Weekend Forecast: A Potentially Frozen Edition of Supercross Cup
Words: Cullen MacDonald
Photographs: Sebastian Vidal and Daghan Perker
Well well well. Look who’s back for more forecasting. This weekend, we’ve got an excellent race practically in New York City’s backyard. Supercross Cup features a number of amenities: hot indoor showers, multi-hose bike washing station, tons of parking right next to the start line. All of these features are required because of the infamous weather that occurs just before and during the weekend each year. As long as I’ve been Doing Cross™, at least one of the race days features knee deep mud and running. It ends up being one of those days where you really come to respect the pros over in Europe.
The course itself is well designed and expertly taped. When its dry, its a super fast course with a bunch of ups and downs and off camber sweeping turns. When it’s wet…it’s very wet and mostly unridable. Both of these statements being true has lead to a wild weekend of racing where one day is a fast “grass crit” and the other day isn’t “just Day 1 but backwards" but a completely different beast. Below are two different videos demonstrating the two different courses this single location can feature.
The Forecast
So what do the gods of cyclocross have in store for us on this 2019 edition of Supercross? I am happy to report that its looking like both days will be dry. You heard it here first, folks. It will be bitterly cold for everyone on both days with a low of 27º and a high of 35º, but it will be dry.
Registration is still open, so sign up, hop in a car, and come race the closest UCI race to New York City.
Don’t forget a towel!