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Pitting can be tricky business: there’s always the chance that your racer will have a grievous mechanical issue, there are hand-offs, you may have a bike hurtling at you at ridiculous speeds, you’ll get muddy, wet or cold, or all three, and when the course is muddy, you’re going to be in high demand. Just [...]
Date: Saturday, October 8th Location: Moscow, Idaho Venue: Sky Ranch Hosted by: Louie and JT Fountain. Here are two brothers who know their cyclocross: JT is a “pro” singlespeeder riding for Raleigh, and his brother Louie races single speed for Cyclocrossracing.com. Last year at Single Speed Nationals, JT finished second and Louie seventh.
Highlights from the Men’s Race: Interview with two day winner, Helen Wyman: Interview with Jeremy Powers and Tim Johnson, first and second place, respectively:
by Pat Malach Cross Crusade #1, Alpenrose Dairy Portland, Oregon – Nearly 1,500 cross-crazed racers, from novices to pros, toed the line Sunday for the opening round of the 2011 Cross Crusade series at Alpenrose Dairy in Southwest Portland. Sean Babcock (Kona) outlasted his rivals for the Elite men’s win while Sue Butler (River City [...]
While yesterday’s race may have seen Tim Johnson flat and an unexpected victory from Christian Heule, today’s race had a few more surprises in store. Early on in the race, Johnson attacked, sending the chase group, including Heule, Powers, Driscoll and Berden into a frenzy. For the first 40 minutes, Johnson only increased his gap [...]
For the second day in a row in Glocuester, Massachusetts, racers awoke to the pitter patter of pouring rain. Still, that didn’t seem to curb their enthusiasm — or the enthusiasm of spectators in the beer garden. The women’s race was won by Helen Wyman, followed by Nicole Duke and Gabby Day. This makes nine [...]
Video clips and a helmet cam lap of Gloucester Day 1.
A wet Gran Prix of Gloucester made for exciting racing, with constant lead changes, attacks and regroups. At the end, two mean on rival teams emerged, from Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld and Rapha Focus, leading into the last lap. But it wasn’t the New England Tim Johnson and Jeremy Powers throw-down many spectators had hoped for, [...]
Helen Wyman (Kona) rode a patient race, watching Nicole Duke (Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld) play the aggressor early on in the 2011 Gran Prix of Gloucester. Andrea Smith (Ladies First Racing) and Wyman took turns chasing Duke, and once the connection was made, it was just a matter of time before Wyman took off and add [...]
by Kat Statman Every year, cyclocross and women get a little closer to equality and Rabobank has helped making that transition again. So I hear that disc brakes are the next thing in cross, but where are they? Niels Albert has taken the plunge as the first Euro to really think that disc braking performance [...]
Since mid-September, UK-based racer Gabby Day has been on the East Coast in the US racing in the MidAtlantic and New England races, from Nittany to Nor’Easter. This Wednesday, she finished second at the Midnight Ride of Cyclocross in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and updated us on how her trip to America has gone so far. (Our [...]
This season, we’ll be following a few racers who have some interesting stories to share. From a freshly-minted elite racer to a newly declared master, we have a wide variety of racers we’ll be hearing from. We’ll catch up with them intermittently as the season wanes on, and hopefully we’ll be able to chart their [...]
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
The New England Holy Week of Cyclocross has begun! The kickoff event, Midnight Ride Cyclocross hosted by the Minuteman Road Club at the Lancaster Fairgrounds in Lancaster, Massachusetts brought out almost 400 racers for a fantastic event complete with some of the biggest names in the sport. Racing kicked off in the twilight at 5pm [...]
Pro racer Adam McGrath has gone from international racer to local farmer in the past year, though he hasn’t hung up his bikes just yet. He’ll be chronicling his new set of experiences in his new column for Cyclocross Magazine, “For Mud, Beer, Bikes and Barns.” We wanted to start off with a Q&A so [...]
The cyclocross season is now well underway in Northern California. Following the CCCX season opener two weeks ago and this past week’s Folsom’s Cyclebration, two more events took place this past weekend. The CCCX series continued at Fort Ord and, at the College Cyclery Compound, the Sacramento Cyclocross Series opened its season. Temperatures held to a comfortable range at West Sacramento but the wind blew throughout the day and was particularly strong toward the end of the event. Good fortune held, however, and a repeat of last year’s dust bowl failed to occur.
Dayton, Ohio — Possibly the most important week in the short history of the Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour has started even better than expected. Just days before racing in front of an expected 10,000 spectators, Zipp OVCX Tour Director Mitch Graham announced that Papa John’s Pizza has re-joined the series as presenting sponsor. The announcement [...]
Winnipeg, Manitoba — On September 17, under the lights of the Red River Co-op Speedway in St Adolphe, MB, a large crowd of cyclists and spectators gathered to take part in the inaugural DarkCross Cyclocross Race, presented by Wallace + Wallace. The event was enthusiastically embraced by the Manitoba cycling community. Organizing clubs Fort Garry [...]
Preparation for my trip to Burlington, Vermont and Nor’Easter ‘Cross came with a lot of expectations. After a weekend where I went flying off my bike like Joey hitting a barrier, I was ready to make the three hour plus drive to Burlington worthwhile. I wanted to get a Verge point which would earn me callups at series races for the rest of the year.
From the “Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo” to the philosophical Master’s racer extraordinaire, we bring you a new meeting of the minds. When Lee Waldman approached me (Molly) about doing a “conversation” column together, I immediately thought it was a great idea. After all, he lives across the country from me, we have a large [...]
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