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• Cycle-Smart International’s 20th Edition Coming This Weekend

  2 November 10 • 0 comment

  This weekend, Look Park in Northampton, Massachusetts, will host the 20th annual Cycle-Smart International, rounds 5 and 6 of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series Presented by Cycle-Smart. This year’s edition of the oldest UCI race in North America will once again host a pre-race party on Friday night and will feature kids races [...]

• Johnson and Gould Rule Boulder Cup – UPDATED: Full Report, Women’s Crash Video

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Grant Berry Boulder, CO – Tim Johnson (Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld.com) picked up where teammate Jeremy Powers left off yesterday and took the win, divvying up the weekend as the duo has several times this year. Todd Wells (Specialized) was next, followed by the third in the Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld.com camp, Jamey Driscoll. Powers’ position at the front of [...]

• Helen Wyman Queen of the Koppenberg, Dutch Win Youth Races

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen British national champion Helen Wyman (Kona) took the biggest win in her career on the Koppenberg today. The newly crowned “Queen of the Koppenberg” soloed to an impressive win with the native Belgian rider Sanne Cant finishing in second and Dutchwoman Sanne van Paassen in third. Daphny van den Brand and Sophie [...]

• Skerritt and Williams Take Two in Astoria Cross Crusade Weekend – UPDATED: Photos, Race Reports

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  Shannon Skerritt (Corsa Concepts) put in two dominating performances to win both Cross Crusade races over the Halloween weekend and claim the overall series lead from Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles), who took the weekend off from racing. In the women’s race, Wendy Williams (River City Bicycles) also went back to back, stamping her mark [...]

• Gaertner and Owen Grind to Victory at MFG Series #5 – UPDATED: Photo Gallery, Video

  30 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Kenton Berg Burien, WA – In what has become the norm for this fall for Seattle area cyclocross, another cool and rainy day was on tap again as racers descended on Lakewood park in Burien, WA, for the MFG Cyclocross Series race #5. Master course designer Rich McLung put riders to the test today [...]

• Bay Area Super Prestige Evolves and Expands, Haskell and Reaney Grab First Wins in Oakland

  29 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Paul Guerra and Andrew Yee While there are several well-loved and well-attended race series in Northern California, nothing brings the Norcal cyclocross tribe together quite like the first Bay Area Super Prestige series. This year the series has made several significant changes, including adding a new venue, electronic timing, field limits, new categories and [...]

• Chasing the Dream – A Rider Journal Entry by Matt Fox

  29 October 10 • 4 comments

  Matt Fox may be a mild-mannered school teacher during the week, but come the weekend he dons his skinsuit and mixes it up with the top Elites in the Northwest. He says he’s “chasing the dream,” but really, he’s already living it. by Matt Fox I am out the door and down the hill from [...]

• Van Gilder, Johnson Hold on to CXNC Leads

  29 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  Laura van Gilder (Cresco, Penn./C3 — Athletes Serving Athletes) and Tim Johnson (Beverly, Mass./ Cannondale/ Cyclocrossworld.com) used strong performances at the USGP Derby City Cup in Louisville, Kentucky, last weekend to expand their leads in the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Calendar (CXNC). Van Gilder, who has led the women’s standings since week one, took consecutive [...]

• NACT Boulder Cup Weekend Preview

  29 October 10 • 0 comment

  Weekend of Rocky Mountain Racing Ahead Georgia Gould calls the area’s fan base “highly educated.” Jeremy Powers says it’s “the most prestigious cycling community in the United States.” Katie Compton marvels at how “every year all the best racers fly in from all over the country just to race these races.” So where is this [...]

• Video: PIR Cross Crusade, My Name Is Mud

  28 October 10 • 4 comments

  

  Not like the Northwest cyclocross scene needs any more exposure, but we can’t help it – there’s great stuff going on up there. Burk Webb has been releasing beautifully-shot weekly capsules of the Oregon race scene, and his latest – from last Sunday’s PIR Cross Crusade in Portland – is the best cyclocross video we’ve [...]

• Video: Behind the Scenes at Plzen World Cup

  28 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  Laurent Charras of Petitesreines returns with a follow-up to his fantastic video of the Aigle World Cup with his look behind the scenes of the Women’s Plzen World Cup. What sets Charras’ videos apart is the pre- and post-race footage, which gives a sense of all the work – and heart – that goes into [...]

• Meeusen and Van Den Brand Take First Season Wins in Woerden

  27 October 10 • 0 comment

  Tom Meeusen and Daphny van den Brand have take their first wins of the season in the Kiremko Nacht van Woerden. Both won solo in the night race under the lights. by Bart Hazen Woerden, Netherlands – Belgian Tom Meeusen took his first win of the season in the 2010 Kiremko Nacht van Woerden. The [...]

• Cross on the Rock Brings Double Race Weekend to Victoria, B.C.

  27 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  For those of you in, or within travel distance, of Victoria, B.C., the upcoming Cross on the Rock double race weekend is well worth the trip. Did we mention free coffee and pumpkin pie!? There’s also a Saturday night “Crosstume Party.” We have some HEAVY racing on the program for this weekend!!  Two new course.  [...]

• Blind Date at the Dairy Series Brings Portland Midweek Cyclocross Romance

  26 October 10 • 0 comment

  I’ve always been a fan of midweek racing – events are inexpensive, it’s an easy way to get an extra hard day of riding in, and the races are somehow more casual and less stressful than most weekend competitions. Turns out that if you put one on in a cyclocross hotbed like Portland, you can [...]

• Gut-Wrenching Mechanical Mondays: Weather-Proofing Cables and Housing

  25 October 10 • 1 comment

  Daimeon Shanks – pro mechanic and co-owner of The Service Course repair shop in Boulder, Colorado, is here to school you on keeping you shifting and braking performance friction-free. There are several option available, and Daimeon gives his impressions of some of the more worthy. Missed last week’s article on gluing tubulars? Go back and [...]

• Sheppard and Pennington Weather the PIR Cross Crusade Storm

  25 October 10 • 2 comments

  by Josh Liberles Temps in the 40s, a steady flow of hard rain and thick mud would deter most outdoor enthusiasts, but it seemed the perfect recipe to attract almost 1,300 cyclocrossers to Portland International Raceway for Cross Crusade race #4. Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles) once again made mincemeat of the Elite men’s field, [...]

• Simms Edges Studley, MacKenzie Takes His Third SSCXWC – UPDATED: Even MORE Photos, Video!

  25 October 10 • 2 comments

  Update: Check out the new galleries, by Laura Newman, Karen Johanson and Matthew J. Clark. Kent, WA – Wendy Simms (Ridley) managed to hold off Kari Studley by less than 15 seconds, and Drew MacKenzie had a similarly tight battle all the way to the line in today’s 2010 Singlespeed Cyclocross “World Championship.” The win [...]

• Front Row Club at Plzen World Cup – A Report by Sue Butler

  25 October 10 • 2 comments

  Last week, Sue Butler’s report from the Aigle World Cup was titled “The Opposite of a Holeshot.” For World Cup #2 she found herself in the front row, thanks to an update in UCI points, and she took full advantage. by Sue Butler This weekend was a whirlwind. My head was spinning – somewhat from [...]

• Annis Repeats As Myerson Scores First UCI Win in Downeast Day 2

  25 October 10 • 0 comment

  Today’s fourth round of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series saw the best competition of this year’s series to date. The podiums of three of the marquee races came down to bunch sprints, much to the delight of an enthusiastic crowd. For a second day, New Gloucester, Maine’s Pineland Farms’ scenic landscape played host [...]

• Gould Repeats, Powers Picks Up the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com Attack in USGP Derby City Cup Day 2 – UPDATED: More Photos, Results, Report

  24 October 10 • 0 comment

  Louisville, KY – It was another windy and dusty day at Louisville’s Eva Bandman Park as racers faced off for a tough day of fast, aggressive racing at the Greenware® US Gran Prix of Cyclocross Derby City Cup presented by Papa John’s. In a near repeat of Day One, Georgia Gould (LUNA) stormed away from [...]