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SSCXWC or Single-Speed Cyclocross World Championship is a Cyclo-cross championship race event.
It founded in 2007 in Portland, Oregon, U.S. by Dani Dance[1] with 140 racers[2]. Racers must qualify for the "main event" race through a series of on-bike challenges the day before. Those that don't qualify, race in the "Everyone Is a Winner" exhibition race. Riders have been able to qualify based on feats of strength and courses have been littered with every obstacle imaginable[3]. The SSCXWC has increasingly become known for its party-like atmosphere.
Per tradition, if you win you must get a tattoo[4][5][6], resulting in controversy when doing so was refused[7][8]. It became mandatory in 2011, after Rapha-Focus athletes Chris Jones and Julie Krasniak refused to honor their respective wins with ink. Refusing the tattoo bars one from future SSCXWC races[9]. Some well-known cyclo-cross racers, such as Ryan Trebon and Barry Wicks, purposely gave up 1st place to avoid the tattoo[10]. Giant made a special single-speed model, the TCX SLR SS[11], in celebration of SSCXWC and Craig's 3rd singlespeed world championship with a funky tattoo motif[12].
UCI regulations do not apply here, instead there is a nonexistent rulebook. “Single Speed Cyclocross World Champs is the not-so-underground, fringe, party event that calls itself a World Champs and, in many ways, it is. But instead of (doing drugs) (marginal gains) that make you faster, you do things that make you slower like keg stands, whiskey shots, and hot dog hand-ups.”[13]
It has mostly held in the United States of American, but has also been held in Europe, in Verona, Italy (2017)[14] and Tournai, Belgium (2018)[15]
- ^ "Interview: Dani Dance on the SSCXWC 10th Anniversary and Returning to Portland". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Single Speed World Champs "Crowned" in Portland". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Throwback Thursday: 2018 SSCXWC in Tournai, Belgium Photo Gallery". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Adam Craig's SSCXWC Tattoo Is Imperfectly Perfect". Bicycling Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "The bike that won Adam Craig a tattoo". Bike Radar. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Lizard People: Gilbert, Chance Win 2019 SSCXWC". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Interview: Dani Dance on the SSCXWC 10th Anniversary and Returning to Portland". cCyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Interview: John Walrod, the SSCXWC Location Revealed and the Human Roulette Wheel". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Adam Craig's SSCXWC Tattoo Is Imperfectly Perfect". Bicycling Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "The Interview: Ryan Trebon on Retirement". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Adam Craig's Limited-Edition TCX SLR SS". Giant Bicycles. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Adam Craig's Giant TCX SLR SS". Bicycling Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "SSCXWC 2022 Durango: Where Winners are Losers and Losers are Winners". theradavist.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "SSCXWC 2017 Photo Gallery: Verona, Italy Brings a New Era in the Old World". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Throwback Thursday: 2018 SSCXWC in Tournai, Belgium Photo Gallery". Cyclocross Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2025.