Routes / Cyclocross / Besancon La Malcombe
BESANCON LA MALCOMBE
CYCLOCROSS29 DECMUDFRANCEWORLD CUP · BESANCON · 2026-27
HAIRPINS IN THE COMBE AND THE WOOD
LAP2.54 KM
CLIMBING+21 M
OBSTACLES4
CORNERS39
TIGHTESTR 5 M
RIDERS0
THE LAP
grass 2,350 m asphalt 186 m an obstacle
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
| 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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