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    4. Brian on

      A lot of pros, former pros and UCI Conti riders doing it. There are some brands now who make 'beach race' specific frames but most frames are old MTB frames as the BB is lower which is something you want for the flat beach. The forks are simply rigid MTB forks.

    5. X X on

      Hi Jesse, great video as always, thanks! Some (hopefully useful! feedback for you – I don't know how these videos compare to your training videos in terms of views etc, but personally I really enjoy seeing them as part of a mixed content approach on your channel, especially where they show unusual events with a local flavour from around the world – I don't think you need to try too hard on the "reaction" part (that's the least interesting bit for me), its just interesting seeing some of the more obscure and local flavours of cycling from around the world – not "novelty", just unusual or not widely covered. Hopefully with the number of subscribers you are building now people can suggest other events you can highlight – couple of quick suggestions from me if you think any of these would be interesting might be (1) RedBull Timelaps, (2) UK Hill climbing championships, (3) Brompton World Championship (or the similar "Goni Pony", (4) the Dutch headwind competition, (5) the Simpson Desert Bike Challenge in Australia, (6) Japanese keirin racing, (7) British road time trials, and (8) the Six Day series

    6. X X on

      In terms of the rim brakes you point out I think that actually makes a lot of sense – if the race is all flat and you need to keep on the power constantly to keep the inertia with the sand being so sapping, then you're not likely to be on the brakes a lot so not needing to get on the brakes much – and disk brakes seem far more likely to suffer from grinding/interference/clogging up with sand given the narrow tolerances between disk and pad. Interesting to see how a specific niche bike has "evolved" for the unique demands of this event type, it doesn't get more niche than this! I think its a wonderful variation of event and presumably great training overcoming that resistance to pedal on sand. I'm guessing the tyre pressures must be like 10psi given that its on sand for what looks like 95% or more of the course. Fascinating!

    12. Gavin Ward on

      Thanks for posting this, I’d never seen this beach racing ever before so I really enjoyed watching the video, particularly the epic start was amazing!

    13. YannickLB on

      13:13 is Jasper Ockeloen. He's a really good rider too. Has his cycling socks company with some cool prints on them. He's friends with Ivar and Laurens ten Dam a former pro cyclist that still wins big gravel races. Fun people to follow.
      I've seen video's of them beachracing at 50 to 60kph.
      They use mtb's, but they swap the fork for a wide gravel ish fork. The tires have no profile also. About the same size as mtb tires.
      They also use the bikes for gravel riding.

    17. grammycee on

      Went down the dropbar beachracing bike rabbit hole a year back. Mainly thinking of mixed gravel and low tide beach stretches running a 29×2.2-2.4. Great fun.

      The older rim-brake frames would make for a cheaper-end build.

      Wikkit does some nice alu framesets.

    21. Cicli Olmo on

      there are some areas of the course where the sand is softer and the sand will literally 'grab' your wheel and will want to throw you into a certain direction. A wider posture using flat bars allows you to be more firm on the steering as opposed to a narrower arm posture using drop bars. As an extreme example, can you imagine descending a technical rock-boulder-section of an mtb cross with drop bars ? that would be very difficult.

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