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Beer, Wine, Music, Theater, Literature, and of course 'cross. As a cat 1 cross racer I have to juggle that with career prospects (future law school student) and life (engaged and share a cat and a dog with my fiancee). It is always a battle between what would be ideal as a racer and the responsibilities of being a 24 year old with student loans looming. Then again the battle is what makes life great.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: World Championships Week

  28 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Everybody knows that this is the World Championships week. It is such a big deal that our site crashed due to the extreme amounts of content we’ve been posting to amp up the masses and get excited! In keeping with that theme, I want to remind everyone out there that reads this [...]

• Rider Diary: Sue Butler RIDLEY “We are Belgium” Factory Tour

  26 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  Portland, OR Elite racer Sue Butler is one of five women chosen to represent the US at Worlds this year.  Butler capped off a great year by taking fifth at Nationals after several strong showings in Europe. She’s back there now preparing for this weekend’s World Championships at St. Wendel, and took some time away from [...]

• Ryan Trebon Interview: Opening Up, Shutting it Down

  24 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman After hearing that Ryan Trebon would unfortunately be ending his 2010/2011 cyclocross season early due to illness, we gave him a call to chat about his decision, how he’s feeling, his plans for next year and the future of US cyclocross. Sit back and enjoy the end of year smörgåsbord of all [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 21st, 2011

  21 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman We are past the “thick” of the European ’cross season with Holy Week over. But, even though there are not seven races over a period of nine days for us to sit and scrounge the internet for live feeds, there is still a lot of exciting racing left in the season. The [...]

• Sneak Peak: Dugast Pipistrello-Rhino

  19 January 11 • 7 comments

  If you’ve been watching closely, Marianne Vos has been winning races – Dutch National Championships and the Pont-Chateau World Cup among them – on an odd looking tire with a white center tread and a black side knob. Thanks to our friends over at The Chainstay, we’ve gained some close-up photo’s of these tires.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 14th, 2011

  14 January 11 • 20 comments

  by Kat Statman The Northeast is frozen over, the Southeast is experiencing ice storms and the biggest ’cross race of the year is on the horizon. On top of everything, there is team transfer news, new sponsor news and just general good times with this week’s edition of Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings. Lars Boom [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 7th, 2011

  7 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Another week and another round of Rumors about pro ’crossers around the world. With this week being the National Championship week for most of the major cyclocross hotbed countries, many are looking towards the big days in Belgium and the Netherlands. But there is some non-National Championship news also. The win leaderboard [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of December 31st, 2010

  31 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman As the Christmas cyclocross week craziness slowly winds down with the GvA Trofee Grote Prijs Sven Nys on New Year’s Day and the Fidea Cyclocross Tervurven on Sunday, we have some good New Year cheer and exciting rumors and rumblings to talk about. Sven Nys has been plagued by “mechanics” problems almost [...]

• More Photos From the Zolder World Cup by Bart Hazen

  28 December 10 • 0 comment

  More photos from the exciting race at Heusden-Zolder this past Sunday from Bart Hazen have come in just in time to get excited for the GvA Trophy race at Azencross tomorrow. If you missed the Zolder coverage, check out some photo’s and video here and look at a story of the American Euro Cross campers [...]

• European Champion Lars van der Haar Wins U23 Race in Diegem

  28 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen European champion Lars van der Haar (Rabobank-Giant Offroad) has won the U23 race at the Superprestige in Diegem, Belgium. After a thrilling race the little Dutch rider was the fastest in the sprint over Wietse Bosmans. Van der Haar’s teammate Mike Teunissen completed the podium.

• Lars Boom Makes a Boom in Heusden-Zolder, Albert Second – UPDATED – Brief Report, Results, Photos and Video

  26 December 10 • 0 comment

  Zolder, Belgium – Lars Boom took an impressive victory in his only World Cup performance of this season, displaying power, poise and smooth riding. On a tricky and snowy course that featured sand-like conditions, Lars Boom rode hard from the beginning of the day and showed great tenacity and balance over the hour-long course. The only [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of December 24th, 2010

  24 December 10 • 3 comments

  by Kat Statman With the build up to the Christmas ’Cross Week, one would think that we would have a lot of noise from the pro ’crossers in Europe. It seems everyone is keeping quiet and focusing on the week ahead and doing last-minute homework to get their Cyclocross Magazine fantasy team done before Christmas. [...]

• Preview: World Cup #6 this Week Heusden-Zolder, Belgium

  24 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman The famous Christmas week of ’cross kicks off with a bang this Sunday in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. There will be some exciting racing with all of the Elites looking to grab the coveted the World Cup points as well as have a good start to the hardest week of ’cross all season. Last [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of December 17th, 2010

  17 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman All of us have been following the European ’cross scene closely through the early part of the season, but now that the US season is all but over (only one UCI race left on the calendar) it’s time to hunker down and see what’s happening across the pond as the thick of [...]

• Clydesdale Championship of the Universe 2010

  15 December 10 • 2 comments

  by Dave Queen For full Cyclocross National Championships coverage and information, visit our 2010 USA Cycling National Championships Page. BEND, ORE. – For the second year in a row the Clydesdales and Athenas met in Bend to decide the Cyclocross Champions of the Universe. Brad Ross throws a great party, and I was lucky enough to qualify for [...]

• Georgia Cross Series Finals Treated to Greasy Corners and Cool Temps

  15 December 10 • 0 comment

  ATLANTA, GA. – Elk’s Aidmore Children’s Center in Conyers, Georgia hosted the finals for the 2010 Georgia Cross series. Racers were greeted by cold temperatures and windchills in the 30s. Many said that they were happy for real ’cross weather as the races before had highs in the 50s and 60s. The course was run backwards from years [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of December 11th, 2010

  10 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman As most of you know, all eyes are focused on Bend, Oregon, for the US ’cross National Championships this week. But that’s not all we’re keeping tabs on, as today in the weekly rumors & rumblings column we will be focused on Europe. There’s a lot to talk about and speculate on, [...]

• National Championships Get Underway Thursday with Masters and Singlespeed Racing

  8 December 10 • 0 comment

  For full Cyclocross National Championships coverage and information, visit our 2010 USA Cycling National Championships Page. Thursday December 9th is the first day of championship racing at the 2010 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships. For the Male Masters categories, the 60–64, 65–69, 70+ and 55–59 age groups will be battling it out. In the Female Masters, [...]

• Kersting and Dallaire Get Three Wins in Two Days of Indy Zipp OVCX presented by Papa John’s Indy DoubleCross

  8 December 10 • 1 comment

  by Geraint Parry and OVCX staff After a season of dirt tracks and dust, winter finally engulfed the Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour presented by Papa John’s as the series headed for the final weekend of action in Indianapolis. Saturday evening saw six inches of snow fall on the Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park on the [...]

• The Future of United States Elite Cyclocross: A Brief Discussion with Adam Myerson

  3 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Over the past few days, there has been a lot of noise about the UCI, USAC, the Verge NECCS and the NACT, centering on the impending suspension of these UCI ’cross series. Last night as Adam Myerson was in the middle of his many different jobs in the cycling world, I had [...]