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• Live Streaming Video & Live Chat of 2013 USA Cyclocross Elite Men and Women’s Cyclocross National Championships

  13 January 13 • 5 comments

  Cyclocross Magazine along with USA Cycling brings you live streaming video coverage of the 2013 Elite Men’s and Womens Cyclocross National Championships in Madison Wisconsin. Tune in for all the action and some insight from Cyclocross Magazine staffers as the race unfolds! Schedule 1 p.m. CST – Elite Women’s Race 2:15 p.m. CST – Elite [...]

• Cyclocross Magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Part 1

  14 December 12 • 0 comment

  

  ‘Tis the season for giving, and here at Cyclocross Magazine HQ, our heads are full of fun holiday gift ideas for any budget, for any kind of cyclocross racer, fan or cyclist under the sun. So, what are you waiting for? Snag the holeshot and get gifting! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or More [...]

• CrossVegas 2012 Replay – Video On Demand

  21 September 12 • 0 comment

  If you missed the CrossVegas awesomeness that was Sanne van Paassen playing a perfectly tactical race, or Jeremy Powers and Timothy Johnson sending the Euros packing, take heart! Cyclocross Magazine has you covered with the CrossVegas 2012 Replay. Grab your cowbell, sit down, and relish the world’s Elite pounding each other in the hard, fast [...]

• Prosser, Anthony Dominate Hilly Billy Roubaix

  3 July 12 • 1 comment

  

  by John Proppe MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA – Banjo music greeted racers as they crested seemly endless steep gravel climbs on course at American Ultra Cross Championship Series race number two – Hilly Billy Roubaix. The race, in its third year, is a mixed terrain race taking riders over 72 hilly miles of gravel, dirt, and Jeep roads [...]

• Wellens, Vos and Van der Haar Outstanding at Cauberg UPDATED: Photos

  19 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Belgian Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) has won the first Cauberg cyclocross in Valkenburg, the Netherlands. Wellens attacked from the start to win with a big lead over German champion Philipp Walsleben and Belgian champion Niels Albert. Bart Aernouts and Sven Nys completed the top five. For Wellens it was his first season win and his [...]

• Report: Muddy Worlds Course Turns Icy, Challenging Riders

  28 January 11 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine Correspondent Christine Vardaros ventured out to the course at St. Wendel today to bring us an update of the course conditions. Read on, and stay tuned as we keep you updated on all things Worlds related. by Christine Vardaros Yesterday we saw a wave of riders, a rather festive bunch I might add! [...]

• Win Green Michelins! Cyclocross Magazine and Bikereg.com Team Up to Support Bjorn Fox’s Travel to Worlds

  23 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  Would you pay $5 for a chance to win a pair of the original coveted green Michelin Mud tires? Such tires have commanded a whopping Dugast-like $115 for just one tire on eBay, and petition-like pleas to bring the tire back to production.  What if the funds raised were going to support sending one of [...]

• Joachim Parbo’s Stolen Leopard Bike Returned

  3 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  The Zolder World Cup didn’t go exactly as planned for Danish national champion Joachim Parbo. No, it wasn’t the snow and ruts – someone walked off with one of the two Leopard bikes that he brought to the race. Parbo was pulled from the event when the leaders were about to lap him. Afterwards, some [...]

• Washington’s Classic Cycle Hosts Fundraiser to Send Zach McDonald to Worlds

  3 January 11 • 0 comment

  The ’cross community always looks after our own, especially when our own is headed to Europe to take on the best in the world. Zach McDonald is a national champion headed back to Europe to race through the end of the season into the World Championships in February. The local community is showing its support [...]

• Dieter Vanthourenhout Fights to be on National Team…Again

  16 December 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros Of the four World Cups so far this season, Dieter Vanthourenhout (BKCP-Powerplus) has been given the green light by his National Federation for only three of them. In any other country he would be their lead man, as he is easily one of the best ’crossers in the world.  But unfortunately for [...]

• Rider Diary: Frank Spiteri’s Leap from Beginner to Elite

  11 December 10 • 0 comment

  

  For full Cyclocross National Championships coverage and information, visit our 2010 USA Cycling National Championships Page. by Frank Spiteri It is amazing how fast things can change. It was in 2007 that I realized my life wasn’t headed in the direction I wanted it to. I was an inactive out-of-shape college student tipping the scales at a whopping 240 [...]

• Juniors, U23 and Masters Men Set to Race Saturday at Nationals

  11 December 10 • 0 comment

  For full Cyclocross National Championships coverage and information, visit our 2010 USA Cycling National Championships Page. With a predicted high temperature of 40 degrees and a 70 percent chance of precipitation, the Junior 17-18, U23 and Masters men’s racers are looking at a challenging, but perhaps entertaining, day tomorrow in Bend. Last year, although the course [...]

• Friar Tuck: A Trip to Westmalle Abbey Brewery

  7 December 10 • 0 comment

  For many cyclocross racers, the love of racing is only  rivaled only by a passion for hand-crafted beer. Ty Kurth is no exception to this. Kurth traveled to the Westmalle Monastery, just north of Antwerp, Belgium, to witness the production of Trappist Ale firsthand.

• Lopes and Mann Win SCPS #14 with Final Lap Attacks

  5 December 10 • 0 comment

  Glendale, CA – The annual Turkey Trot event was, as usual, a fantastic course and the overnight rains again this week allowed for racing on fast tacky dirt and grass. This week’s event was not only race 14 of the Southern California Prestige Series but also the Southern California and Nevada Cycling Associations district championships. [...]

• Clydesdale Cyclocross Champion of the Universe to be Crowned in Bend

  5 December 10 • 0 comment

  The Clydesdale Champion of the Universe will once again be crowned next week in Bend during the National Championships. Details from the promoters below. The Knights of the Cross Crusade have spoken, therefore let it be known that on the second Saturday of the twelfth month of the year 2010, a Clydesdale Cyclocross Champion of the Universe [...]

• Myerson and Annis are Tops at Verge NBX GP of ’Cross

  5 December 10 • 0 comment

  The second-to-last round of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series did not disappoint today in Warwick, Rhode Island. Coming into the weekend, the battle for the elite titles for both men and women were extremely tight with Andrea Smith (Ladies First Racing) and Justin Lindine (bikereg.com/Joe’s Garage/Scott) wearing the jerseys. A better stage could [...]

• A Record 36 Titles and 5 Days of Racing Await Racers in Bend at the Cyclocross National Championships Next Week

  4 December 10 • 0 comment

  

  It’s almost time for the fun to begin: the 2010 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships. We’ll have constant coverage right throughout the event right here, both streaming video and live text for the Elite men’s and women’s races, so get ready to join us for the fun if you can’t make the event. This year’s [...]

• Northern and Southern California Set to Battle Jan. 16

  23 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  The showdown to prove which region of California is the true ’cross powerhouse takes place on January 16, 2011, at Hart Park in Bakersfield, CA. Event organizer Sam Ames of  Kern Wheelmen Bicycle Club claims that the race will be, “The hardest race, and possibly the best prize list ’cross race in California.”

• Cross on the Rock Takes Vancouver Island by Storm

  20 November 10 • 0 comment

  This Sunday, Nov. 29th, the Island Championships come to Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, BC. The race is organized by The Cross Council, which is a collaborative effort of local clubs, including: VICC, Experience Cycling Club, UROC, Arrowsmith MTB Club, Alberni Valley Riders and IRC. It will feature double points, draw prizes for both day-of and series racers and [...]

• Nash Surprises Compton, Kabush Overpowers Driscoll at USGP Fort Collins Day One – UPDATED: More Photos

  14 November 10 • 1 comment

  by Lee Waldman & Christopher Bagg Fort Collins, CO – After a fall season full of unseasonably warm temperatures, the riders were finally served a helping of more typical cyclocross weather. The snow that hit Colorado’s front range at the end of the week modified what might have been a smooth, fast course into one [...]