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• Get Your Pen Ready – Contest #3 is Coming!

  20 July 08 • 2 comments

  Note: Contest is up and running, and details are here! We’re still finalizing the details and confirming a few great prizes, but our Contest 3 is coming, and it’ll be a fun one. Get your creative juices going, we’re awarding the best ‘cross poets in our Cyclocross Poetry Contest. Maximum two entries a person. Great [...]

• North American Cyclocross Trophy Series Details

  14 July 08 • 2 comments

  Seems like our investigative reporting on the new national series Sunday afternoon scooped the “big media” and encouraged the official details of the series to be released. So here are the full details of the new national series, dubbed “North American Cyclocross Trophy.” The new $40,000+ series consists of 4 weekends and 8 races: September [...]

• New National Series Brewing

  13 July 08 • 0 comment

  A new national ‘cross series is coming together, with the major UCI C1 races that are not part of the USGP combining to create their own national series. Currently dubbed “Cross of the Titans,” the series may include eight or more races, including races such as Gloucester, Star Crossed, and the race weekend in the [...]

• BikeReg.com MABRAcross Series Schedule Announced

  11 July 08 • 0 comment

  The BikeReg.com MABRAcross Series has announced its upcoming seven-race program. In a break with east-coast tradition, the 2008 BikeReg.com MABRAcross will utilize NASCAR-style scheduling with only one race each weekend. According to MABRA Cyclocross Director Chip Sovek, “Occasional multi-race weekends are great, but if you do it too often you run the risk of diluting [...]

• 3-Day Cincinnati ‘Cross Festival Announced

  11 July 08 • 0 comment

  Harbin Park to Pay Women According to “Gould Formula” Details are starting to emerge on the Cincinnati International Cyclocross Festival scheduled for October 10-12. Part of the Zipp OVCX Tour, the Festival consists of three UCI-sanctioned races in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area: the Darkhorse Cyclo-Stampede, the Java Johnny’s Lionhearts International and the newly-upgraded UCI-C1 [...]

• Get your cyclocross race sponsored

  28 June 08 • 2 comments

  Are you a cyclocross race promoter or know one? We have a limited amount of free mags, subscriptions, discounted ads, and primes/prizes for a few ‘cross race promoters that would be psyched to have our support and sponsorship.  If your race or series would be interested in working with us, please contact us at info [...]

• World Premier of Remember to Breathe on June 27th

  12 June 08 • 1 comment

  Young film producer Evan Schmitt just graduated from high school last week, but he’s certainly not taking the summer off before he attends University of Washington in the fall. He’s been hard at work getting ready for the world premier of his second film Remember to Breathe on June 27th in Roslyn, Washington. The event [...]

• Need Motivation to Start Training for Cyclocross? CX Pros Dominant at Teva Games

  8 June 08 • 3 comments

  The other day we highlighted some of the recent road racing exploits of Euro ‘cross specialists as they get ready for the season that’s still three and a half months away. Sven Nys further added to his “off-season” results with an impressive 6th in the Saturday’s cross-country UCI World Cup in Fort William Scottland. But [...]

• Euro-file: Tom Vannoppen Retires, Other Belgians Hit the Road

  5 June 08 • 2 comments

  Tom Vannoppen Hangs It Up Tom Vannoppen, 29, once thought to be the next dominant Belgian cyclocrosser, retired from cycling this week. Vannoppen nearly won the world title in Zolder in 2002 but since has suffered several rough years which involved multiple injuries, depression, and last season, a drug scandal. He tested positive for cocaine [...]

• Aged to Perfection: Clincher + 7 years of Storage = Dugast

  28 May 08 • 8 comments

  A few weeks back, we highlighted an auction for a NOS Michelin Mud cyclocross tire that was probably 7 years old or more.  It ended up selling for $66, which represents an decent but not stellar investment if purchased new seven years ago at $29.95 (12% annual return). Well, the seller was smart to not [...]

• Oregon Manifest Weekend Announced – Hand-Made Bikes, Cyclocross, and Culture

  23 May 08 • 1 comment

  

  It seems like NAHBS was just a few weeks ago, but the bike-crazy folks in Portland just can’t get enough. Perhaps already bumming that NAHBS is moving to Indianapolis next year, the community has created the Oregon Manifest, a new hand-made bike show scheduled for October 10-12th. The boutique-bike show will be run in conjunction [...]

• Euro-File: Nys Accelerates His Hop to Landbouwkrediet, Boom Leading Olympia Tour

  22 May 08 • 0 comment

  As we reported earlier two weeks ago, Sven Nys is switching from Rabobank to the Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner team. His original transfer date was to be on January 1, 2009, but he has negotiated that the move happen earlier, and if approved by the UCI, he will be wearing the new colors on May 28 for the [...]

• Euro-File: Vervecken Decides on Revor

  15 May 08 • 0 comment

  After denying transfer rumors to Revor, multi-world champion Erwin Vervecken has officially inked a contract with the Revor team and will ride with them starting on January 1st. Vervecken will join current Revor riders Davy Commeyne, Jan Soetens, David Willemsens, Ben Berden and Bart Verschueren. HLN.be reports Vervecken made his final decision because Revor offered [...]

• The ‘Cross Queen Chooses the King

  13 May 08 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross season must not be that far away. Pros are jumping teams, planning their upcoming schedules, and securing their new sponsors and equipment. U.S. National Champ Katie Compton is no different and has officially chosen her headset for this year and has issued this press release: U.S. Cyclocross National Champion Katie Compton will be riding [...]

• Euro-File: Vervecken to Change Teams? Not So Fast…

  11 May 08 • 1 comment

  Erwin Vervecken, the Belgian multi-world champion of cyclocross has been rumored to be switching to the Revor team staring in January 1, 2009.  However, Vervecken is denying the rumor, stating that he has not signed anything yet, according to Sport Planet. He says, “Next week I still have another appointment, where I have another good [...]

• ZIPP OVCX Schedule Announced, Includes 3 Day ‘Cross Festival

  5 May 08 • 0 comment

  ’08-09 Cyclocross race schedules are getting set. Is your local schedule finalized? Send it to us. ZIPP OVCX TOUR ANNOUNCES 2008 SCHEDULE – Highlighted by Rare Three-Day International Weekend and USGP May 5, 2008; Conshohocken, PA, USA: Highlighting the Ohio River Valley’s new-found reputation as one of America’s best cycling destinations, the Zipp OVCX Cyclocross [...]

• Sven Nys Receives World Cup in Carboard Box via Mail

  4 May 08 • 1 comment

  Win the World Cup overall? You’ll get your cup in the mail, in a cardboard box a few months later, if you’re lucky. Belgian paper Het Nieuwsblad reports that ’07-08 UCI World Cup winners Nys and Daphny van den Brand just recently received their prestigious World Cup trophies in the mail. Win the biggest and [...]

• Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross Expands to Long Island

  1 May 08 • 1 comment

  Cyclocross may be five months away, but organizers and promoters are working hard on the upcoming season.The MAC (Mid Atlantic Cyclocross) series has released its schedule and now includes the high-profile Whitmore’s Landscaping UCI races in the Hamptons. MAC ADDS NEW RACES FOR 2008 May 1, 2008; Conshohocken, PA, USA: MAC Cyclocross made what may [...]

• It’s Contract Time: Nys signs with Landbouwkrediet / Credit Agricole

  15 April 08 • 1 comment

  Contract talks are in full swing among ‘cross pros. Sven Nys, after considering several offers from teams including his current sponsor Rabobank, has signed a three-year contract with the Belgian Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner team, and will ride for them beginning January, 1 2009. Landbouwkrediet is a Belgian bank and part of the the Credit Agricole / Landbouwkrediet [...]

• Jonathan Page Signs With Planet Bike

  11 April 08 • 0 comment

  Planet Bike Announces Jonathan Page Sponsorship, UCI Race Madison, Wisc.- Planet Bike, a leading manufacturer of innovative, high quality, and practical bicycle accessories, is excited to announce its 2008-2009 Cyclocross Team roster. In only its second year of sponsoring a Cross team, Planet Bike is thrilled by the signing of Jonathan Page, the top UCI [...]