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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 [...]
by Steve Vockrodt The Kansas City cyclocross season opened up last weekend at Manion’s Cyclocross, and now the rest of autumn’s racing schedule seems easy by comparison. Manion’s Cyclocross launched the 2011 campaign at an auction house tucked away in the bucolic Nearman Hills of Kansas City, Kansas, where at its highest points, the downtown [...]
by Molly Hurford How does it feel riding a custom Richard Sachs creation? Dan Chabanov, one of Sachs’ racers this season, tried to explain: “It’s not some magical feeling … OK, it’s kind of a magical feeling.” Within the New York cycling scene, you might know Chabanov as the guy who won the Red Hook [...]
Days of rain that soaked the Washington, DC metro region relented just in time for the Tacchino Cyclocross, the MABRA Super 8 series opener, but the deluge was still evident just below the surface of Rosaryville State Park in Upper Marlborough, Maryland. The soggy ground, high humidity, and the churning wheels of some 600 racers [...]
Uncle Charlie and Other Stories of North Cal. Cyclocross: An art show dedicated to the spirit of North Cal Cyclocross, its roots, and its current spectacle. Featuring works of photography, writing, sculpture, painting, collage, as well as historical documents and images.
by Joshua McCarrel This is the second time we have put on a race at Art Dye Park in American Fork, Utah. We did one last year, and this year we have extended it into a three race series, with another date in the works for a night race under the lights. Team Clammy Chamois [...]
The second weekend of Southern California Prestige Series presented by Spy Optic hit Camarillo, CA with the Pacifica Crossfest. This is the newest race to the series and was hosted by Casa Pacifica, a residential facility licensed by the state of CA which serves abused, neglected, and severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents from the [...]
With scenery like this, Joe Sales couldn’t resist taking some scenic shots of the racing action at the 2011 Wedgewood New Brighton cyclocross race this past Sunday.
Louisville’s hold on the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships may be in jeopardy, according to Belgian newspapers. The race, which would be the first cyclocross world championship to be held in the US, is to take place in February of 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky, but according to Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen, the organizers are having [...]
Providence, Rhode Island – The family and staff here at the Providence Cyclo-cross Festival presented by Interbike, would like to take this moment to talk about something that has nothing to do with actual cyclocross, the festival, its partners or sponsors. We want to express our deepest sympathies for a founding member of our team, [...]
There is no denying that disc brakes are gaining in popularity among cyclocross bikes. One look at the ’cross bike photos from the recent Eurobike and Interbike trade shows is enough to show that disc-brake-equipped ’cross bikes are the wave of the future. Their benefits are well known; tire clearance is now only a matter of the frame. They are more powerful with more control and they are not so nearly affected by water and mud. Apart from all these benefits though, the tighter tolerances associated with disc brakes lend themselves more easily to poor adjustment, and improper adjustment on disc brakes can ruin your race more easily than a poorly adjusted cantilever. Too loose and you lose your braking altogether; too tight and your brake drags the whole time. The down side is these poor conditions happen a lot easier to disc brakes than to cantilevers.
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