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by Molly Hurford Has it really been two months since I last posted? I guess that stands to reason, since two months ago I headed out on my extended adventure to Chicago, then Nationals, Worlds and beyond. By beyond, I just mean a month spent in Georgia working hard on Issue 20, exploring mountain bike [...]
by Chandler Snyder It’s that time of year again. Time for the post-cyclocross blues to set in for some, though others may be happy that the past month of mud, snow, ice and sub-freezing temps are gone. Regardless of which side of the fence you’re on, don’t just hang the bike(s) up and leave them [...]
by Christine Vardaros While cyclocross season ended almost a month ago for most of the world, here in Belgium “de cross gaat door” (’cross goes on) – through the end of February that is! Eight events (seven for the women) were still up for grabs for those of us based here in the motherland of ’cross. [...]
by Chandler Snyder It’s been a few weeks since wrapping up a rain, wind, snow and ice-soaked week in Louisville at Cyclocross Masters Worlds. The conditions there were something else, and I needed to have all of my tools/gear taken care of, since they had to survive a night of tornadoes and thunderstorms. Luckily, I [...]
by Joey Mullan Remember when you saved your paychecks as a young man for that “child’s toy”: a bicycle? Everyone thought you were crazy spending 500, even up to 1,000 clams for your first two-wheeled wonder machine. But to you, it was the most amazing thing you had ever purchased. And now, you’re still into [...]
If you were in Louisville for the 2013 World Championships, you have raced, spectated, or just heard rumors about the Raleigh Singlespeed Derby held Thursday night in a nearby park. “We’re not saying that there will be fire,” they said weeks before the race, “but we have a lot of insurance.” And as you can [...]
by Sarah Kim Bonner Recently, I chatted with Masters (60-64) World Cyclocross Champion Jim Laird to find out how he survived the mud, freezing temperatures and an all-American field to be the only Canadian to bring home the gold from Louisville. Ten years ago Jim Laird hadn’t even heard of cyclocross. In fact, he had just [...]
To get ready for Issue 20 of Cyclocross Magazine, which features a large section on the beauty of gravel racing, a couple of the East Coast CXM staffers traveled to Georgia to check out Southern Cross, a race put on by 55nine’s Eddie and Namrita O’Dea and held in Dahlonega, Georgia. The 50 mile gravel [...]
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Saturday evening more than 70 bicycle industry professionals, advocates and friends of Richard Fries came together to show their appreciation for his dedication, passion and advocacy of riding and racing bicycles. Fries, a self-proclaimed cycling evangelist, was presented with a brand new custom built Firefly road bike at the Harpoon Brewery Tasting [...]
Cyclocross fans around the world breathed a sigh of relief after this weekend’s race in Oostmalle. Though Sven Nys didn’t take the win (a bad start and mechanical left him in ninth place), he did announce after the race that he has no intention of retiring from cyclocross anytime soon. After the race, the current [...]
DENVER, COLORADO – The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is pleased to announce the Sunday group of the 2013 NAHBS Awards. The Sunday NAHBS Awards winners are: Winter Bicycles — Best finish Moots — Best Theme Bike and People’s Choice Avery County Cycles — Best new builder Level — President’s Choice English Cycles — Best [...]
Predator Cycling has been building custom carbon fiber cyclocross bikes and components for over 10 years in Southern California, an ever-growing hotbed for US cyclocross. Their show bike at NAHBS this year? A disc brake-equipped singlespeed carbon frame with integrated seat mast, stem and handlebar combo and with FSA SL-K carbon wheels, weighing in at [...]
Alchemy is having a good year at NAHBS. The company moved from Austin, TX to Denver, CO, and now, they’ve taken home the prize on home turf for Best Carbon Construction for NAHBS 2013. However, it wasn’t their road bikes that we were interested in, and we got some up close and personal looks at their [...]
Our photographer at the North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS), Lance Barry, snagged some shots of some seriously beautiful hand-built cyclocross rigs, and we couldn’t wait to share some of them. Stay tuned for full reports on some of the rigs, but for now, here’s a selection of some of the cyclocross bikes from the [...]
NAHBS may be the biggest handmade bike show in the US this weekend, but not every builder is there. The Southeast Bike Expo in Conyers, Georgia, hosted a few small builders including steel framebuilder, Silent Cycles, and the bamboo builder WebbWorks Bamboo Bikes. We chatted with the vice president of WebbWorks, Micah Webb, and took [...]
The new 2014 Ridley X-Night Disc cyclocross model made its debut today at FrostBike, and we’ve got a few images of the new bike. The X-Night Disc is, as its name implies, a disc brake model of the same frame Belgian cyclocross stars Klaas Vantornout and Kevin Pauwels rode in Louisville, with Vantornout finishing just [...]
Our intrepid reporter, Jesse Pisel, was on the ground at the 2013 North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) and spotted a few new rigs from Alchemy Bicycle Company, Engin Cycles, Geekhouse Bikes, and Cielo Cycles. Alchemy Bicycle Company: We’ve profiled Nationals bronze medalist Nicole Duke’s Alchemy bikes before, but we wanted to snap a few [...]
We’re checking out the eye candy at the North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) 2013, and spotted the new TRP Brakes HyRd hybrid hydraulic brake. Two years ago, TRP introduced the Parabox at Sea Otter and Cyclocross Magazine got the first ride on the hydraulic disc brake system for cyclocross that allowed you to use [...]
With the 2013 North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) starting tomorrow in Boulder, Colorado (stay tuned as we bring you all the great cyclocross bikes from the show), we figure it’s a good time to talk custom, hand-built cyclocross bikes. [Update: Mosaic Cycles wins Best Cyclocross bike at NAHBS 2013] In that spirit, with round 1 [...]
by John McComisky It looks like the fury of the 2013 World Cyclocross Championships in Louisville has all about died down, and I thought it would a good opportunity to seek out my own personal favorite racer of the year, Simon Zahner. The 29-year-old Swiss rider really caught my eye earlier in the season, purely [...]
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