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As Brian Vernor, director of the new film The Cyclocross Meeting, said while introducing his latest release in front of a packed house in Bend, Oregon’s Tower theater, “This sure feels different than when I brought Pure Sweet Hell to a hotel basement in Portland.” The Cyclocross Meeting‘s world premier, held in conjunction with the [...]
Here’s another in our series of articles that dig a little deeper to find the unique and great cyclocross shops out there. We just wrapped up an insane amount of racing and other bike and ‘cross events in Bend, Oregon for the National Championships, so we’re taking the opportunity to highlight Sunnyside Sports, one of [...]
USA Cycling has announced the first round of nominations to the United States National Team for the 2010 UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic, Jan. 30-31. Five athletes were named to each of the Elite Women’s, U23 Men’s and Junior Men’s squads based on competitive performances over the course of the last year. [...]
Be sure to keep checking our complete coverage of the 2009 Cyclocross National Championships Center as we continue to update the page with more updates, tech pieces photos, and videos. “Golden hour” late afternoon lighting, beautiful shots, great riding rife with Herculean efforts, a liberal use of slow-motion and a bagpipe-laden Peter Gabriel soundtrack make [...]
Be sure to keep checking our complete coverage of the 2009 Cyclocross National Championships Center as we continue to update the page with more updates, tech pieces photos, and videos. by Josh Liberles Bend, Oregon proved a very worthy host for the 2009 National Cyclocross Championships. Although the venue is four hours from Portland, the [...]
by Josh Liberles This past weekend’s National Championships in Bend, Oregon were the culmination of the cyclocross season in the U.S. – the perfect time to reflect upon how American cyclocross has gotten to this point. Bend Cycling Events assembled an informal get together at Jackson’s Corner restaurant that offered ‘cross fans and racers alike [...]
Be sure to check out our full coverage of the 2009 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships. It was a two-up race in the Masters 45-49 race as James Alan Coats (Cal Giant) and Jonny Bold (Corner Cycle) battled each other lap after lap in the longest race of the day. Coats took an early lead [...]
Be sure to check out our full coverage of the 2009 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships. Three categories of Junior Men contended for titles today, just after the Junior Women finished up. The two younger fields started things off with riders soloing away to victory. The 15-16 year-olds’ race was a back-and-forth throwdown with several [...]
Be sure to keep checking our complete coverage of the 2009 Cyclocross National Championships Center as we continue to update the page with more updates, tech pieces photos, and videos. The junior women kicked off day two of the Nationals Championships in Bend, Oregon at 8 a.m. The 10-12 year olds followed the 13-14′s for [...]
There were four B races scattered throughout the day: three men’s and one women’s. The women got off to an early A.M. start and broke in the course for the slew of riders still to come. They definitely faced some firmly-packed but consistent course conditions and, relative to preceding days, a tolerable temperature hovering in [...]
by Justin Morgan When Don Myrah returned to competitive cyclocross racing in 2007, the appearance of a rider with four Elite National Championships under his belt would surely rate a mention in the cycling media, even if his initial comeback results found him finishing nearly dead last. “I must have only trained for two or [...]
Thanks to David Baker for the update and photo gallery of course conditions. Visit David’s blog here. There are about three inches of snow on the course, which packs down to about 1/2 inch. Everything looks more severe in person, but it’s all rideable. I hear they are going to remove snow around the beer [...]
by Geoff Gunderson Close to the Burlingame home base of the Bay Area Super Prestige promoters, Pilarcitos Cyclesports, rests the spiritual home of the series. We visited Coyote Point for round two as the park came through in the 11th hour to secure series integrity after two other sites had fallen through. This trip, we [...]
by Dave Sheek The Mullery twins may initially confuse both fans and fellow competitors until they realize that there are, in fact, two identical brothers on course. On a recent trip to Colorado, even their mother was apologizing to the two after the race for confusing who was who during the event. But, this is [...]
Master’s racer Lee Waldman fought his way onto the podium in the Colorado State Championships. Now he’s in final preparation mode for Nationals in Bend. This is installment #8 of Lee’s regular column, catch up on #7 here. This has been one of those cyclocross seasons here in Colorado. Conditions have run the gamut from [...]
Cyclocross Magazine’s year-long search for the perfect cyclocross shoe continues with Day 6 of Shoe Week. We look at Specialized’s top offering, the not-yet-released 2010 S-Works MTB. Missed our previous features? Catch up on Day 5′s Winter Shoe Roundup. by Lane Miller Specialized’s “S-Works” moniker is reserved for those products reflecting the leading edge technology, [...]
by Ben Popper We were packed tighter in the car than the turkey had been stuffed the night before. It took the entire length of the drive to Iowa City before the final taste of Thanksgiving left my mouth. That was fortunate because the gut wrenching run up Mount Krumpit eight or nine times was [...]
Cyclocross Magazine’s year-long search for the perfect cyclocross shoe continues with Day 5 of Shoe Week. Our look at the Sidi Diablo GTX is a brand new review. We’ve also resurrected three winter shoe reviews from issue four of the print edition of Cyclocross Magazine: Specialized’s Defroster, Northwave’s Celsius J GTX and Lake’s MXZ302. Missed [...]
Not sure if you’re training effectively? Have some ambitious goals for the season but feel like your racing has plateaued? Cyclocross Magazine’s Kenton Berg has been stuck in this situation and decided to seek professional help. This is his sixth entry. Read his previous entry here. WARNING: TRAINING WITH POWER MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR [...]
by Josh Liberles The weather report for the upcoming USGP weekend in Portland, Oregon calls for dry and cold days. If that holds, this will mark the first non-soaked-edition since the USGP started coming around in 2004. While the conditions will likely be drastically different this year, the course will likely be similar to past [...]
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