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• Geoff Kabush and Lesley Paterson Take Wins at Whiskey 50 – Results, Interviews

  29 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  Yesterday, cyclocrosser Geoff Kabush took the win at the Whiskey 50 Off-Road race in Prescott, Arizona, a week after taking the win in the short track race and a second in the cross country race at Sea Otter in California. In the women’s field, Lesley Paterson, the Xterra World Champion took the win, followed by ’crosser [...]

• Video: Between the Barriers at Raleigh’s April Sea Otter Cyclocross

  21 April 13 • 0 comment

  Raleigh once again brought us some off-season cyclocross with April’s Sea Otter 2013 cyclocross race. After a small but enthusiastic showing in 2012 won by Ben Berden and Georgia Gould, the event returned for 2013 with more high-profile names and tighter racing. Yesterday, Raleigh-Clement teammates Carline Mani and Ben Berden took the wins over some [...]

• Mani and Berden Take Early Season Wins at Raleigh Cyclocross at Sea Otter 2013

  20 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  Raleigh will be happy tonight, since their two racers took wins in both the Elite men’s and Elite women’s races. The evening races, held at the tail end of the festivities, still kept crowds lively even as the sun went down, and the racers put on a show, particularly at the barriers near the beer [...]

• Cyclocrossers Marianne Vos and Geoff Kabush Take Short Track Wins at Sea Otter: Report, Interviews, Photo Gallery

  19 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA – The start line at the short track races this morning in sunny Monterey almost seemed like the starting lineup for the cyclocross races that will take place tomorrow. In the women’s race, fans were ecstatic to see current World Champion (for cyclocross and road) and gold medalist Marianne Vos towing the line, [...]

• Justin Lindine Wins the 20th Annual Paris to Ancaster Gravel Race

  17 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  ANCASTER, ONTARIO – Organizers announced over 2,200 cyclists braved mud and grueling conditions to compete in the 20th annual Paris to Ancaster Bicycle Race (P2A). The Massachusetts cyclist Justin Lindine (who also won the Barry Roubaix gravel race this season) was the top male cyclist for the 57km race with a time of one hour, [...]

• Marianne Vos Adds Ronde van Vlaanderen To Palmares

  31 March 13 • 0 comment

  

  OUDENAARDE, Belgium – World Cyclocross Champion Marianne Vos (Rabobank) returned to her winter stomping grounds of Belgium to take the Women’s Tour de Flanders in a finishing sprint against a small selection of riders. Vos outkicked  Elenora Van Dijk (Specialized) and Emma Johansson (Orica) to take her first victory at the Ronde van Vlaanderen, where she’s previously [...]

• Barry Roubaix Race Recap: Low Temps, Fast Times

  25 March 13 • 0 comment

  

  We did a brief race report and video interviews with the winners of the 2013 Barry Roubaix gravel race, but here our intern gives the local Michigan racer perspective on how events played out. Want more gravel? Make sure you pick up Issue 20 of Cyclocross Magazine, coming to newsstands soon! by Cody Sovis The [...]

• Lindine and Woodring Take Wins in 62 Miles of Gravel Racing at Michigan’s Barry Roubaix

  24 March 13 • 0 comment

  

  When Redline’s Justin Lindine attacked one kilometer from the finish, Bissell’s Mike Anderson knew that he wouldn’t be able to surge back to catch him. And so New England’s Honey Badger sailed in solo after the 62-mile epic gravel Barry Roubaix race, surprising no one. After all, the course was riddled with potholes, ruts, ice [...]

• Cyclocross and Gravel Racing in Perfect Harmony at Southern Cross: Video Interviews

  26 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  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 [...]

• Bpost Bank Trophy Oostmalle: Albert Cruises to Final Cyclocross Victory of Season

  24 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  OOSTMALLE, BELGIUM – In the final round of the Bpost Bank Trophy series, Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) sealed his overall series lead with a commanding solo performance to take the win. Albert raced in his favorite fashion today, attacking on the second lap, establishing a gap, and then using the rest of the race to time-trial away [...]

• Boels Classic at Heerlen: Sanne van Paassen, Niels Albert win at Dutch Race UPDATED: Photo Galleries

  17 February 13 • 2 comments

  

  HEERLEN, NETHERLANDS: Sanne van Paassen (Rabobank) won today in front of her home crowd, besting Kona’s Helen Wyman, Belgian Champion Sanne Cant and teammate Sabrina Stultiens. Marianne Vos had been scheduled to race, but failed to start due to feeling ill from the flu. In the Elite Men’s race, it was a smaller affair as [...]

• Superprestige Middelkerke – Klaas Vantornout Takes the Day as Nys Takes the Series

  16 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  MIDDELKERKE, BELGIUM – Belgian National Champion Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napolean Games) played a tactically perfect race today, covering the early moves and then attacking a select group containing Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus), World Champion Sven Nys, and an impassioned Tom Meeusen (Telenet Fidea). Vantornout chose perhaps the best feature of the course to make his move, slotting [...]

• Sanne Cant Wins Superprestige Middelkerke

  16 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  MIDDELKERKE, BELGIUM – Belgian National Champion Sanne Cant (BKCP) overcame an early tangle with the course tape to chase back up to race leaders Helen Wyman (Kona) and Ellen van Loy (Melbotech Prorace CT). The dry, fast course suited the young rider, and Cant wasted little time pulling past Wyman and setting off on her own, [...]

• CX Tokyo Draws Crowd of 13,000 as Powers Rides to the Win

  14 February 13 • 7 comments

  

  Japan has started to become a hotbed for cyclocross action, hosting races that draw in riders like Tim Johnson, Ben Berden, Jeremy Powers and many of our other big names in US cyclocross, and sending a squad of racers to Worlds in the US. They also have the fan base: this weekend, 13,000 fans showed [...]

• Superprestige Hoogstraten: Nys Wins 60th Superprestige Victory in Sprint Against Vantornout UPDATED: Photo Galleries, Results

  10 February 13 • 0 comment

  

  HOOGSTRATEN, BELGIUM: On a challenging course lined with snow and thick with leg-sapping mud, Sven Nys (Crelan-Euphony) took his first win in his newly won World Championship jersey, and the 60th Superprestige victory of his career. In fact, the race took shape much like that in Louisville, as Nys traded blows with Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napolean Games) until the [...]