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• Changing Conditions Changes Leaderboard in NCGP Weekend- Shriver, Frattini Tops

  24 November 09 • 1 comment

  Hendersonville, NC- Matt Shriver (Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory) took his first UCI Cyclocross victory last weekend in the North Carolina Grand Prix on Saturday with a brilliant solo effort, beating Italy’s Davide Frattini (Team Fuji) by 28 seconds.  Sunday’s race would be a different story though, with changing weather

• Štybar Makes it Two in a Row at Hamme-Zogge Superprestige – Updated: MORE Photos, Rider Reactions

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Hamme, Belgium – Buoyed by his first trip to the top step of the podium yesterday in Hasselt, Zdeněk Štybar once again grabbed victory at the finish line today in Hamme-Zogge.  On an uncharacteristically warm and sunny day for November in Belgium, the blustery winds that raked the open fields of the course [...]

• Tight Finishes at Zipp OVCX Brookside Cup / Indiana State Championship – UPDATED: Photos

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Chris Halioris Indianapolis, IN – The 13th race in the Zipp OVCX Tour was held at Brookside Park in Indianapolis today, the second day of a double Indy weekend coming on the heels of the Southeastway Park race yesterday. This race also served as the Indiana State Championships, adding a little extra to the [...]

• Maxwell And Dombroski Solidify Leads in MABRAcross Points Race

  23 November 09 • 1 comment

  The elite men and women navigated a challenging new course at Schooley Mill Cross in Highland, MD on Saturday.  The 7th race in the BikeReg.com MABRAcross series, hosted by Team BBC, was contested in crisp and clear weather, which made for some very fast racing. Despite some soggy sections on the back side of the course, courtesy of the heavy [...]

• Bob’s Red Mill Sweeps Zipp OVCX

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Chris Halioris November 21, 2009; Indianapolis, IN – The twelfth race in the Zipp OVCX Tour was held at Southeastway Park in suburban Indianapolis today.  This was a new race, and new stop in the OVCX series this year, forming a double weekend with race thirteen of fifteen coming tomorrow at Brookside Park in [...]

• Helen Wyman on Top in Germany

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  After returning from a mid-season training camp in Portugal, a refreshed Helen Wyman (Kona/FSA) returned to racing with a bang in Germany this weekend. Having never been to the Karl-Wagner-Preis International or the Internationale Dohlauer Crossrennen before, it was a step into the unknown for the Belgian-based Kona Pro, but it proved to be a [...]

• Maxwell repeats, Schempf dominates at Day 2 of MABRA’s Howard County Double Cross – UPDATED: Full Results

  23 November 09 • 1 comment

  by Matt Brancheau Elkridge, MD – Following the hard day of racing Saturday at Howard County Double Cross in Schooley Mill Cross, racers returned for the third edition of Rockburn Cross with continued mild weather but soggy terrain in Elkridge, MD. A newly designed course met with with an improved start and pit that featured [...]

• Johnson and Dombroski Repeat in Southampton UPDATED: Photos, Videos

  22 November 09 • 3 comments

  by Ken Getchell and Josh Liberles Southampton, NY – Even though The Hamptons are one of the eastern-most places in the United States, it was like a wild west show at the second day of the Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup. Amy Dombroski (Schlamm presented by Clement & Primus Mootry) won an old-fashioned duel with [...]

• Keough and Filiberti Rip It Up at Shedd Park – UPDATED: More photos

  22 November 09 • 1 comment

  by Natalia McKittrick Organized by the Boston Road Club and Cambridge Bicycle Cycling Club, the Boston Road Club Cyclocross is unlikely to get UCI-certified due to the many challenges the course had up its sleeves. Offering, for a change, a test of racers’ bike handling skills, the challenges are precisely why it attracted over 300 [...]

• Dog Gone Cross! – Southern California Prestige Series

  22 November 09 • 0 comment

  Sunday brought us San Luis Obispo’s (SLO) first Prestige Series race at Laguna Lake Park… Dog Gone Cross!  The venue was a beautiful lakeside park complete with geese and seagulls adding to course obstacles.  The atmosphere was low key and relaxing and included a massage zone set up in the shade under the trees. Thanks [...]

• Stybar Succeeds in Gazet Van Antwerpen Trofee, Albert Retains Overall

  21 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen After many second and third places, Czech Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) finally took a big win at the third race of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee in Hasselt. In a four-up sprint, “Styby” was the fastest over teammate Kevin Pauwels, World Champion Niels Albert and Sunweb’s Klaas Vantornout. Belgian Champion Sven Nys crashed mid-way through [...]

• Johnson, Dombroski Win, Cannondale/Cyclocrossworld.com Sweeps in Southampton – Updated: Full Results, Photos, Video

  21 November 09 • 1 comment

  by Jake Sisson , Ken Getchell Southampton, NY -  Natasha Elliot (Louis Garneau) did just enough to clinch the 2009 NACT Title Belt at today’s first day of the Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup today, while Tim Johnson led a crushing display by the Cannondale/CyclocrossWorld.com team to clinch the men’s title. Johnson and Amy Dombroski (Schlamm [...]

• Stony Creek’s Sand Doesn’t Slow Tailwind Cyclocross Series

  19 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Matthew Ashley Shelby Township, MI – Michigan racers saw another beautiful day for the latest stop of the Tailwind Enterprises cyclocross series this past Saturday.  Stony Creek Park in Shelby Township hosted race number seven in the nine-race series. Paint Creek Bicycles, whose owner Keith Riege is a long time cyclocross fanatic, sponsored the [...]

• Eric Thompson Bests Founder, Wondergem in Johnson City MSG

  18 November 09 • 1 comment

  by Dwayne Letterman (Johnson City, TN)- The fourth installment of the 2009 Mud, Sweat and Gears Cyclocross Series was welcomed by warm sunshine and blue skies- the complete opposite of the Halloween race that was cold and muddy. MSG #4 saw another record crowd with 173 entries. A first for MSG, was playing host to [...]

• Barnholt, Bradford Energize Bay Area Super Prestige at Sierra Point

  17 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Geoff Gunderson Sierra Point in Brisbane, the next point south of Candlestick Park, San Francisco, has hosted bike races pretty regularly over the past eight-or-so years. From the Pilarcitos Stage Race and Ronde van Brisbeen criteriums to the earlier Bay Area Super Prestige events, this little dirt patch between the marina and business park [...]