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• Gun Club Cross Delivers Even Bigger Blast

  12 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Warren Church Miamiville, OH – In a season of venues featuring lots of one-upmanship and hyperbole, filled with hot-air balloon rides and even an M16, Sunday’s Gun Glub Cyclocross managed to deliver an even bigger blast than last year’s race. And while you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s about stunts and gimmicks [...]

• US Gran Prix of Cylcocross New Belgium Cup Races Into Fort Collins

  12 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  Fort Collins, CO, is home to some of the United State’s best cyclocross racers – including Meredith Miller, Georgia Gould and the up and coming Skyler Trujillo – and this weekend it hosts the third stop of the Greenware® US Gran Prix of Cyclocross on November 13 and 14. The USGP New Belgium Cup features [...]

• Lazer Sport Announces Partnership with Katie Compton

  11 November 10 • 0 comment

  Lazer Sport NV is proud to announce that it has formed a sponsoring partnership with Katie Compton through the 2013 racing season. Katie is the current USA Cyclocross National Champion and has won this championship six consecutive times. She has also won numerous UCI cyclocross World Cup races, is a two-time winner of the USA [...]

• Crossin’ For A Cause – Movie Night To Raise Funds For Cancer Research

  11 November 10 • 1 comment

  

  Outside of the bike industry, there aren’t many people that race for the benefit of their employers, and even less that can do it as a contribution to the greater good.  Lenore Pipes, a researcher with the Riethman Laboratory at The Wistar Institute, lives a double life. Racing on the weekends for the Wistar Institute [...]

• Nys, Wyman Dominate Fidea Jaarmarktcross in Niel – Updated: Full Report, Video, Results

  11 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton During any other season, Sven Nys’ dominant ride at the 2010 Jaarmarktcross in Niel might have stood out, but the muddy, miserable races seem to be the theme of the 2010-11 cyclocross season. And Sven Nys reminding the world’s best racers that there’s nobody better than him when the skies open up [...]

• Flemish Mud Reconsidered on Veteran’s Day

  11 November 10 • 5 comments

  

  by Dan Seaton Dulce et Decorum Est A few weeks ago I took a weekend off from racing to drive out to Ieper – sometimes better known by its French name, Ypres – with my wife, Mindi, and her aunt and uncle, who were visiting us here in Belgium. It was a nice break from [...]

• 2010 Nationals Guide Out for Your Viewing Pleasure

  11 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  Excited for Nats? We sure are, and so is Bend, Oregon. Gearing up for an arts festival centered on bike culture, cycling films, live music and parties, Bend is downright giddy with anticipation for this five-day extravaganza. This is the second year that the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships will be held in Bend, and [...]

• From the Midwest: Fast Courses, Cajun & Creole, and On-site Hotel Deals

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  Lots of news is coming out of the Midwest as the Zipp OVCX Tour presented by Papa John’s gears up for this year’s final month of racing.  Race Director Brendan Canty reports that the course for this weekend’s Kentucky State Cyclocross Championships / Commonwealth Eye Surgery Promotion Cross will be, “on the faster side.”  The [...]

• Super Raffle Returns to Whitmore’s Super Cup

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  Myles Romanow, promoter of the two-day Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup in Nassau County, Long Island on November 20 and 21, has announced the return of the Super Raffle on Sunday afternoon following the Elite Men’s race.  The raffle has become a tradition at the event, which again this year will serve as the final [...]

• Night Time Halloween Cyclocross Brings Out the Masses at London’s Herne Hill Velodrome

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  London, UK – 313 racers gathered at Herne Hill Velodrome to take part in the now annual Muddy Hell night-time event. There were huge increases in youth categories and a record 35 women participants. An opportunity for all abilities to race ’cross in front of hundreds of spectators in a  unique atmosphere with optional fancy-dress [...]

• Dombrowski and Winfield Take Convincing Wins At Tacchino Ciclocross

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  Upper Marlboro, MD – As Joe Dombrowski (Haymarket Bicycles-SEAVS) made his way through the final turns of his warm-up lap at the 2010 Tacchino Ciclocross he came upon a shocked announcer, who informed the pre-race favorite that the men’s Elite field had already started and the lead group was about two minutes up the road.

• Arts Festival Celebrates Bike Culture During 2010 Cyclocross Nationals in Bend, Oregon

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  What does a pulse-pounding, adrenaline-fueled National Championship bike race have in common with the arts? Quite a lot, thanks to the second annual “Cross Culture: Bike + Art Love Festival” scheduled as part of the 2010 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Bend, Oregon, this December. Sponsored by Visit Bend and produced by Cross Culture [...]

• Registration Opens For Whitmore’s Super Cross Cup

  10 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  Registration is now open for the re-located Whitmore’s Super Cross Cup, the season-ending weekend doubleheader of racing for the Champion System MAC Series on November 20th and 21st. All of the Champion System MAC classes will be competing at the two races, both of which will now be held at the Fireman’s 9/11 Memorial at [...]

• Breaking News: USAC Passes Emergency Singlespeed Legislation, Votes Down Junior Equipment Restrictions

  9 November 10 • 14 comments

  This past weekend USA Cycling voted on a handful of proposed rules that could impact cyclocross racing here in the States. The topics and short notice of the upcoming vote caused quite a stir, with racers expressing  concerns about banning carbon rims and tubular and tubeless tires for juniors, limiting who gets to race singlespeed [...]

• Wyandt and Barnholt Take Control at a Muddy Bay Area Super Prestige Round Two

  9 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Paul Guerra After reading the Bay Area cyclocross online newsgroup last season and hearing talk of dry and dusty Norcal conditions, Mother Nature decided that she owed the cyclocross fanatics of Northern California an authentic racing season. With 100% chance of rain in the forecast, the Bay Area Super Prestige Series’ second race got [...]

• ZIPP OVCX Comes to Lexington for the Kentucky State Championships

  9 November 10 • 0 comment

  One of the traditionally unique aspects to the Midwest’s Zipp OVCX Tour presented by Papa John’s is the series of open-competition state championships that close out the season.  This year, the state title mania will begin in Lexington on November 21 as the Commonwealth Eye Surgery Promotion Cross hosts the Kentucky State Cyclocross Championships for [...]

• Lars van der Haar Outsprints Silvestri to Take U23 European Title

  8 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Dutch Lars van der Haar is the new U23 European Champion. The second year U23 rider from the Rabobank-Giant Offroad team outsprinted his Italian rival Elia Silvestri for the win. Belgian Joeri Adams finished third with Arnaud Grand, Emiel Dolfsma, Tijmen Eising, Kevin Eeckhout, Matthieu Boulo, Michael Schweizer and Matteo Trentin completing [...]

• Van den Brand Takes Third European Title, Förster Surprises in Juniors

  8 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Dutch Daphny van den Brand has won the third European Cyclocross Championships in her career. In Frankfurt am Main, Germany, van den Brand was the best over her compatriot Sanne van Paassen and Britain’s Helen Wyman. Hanka Kupfernagel, Pavla Havlikova, Sophie de Boer, Jasmin Achermann, Christel Ferrier-Bruneau, Caroline Mani and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot [...]

• Weighall and Bishop Grind to Victory at Maris Farms – UPDATED: Full Results and More Photos

  8 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Kenton Berg Seattle Cyclocross race number five took place Sunday at the pumpkin patch known as Maris Farms. In its second year as a venue for the SCX schedule, the Maris track was a week late in dishing out more tricks than treats to the racing population. Heavy rains overnight and over the past [...]

• Craig and Butler Repeat in Griffith Park UCI Day 2

  8 November 10 • 0 comment

  Los Angeles, CA – Race two of the Southern California UCI weekend in Griffith Park was much of the same, with brake control and cornering, according to Kona’s Ryan Trebon. The course was much faster for day two and had a lot more flow to it, but there was still a lot of loose technical [...]