We know, we know ... you're out of school and you save all of your vacation days for cyclocross season, not some trip to the beach, so why do you need a summer reading list? Well, even if you don't...
by Molly Hurford When Marianne Vos's name popped up on the start list at Sea Otter, you could see the ripple of excitement that went through the crowd. Vos has claimed almost every title available,...
25 May 2013
by Kat Statman We’ve talked about the Giro a little bit, particularly with their almost ’cross like weather for the past two weeks: cold, wet and cancelled for snow. OK, maybe that last bit wasn’t very cyclocross-like. But in the US, things were a little different at the Amgen Tour of California: scorching temperatures and [...]
25 May 2013
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – For the 2013/14 cyclocross season Honey Bikes is proud to announce a very special limited edition series of race bikes we are calling “Cross is Boss.” The Honey Cross is Boss Limited Edition machines are lighter, faster, and maybe the most unique ‘cross bikes available. Honey will deliver a race-ready bike, by [...]
24 May 2013
We know, we know … you’re out of school and you save all of your vacation days for cyclocross season, not some trip to the beach, so why do you need a summer reading list? Well, even if you don’t make it to the beach to drink piña coladas with tiny umbrellas in them while [...]
23 May 2013
Raleigh is sending one lucky person out to DealerCamp in Utah this July to check out the goodies being presented, and to get VIP treatment at their Midsummer Night’s ’cross race. You’ll get the chance to ride their latest bikes, visit with pros like Ben Berden and Caroline Mani from the Raleigh-Clement team and enjoy [...]
21 May 2013
by Molly Hurford When Marianne Vos’s name popped up on the start list at Sea Otter, you could see the ripple of excitement that went through the crowd. Vos has claimed almost every title available, from Gold medalist to multiple-time-and-discipline World Champion, and now she’s taking on mountain biking. No one was surprised when she [...]
19 May 2013
We asked each and every Nationals medalist just how he or she does it. What’s the training like? What kind of cross training do you do? What workouts do you love to hate? How do you plan nutrition? Responses were varied, so once we narrowed down to some of our favorite answers, we asked Cycle-Smart [...]
18 May 2013
by Molly Hurford I know it’s silly to be writing about this: blogging about being unplugged from phone, Internet and even cameras? A bit of a contradiction. But nonetheless, I learned a kind of cool “life lesson” out in California last month. Working from home (or wherever I am) is awesome, but with one drawback: [...]
17 May 2013
Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France champion, entered this year’s Giro d’Italia as one of the favorites for the overall title. But after crashing and losing time on a wet descent into Pescara a week ago, and then losing more time on wet descents in Florence and Naples, the British road cyclist (along with [...]
17 May 2013
by Jacob Fetty Unless you are a full-fledged sponsored ’cross racer, racing ’cross can be costly. Heck, even if you are sponsored, racing is expensive and we are often forced to be mindful of our expenditures. At the same time, our inner-consumer is being pulled in a variety of directions as to what we need [...]
15 May 2013
by Molly Hurford Last week, we checked in with the King of Scottish cyclocross, Rab Wardell. So it only seemed fitting that today we see what the Queen of American cyclocross has been up to so far in the off-season. With the Tour of California happening right now, and Compton taking part in the women’s [...]
14 May 2013
Manual for Speed has been working to document cyclocross from the perspective of Team Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com: Ryan Trebon, Tim Johnson, Jamey Driscoll and Kaitie Antonneau. It’s been done before, from the decade-old hard-to-find Transitions DVD featuring Adam Myerson and other racers to Jeremy Powers’ Behind THE Barriers series. However, what makes this particularly interesting [...]
14 May 2013
People for Bikes announced yesterday, “We have a fun project in the works for this fall and we need your help. Submit your funniest, wittiest, most creative cyclocross heckle below. Our favorite heckle will win a full 2013 PeopleForBikes kit from Primal. The best of the rest will be immortalized in a super fun project.” [...]
13 May 2013
LONGMONT, COLORADO – In a move that will delight cyclocross fans across the world, reigning World Champion Sven Nys of Belgium will be racing CLIF® Bar CrossVegas in 2013. Nys captured his second World Championship title earlier this year in Louisville. CrossVegas 2013 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 18 in Las Vegas following the first [...]
23 May 2013
by Molly Hurford In anticipation of Issue 21 of Cyclocross Magazine with our huge women’s feature, we’re taking a look at some of the kit and gear options out there for women these days. The fashion spectrum has improved drastically over the years, and finally companies are making clothing for women, not just taking men’s [...]
22 May 2013
by Alan “Danger” Zinniker Go to any high-level professional cyclocross or road race, and watch the professional European mechanics clean and work on a bike. They’re not dealing with workstands with finicky clamps that can crush lightweight carbon frames or seatposts, but take care of washing and adjusting their riders’ bikes with workstands that have [...]
20 May 2013
A couple of weeks ago, we asked some of our favorite mechanics and the staffers at Cyclocross Magazine which tools they simply couldn’t live without during the cyclocross season. Allen wrenches were heavily featured. But this time, we wanted to hear from our readers, the racers who can be found in the trenches and pitting [...]
16 May 2013
by Molly Hurford If you watch Parks and Recreation at all, you may be familiar with this scene, and the three little words that may inspire a hefty chunk of your bike and bike accessory buying: “Treat Yo Self.” You spend most of your spare time on the bike, so why not make it [...]
13 May 2013
by Chris Mayhew The season is over, but before you pack away the bike into the back of the garage until next September, there are a few things you should do to ensure than when you do pull it out, covered in dust and begging to be ridden again come cyclocross season, it’s in race-ready [...]
7 May 2013
by Clifford Lee At Sea Otter a couple weeks ago, we learned of a few developments in the tire department from several companies regarding cyclocross. Thanks to a new licensing agreement, the Challenge Eroica will be renamed the Strada Bianca, both names referring to the race and ride around Siena in the Tuscan region of [...]
6 May 2013
Work time will be decreased with a repair stand. With work time decreased, beer time increases, and that makes for happier cyclocross racers. Happy cyclocross racers make for a better sport. So you see, the future of our sport depends on everyone owning repair stands.
3 May 2013
Now that the dust has died down, we’re going through our massive memory cards full of photos of some of the goodies we spotted at Sea Otter but didn’t have time to post while we were there. Getting the lay of the land from the short track MTB course on Friday. Saturday, the cyclocross race [...]
30 April 2013
PORTLAND, OREGON — Asylum Cycles has announced the crowd funding and product launch of the Meuse, a disc-brake, full-carbon cyclocross bike. With a Belgian river as its namesake, the Meuse pays homage to the early European origins of cyclocross. What’s particularly intriguing is that the Meuse is being launched on Crowd Supply, the first crowd funding site [...]
29 April 2013
When we stopped at the TRP Brakes booth at the Outdoor Demo in Vegas before Interbike 2012, we inquired about the HyWire, the innovative hydraulic disc brake levers with TRP’s own electronic shifters built into the brake lever. The company had figured out how to make shifters compatible with Shimano’s Dura-Ace 7970 10-speed Di2 derailleurs, [...]
26 April 2013
Zipp’s 303 carbon rim wheels have been a mainstay in US cyclocross races and European spring classics since they were redesigned in 2010 to be wider than the average road rim. Although the company tweaked the 45mm deep rim’s profile again two years ago to go from the toroidal shape to the new Firecrest shape [...]
25 April 2013
Fizik shoes, from the priciest to the most inexpensive, are handmade in Italy. They want you to know that, because to them, Italy stands for high quality and craftsmanship, and, as Adam Bookwalter, the North America Area Manager, tells me right away, “That’s really important to us.” Fizik, like companies including Sidi and Gaerne, has [...]
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