How to go Through Open Corners in Cyclocross Racing

Video Transcript

"MICKEY DENONCOURT: You got two fundamental type of corners that you see in a bike race. You got an open corner and a close corner, increasing radius and decreasing radius corner. So as we ride through an open corner, an increasing radius corner, the exit of the corner is at a wider angle than the entrance of the corner. So we can basically go into those corners really hot and as long as we place our bike fairly well, we're going to make it out okay. So I'm going to go into this corner that is ahead of me and just make a nice, wide arc through it. I'm going to just make a nice, big circle. It's pretty easy. This will be a good corner to follow somebody through, not much of a chance of going down. So as I go through the corner and I just sort of set up wide, arc my way through, it's probably wide enough that I can pedal. And as I come out of it, I just can keep going. So I'm going to do it a little bit faster this time. So a nice, wide corner, I can break pretty much anywhere in there without the fear of getting pulled off into the tape or crashed in or anything like that. Corners like that are beautiful. They're easy to deal with. But, you know, because the whole idea with a cyclocross race is to always have people transitioning between fast and slow, accelerating and decelerating, where you might see more of our closed corners or decreasing radius corners."