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Date archive for June, 2008

• Get your cyclocross race sponsored

  28 June 08 • 2 comments

  Are you a cyclocross race promoter or know one? We have a limited amount of free mags, subscriptions, discounted ads, and primes/prizes for a few ‘cross race promoters that would be psyched to have our support and sponsorship.  If your race or series would be interested in working with us, please contact us at info [...]

• Reader Photo Gallery

  27 June 08 • 1 comment

  Launching our online gallery has been a great success, and we’ve received a ton of awesome photos. A few will even show up in our print mag. Here are just a few favorites from the last few weeks of uploads: Submit your favorites in our beta forum here. You never know, you might even win [...]

• Issue 3 Update: At the Printers

  23 June 08 • 11 comments

  

  Seems like it’s time for an update on our next issue. We’ve been quiet about it intentionally, since with Issue 2, we probably jumped the gun a bit, letting folks know it was at the printers and that it should be in the mail shortly. But what we didn’t realize is that for some, that [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Ellsworth Roots Cyclocross Frame and Fork

  17 June 08 • 2 comments

  

  As manufacturers start to shift their focus to the cyclocross season, we’ve been getting a bunch of new product in for review. One item that we’re about to test is the Ellsworth Roots ‘cross frame. Ellsworth is known mostly as a mountain bike company, but it has had a ‘cross frame since the mid-90′s, well [...]

• World Premier of Remember to Breathe on June 27th

  12 June 08 • 1 comment

  Young film producer Evan Schmitt just graduated from high school last week, but he’s certainly not taking the summer off before he attends University of Washington in the fall. He’s been hard at work getting ready for the world premier of his second film Remember to Breathe on June 27th in Roslyn, Washington. The event [...]

• Need Motivation to Start Training for Cyclocross? CX Pros Dominant at Teva Games

  8 June 08 • 3 comments

  

  The other day we highlighted some of the recent road racing exploits of Euro ‘cross specialists as they get ready for the season that’s still three and a half months away. Sven Nys further added to his “off-season” results with an impressive 6th in the Saturday’s cross-country UCI World Cup in Fort William Scottland. But [...]

• Euro-file: Tom Vannoppen Retires, Other Belgians Hit the Road

  5 June 08 • 2 comments

  Tom Vannoppen Hangs It Up Tom Vannoppen, 29, once thought to be the next dominant Belgian cyclocrosser, retired from cycling this week. Vannoppen nearly won the world title in Zolder in 2002 but since has suffered several rough years which involved multiple injuries, depression, and last season, a drug scandal. He tested positive for cocaine [...]

• The Disc Brake Debate

  2 June 08 • 8 comments

  

  Our own Josh Patterson has been testing a disc brake equipped Salsa La Cruz, and so disc brakes have been on his mind. And while the brakes that now dominate the mountain bike market are banned from UCI cyclocross events, he weighs in on the future of the brakes in our beloved sport: Disc brakes [...]