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Most serious cyclocrossers eventually move from clinchers to tubular tires (or tubeless) to take advantage of the faster speeds of low-pressure tires with less pinch flat risk. Serious cyclocrossers who can afford it often look to carbon rims for weight savings. Now cyclocross racers are increasingly seeking wider rims for better tire support. Revolution Wheelworks [...]
by Dan Seaton RUDDERVOODRE, BELGIUM—After weeks of uncharacteristically warm and pleasant early fall weather in Western Europe, temperatures plummeted and the rain returned, setting up a muddy kickoff to the Superprestige Series here in West Flanders. But if the sloppy course conditions were typical, the names were not, as the new UCI requirement that all [...]
Canadian racer Craig Richey is back in North America after his first season racing ‘cross in Belgium. He checks in with an update on off-season successes and plans for a big adventure this August.
Niels Albert (BKCP-Power Plus), who said two weeks ago that he wanted to win the Belgian Championships more than even the World title, made his wish a reality today on a flat, sandy course under sunny skies in Antwerp. The 2009 World Champion pulled away from Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) during the second lap to take [...]
Canadian Craig Richey (CyclocrossRacing.com p/b Blue) has been in Belgium for “Holy Week” – six UCI races in just over a week. Read on for his words about the experience. by Craig Richey There are six UCI races in Belgium between December 26 and January 2. This is commonly known as the “Holy Week” of cyclocross. [...]
by Dan Seaton BAAL, Belgium – Racing nearly in his back yard, Sven Nys claimed his tenth win in his namesake race by pulling away from World Champion Zdenek Stybar in the final few hundred meters of a cold, muddy contest. On the first dreary winter day of 2011 in this tiny village northeast of [...]
by Dan Seaton LOENHOUT, BELGIUM – Though it might have been a gloomy, winter day, the stars of cyclocross shone brightly on the 27th edition of Azencross, delivering – almost – two down-to-the-wire duels to the huge crowds that waded through the snow and mud here in northern Belgium. In the women’s race, world champion [...]
by Craig Richey The Koksijde World Cup was my fifth consecutive weekend of racing, and between races I hadn’t done much training. I decided to pass on the World Cup round in Spain and instead do an endurance block of training. Logistically, racing the Spanish round would have been tough, plus flying with bikes, car [...]
by Bart Hazen Belgian Champion Sven Nys has won the Druivencross in Overijse, Belgium. In the “mother” of all cross races the Landbouwkredietrider was too strong for the competition. Kevin Pauwels and Klaas Vantornout finished in second and third, 21 and 37 seconds back, respectively. Bart Aernouts, Tom Meeusen, Dieter Vanthourenhout, Lars Boom, Niels Albert, [...]
by Dan Seaton & Bart Hazen Essen, Belgium – Leading by some 25 meters midway through the final muddy lap of the GP Rouwmoer, Niels Albert had his first win of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee series all but sewed up. During the race the 24 year-old BKCP-Powerplus rider had clawed his way from a [...]
by Craig Richey Canadian ’crosser Craig Richey is spending this winter in Belgium, working on taking his racing to a new level. His series of race diaries continues with last week’s World Cup in Koksijde, Belgium. If you missed it, go back and read his report from the Gavere and Hamme-Zogge races. Last Saturday I [...]
by Craig Richey Canadian ’crosser Craig Richey is spending this winter in Belgium, working on taking his racing to a new level. He’ll be checking in on his progress throughout the next few months. My name is Craig Richey. I am 26 years old, and I was born and raised in the small northern Canadian [...]
by Dan Seaton Gieten, Netherlands – On the first really cold weekends of the 2010-11 season, the world of European cyclocross headed to a snowy Gieten, in the far northern Netherlands, for the fifth round of the Nissan Superprestige Series. Coming a day after a tough race through the sand at the Koksijde World Cup, [...]
by Bart Hazen Nys’ Win is Fourth Straight in the Mud Hamme-Zogge, Belgium – Belgian Sven Nys once again proved he is one of the best cyclocross racers in the world. After being the best on the Koppenberg, in Ronse and in Niel, Nys took his fourth win in two weeks time by beating Sunweb-Revor’s [...]
Ronse, Belgium – On a day when a classic mix of Belgian weather – sun, rain and even hail – turned an already muddy race into a super sloppy comedy of errors, Sven Nys used his superior technical abilities to claim his second victory in a week, taking the Nissan Super Trophy in Ronse, Belgium. [...]
by Bart Hazen The women and Juniors may not have races available to them in Belgium’s Superprestige series, but the two groups did have UCI races of their own on tap in Zonhoven, Belgium. Daphny van den Brand has won the first international women’s cyclocross in Zonhoven. The Dutch national champion took her second win [...]
Zdenek Stybar followed up his two wins in his Czech Republic homeland with a win in Namur, Belgium to open up the GvA Trofee series. Sanne van Passen continued her winning ways in the Elite women’s field in a convincing win, while Arnaud Jouffroy put in a convincing performance to take the U23 win. by [...]
Neerpelt, Belgium – Despite a weekend of heavy rain in Belgium, the skies cleared for the Fidea Grote Prijs in Neerpelt as the European cyclocross season entered its second week. Even with the rain, the good drainage on the sandy, wooded course meant a tacky, rather than muddy, track, dominated by a series of steep, loose [...]
by Dan Seaton While European cyclocross slowly ramped up this week, two former world champions announced late starts to the season, albeit for very different reasons. Niels Albert, who stormed undefeated through the first month of the 2009-10 season, found himself sidelined with illness and injury, while Lars Boom announced a return to the sport. [...]
by Dan Seaton While top American racers were kicking off the season in Washington and Vermont, the European cyclocross season got rolling on Sunday when Belgian Champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) defeated a depleted field in Erpe-Mere, Belgium. With world champion Zdeněk Štybar racing at home in the Czech Republic and last year’s winner Niels Albert [...]
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