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• Chaos Reigns at DTLA Historic CX in SoCal

  10 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Phil Beckman/PB Creative Chaos theory is the study of nonlinear dynamics, in which seemingly random events are actually predictable from simple deterministic equations. You know, like in Jurassic Park when a T-Rex suddenly pops up and chomps a lawyer in half. Doctor Malcolm warned them: nature is highly complex and the only prediction you [...]

• OVCX #3 Waffle Dollar Hand-Ups Tempt Kersting & Arnold

  9 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Joe Bellante The Waffle/Dollar Hand-Up craze popped out of the toaster and into the Ohio Valley Cyclocross Series (OVCX) Saturday, October 6th at Caesars Ford Cyclocross (OVCX #3) in Xenia, Ohio.  Despite the thick syrup on some of the nearly 400 racer’s hoods and downtubes, it’ll likely stick around for the rest of the [...]

• Owen and Cutler Take Top Honors in a Dusty StarCrossed Affair

  8 October 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Kenton Berg The dry, hot run in Seattle has continued and Saturday’s MFG Cyclcocross StarCrossed event would deliver hot and fast racing at the Marymoor Velodrome. Riders were finishing with grit covered teeth and goth-looking faces covered in dust-caked sweat after tackling the course that ran both inside and outside of the velodrome. Starting [...]

• Day 2 of Providence Cyclocross Festival Sees Cloudier Skies, and Wyman and McDonald Take the Wins

  7 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND – Conditions at the Providence Cyclocross Festival changed rapidly from fairly dry course conditions early in the day to a slick course with greasy, muddy corners as a partly cloudy sky gave way to a steady rain as the Elite racers inspected the course. It seems that Helen Wyman’s (Kona) and Ben [...]

• Superprestige Ruddervoorde: Sven “Mr. Superprestige” Nys Opens His Account, Again Bests Albert UPDATED: Photo Gallery

  7 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  By Andrew Davis On a clear, brisk day at Ruddervoorde, Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Euphony) stayed true to his Mr. Superprestige title by taking the win ahead of Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) after the two commandeered the race in the early laps. Echoing last weekend at Kalmthout, the race turned predictable as it looked to come down to a [...]

• Providence Cyclocross Festival Hails New Champions Wyman and Powers – Full Report, Results, Galleries

  6 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Cindy Brennan/Molly Hurford The last weekend of New England’s Holy Week did not disappoint. In the women’s race, Helen Wyman (Kona) took the win, followed by Katie Antonneau (Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld) and Crystal Anthony. For the men, Jeremy Powers (Rapha Focus) took the win, and Ryan Trebon (Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld) picked up second while Ben Berden (Raleigh-Clement) took [...]

• Titanic Turnout and Heated Racing Mark SoCalCross Prestige Series Opener

  5 October 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Phil Beckman/PB Creative Cyclocross season could not come soon enough for riders in Southern California. A near-record crowd swarmed Fairview Park in Costa Mesa for the opening round of the 2012-13 SoCalCross Prestige Series, dubbed “CX in the OC.” As season kickoffs go, this one connected like a Clydesdale on a Red Bull bender. [...]

• Lindine and Bruno Roy Shred The Gnar at Night Weasels Cometh

  4 October 12 • 8 comments

  

  by Colin Reuter SKI WARD SKI AREA, SHREWSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS – New England’s Holy Week of Cyclocross continued Wednesday night with The Night Weasels Cometh, the dirty little cousin of the C1 race weekends at Gloucester and Providence.  Now in its third year, the race continued its streak of muddy conditions, which combined with sometimes-questionable lighting [...]

• North Coast Gran Prix of Cyclocross Offers Ohio Family Fun Mixed With High-Quality Racing

  4 October 12 • 4 comments

  

  This is American Cyclocross: The Local Race by Molly Hurford and John Proppe At it’s core, cyclocross in the US is a participant-based sport. Family and friends can come out, spectate, race, learn, eat, drink and heckle to their hearts content, often paying little or nothing for the pleasure of doing so. In Europe, it’s [...]

• Winchester Apple Cross: Round #2 of the Bikereg.com Super 8 Series

  2 October 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Keith Hower After a star studded round #1 that featured the current National Champ, Jeremy Powers, the Bikereg.com Super 8 Cyclocross Series rolled into Historic Winchester, Va. for round #2. Apple Cross took place is one of the more historic towns in the Mid-Atlantic. Winchester, it’s self has several serious ties in helping shape [...]

• Arnold Persists and Johnson Hops to Win at OVCX #2

  2 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  (Plus: Top 5 Symptoms of a Cyclocross Hangover and Junior Barrier Hopping Video) It wasn’t quite like the triple header into the sand pit of the viral video from Kansas City, but the typical barriers were quite a challenge for even the elite at the Zipp OVCX Series race #2, St. Mary’s Childcare Cyclocross at [...]

• Fisher and McFadden Fly Away to Wins in Arlington in the Seattle Cyclocross Series

  2 October 12 • 0 comment

  

    by Kenton Berg Washingtonians are known for their fickleness to the weather, but we’ve hit a low here as `cross racers are starting to seriously gripe about the warm, sunny weather that’s been featured for every race this fall. With burnt out grass and hard, bumpy courses the masses are starting to conjure up [...]

• Whirlybird Cyclocross Kicks Off Another MAC Series Weekend

  1 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  While most of the top-level pros duked it out in Gloucester this weekend, the Mid-Atlantic wasn’t without it’s top-tier racers battling hard for race wins at Whirlybird Cyclocross. The race was presented by Guy’s Bicycles of Feasterville, and took place at Bensalem High School as the fifth round in the competitive Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross (MAC) Series [...]

• Andy Jacques-Maynes and Ellen Sherrill Strike First as Bay Area Super Prestige Returns to Candlestick Park

  1 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Morgan Moore The 10th Season of the Bay Area Super Prestige cyclocross series, now sponsored by Clif Bar, had a hot and dry start on Sunday at Candlestick Park, a venue near San Francisco famous for its 49er NFL football stadium. It was clear that race organizer Tom Simpson and his dedicated crew had [...]

• Trebon, Wyman Take Gloucester Day 2 Wins

  30 September 12 • 0 comment

  

  GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS – Rain began to hit the course early on Day 2 of the Gran Prix of Gloucester, creating a thick mud which would be a defining feature of this race and shape the day’s events, as most of the day’s races averaged about 11-minute laps. A race that attracts the superstars of cyclocross, [...]