The Three Peaks Cyclo Cross and Iron Cross Blog

Some thoughts (and some guidance of perhaps dubious value) on the World's two greatest Long Distance Cyclo Cross Races

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Gaspipes 'R Us - The Way We Were...

(Photo: Chris Dallison. Click on image top view full size) That last post about the Revel Romany 531ST - got me thinking about how things h...

The Man with too many 'Cross Bikes (Part 2)

With only 6 1/2 months to go to the Three Peaks and 7 months to Iron Cross # 7 my thoughts have started to turn towards how not to get my b...

Monday, 16 March 2009

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul…

…at last an Iron Cross #6 report! (part une) Apologies to all my ten readers for the 5 month silence, but for me (but certainly not for mos...

Thursday, 9 October 2008

Iron Cross # 6 - 3 days to go. Live in Pennsylvania

Only 3 days left until the sixth running of YBR's 60 mile Iron Cross in Michaux State Forest, and I'm here in Pennsylvania, wonderin...

Friday, 3 October 2008

09.44hrs Sunday 28th September 2008

Just prior to the 'off' last Sunday morning. No other caption required, except to say that I can only see three former winners of t...

Roger Ingham MBE & John Rawnsley, who deserves one.

I just really love this picture. It shows the 'Voice of the Three Peaks' - the very wonderful Roger Ingham MBE . Roger provides bo...

The man with too many 'cross bikes...

And this is the one that I'll be packing up in a bike bag tomorrow for the trip to Iron Cross #6. Ex-ebay Flam-blue Raleigh Special Pro...

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This is me...

Ian Briggs: Luton Bedfordshire UK and Torrox Costa, Andulucia, Espana; Professional ageing juvenile ('nom de course' - "Binky Huckaback"). I started racing in 1968 whilst in the UK Armed Forces as away of getting out of cookhouse duties and amateur dramatics (seriously). Based in Luton UK, with a second home in Southern Spain near to Malaga - and riding for US club, Capital Bicycle Racing Club aka CBRC (it's a long story). During my 40 year racing 'career' I've actually managed to win a few races, but a very long time ago now. These were mostly 'Cross, some massed start and even a couple of BCF Division Pursuit Championships. However I hasten to add that this was invaribly when no-one else bothered to turn up, or if they did, failed to spot me sitting on their wheel for the entire race. Now one of the planet's leading exponents of the Olympian ideal "it's not the winning that counts - it's the taking part" i.e - I'm rubbish, I work at London Luton Airport, the UK home of budget / low cost air travel. I've ridden and finished the Three Peaks Cyclo Cross twelve times and the Iron Cross twice...

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