The Bullestrator Breaks Down the Overijse Lap 1 Pit Show

We try to get to the bottom of how Fem van Empel ended up doing the hokey pokey in the pit on Sunday at World Cup Overijse

One of my favorite trite truisms of cyclocross—up there with “the barriers don’t matter until they do”—is “you can’t win a race at the start, but you can definitely lose it.”

On Sunday at World Cup Overijse, the trite truism about losing the race at the start was in full effect. It was not because of the long, uphill cobbled climb that started the race,…