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• Full Results: 2013 Masters Cyclocross World Championships Day Two – Qualifying Heats and Repechage

  31 January 13 • 1 comment

  There was a lot of racing on Tuesday, day two, of the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships. Qualifying heats and repechage rounds were held. See our video interviews, photo gallery and report from the day. We have full results of the heats below: For photos, video interviews, and report from the day’s racing, visit our report page from [...]

• Video: Nys, Albert, Vos, van der Haar and Pauwels Talk Louisville World Championships

  28 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  Sven Nys, Niels Albert, Marianne Vos, Lars van der Haar and Kevin Pauwels all talk about the 2013 Louisville World Championships, coming to the States, and their expectations of the course in this video interview at the bottom of this post. The five Shimano-sponsored racers all have positive things to say about the World Championships [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: World Champion Niels Albert’s 2013 Colnago Cross Prestige

  28 January 13 • 2 comments

  

  Last year, after Niels Albert’s dominant win in the Koksijde sand dunes at the 2012 Cyclocross World Championships, we profiled Albert’s winning Colnago Cross Prestige carbon cyclocross bike. Nearly one year later, we got a close in-person look at his new rainbow-striped Colnago Cross Prestige at the 2013 Cincinnati Kings International Cyclocross Race last weekend before [...]

• Video: Belgians Jump the Fence, Recon Louisville Worlds Course (and Get Stuck)

  27 January 13 • 19 comments

  

  Part of the Belgian National Team, led by Sven Nys, Aernouts and Peeters, climbed over the course fencing to sample the Worlds cyclocross course at Eva Bandman park (despite the organizers’ Tweet that “the [course] is NOT open to pre-riding”). We don’t profess to be great at Flemish, but our rough translation is that the [...]

• 2013 Kings CX Start List and Live Twitter Coverage

  26 January 13 • 0 comment

  Here’s the Men’s start list for the Cincinnati Kings International Cyclocross race. Follow the action live on Twitter via #kingscx and @cyclocross

• 2013 World Championships Preview: A Look at the UCI Cyclocross Individual Rankings – Men

  26 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  With the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships just a week away, the cyclocross geeks at Cyclocross Magazine thought we’d take a look at the UCI cyclocross rankings, starting with the men.  These rankings matter in terms of Worlds in two main ways:  Starting position for each rider, and number of riders per country. The nation’s UCI [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Jonathan Page’s Mysterious 2013 National Championship Cyclocross Bike

  22 January 13 • 8 comments

  

  With today’s look at 2013 National Champion Jonathan Page’s (ENGVT) mystery carbon cyclocross bike, we continue our effort to bring you the winning cross bikes from the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships, with a few interesting 2012 bikes thrown into the mix. Stay tuned as we have a bunch more to come. Page’s unbranded mystery carbon [...]

• Number Crunching: Looking at Women’s Race Lap Times from the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships

  15 January 13 • 1 comment

  

  Yesterday we took a look at the lap times from six of the seven laps the Elite Men completed at the 2013 USA Cyclocross National Championships.  Today we’ll look at the four laps the Elite Women completed in the race won by Katie Compton. Thankfully for this race, the lap time data is complete, and [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Katie Compton’s National Championship-Winning Trek

  14 January 13 • 3 comments

  

  by Jordan Villella Katie Compton has the won the Elite Women’s title at the US Cyclocross National Championships title every year it’s been held since 2004, missing just one year, 2011, like everyone else because of the move of the USA Cycling National Championships from December to January. Compton has sixteen World Cup wins under [...]

• Number Crunching: Looking at Elite Men’s Race Lap Times from the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships

  14 January 13 • 5 comments

  

  By now, we all know the results of the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships, but what cyclocross dorks like us like to do is look at the race within the race: Lap times and split times. Being able to analyze the performance, consistency and speed of a rider is one of the awesome benefits of electronic [...]

• Video: A Short Film from 2013 Cyclocross Nationals

  14 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine’ s contributing photographer Clint Thayer put together this short little 720HD video of Saturday’s racing and conditions at Badger Prairie County Park.  It really captures the essence of the day and the challenging, thick muddy conditions found on Day 4 of the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships.  Check it out below. (Click the little YouTube [...]

• Elite Women Call Up List – 2013 USA Cyclocross National Championships

  13 January 13 • 0 comment

  We’ve got the start list and call up list for the 2013 Cyclocross National Championships Elite Women’s race below. Stay tuned for more photos, video interviews and full results. Tune into http://cxmagazine.com for LIVE VIDEO COVERAGE of the Elite races starting at 1:00 p.m. Central time on Sunday. And don’t forget to enter to win a trip to Worlds courtesy of  Raleigh!

• Bike Profile: Kari Studley’s National Championship Redline Conquest Pro SS Singlespeed Cyclocross Bike

  11 January 13 • 2 comments

  

  by Jordan Villella Kari Studley (Redline) is best known as a singlespeed cyclocross champion, having won the 2009 Single Speed Cyclocross World Championship (SSCXWC) as well as the 2012 Singlespeed National Championship. On Wednesday, Studley successfully defended her singlespeed title, racing her aluminum Redline singlespeed cyclocross bike that she has worked together with Redline in testing and [...]

• Dream It, Win It: Win a Trip to the World Championships in Louisville with Raleigh and Cyclocross Magazine

  10 January 13 • 4 comments

  

  Want to go to the 2013 UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky?  Cyclocross Magazine has teamed up with Raleigh USA to offer a trip for two to World Championships including airfare, lodging, and VIP access to the event. How do you win a trip for two to Worlds?  Simple! Just send us your dream [...]

• Cyclocross Nationals Course Preview Videos: Snowy, Frozen, Wet and Muddy

  9 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  We’ve got a few good course preview videos for you of the 2013 Cyclocross National Championship course near Madison from the last few days, and what we can guarantee is that the time of day and day of week will greatly impact the course conditions. Currently there’s plenty of snow at Badger Prairie park in [...]

• Tobin Ortenblad Raffle Organized to Fund EuroCross Camp Trip

  18 December 12 • 0 comment

  

  Tobin Ortenblad, named by race promoter Keith Defibre as “one of the very best technical riders in America,” has been invited to Geoff Proctor’s 2012 EuroCross Camp and the Surf City Cyclocross Series team is hosting a fund-raising raffle to help him make the trip. See the press release below: Tobin Ortenblad, 2012 Cyclocross National Championship 17-18 [...]

• The Results Are In: The ProGold Mechanical Tip Contest

  15 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine teamed up with ProGold to create the “ProGold Mechanical Tip” contest, giving away maintenance packages to three  randomly selected winners.  In order to enter the contest, participants had to give us their best mechanical tip and on November 4th we entered the names into the Cyclocross Magazine Super Computer (aka a random number [...]

• Singlespeeders Rule Elite Men, Anderson Shines Bright Under the Lights at Sierra Point – Bay Area Super Prestige 2012

  13 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Tim Westmore BRISBANE, CALIFORNIA – On Saturday, after seeing World Champion-striped racers, enjoying Belgian brews and hearing Richard Fries’ famous, excited voice over the loudspeakers, you would be forgiven if you thought you were at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships. However, it was just the annual, non-sanctioned Bay Area Super Prestige night race at [...]

• SRAM Officially Unveils Red-Level X-Glide 1090 Cyclocross Cassette

  25 October 12 • 4 comments

  

  SRAM X-Glide 1090 cyclocross cassette released, offers more mud clearance SRAM has widely released its new 2012 SRAM Red component group this year (see our initial 2012 SRAM Red review), and while even some 2013 model year bikes still feature the 2011 Red group, most SRAM-sponsored professional cyclocross racers have upgraded at least some of [...]

• Surf City Cyclocross Series Returns with Clinics and Costumes This Weekend

  24 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  America’s oldest cyclocross series returns to Santa Cruz County this weekend with the return of  its famous Halloween festivities including costume cross, a free kid’s race, and of course candy for the kids on Sunday at Aptos High School. On Saturday, racers can hone their skills and get some a course preview by attending a [...]