Draft:SSCXWC

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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{{Cite web |title=Interview: Dani Dance on the SSCXWC 10th Anniversary and Returning to Portland

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/dani-dance-sscxwc-10th-anniversary-portland-oregon-cyclocross

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}} with 140 racers{{Cite web |title=Single Speed World Champs “Crowned” in Portland

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/single-speed-world-champs-crowned-in-portland

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}. 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{{Cite web |title=Throwback Thursday: 2018 SSCXWC in Tournai, Belgium Photo Gallery

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/throwback-thursday-photos-2018-sscxwc-single-speed-cyclocross-world-championships

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}. The SSCXWC has increasingly become known for its party-like atmosphere.

Per tradition, if you win you must get a tattoo{{Cite web |title=Adam Craig’s SSCXWC Tattoo Is Imperfectly Perfect

|url=https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20050224/adam-craig-s-sscxwc-tattoo-is-imperfectly-perfect

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Bicycling Magazine}}{{Cite web |title=The bike that won Adam Craig a tattoo

|url=https://www.bikeradar.com/features/the-bike-that-won-adam-craig-a-tattoo

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Bike Radar}}{{Cite web |title=Lizard People: Gilbert, Chance Win 2019 SSCXWC

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/results-2019-singlespeed-cyclocross-world-championships-sscxwc

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}, resulting in controversy when doing so was refused{{Cite web |title=Interview: Dani Dance on the SSCXWC 10th Anniversary and Returning to Portland

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/dani-dance-sscxwc-10th-anniversary-portland-oregon-cyclocross

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=cCyclocross Magazine}}{{Cite web |title=Interview: John Walrod, the SSCXWC Location Revealed and the Human Roulette Wheel

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/interview-john-walrod-sscxwc-2016-portland-oregon

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}. 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{{Cite web |title=Adam Craig’s SSCXWC Tattoo Is Imperfectly Perfect

|url=https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20050224/adam-craig-s-sscxwc-tattoo-is-imperfectly-perfect

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Bicycling Magazine}}. Some well-known cyclo-cross racers, such as Ryan Trebon and Barry Wicks, purposely gave up 1st place to avoid the tattoo{{Cite web |title=The Interview: Ryan Trebon on Retirement

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/ryan-trebon-interview-on-retirement-cyclocross-racing-august-2016

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}. Giant made a special single-speed model, the TCX SLR SS{{Cite web |title= Adam Craig's Limited-Edition TCX SLR SS

|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4a8oNR2acw

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Giant Bicycles}}, in celebration of SSCXWC and Craig's 3rd singlespeed world championship with a funky tattoo motif{{Cite web |title=Adam Craig’s Giant TCX SLR SS

|url=https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a20005870/adam-craig-s-giant-tcx-slr-ss/

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Bicycling Magazine}}.

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.”{{Cite web |title=SSCXWC 2022 Durango: Where Winners are Losers and Losers are Winners

|url=https://theradavist.com/sscxwc-2022-durango-event-recap

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204121639/https://theradavist.com/sscxwc-2022-durango-event-recap/ |archive-date=4 February 2023 |access-date=29 December 2024 |publisher=theradavist.com}}

It has mostly held in the United States of American, but has also been held in Europe, in Verona, Italy (2017){{Cite web |title=SSCXWC 2017 Photo Gallery: Verona, Italy Brings a New Era in the Old World

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/sscxwc-2017-cyclocross-singlespeed-world-championships-verona-italy-photo-gallery

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}} and Tournai, Belgium (2018){{Cite web |title=Throwback Thursday: 2018 SSCXWC in Tournai, Belgium Photo Gallery

|url=https://www.cxmagazine.com/throwback-thursday-photos-2018-sscxwc-single-speed-cyclocross-world-championships

|access-date=3 January 2025 |publisher=Cyclocross Magazine}}