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Date archive for April, 2009

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – April 30, 2009

  30 April 09 • 1 comment

  I apologize for the gap of a day, but we’re back and rolling. Updates for this week: Our weekly Marianne Vos update, North Americans polar opposites in Offenburg, Suspended sentence for Roodhooft, and much more! The Marianne Vos Train Keeps On Rolling Marianne Vos, current World Cyclocross Champion has been having arguably the best season [...]

• Robb Jebb Continues Three Peaks Race Domination

  29 April 09 • 1 comment

  

  Robb Jebb, seven-time winner of the Three Peaks Cyclocross race, can’t get enough of the hills of UK’s Yorshire Dales National Park. Jebb won the Three Peaks running version of the race this past Saturday, completing the 55th running of the hilly 24-mile race in a time of 2 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds. [...]

• Katie Compton Seeks World Cup Title and Bike Sponsor

  28 April 09 • 1 comment

  

  Katie Compton is starting to ramp up her training with the mountain bike and cyclocross season in mind, and has planned out an aggressive schedule with her most ambitious goals yet.  The six-time national cyclocross champion (five elite, one espoir) is planning to race the fat tire circuit this summer, starting with the Bump n [...]

• Sven Nys and SpongeBob Team Up to Host Youth Cyclocross Clinics

  27 April 09 • 0 comment

  

  No, this is not an April Fool’s joke. Sven Nys, the world’s number one cyclocross racer and his coach are teaming up with Nickelodeon, the children’s television network that brings you SpongeBob SquarePants, to host a series of five cyclocross clinics for children of ages 8 to 14. The clinics, titled “The Wheel of Sven,” [...]

• 200 Laps of Dismounts, Mounts, Crashes, and Beer? The Little 500 Returns

  26 April 09 • 0 comment

  by Andrew Yee Mom: He was very sickly until he started riding around on that bicycle. Dad: Yeah… well… now his body’s fine, but his mind is gone. -Breaking Away, 1979 Academy Award Winner, Best Screenplay Many long-time cyclists have lost count of the # of times they’ve seen the classic movie Breaking Away, including [...]

• Tim Johnson and Lynne Besette Talk Riding, Racing and Life

  25 April 09 • 0 comment

  Our friends at Cyclingdirt.com took the time to sit down with former National Cyclocross Champion Tim Johnson and his wife and Multiple Canadian National Champion and Olympian Lynne Bessette following their rides at the Hopbrook Dam mountain bike race. Johnson took second behind Andrew Freye and ahead of Cyclocross regular Matt O’Keefe. Bessette also took [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Kore Palmster Road Handlebar Grips

  24 April 09 • 0 comment

  

  Okay, maybe the Kore Palmster road handlebar grip is not totally new – the innovative road bar grip has actually been out for over a year now.  But even Kore admits they’re little-known, and we finally got our hands on a pair to try on a ‘cross bike. Kore created the grips for people who [...]

• Cyclocross Magazine and Erwin Vervecken Team Up to Support Summer CX

  24 April 09 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine and Erwin Vervecken team up to sponsor the summer SpectaCross in New Jersey. Full press release below. April 23, 2009; Conshohocken, PA, USA:  Cyclocross Magazine has joined the New Jersey State Fair SpectaCross as a sponsor of the cyclocross races on the opening weekend of this year’s New Jersey State Fair / Sussex [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – April 22, 2009

  23 April 09 • 0 comment

  Marianne Vos continues winning ways, Tour of the Battenkill wrap up, Powers wins in Ancaster, Cyclocross at Sea Otter, Jacobs banned for 2 years. The cyclocross world was active over the last week! Marianne Vos Wins Womens Flèche Wallonne, 4th at Ronde van Gelderland World Cyclocross Champion and Dutch Road Champion Marianne Vos kept up [...]

• 100 Days Until Cyclocross – New Jersey State Fair Features Big Money Summer ‘Cross

  22 April 09 • 0 comment

  One Hundred Days Until Cyclocross Season Registration Opens for New Jersey State Fair April 21, 2009; Conshohocken, PA, USA:  As U.S. President Barack Obama approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, American cycling marks the start of its own historic 100 day countdown as registration opens today for the first bicycle race [...]