What is artistic cycling?
Artistic cycling is a very aesthetic kind of sport, comparable to ice dance or gymnastics. The sportsmen develop skills such as dexterity, balance, agility, concentration and courage.
In a show of 5 minutes the viewers will be presented a wide range of different figures on a bike. Competitions are based on a worldwide available regulation. Top of the season is a yearly world championship.
Judgement of artistic cycling:
The rules are written down in a worldwide applicable regulation. This regulation includes for each discipline (Single-, double-, 4-team- and 6-team-artistic cycling) 150-200 different figures. For this repertoire, the athlete's cooking with a set number of exercises and can also freely choose their music.
The maximum number of exercises includes :
- in Single 30 figures
- in double 25 figures (min 8 figures on two bikes, max 15 on one bike)
- in teamriding 25 figures.
Depending on the degree of the difficulty to obtain for each figure a certain number of points. In addition the various parts of the program is therefore a difficulty-score, with the start order decides. The athlete with the highest point total starts at last. The evaluation will be separated in execution, that kind of performance, and difficulty (content).
The performance of the figures could be on different length. The player can choose half round, full round, a half 8 in shape of a S, or a full 8.
On behalf of tactical figures they can improve their points. That will be on increasing turnings on the handlebar, or he will perform turning jumps up to 5 or 10 turnings.
