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• Star Crossed Tech: Joachim Parbo’s Leopard CX Bike

  20 September 08 • 0 comment

  Joachim Parbo, two-time Danish National Cyclocross Champion, has spent the early months of his last several ‘cross seasons here in the U.S., racing the country’s UCI races. This year he’s returned to U.S. again to start his season, and will race in Seattle, Vegas and then Ohio as he hopes to accumulate UCI points and [...]

• 2008 U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross Registration Open

  19 September 08 • 0 comment

  

  Saratoga Springs, NY – The series that stoked the exponential growth of cyclocross in the United States – the 2008 US Gran Prix of Cyclocross presented by Crank Brothers — returns this fall for a fifth year of racing excitement. Registration is now open for all six days of racing including the Papa John’s Derby [...]

• Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association Ready to Kick Off Second Season

  18 September 08 • 0 comment

  Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association (TBRA) is excited to announce the second full season of cyclocross racing in the state, beginning with races on October 5, 2008, in Parrottsville and ending January 18, 2009, in Columbia. Over 20 races will be featured this season in many different communities throughout the state. The [...]

• KC National Championships Call Up Procedure Tweaked to Add More Call ups

  18 September 08 • 1 comment

  The changes to the call-up procedure for the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships for Masters and younger Junior categories has caused a bit of uproar in the ‘cross community, with racers upset that the past tradition of calling up the top ten riders from the previous year’s race being officially changed to just the previous [...]

• Hurricane Ike Blows OVCX Series Open

  18 September 08 • 0 comment

  Conshohocken, PA, USA: A massive windstorm hit the Cincinnati Ohio area on Sunday, including the town of Loveland Ohio, site of the opening race of the 2008 Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour. News outlets reported that the storm, which was the remnant of Hurricane Ike, left nearly two million people without electricity and forecast that many [...]

• Cheer Big, Win Big with Katie Compton at Cross Vegas

  17 September 08 • 2 comments

  Spike Shooter’s Katie Compton has a lot of fans. Now her two best fans at Cross Vegas will go home as swag-drenched “Superfans.”She’s rewarding the folks that keep her motivated with Superfan gift packs worth over $1,000. Get your body paint, cowbells, megaphone, and dance routine out, but Compton asks you please keep your pants [...]

• Countdown to CrossVegas – One Week To Go

  17 September 08 • 0 comment

  

  by Brook Watts Riders to Watch in the First Cyclocross Showdown of the Season With a short week to go the field is almost set for the first cyclocross showdown of the season at CrossVegas. Both the men’s and women’s field will feature strong fields of competitors including many riders just off of a summer [...]

• Jonathan Page Wins Chequamegon 40 Mountain Bike Race

  16 September 08 • 1 comment

  This past Saturday on a brand new Ridley mountain bike and through an increasing rain, Jonathan Page tuned up his cyclocross fitness by winning the 2008 Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival 40 mile mountain bike race. The Festival is one of the midwest’s biggest mountain bike races. Just like Ryan Trebon and Katie Compton did at [...]

• Cyclocross National Championships Registration Open, 683 Already Registered

  15 September 08 • 2 comments

  USA Cycling’s 2008 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City has already begun, with the first race starting last night at midnight, CST in a competition for start order. Doing well in this early phase of the race required late night typing, a fast internet connection, and a little luck. Technical problems prevented some folks from [...]

• Kansas City Cyclocross Nationals Registration Starts on 9/15, Midnight CST

  13 September 08 • 4 comments

  USA Cycling’s 2008 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City opens registration at 12:00 a.m. CST on September 15, 2008. For the non-elite categories, except for the defending champion, start positions are apparently given by registration order, so embrocate those typing fingers and mouse hand – the race for the hole shot begins early Monday! The [...]

• Rumor File: Compton, Carbon and Beer

  13 September 08 • 0 comment

  Compton Moving to Carbon? Cyclocross Magazine has recently hired paparazzi in Colorado Springs of all places. And while the photographers did not find any interesting cyclocross-related items in their late night scan of the offices of USA Cycling (except a CliffsNotes guide to UCI Cyclocross Rules), one did manage to capture this photo through a [...]

• New Cyclocross Book Announced

  11 September 08 • 0 comment

  Scott Mares of Sibex Sports has been running the ACA cyclocross camps in Colorado for the last nine years. With attendance reaching as high as 140 racers at a time, the camps have help produce more than a dozen national champions and even a silver medal in the Juniors at the World Championships. Several years [...]

• In the Mind of a Cyclocross Photographer on Race Day

  10 September 08 • 3 comments

  In most big ‘cross areas of the country, a day or two after your race, you get to relive your race by browsing hundreds of photos posted online by multiple photographers. Perhaps you’re even lucky enough to find a few good ones of yourself suffering. ‘Cross, with is accessible, short courses, dramatic conditions and constant [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Challenge Fango Cyclocross Tubular Tire

  9 September 08 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine has pulled off yet another first, with the first inspection of a pre-production model of the Challenge Fango tubular cyclocross tire. Like the popular Grifo, the Fango is a hand-made tire with 260 tpi poly-cotton casing. But unlike the Grifo, which is created using Clement’s old molds, the Fango is an all-new tread [...]

• Registration Open for SoCalCross Prestige Series Opener

  8 September 08 • 1 comment

   Cyclocross in Sourthern California is growing in leaps and bounds, and their expanded series opens the season on September 21. See the press release below: Registration is now open for The Art of Cyclocross, the first race of the 2008 SoCalCross Prestige Series, taking place on September 21, 2008. Presented by Celo Pacific, the race [...]

• Cyclocross Magazine’s Race Calendar Expands to 683 Events, Gets Turbo-Charged

  8 September 08 • 0 comment

  Our ever-expanding national cyclocross calendar has now grown to nearly 700 events, including training races, clinics, and races. And while it’s by far the most comprehensive national cyclocross calendar, it outgrew its previous implementation, taking too long to load an older machines. So we gave it an overhaul, some ceramic bearings, gave it another chainring [...]

• 2008 Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross Series Announces Full Schedule, Including Night Race

  7 September 08 • 0 comment

  

  2008 Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross Series presented by Kaiser-Permanente/Team Oakland Releases Full Schedule, Includes First Night Race Seizoen Zes (and for the Dutch challenged that’s “Season Six”) is scheduled to launch on October 19th as Pilarcitos Cyclesports kicks off their 2008 season in San Francisco’s McLaren Park. The BASPCX has been invited back to [...]

• “Formal” Issue 3 Feedback Wanted

  5 September 08 • Comments Off

  We get a ton of feedback through the various channels ( commenting on our website, our cowbell forums and social network, instant messaging, Facebook, Flickr, and occasionally Twitter. That’s a lot of different, informal ways to talk to us at Cyclocross Magazine, which is awesome – no big corporate filtering or process to jump through [...]

• Two Perspectives on ‘Cross Clinics

  4 September 08 • 0 comment

  With ‘cross clinics underway across the country, newbies and experienced riders both have an opportunity to learn and refine ‘cross skills from the experts. Two riders, Ed Miszkiewicz and Guy Smith share their past clinic experiences with you to help you decide if you can benefit from attending one yourself. Looking for one in your [...]

• New Product Spotlight: Glow-in-the-Dark “Star Crossed” Cyclocross Frames by Seven

  3 September 08 • 1 comment

  Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Studio has teamed up with Seven Cycles to offer both steel and titanium ‘cross frames with a limited edition, glow-in-the-dark paint scheme to celebrate the Seattle’s pioneering night race and ‘cross party, Star Crossed. The frames are being offered with an impressive 2-week delivery time, which means if you act quickly, you [...]