Bikes Etc Magazine November 2017 Edición anterior

CRIT RACING: WHY IT'S A BLAST
If you’ve been spending the summer glued to the Tour de France and Vuelta a España on TV, you might well have developed an appetite for racing. But rather than just watch, how do you go about getting involved yourself? Actually, it’s much easier than you might imagine. Racing at a professional level requires incredible dedication, religious devotion to training, not to mention phenomenal levels of fitness, strength and endurance, so it’s no surprise that only a tiny number of aspiring racers make it to the top. At a domestic level, however, road racing is much more accessible, and with a thriving racing scene in the UK, there are events out there to suit everyone.