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# BESANCON LA MALCOMBE

CYCLOCROSS 29 DEC MUD FRANCE

WORLD CUP · BESANCON · 2026-27

HAIRPINS IN THE COMBE AND THE WOOD

LAP 2.54 KM

CLIMBING +21 M

OBSTACLES 4

CORNERS 39

TIGHTEST R 5 M

RIDERS 0

## THE LAP

The lap's surfaces from the line round, 2.54 km: grass 2,350 m, asphalt 186 m; a tick at each obstacle

grass 2,350 m asphalt 186 m an obstacle

Elevation profile: 21 m of climbing over a 2.54 km lap, the surfaces under it

Map of Besancon La Malcombe, north up

## THE COURSE

**HOST**

Besancon, France

**WORLD CUP**

On the World Cup in 2024-25 and 2026-27.

**RACE DAY**

29 DEC: usually muddy.

**SETTING**

A park.

**SECTIONS**

The wood (from 1465 m), The finish car park (from 2366 m)

## 4 OBSTACLES

Besancon La Malcombe: its obstacles from the line

| Obstacle | At | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PLANKS | 264 m | Two boards across the course: hop them or jump off and run |
| FLYOVER | 771 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| THE PIT | 1953 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| OFF-CAMBER | 2138 m | Across the slope: stay upright |

39 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 5 m, at 19 km/h at most.

## HOW IT'S RACED

### CROSS RACE

So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.

- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.

## LEADERBOARD

The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.

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