What is the difference between XCO and MTB?

[jaxtun]

Ya i do MTB

You sure??

[Stretch]

Think it has. Pretty sure I've watched a national XCE here at Cascades. Maybe it wasn't - but there's definately been MTB festivals at Cascades that have included XCE.

 

actually, I think you are right...and didnt karkloof have an eliminator series this year or last year?

 

and for those wanting to see what it is about - watch the xce from this weekend

 

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331608330271/replay-uci-mtb-world-championships-2013-xce

[Ryanpmb]

 

 

actually, I think you are right...and didnt karkloof have an eliminator series this year or last year?

 

and for those wanting to see what it is about - watch the xce from this weekend

 

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331608330271/replay-uci-mtb-world-championships-2013-xce

Karkloof now has an XCO course too.

[dman2]

What is the difference between XCO and MTB?

 

I know XCO is cross Country, does this mean the race is easy?

 

Please comment.

 

Problem: Race is easy.

Solution: Ride faster, it is never easy you just go quicker!

[Supervan]

Thanks for all your feedback.

[Guest Latent Blue]

Thanks for all your feedback.

 

Are you swissvan's father?

[SwissVan]

Are you swissvan's father?

 

Hope not for his sake, he'd be 91 yrs old

[kosmonooit]

I've seen slopestyle described as mountain biking as well - not for the faint-hearted! but awesome spectator sport.

 

http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb5417817/p4pb5417817.jpg

[Wyatt Earp]

What is the difference between XCO and MTB?

 

I know XCO is cross Country, does this mean the race is easy?

 

Please comment.

 

XCO

Cross Country Olympic distance.

You need good skill ,you need to be fast through technical stuff and have the ability to go full tilt from the gun.

 

MTB is what you use to do XCO.

[TimW]

This is how I understand it ...

 

MTB = Mountain biking -- the sport -- all the following fall under MTB

 

XCM = Cross country marathon (mostly what we do in SA)

XCO = Cross country Olympic (olympic discipline of lap racing -- like what was in PMB and Nino Schurter won).

XCE = Cross country eliminator (short laps of elimination racing -- like what was in PMB and some Aussie giant won)

DHI = Downhill (very fast and raced by men and women with big balls -- like what was in PMB and Greg Minnaar won -- and Nigel Hicks too

4X = Four cross: Downhill version of elimination type racing

[Stretch]

XCE = Cross country eliminator (short laps of elimination racing -- like what was in PMB and some Aussie giant won)

With a very Australian name like van Der ploeg!

[jaxtun]

With a very Australian name like van Der ploeg!

fitting cos he ploeged down the poor dude who came 2nd in his haste to celebrate

[Guest Latent Blue]

Hope not for his sake, he'd be 91 yrs old

 

Maybe he is just better cyclist?

 

Seeing that his name is SUPERvan...?

 

 

[Ryanpmb]

 

With a very Australian name like van Der ploeg!

Do any ozzies have an 'ozzie' surname?

[Supervan]

http://highschoolmtb.co.za/moutainbike-race-types

 

There are a variety of sub-diciplines within the sport of mountainbiking. The mountainbike discipline according to the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale or World Cycling Body) is divided into 3 groups:

1. Cross Country: XC
   
2. Downhill: DH
   
3. Four Cross: 4X
   

Downhill and Four Cross are also referred to as "gravity" events.

Cross country consists of 8 race formats:

1. Cross country olympic : XCO (also the Olympic format - the high school mountainbike series lap-racing falls into this category)
   
2. Cross country marathon : XCM (generally a single lap event over a longer distance compared to XCO)
   
3. Cross country point-to-point : XCP (the only difference between XCM and XCP is that XCM starts and ends in the same place where XCP has a different finish point to start point)
   
4. Cross country short circuit : XCC (a very short lap race format)
   
5. Cross country eliminator : XCE (new format)
   
6. Cross country time trail : XCT (mountainbiking against the clock as opposed to riding against other riders)
   
7. Cross country team relay : XCR (24-hours mountainbike team events fall under this category)
   
8. Cross country stage race : XCS (the ABSA Cape-Epic event in the Western Cape, South Africa, is a well known mountainbike stage race)
   

Downhill consits of 2 formats:

1. Individual downhill : DHI
   
2. Massed-start downhill : DHM - also known as "avalance downhill"
   

Four cross consists of 4 riders racing down a track and the first rider to cross the finish line wins.

[Danger Dassie]

Do any ozzies have an 'ozzie' surname?

 

Kind of like Saffas in that sense.