Is anyone racing the Kings Cup in a few weeks time? Our first gravel ‘race’ in the UK ?!
I recce’d the course yesterday and there’s about 20% gravel! The rest is long grass and a little bit of sand/flint. Very little gear changes or breaking and obviously not technical at all. However, I did think it would be more of an off-road TT but given the change in surfaces it’s likely the power profile will be a bit more spikey, using the gravel roads to recover eat/drink - definitely a preference for me!
I ran Challenge Limus, 33mm, 40 psi (53kg) yesterday and no problem with grip but it was VERY bumpy! Best we can hope for is some rain beforehand but if I look to change to a 40mm gravel tyre will there be an advantage? Any disadvantages? Any advice on pressure?
I actually have zero experience of gravel set up, I’m a CX’er! My bike will take up to 51mm.
I was going to do the short-course time trial, but they cancelled it due to lack of entries. Since my fitness isn’t up to the full-length race I signed up for a 10k run instead.
I do think it will be fun and it’s certainly got big promotion but I’m not sure it’s quite as advertised. I guess does it really matter if it’s a good event? Prob not!
And that’s at a national level. No Fuss Events did the Cowal Way Chase in 2018, I imagine there’s been quite a few local/regional events put on across the UK.
A couple of mates in the club did. One shipped his chain but still did 19mph and the other was 5th with a 19.4mph average (and thats Strava so it might have been actually faster), rapid
I think my mate’s tactics were to go off hard so it was thinned out before the technical bits.
