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Date archive for October, 2008

• Small Time Crash, Big Time Chasing: Louisville Day 2 – A Column by Ben Popper

  31 October 08 • 0 comment

  When you ride like I do, you’re going to crash eventually. All season I’ve dreaded the day I go down. I’m recklessly fast through the barriers, and I’ve seen that video of Nys going down, and I knew my time would come. I’m fortunate that it didn’t turn out as bad as it could have [...]

• Weekend Preview and Fantasy Cyclocross Minute – October 31, 2008

  31 October 08 • 1 comment

  Jacob Sisson has got another weekend preview and fantasy league outlook. Enjoy! It’s an action packed couple of days this weekend, as the UCI has put together a set of three C1 races for us to worry about. The action is not just confined to Europe, either, with the United States playing host to some [...]

• SSCXWC – More Schedule Details “Leaked”

  31 October 08 • 0 comment

  

  Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships Weekend Update (Imagine Tina Fey reading it to you) For impatient readers everything important is in Bold.  Pretty cool, huh? SCHEDULE: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7TH- Realize the race qualifiers are the next day, scramble to complete/purchase/build a single speed cross bike.  Consider sweet costume idea and gather friends and family for [...]

• Boulder Cup Returns This Weekend

  31 October 08 • 1 comment

  

  The Boulder Cup returns this weekend to Boulder, Colorado and promises top-level racing, with half the country’s UCI-point hunters primed to do battle at altitude (the other half being at the Cycle-Smart International in Northhampton, MA). But with a “CycloCruise” and “Wacky Start Lines,” is Boulder going Cross Crusade on us? Full press release below: [...]

• Cycle-Smart International Preview: The Nation’s Oldest UCI Event Returns This Weekend

  30 October 08 • 1 comment

  NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts – This week brought an early onset to winter as many in the New England region hunkered down with the first storm of the season.  But the next storm will be not snow nor rain but some of New England’s best cyclists as the swarm invades Northampton, Massachusetts for the country’s oldest UCI [...]

• Apple Trees, Parking with the Stars, and Mexican Pizza – A World Cup Perspective by Christine Vardaros

  30 October 08 • 2 comments

  Cyclocross Magazine columnist Christine Vardaros, a regular print mag contributor, sent us this online report of her recent World Cup in Tabor. Enjoy her unique perspective of the day as a racer, journalist, and fan. You can read her first online installment of the Kalmthout World Cup here. Tales from Tabor by Christine “Peanut” Vardaros [...]

• McLaughlin Continues Winning Streak, Upshaw Solos to Victory in Chicago

  30 October 08 • 0 comment

  Chicago Cyclocross Cup #5 Report By Imelda March A sunny but extremely windy day greeted the riders in the Village of Bartlett, a northwest suburb of the City of Chicago.

• MAC, MABRA, and OVCX Promise Shotguns, Haunted Barns, and Pies

  29 October 08 • 0 comment

  

  The Mid Atlantic and Ohio Valley Area have some unique fun in store for races this weekend. See the press releases below. Zipp OVCX Tour Returns to Cincinnati with a Bang Miamiville, Ohio, USA: Golfers are familiar with the term “Shotgun Start”, but they’ve never had, nor heard, anything like this. Following a month of [...]

• Berg and Weighall Answer Opportunity’s Knock at Seattle Cyclocross #4

  29 October 08 • 0 comment

  

  by LeRoi Smith, Photos by Janet Hill Lakewood, WA – On a sunny 63-degree day at the end of October, you will be hard-pressed to find anyone complaining about the weather in Seattle. However ‘cross racers are little different. Quite a few were feeling guilty about enjoying the sun and many were looking forward to [...]

• Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire – a Column by Andrew Bernstein

  29 October 08 • 7 comments

  Join Andrew Bernstein as he embarks on the adventure of his first season of ‘cross and reminds us of our own newbie days. In this third installment, he makes the jump to big-time cyclocross racing in Gloucester, and at the same time, upgrades from a mountain bike to a real ‘cross bike. The first installment [...]