassing or bad, everyone has a different taste in music and it's impossible to make a video with a song every single person likes. But I can guarantee you that a video with free neatral youtube music wouldn't speak to as much of my audiance.

[@SomeUserInternet]

@@HPCyclocross I think I explained it in a very simple way in my comment :) You put together great moments of my favourite sport. And you made it very well. So thank you for that. I would love to share it with other people who I know would enjoy it too, but I don't want to also tell them - "Please watch without sound, I only like the sport not that music. I promise" Sorry, I'm not a teenager anymore

[@mooseandspade6251]

They should rename cyclocross Van Der Poel'O Cross.

[@caperider1160]

Curious... could a cross country champion win cyclocross race on an zc bike?

[@nstrug]

No. The courses are optimised for CX bikes and while an XC bike might be faster on specific sections it will be way slower on others and very awkward to carry on run ups. In the UK CX races (apart from Nationals) are completely open and you can ride them on any bike. Beginners often start on an XC MTB but if they stick with the sport will soon switch to a CX bike in order to have any chance of being competitive.

[@maiwald6293]

KINGS

[@florianjunghans8087]

If you've never done a cyclocross race, you don't know what a bike race is!

[@ЮрийНикитенко-н8р]

Это Вам не мотоцикл.... Здесь мощь и выносливость нужна!!!! Мото тоже!!! Респект и Уважение!!!!!!!

[@robindesager]

Mvdp = GOAT Prove me wrong...

[@martinb.8620]

Tremenda intensidad. Wow.

[@bpwnz360]

where are the women at?

[@proton9551]

can you enter a mountain bike for this event?

[@HPCyclocross]

no it's not allowed. It also would be a huge disadvantage in my opinion.

[@tungstenkid2271]

i'd enjoy watching cyclo-cross more if I understood what the length of the races are. I found this bit on the net but haven't a clue what it means, it's so complicated- "The rulebook says that races (elite men) have to last for approximately one hour. The jury notes the lap times in the first two laps and after that they calculate how many laps the riders will have to ride. In a regular race, the goal is to get as close to 60 minutes as possible, but in a world cup race the race has to last longer than one hour. So if one lap takes 6 minutes, elite men have to ride 10 laps in a regular race and 11 laps in a world cup race (women and U23 men race for 50 minutes, juniors for 40 minutes).

[@omegaPhix]

And what about that definition do you not get? Races take 60 minutes give or take

[@tungstenkid2271]

@@omegaPhix Thanks, i shall have to study the rules more, but I can't figure out why the races aren't simply run over a fixed number of laps instead of that complicated '1 hour" business. PS- i rode a few crosses years ago in a local cycling club and the length was "One hour plus one lap"; i muddled through somehow but don't understand what that meant even to this day..:)

[@MDP1702]

@@tungstenkid2271 Because different parcours have different laptimes. If you just say alway 10 laps, you could have races of only 45-50 minutes and races with 100 minutes. So taking around 1 hour per race is the more consistent method.

[@tungstenkid2271]

@@MDP1702 But how do you know when you've finished the race? I took part in about 3 races in the 1970's and hadn't a friggin clue how long we'd been riding etc, it must have put a lot of kids off taking up the sport.

[@MDP1702]

@@tungstenkid2271 When you are about to get/getting lapped, you are taken out of the race. The last lap is notified by the ringing of a bell on the start of the last lap. Ofcourse in amateur races, a lot depends on the organisation themselves.

[@rezenclowd3]

Cyclocross sounded fun, then I went full sus.....

[@393ege]

Respect!!

[@grumpyrituals]

from this video, it looks like, that most skilled cyclists, do the strangest sport.

[@AZJBOYY]

Wath song

[@HPCyclocross]

Born for this by the Score

[@banana122049]

So this is just doing remarkably rad things on something similar to a road bike

[@nathan_4199]

They do that on those tires??? I would have fell in the first sand with a mountain bike 💀

[@nishiki7047]

So wanna do this but I cannot afford at least two competitive bikes

[@christophercamargo4775]

Caraca, modalidade difícil!!

[@felixthene5246]

1:54 wip 🤟🔥

[@AmogusSusAmongusSussyBakaAmogg]

when you dont have enough money to buy a mtb:

[@HPCyclocross]

These guys have like 3 bikes during a race and they are not cheaper haha

[@ミスターステーション]

3:32 how?!

[@quicksandgm_]

I can do this

[@prateekparbat]

Anything can happen here..............

[@manah3313]

Woaw j'ai trop envie de faire ça

[@thedaily9514]

I don't understand。 Why not use a cross country mountain bike to do this?

[@2210ihp1]

It seems fun to do but i dont see much excitement in it as a spectator, unless ure supporting a certain athlete

[@mariedbk]

if only I had known this sport earlier! unfortunately in Wallonia it is barely publicized. at 25 it's too late to learn cyclo-cross ... too bad I'll stay on the road :(

[@HPCyclocross]

It's never too late to have some fun in the mud. You don't need to be the next Van der Poel to enjoy it ;). It's really strange how this is one of the most popular sports in the flemish part of our country and in Wallonia most people don't even know who Sven Nys is.

[@mariedbk]

@@HPCyclocross Luckily I know Sven Nys because I come from a family that loves cycling. But I did not follow the CX more than that at the time when it was racing against Niels Albert. This sport is so technical that I'm afraid it's too late even for fun ^^ '. and finding a club in Wallonia it's going to be difficult x'D I should try to go see Overijse or Leuven. These are the Flemish towns closest to me.

[@HPCyclocross]

@@mariedbk Well, the learning part is always the most fun. You're gonna explore so many new roads where you never going to get on your road bike :). There is a beautiful race on and around the citadel of Namur. It's the part that starts from 1:14 in this video.

[@mariedbk]

@@HPCyclocross let's go find a place or a club where to practice cyclo cross! yes I saw this race live on TV, I remember it very well !! we still have the most important races broadcast on Proximus 11 or on RTBF. It's only been since last year that I watch regularly. sometimes I watch on Sporza. this is good for learning Flemish :p (sorry for my english )

[@rohanjaison106]

MTB like, am I joke to you?

[@shemshem9998]

its basicaly XC with more mud and less of that chunkyness

[@tobiaslollesgaard7389]

have they heard that the mountainbike was invented in the 90's ;)

[@DerEingefrorene]

To me this just looks like some dudes using the wrong kind of bike on a muddy trail... Of course the fall over and slip all the time with their road bike tires. But it indeed looks like fun.

[@yelloface1085]

rip rims

[@martial8574]

Give these poor guys a good xc bike

[@thomashenderson3901]

One question: Why does anyone put themselves through this?!

[@HPCyclocross]

Wait so you never drifted trough the mud with your bicycle?

[@thomashenderson3901]

@@HPCyclocross All the time, but never on a completely unsuitable bike! Looks like bloody hard work on drop handle bars.

[@HPCyclocross]

@@thomashenderson3901 to me it looks like these bikes are the fastest way around these courses.

[@thomashenderson3901]

@@HPCyclocross I guess a back to back VS an equally fit MTB rider would be interesting. Cartainly less prone to generating and then getting stuck in those ruts.

[@HPCyclocross]

@@thomashenderson3901 that would be interesting! Mathieu Van der Poel is dominating cyclocross at the moment and is also a very good mtb rider. So maybe they should give him a mountain bike in a couple of races :p

[@denzelpardillo1181]

Cyclocross is basically xcmtb using roadbikes, and I bow my heads to these guys.

[@Draculapin]

Just a bit extreme

[@simonegger5699]

It is so fucking stupid to choose a bike like that for this kind of terrain 😁 thats exactly why this is so much fun 👍

[@marcosierra1822]

Im just seeing this for the first time. This course looks awesome. But road bikes seem like horrible tools for it. Is the whole idea to use a road bike in every element? Why not use a mountain bike? Even a hardtail would work well.

[@HPCyclocross]

It's not a road bike, these bikes have more space for wider tyres and have more space between the pedals and the ground. There are more small diferences but these are the most important. They also change bikes every (few) lap, depending on how dirty the course is.

[@teampouet8271]

Des conditions normales chez moi 🤣

[@numan_n791]

Just MTB Bicycle

[@Strandjutter]

Schitterende sport!

[@trulsdirio]

So basically it is some road bikers vehemently denying they are in mountain bike territory lol

[@robertobarna234]

i do not understand why they not use a mountain bike for this kind of tracks. Great athlets anyway

[@HPCyclocross]

most of these trakcs would be pretty boring with a mountain bike. There are not many exciting tracks in flemish part of Belgium and the Netherlands, but with these bikes there still are oppurtunities to make a difference on the technical parts.

[@eliasdanieli5461]

Xc on steroids