Ask a Cycling Coach: 118 – Cross Vegas Review with Special Guest: Keegan Swenson

• How to race with a bent derailleur hanger
• The one thing you shouldn’t do right before a race
• Why your disc brakes may be rubbing
• How much aggression is okay in cx?
• How to get a good start, even from the back of the pack
• How to know when to make passes and when to wait
• How to know if you should ride or run stairs?
• How to not clip your pedals on stairs
• How to remount smoothly in a turn
• When bunny hopping barriers is a bad idea
• Tips for making it through a sand section
• How to drift turns on a CX bike
• What your tread can tell you about how your bike will handle
• What it takes to get a UCI point in cyclocross
• Chad, Nate and Jonathan’s results at Cross Vegas
• The key that most amateur CX racers are missing
• How to know if your race is over, or if you can salvage it
• What makes a good single speed course?
• How to beat somebody with a higher power to weight ratio in CX