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• Commonwealth Eye Surgery Sponsors KY State Cyclocross Championships

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  Promotion Cross, the 2010 Kentucky State Cyclocross Championships, and the12th race of the 2010 Zipp OVCX Tour presented by Papa John’s, is pleased to announce Commonwealth Eye Surgery as its title sponsor. The race, now known as the Commonwealth Eye Surgery Promotion Cross, will be held on November 21, 2010 in Lexington, Kentucky’s Veteran’s Park. [...]

• BC Cyclocross Championships

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  Back for year # 2, the BC Provincial Cyclocross Championships are being held once again in spectacular Mahon Park located in the heart of the City of North Vancouver on Sunday November 28th. Hosted by the Rocky Mountain/Different Bikes Cycling Team, racers can expect a new, very fun, fast yet technically challenging course – one [...]

• Nys Wins Eighth Koppenberg, Adams Takes First U23 Win – UPDATED: Video, Full Results

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) has won the Koppenbergcross in Oudenaarde, Belgium, for the seventh consecutive time and his eighth win in this race in his career. The Belgian champion dominated from start to finish and won with a lead of over one minute on his compatriots Niels Albert and Kevin Pauwels. World champion [...]

• Cycle-Smart International’s 20th Edition Coming This Weekend

  2 November 10 • 0 comment

  This weekend, Look Park in Northampton, Massachusetts, will host the 20th annual Cycle-Smart International, rounds 5 and 6 of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series Presented by Cycle-Smart. This year’s edition of the oldest UCI race in North America will once again host a pre-race party on Friday night and will feature kids races [...]

• Beaches, Beers and Bombing Grounds – SoCal Prestige Series Storms the Beach

  2 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Dave Sheek Oceanside, CA – The sands of Camp Pendleton’s training beaches set way for the annual Storm the Beach race put on by Celo Pacific, San Diego’s premier cycling club. As usual the course required all to bring their running legs, 300 extra watts, and a bike that likes the salt and sand. [...]

• Southern Californians Take to Wine Country for SoCal Prestige Series Race 7

  2 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Dave Sheek Solvang, CA – Southern California (SoCal) cyclocross hit the vine ripening fields of Kalyra Winery this week for race six of the series. The weather again brought fantastic ’cross conditions as the overnight rains left the fields a little wet, but mostly tacky and thankfully softer for some bumpy power sections. The course [...]

• Analysis: USA Cycling to Vote on Rule Changes that Will Shape American Cyclocross

  2 November 10 • 28 comments

  by Kat Statman From the USA Cycling Communique about proposed rule changes: “The USCF Board of Trustees will vote on several key issues when it meets in conjunction with the USA Cycling Local Associations on Nov. 6-7 in Colorado Springs. All USA Cycling members are encouraged to review the USCF Board of Trustees proposed 2010 legislation and [...]

• Johnson and Gould Rule Boulder Cup – UPDATED: Full Report, Women’s Crash Video

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Grant Berry Boulder, CO – Tim Johnson (Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld.com) picked up where teammate Jeremy Powers left off yesterday and took the win, divvying up the weekend as the duo has several times this year. Todd Wells (Specialized) was next, followed by the third in the Cannondale-CyclocrossWorld.com camp, Jamey Driscoll. Powers’ position at the front of [...]

• Scherz and Van Gilder Still Atop the MAC at HPCX

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Dr. Craig Callan and Champion System MAC staff The Champion System MAC Series moved up the New Jersey Turnpike to the town of Jamesburg for HPCX and the second round of MAC’s UCI New Jersey double-header weekend. 451 riders took the start this year, a 28% increase over last year’s entry. The mens race [...]

• Iddings and Gaertner Shine at Sunny Steilacoom SCX – UPDATED: More Photos

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by LeRoi Smith Jenni Gaertner (Riverstone) and Ryan Iddings (Redline Bicycles) rode two very different races en route to the same result, first place in the Elite categories at Seattle Cyclocross race #4 at Fort Steilacoom park in Lakewood, WA. Gaertner won by just under a minute after series leader Kristi Berg (Cycle U) pulled [...]

• Helen Wyman Queen of the Koppenberg, Dutch Win Youth Races

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen British national champion Helen Wyman (Kona) took the biggest win in her career on the Koppenberg today. The newly crowned “Queen of the Koppenberg” soloed to an impressive win with the native Belgian rider Sanne Cant finishing in second and Dutchwoman Sanne van Paassen in third. Daphny van den Brand and Sophie [...]

• Skerritt and Williams Take Two in Astoria Cross Crusade Weekend – UPDATED: Photos, Race Reports

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  Shannon Skerritt (Corsa Concepts) put in two dominating performances to win both Cross Crusade races over the Halloween weekend and claim the overall series lead from Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles), who took the weekend off from racing. In the women’s race, Wendy Williams (River City Bicycles) also went back to back, stamping her mark [...]

• Stybar Wins Another, Van Der Haar Surprises in Zonhoven UPDATED: Photos

  31 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) continued his sensational run this season, claiming his eighth win out of nine starts today in Zonhoven, Belgium. After a thrilling battle he proved too strong for his teammate Kevin Pauwels and Belgian champion Sven Nys. Bart Aernouts and Niels Albert finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Jonathan Page abandoned [...]

• Storm Troopers Invade Beacon Cross – Reports, Full Results and Video

  31 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  The Champion System MAC invaded southern New Jersey this weekend, and it brought out the Storm Troopers. After bouncing around the schedule for the first half of its long life, the Beacon Cyclocross has, in recent years, developed a tradition of pairing with HPCX in central New Jersey for a UCI-sanctioned double-header on Halloween weekend. [...]

• Van Den Brand, Sweeck Solo in Zonhoven Superprestige

  31 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen The women and Juniors may not have races available to them in Belgium’s Superprestige series, but the two groups did have UCI races of their own on tap in Zonhoven, Belgium. Daphny van den Brand has won the first international women’s cyclocross in Zonhoven. The Dutch national champion took her second win [...]

• Gaertner and Owen Grind to Victory at MFG Series #5 – UPDATED: Photo Gallery, Video

  30 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Kenton Berg Burien, WA – In what has become the norm for this fall for Seattle area cyclocross, another cool and rainy day was on tap again as racers descended on Lakewood park in Burien, WA, for the MFG Cyclocross Series race #5. Master course designer Rich McLung put riders to the test today [...]

• Compton and Powers Continue Their Winning Ways at the Colorado Cross Classic

  30 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Grant Berry Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO – Katie Compton (Planet Bike – Stevens Bikes) and Jeremy Powers (Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld.com) spent their day at the Boulder reservoir, and came back with victories at the fifth race of the NACT cyclocross series. With her win over Georgia Gould (Luna), Compton remains undefeated this season, while [...]

• 2012-2013 Cyclocross Nationals Awarded to Madison, Event Moved to January

  29 October 10 • 13 comments

  That’s right folks – we’ve been warning you it was coming and now it’s official. There’s no 2011 official USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships as the event moves to January in 2012 and will be hosted by Madison, Wisconsin.  (Come join us in the fall of 2011 as we transform our Wednesday Night Worlds into [...]

• Bay Area Super Prestige Evolves and Expands, Haskell and Reaney Grab First Wins in Oakland

  29 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Paul Guerra and Andrew Yee While there are several well-loved and well-attended race series in Northern California, nothing brings the Norcal cyclocross tribe together quite like the first Bay Area Super Prestige series. This year the series has made several significant changes, including adding a new venue, electronic timing, field limits, new categories and [...]

• Van Gilder, Johnson Hold on to CXNC Leads

  29 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  Laura van Gilder (Cresco, Penn./C3 — Athletes Serving Athletes) and Tim Johnson (Beverly, Mass./ Cannondale/ Cyclocrossworld.com) used strong performances at the USGP Derby City Cup in Louisville, Kentucky, last weekend to expand their leads in the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Calendar (CXNC). Van Gilder, who has led the women’s standings since week one, took consecutive [...]