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• Photo Gallery from Rad Racing GP

  22 September 08 • 2 comments

  Cyclocross Magazine believes in the power of great photography. Thus we had two photographers at Seattle’s weekend of racing, and have got a bunch of great photos from this past weekend’s Rad Racing GP making their way up into the interweb. The first featured gallery is that from

• Johnson and Simms Take Rad Racing GP

  21 September 08 • 3 comments

  Tim Johnson (Cannondale – Cyclocrossworld.com) outsprinted Ryan Trebon (Kona) for a narrow win for the second stop and consecutive day of the North American Cyclocross Trophy series. Trebon led Johnson through the last 500 meters, surging through the grassy corners to a twenty foot gap he took into the pavement stretch. Johnson wasn’t fazed though, [...]

• Star Crossed – Live Coverage Here

  20 September 08 • 1 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine is at Star Crossed and will bring you live updates from the event throughout the day. View updates here: http://cxmagazine.com/star-crossed-08-live-coverage

• Cyclocross Magazine Covers Seattle NACT Weekend

  19 September 08 • 0 comment

  We’re in Seattle to cover the opening weekend of the NACT Series, and the first event, Seattle’s Full Speed Ahead Star Crossed Race Presented by Gerk’s Ski and Cycle starts at 2:00 p.m. PST tomorrow. We’ll be at the event, so check back for both race and tech reports LIVE from the venue.

• Fantasy Cyclocross League Launched!

  17 September 08 • 2 comments

  

  Cyclocross fans will no longer be left out from Monday morning fantasy sports talk. After many requests, and Cyclocross Magazine’s neo-pro Jacob “Jake the Snake” Sisson’s mad hacking, mud lovers have their own fantasy sports league. Based on UCI C1 races across the world and throughout the year, fans choose their favorite riders and can [...]

• Mountain Biker Hiccup with CX Nats Registration Addressed

  16 September 08 • 1 comment

  As several dozen racers experienced early Monday morning in their race to register for the national championships in Kansas City, there was a technical problem that prevented racers with a valid USA Cycling mountain bike license from registering for the event. The registration process this year required the racer to have a valid USA Cycling [...]

• Olympians and National Champions Line Up for Seattle NACT Weekend

  12 September 08 • 1 comment

  2 Olympians, 2 Current National Champions, and 2 Former National Champions Ready to Battle at First NACT Weekend Of Cyclocross Full Speed Ahead Star Crossed presented by Gerk’s Ski and Cycle and the Rad Racing GP presented by FSA and Kona will open up the North American Cyclocross Trophy with an impressive field. Current National [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Mad Alchemy Embrocation

  6 September 08 • 3 comments

  Peter Smith of Mad Alchemy Embrocation loves to embrocate. His daily routine is “wake, shower, dress, coffee, embrocate, commute.” In fact, for Smith, embrocation is so important, it replaces breakfast. The expert embrocator knows a thing about embrocation and is pretty picky, which is why he started trying to make his own stuff. Many batches [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Sportique Sports Creams

  28 August 08 • 1 comment

  We at Cyclocross Magazine get a few interesting packages at our world headquarters. One that perhaps captured the most curiosity is a box of sports creams from Sportique International for review. With names like “Get Going Cream,” “Hard Day’s Night Foot Cream,” “Road Rash Balm,” “Mother’s Little Helper” and “Century Riding Cream” it’s hard not [...]

• Rad Racing Northwest presents the 2008 Rad Racing GP Cyclocross Race

  23 August 08 • 0 comment

  Seattle is promising a world-class weekend of UCI ‘cross racing to open up the season. Following Seattle’s Star Crossed race, racers will move to the next day to contest the Rad Racing GP in Lakewood, WA on September 21. The race boasts top national and international riders, an intimidating course, and great prizes for all [...]

• Grass, Dirt, Barriers, Doping…and Horses?

  21 August 08 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross is a brutal sport for sure, with its varied off-road surfaces, epic conditions, and the need to jump over barriers at speed in front of crowds. Unfortunately, a few bad apples turn to “juice” to seek an edge in ‘cross and deal with the pain. Well, such riders aren’t alone. It appears that when [...]

• Star Crossed: Official Opener Of the North American Cyclocross Trophy

  19 August 08 • 1 comment

  Full Speed Ahead and Gerk’s Ski and Cycle Return As Co-Title Sponsors. Foundation Bank signs on as Elite Race sponsorFull Speed Ahead Star Crossed presented by Gerk’s Ski and Cycle , the nation’s first twilight cyclocross race, is returning on September 20th to King County’s Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA. Star Crossed kicks off the [...]

• New Poll – Express Your Feelings on CX Rules

  17 August 08 • 0 comment

  We finally added a new poll. Check it out on the top right of our site, and let us know how you feel about the modern cyclocross rules. Our last poll was pretty interesting – seems like there was no clear favorite to our Issue 2 content – there was pretty even distribution among the [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Gary Fisher Presidio Cyclocross Bike

  15 August 08 • 1 comment

  Earlier this summer Trek Bicycles ended its relationship with Greg Lemond and stopped its Lemond brand of bicycles. But with the Lemond Poprad being such a popular ‘cross bike, in part due to its steel frame, Trek has kept the OEM steel ‘cross bike alive with a new Gary Fisher Presidio model. Friends of Cyclocross [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Igleheart Cyclocross Forks

  8 August 08 • 0 comment

  While there are dozens of ‘cross frame builders across the country, as any North American Handmade Bicycle Show attendee can attest (covered in Issue 3), few of them build their own forks. Christopher Igleheart is one of the few who builds both cyclocross forks and frames and has over twenty years of experience building steel [...]

• Design the NACT’s Trophy

  4 August 08 • 0 comment

  Don’t think you’ll ever be able to beat the nation’s best riders and stand atop the podium? Well, here’s your chance to have a presence on the very top step – design the North American Cyclocross Trophy series’ trophy! In spirit of Boston Cross Trophy Parties, the race series will provide the person with the [...]

• North American UCI World Cup – Coming Soon?

  3 August 08 • 1 comment

  

  ‘Cross fans in North American have have been on an emotional roller coaster with all the rumors of a UCI Cyclocross World Cup on this continent. First there was the 2007 plan to host a weekend in Rhode Island from GSD Event Productions, lead by Lyle Fulkerson, Richard Fries, and Tom Stevens. That plan from [...]

• The Best Cyclocross Bike Shops

  1 August 08 • 1 comment

  If you’re in the market for new ‘cross gear, need your bike serviced, or need to pick up a copy of our magazine, we’ve compiled a list of top ‘cross shops to our site, easily reachable from our site header (see the “Best CX Shops” link). It’s growing every week, so check back often to [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Challenge Grifo XS

  30 July 08 • 2 comments

  We’ve been reporting for a while about the trend of bike parts going to white this season. TRP magnesium brakes, Ritchey WCS components in white, the Redline Team’s saddle, bar tape, and stem, and Titus and Ellsworth’s new ‘cross frames, just to name a few. It’s an odd color for ‘cross, but apparently it’s the [...]

• Cyclocrossing Across the Country

  28 July 08 • 0 comment

  New England ‘crosser Scott Rosenthal has taken ‘cross to a new level. 40 days ago he started a cross-country journey on his ‘cross bike, aiming to ride from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Boston, Massachusetts. While he’s long had dreams of riding across the country, invitations to weddings in Montana and western Massachusetts made him realize [...]