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2013 Cyclocross World Championships

• Playing with Fire at the Raleigh Singlespeed Derby: Worlds 2013 Gallery

  28 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  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 [...]

• Sven Nys to Race Until 2015

  25 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  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 [...]

• First Look: The New 2014 Ridley X-Night Disc Cyclocross Bike

  22 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  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 [...]

• Checking In with Swiss Racer Simon Zahner on His Season and Worlds

  20 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  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 [...]

• Kaitie Antonneau Reflects on Worlds, Looks to New Year

  17 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Cody Sovis At just 21 years old, Kaitie Antonneau made her third ever World Championships start at Louisville. Already thought of as the future of American cyclocross, Antonneau proved she is also the present with an outstanding tenth place finish in the biggest race of her career. The phenom is already set for an [...]

• Post-Worlds with Jonathan Page on his New Sponsor

  16 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  It seems like all of the Americans who raced Worlds went straight back to the race circuit: Tim Johnson and Jeremy Powers headed to Tokyo, while Jonathan Page immediately returned to Belgium for Superprestige Hoogstraten. We were chatting with Page as he cleaned his bikes after the race, and while we were mostly talking about [...]

• Dirtwire.tv Chats with Page, Compton, Nys, Vos and More at Worlds: Videos

  13 February 13 • 1 comment

  

    Dirtwire.tv was on the ground at Worlds doing interviews that few media outlets would dare to do: interviewing Marianne Vos in a Christopher Walken voice, sending a 13 year old to talk to not only Jonathan Page and Katie Compton, but Sven Nys, and asking the most important question: how much of Van der [...]

• A Junior’s View on Worlds: Stephen Bassett’s Rider Diary

  12 February 13 • 3 comments

  

  Stephen Bassett had the chance most kids only could dream about: to represent the US in the World Championships of Cyclocross, held for the first time in the States. He took home 31st place in the 17-18 race, and here, he tells us all about how the race week played out for him. by Stephen [...]

• Three Questions for Zach McDonald: Off-Season, Worlds and His Fans

  11 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  We had a chance to catch up with Zach McDonald now that the dust has settled a bit from Worlds. While we were mainly chatting with him about Nationals for Issue 20, we couldn’t help but ask a few questions unrelated to the topic. Specifically, what’s next for the 22-year-old as he prepares for his [...]

• A Junior’s View on Worlds: David Lombardo’s Rider Diary

  10 February 13 • 2 comments

  

  David Lombardo had the chance most kids only could dream about: to represent the US in the World Championships of Cyclocross, held for the first time in the US. He took home 27th place in the 17-18 race, and here, he tells us all about how the race week played out for him. by David [...]

• Shaky Start for USA’s First Worlds Earns Flying Colors by the End, According to Belgians

  9 February 13 • 10 comments

  

  by Christine Vardaros America’s inaugural World Cyclocross Championships incited a roller coaster of emotions throughout the Belgian (Flemish) community, for both riders and fans alike.  The wave of uncertainty was finally put to rest after Belgian Sven Nys crossed the line, hand in the air – but not a moment earlier. The first question mark [...]

• Mical Dyck’s Garmin Data File from the Women’s Race at Cyclocross World Championships

  8 February 13 • 1 comment

  

  “I don’t know how much I can eat, I need to see how many calories I burned,” Canadian racer and SSCXWC winner Mical Dyck laughed at the end of her race in the Elite Women’s World Championships of Cyclocross. We asked how she’d know how many calories she’d burned in the 45 minutes of racing, [...]

• Cyclocross Magazine’s Team Reflects on the World Championships in Louisville

  7 February 13 • 3 comments

  

  by Robbie Carver, Molly Hurford and Andrew Yee With three races – and three Dutch winners – in the books, with temperatures dropping and crowds swelling, the tension at Eva Bandman park was palpable. The beer line thinned as spectators elbowed their way to the best spots on the course. Costumed spectators took up their [...]

• A Junior’s View on Worlds: Maxx Chance’s Rider Diary

  7 February 13 • 1 comment

  

  Maxx Chance had the chance most kids only could dream about: to represent the US in the World Championships of Cyclocross, held for the first time in the US. He took home 25th place in the 17-18 race, and here, he tells us all about how the race week played out for him. by Maxx [...]

• No Crying in Bike Racing: A World Championships Rider Diary from Amy Dombroski

  7 February 13 • 3 comments

  

  Amy Dombroski took 11th in the Elite Women’s Cyclocross World Championships this past weekend, just narrowly missing 10th place due to a calculated risk that didn’t pay off. Here, she talks about the weekend and what it mean to her. by Amy Dombroski I have not cried at a race in a long time. When [...]