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Italian component manufacturer Campagnolo used the Taipei Cycling Show in Taiwan to unveil the latest additions to its array of cyclocross-specific components. The company started off by launching its CX Power-Torque compact cranksets and line of cyclocross-branded clincher wheels last September during Interbike. The main difference between these new components and their road-friendly brethren is [...]
Update: Ryan Trebon has confirmed he will be riding a Felt mountain bike and cyclocross bike for the season, but his team will not be Felt Bicycles but rather is “his own program.” Hot off the presses, Felt Bicycles just announced a partnership with cyclocross superstar Ryan Trebon. The speculation about where the lanky talent [...]
It’s St Patrick’s day, and somehow we’re focusing on a famous Frenchman – but we’ll keep rolling with it. Amy Dykema shot this in-depth interview for Cyclocross Magazine immediately after Mourey’s final race on US soil, the Sun Prairie USGP weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Really good, interesting stuff. Mourey’s impressed with American racing and courses, [...]
Francis Mourey has established himself among the best on the world cyclocross stage, including taking fourth place at Worlds in St. Wendel and winning his sixth French title this year. But the American interest in the Frenchman skyrocketed when he stormed our shores and won Starcrossed, the Rad Racing GP and CrossVegas (with a crazy [...]
by Kat Statman MTB Season Kickoff Many of the top ’crossers spend their “off-seasons” racing mountain bikes, while many others spend it on the road. This weekend is the kick off weekend of pro mountain bike racing in the US, and many of the top field drivers in North America will be toeing the line. [...]
by Josh Liberles Het Fairwheel Podium is a new concept store that just opened in the cyclocross hotbed of Portland, Oregon, and like any modern shop worth its salt, there’s some cool cyclocross gear in the house. Emiliano Jordan, a Tucson, Arizona, transplant who helped to build Tucson shop Fairwheel Bicycles’ online presence, opened the [...]
Here’s the latest on our website woes, which despite paling in comparison to the tragic current events in Japan, have us royally bummed out and working around the clock. Our reputable hosting company mysteriously overwrote our database with an old version, and to make matters worse, had a setup error on the routine backups. Nevertheless, [...]
by Josh Liberles Last year Tim Johnson crossed a line that, unfortunately, few professional cyclists do – from competitor to bike advocate. Johnson attended the annual National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C., and something clicked. This March he’ll be taking his support one step further, by riding from Boston, near his home town, all the [...]
by Marc Dettman So what do Michigan cyclocrossers do when the long, cold, white fingers of winter start scratching at the frost on the window? Get the shanty out and ice fish? Sit around the stove eating mac ’n cheese, drink PBR and play euchre? Sew suede patches on the elbows of our brown corduroy [...]
The climax of the season came and went this past weekend with the World Championships in St.Wendel, and Laurent Charras was there to document another race in style – lucky for all of us. Charras has been focusing on the top women ‘crossers all season long in the World Cups, with great behind-the-scenes looks at [...]
Read all about the Elite men’s and women’s races in our reports, then check out the final two laps of the men’s race below.
We’ll be bringing you live, interactive text-based coverage of the World Championships from St. Wendel, Germany, bright and early on Sunday morning (or super late Saturday night, depending on your perspective). We’ll get things rolling a half-hour before the women’s race, and continue on for the men’s race. Follow as our experts bring you the [...]
by Christine Vardaros We caught up with Katie Compton, one of the clear favorites for the title in St Wendel, Germany, to see how she’s feeling just before tomorrow’s big race. According to Compton, she’s more prepared this time around than ever before. Her leg cramping issue, which has plagued her for several seasons, is [...]
The U23 World Championship race today was an absolute drag race, with a large lead group gradually getting whittled down to 10 contenders for the final showdown. Go read our report and check out our photos for a recap of the action, but the video of the final two laps below is a must-watch! Final [...]
by Josh Liberles The two German Elite national champions, Hanka Kupfernagel (Stevens) and Phillipp Walsleben (BKCP-Powerplus) could very well prove to be decisive factors in Sundays races. Kupfernagel, 36, is on most pundits’ short list of favorites in the Eilte women’s race. Although Katie Compton (Planet Bike-Stevens) had the edge over the field in the [...]
Daphny van den Brand (ZZPR.nl), one of the top favorites in the women’s World Championship race in St. Wendel, Germany, will miss the race due to severe bronchitis. Van den Brand won the European Cyclocross Championship this year, and she finished just behind Marianne Vos in the Dutch National Championships to claim the silver medal.
KINGSPORT, TENN. – Travis Livermon (Mock Orange Racing) soloed to victory today in Tennessee’s late-season Kingsport Cyclocross Cup, stretching out a gap of almost 30 seconds over Alec Donahue (Wheelhouse-NCC Cycling Team), who rode to second place. Adam Myerson (Cycle-Smart), enjoying perhaps his best cyclocross season in a long career, rounded out the podium in [...]
Masters racer and regular contributor Lee Waldman has some thoughts to air out about the 2010 Cyclocross National Championships. The opinions expressed belong to Lee and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Cyclocross Magazine. But we at CXM do hope that they’ll fuel a constructive debate…drop your own comments below. If you missed Lee’s [...]
Defending world champ Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) just edged out defending Dutch national champ Daphny van den Brand (ZZPR.nl) by the slimmest of margins, adding her first tricolor jersey to her palmares by a mere two seconds. Van den Brand sought out her 12th national title, but a clearly on-form Vos is tough to match. Sanne van [...]
OTEGEM, BELGIUM – One day after winning the Belgian National Championship race in impressive fashion, Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) lined up with his fancy new Belgian-flag-colored kit on, with less than three hours of sleep after victory celebrations. Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea), on the other hand, felt that he had unfinished business after claiming third behind his [...]
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