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• Cyclocrossers Help Fight Cancer (And You Can Too!)

  22 November 12 • 1 comment

  

  This season, we at Cyclocross Magazine noticed a new fashion trend among racers: from Sam Damphouse: Early in 2010 my family and I watched my aunt suffer through her third and final battle with breast cancer which sadly took her life. Shortly after her death, my grandmother and her friend started making bracelets to benefit [...]

• Reeb and Pennington Take the Race; Sheppard and Bishop-Gordon Take the Overall Win at the Cross Crusades

  21 November 12 • 1 comment

  

  PORTLAND, OREGON – Donald Reeb (Cyclocrossracing.com) and Alice Pennington (Kona) repeated their performances from the previous week, taking the Elite men’s and women’s wins at the finale race of the 2012 River City Cross Crusade Sunday in Portland, but it was Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles) and Serena Bishop Gordon (Silverado Gallery-Sunnyside) who came away [...]

• Champions Will Emerge at the Verge Series Finale this Weekend

  21 November 12 • 0 comment

  The finale of the 2012 Verge New England Cyclocross Series will be held this weekend, November 24th and 25th, at Baystate Cyclocross. This weekend’s races take place at the revered and formidable course designed by Tom Stevens in Sterling, Massachusetts, offering one challenging course feature after another: off-camber turns, stairs, difficult remounts, even a horse [...]

• Kabush and Dyck Take Canadian Double-Header: Nationals and the Daryl Evans BC GP of Cyclocross in British Columbia

  20 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Doug Brons BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA – It was a big weekend of racing in British Columbia with the Canadian National Championships on Saturday and a UCI race at the same location in Surrey, BC on Sunday. DYCK AND KABUSH CRUSH CANADIAN NATIONALS The weather forecast for Saturday predicted heavy rain and wind all day [...]

• Nicole Duke Joins Alchemy Bicycle Co

  20 November 12 • 1 comment

  

  Read our interview with Duke about her comeback plans here. After a few weeks on uncertainty, Boulder Colorado’s female cyclocross superstar, Nicole Duke, has found a home with Alchemy Bicycle Company. Alchemy a small handmade frame builder located in Denver, CO. worked out a deal with Duke helping her through the remainder of the 2012-13 [...]

• From USACycling: Wyman and Powers Head into Thanksgiving with Standings Leads

  19 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  Due to the postponement of the two Supercross Cup races, the riders of the USA Cycling Professional Cyclocross Calendar  had two multi-day events to contest over the past two weeks. Two weeks ago, the elite men and women along with the juniors men competed in the USGP of Cyclocross – Derby City Cup in Louisville [...]

• Johnson Doubles, Wyman Triples on Final Day of Jingle Cross

  19 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Elisabeth Reinkordt IOWA CITY, IOWA – The wind picked up on Sunday, but temperatures rose into the 50s – there would be no snow from Santa at this year’s Jingle Cross. Elite Women Defending British national champion Helen Wyman (Kona) took the first spot at the line once again on Sunday, and next to [...]

• Superprestige Gavere: Nys Shuts Down Vantornout’s Bid for His Throne; Nikki Harris takes impressive win over van Paassen UPDATED: Photo Galleries, Results

  18 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  On a classic course with classic conditions, the Superprestige Gavere awarded riders with classic skills – the ability to handle slippery mud on steep, serpentine terrain; to transition on and off the bike frequently; and to shoulder a muddy bike and hoof it for long sections of course. It was, in truth, a day for [...]

• Wyman Doubles, Johnson Redeems at Day 2 of Jingle Cross

  17 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Elisabeth Reinkordt IOWA CITY, IOWA – While temperatures were chilly overnight, no precipitation fell on the Jingle Cross Rock course, and though early racers dealt with mud and grass, course conditions were prime for Saturday’s elite races. Sunny, breezy, and unseasonably warm temperatures were on tap as 22 women took the start in the [...]

• GVA Hasselt: Nys Again on Top as Pauwels’ Again Crashes Out of Contention- UPDATED Gallery

  17 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  HASSELT, BELGIUM – On a fast, dry course, Sven Nys  (Landbouwkrediet KDL) rode away from Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) in the penultimate lap to secure his second victory in the GVA Bpost Bank Trofee cyclocross series. Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor), having won here in the previous two additions, had hoped the favorable course would end his string of bad [...]

• Wyman and Driscoll Steal Christmas from Racers at Jingle Cross Day 1

  17 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Elisabeth Reinkordt IOWA CITY, IOWA – The crescent moon had already set, and a crisp, clear Iowa night held host to the 25 women starters in the elite race at Day one of Jingle Cross Rock – Ladies’ Night. Big prize money on the line for the elite women, with over $7,000 at stake. [...]

• Cyclocrossers Raise Concerns as Cycling BC Turns Down Prize Money Donations

  16 November 12 • 18 comments

  by Dave Shishkoff and Members of the BC cyclocross community There is more money to be won this weekend in South Surrey at the Daryl Evans Racing Canadian National Cyclocross Championship and the UCI C2 Race on Saturday November 17th and 18th this weekend but you won’t be receiving an envelope of money from Cycling [...]

• Race Preview: Stacked Euro Weekend With GVA Trofee Hasselt and Superprestige Gavere

  15 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  This weekend, Euro fans have a double-header of ’cross to enjoy, as racers first head to East Flanders on Saturday for round three of the GVA Trofee – the GP Hasselt. The fast, mostly flat course is known to keep riders fighting each other rather than the terrain, though the sand pits, tight corners, and log [...]

• The Results Are In: The ProGold Mechanical Tip Contest

  15 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine teamed up with ProGold to create the “ProGold Mechanical Tip” contest, giving away maintenance packages to three  randomly selected winners.  In order to enter the contest, participants had to give us their best mechanical tip and on November 4th we entered the names into the Cyclocross Magazine Super Computer (aka a random number [...]

• A Taste of Belgium at SoCalCross

  15 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Phil Beckman/PB Creative OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA — Cyclocross racers in Southern California covered more sand this past weekend than a Cancun cabana boy. Rounds nine and ten of the 2012-13 SoCalCross Prestige Series were held at two completely different venues, but the story had a common theme: deep, gut-wrenching, gear-grinding, ankle-rolling sand. Sven Nys would [...]

• Daniel and Fisher Claim Woodland Park Wins at MFG Cyclocross

  14 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Kenton Berg SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – Cool temperatures, darkening skies, and a fast, tacky race course was the order of the day for the final race of the 2012 MFG Cyclocross Series. With overall series wins on the line in many of the categories the racing was already primed for a contentious day, but add [...]

• Singlespeeders Rule Elite Men, Anderson Shines Bright Under the Lights at Sierra Point – Bay Area Super Prestige 2012

  13 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Tim Westmore BRISBANE, CALIFORNIA – On Saturday, after seeing World Champion-striped racers, enjoying Belgian brews and hearing Richard Fries’ famous, excited voice over the loudspeakers, you would be forgiven if you thought you were at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships. However, it was just the annual, non-sanctioned Bay Area Super Prestige night race at [...]

• Pennington and Reeb Take Wins at Cross Crusade Round 7

  12 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  HILLSBORO, OREGON – An all-day rain and the churned-up peanut butter mud that followed wreaked havoc during the penultimate round of the 2012 River City Bicycles Cross Crusade Sunday as Donald Reeb (Cyclocrossracing.com) and Alice Pennington (Kona) powered to wins in the Elite men’s and women’s races. By the time the Elite categories took the [...]

• Powers, Compton Double Up at Day 2 of Derby City Cup USGP – UPDATED Results, Gallery

  11 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  Day two of the Derby City Cup USGP saw similar dry conditions, albeit in slightly cooler weather than Saturday’s race. Racers took to the course under cloudy skies, and sweatshirts were tossed on as the wind picked up. Earlier races saw Logan Owen of Redline making up for yesterday’s early crash and hard-earned win by [...]

• Superprestige Hamme-Zogge: Nys Again Unstoppable as Pauwel’s Bad Luck Continues; Sanne van Paassen Solos to Win UPDATED: Photo Gallery, Results

  11 November 12 • 1 comment

  

  HAMME-ZOGGE, BELGIUM – Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet KDL) remains undefeated in the 2012 Superprestige Series, taking a commanding solo win after escaping from a select group of racers on lap four. It was an opportune moment for Nys, who was leading Lars van der Haar (Rabobank), Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor), and Bart Aernouts (AA Drink) – as Nys came [...]