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• Interbike 2010 Product Spotlight: BH Bikes RX1

  29 September 10 • 0 comment

  Spanish company BH Bikes (Beistegui Hermanos, which means Beistegui brothers) has been around for 100 years, but only recently has become a known brand in the US. The American branch opened in 2007, and in that time we’ve seen three cyclocross iterations – an aluminum offering, the Carbon Cross and now the 2011 RX1, which [...]

• Oregon Racers Wage Muddy Battle at Barlow

  28 September 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles It’s two days after the Battle at Barlow race in Gresham, just outside of Portland, Oregon, and I’m still finding small bits of mud lingering under my eyelids. The first clump found my eyeball about 50 meters after the start, when the staging chute instantly funneled the initial corral of riders from [...]

• Compton and Johnson Storm Away with Wins at Planet Bike Cup Day Two UPDATED: More Photos!

  27 September 10 • 7 comments

  by Kat Statman and Marion Hambrick Sun Prairie, WI – Katie Compton (Planet Bike-Stevens) continued to put her stamp on American cyclocross racing with a definitive win against another stacked Elite women’s field. Compton a Quick Healer The first part of the race played out exactly the same as Day One of the Planet Bike [...]

• Ed Sander Memorial Cyclocross Opens BikeReg.com MABRAcross Series With Record Fields

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  The Ed Sander Memorial Cyclocross Race took place September 26th at the Lilypons Water Gardens in Adamstown, Md. Although early rain threatened to give over 500 racers another year of battling it out in the mud, clear skies prevailed, and the racing was fast and furious. Hosted by NCVC and United Healthcare, the Ed Sander [...]

• Berg and McDonald Take Seattle Cyclocross #1

  27 September 10 • 1 comment

  by Leroi Smith Kristi Berg (CycleU) and Zach McDonald (Rapha Focus) took slightly different paths to the same end — victory in the first Seattle Cyclocross (SCX) race of the season. The series got off to a fast start at one of the area’s favorite venues, Evergreen High School in Burien, WA. Hard rains overnight [...]

• Registration Reminder and 25 States, 2 Continents for UCI3

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  Organizers of Cincinnati’s UCI3 Cyclocross Festival on October 8-10 want to remind prospective entrants that online pre-registration closes several days earlier than normal for regular races in order to provide the time necessary to sort and seed all riders prior to packet pickup on Thursday evening.  Pre-registration on BikeReg.com will close promptly at 10:00 pm [...]

• The Slightly-Tilted Cyclocross: OVCX Tour de Louisville

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  “The Tour de Louisville is uniquely Kentucky,” says Race Director Steven Webster of the second round of the Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour presented by Papa John’s on October 3rd. “Kentucky’s a pretty place, and it doesn’t take a bad picture. But the state is more hills and hollers than anything else, and our course at [...]

• USA Cycling to Compete with BikeReg.com, SportsBaseOnline and Active.com for USAC Event Registration

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  After several Cyclocross National Championship registration hiccups, USA Cycling now will have complete control over any potential issues by owning its own registration process, similar to the system it used this past April for the summer’s National Championship events. After this successful test, the organization will expand the service to allow any USAC event promoter [...]

• Kaitlin Antonneau Joins Cannondale prepared by Cyclocrossworld.com

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  As our readers already know, Cyclocross Magazine broke the story of Kaitlin Antonneau’s transfer in our latest issue. She just unleashed an impressive debut race at Day 2 of the Planet Bike USGP, the day after claiming two Collegiate National Track Championships! Make sure to follow the latest both in print and online to keep [...]

• Nys Wins Again in Neerpelt, Van Paassen Takes Women’s Race – UPDATED: Video

  27 September 10 • 0 comment

  Neerpelt, Belgium – Despite a weekend of heavy rain in Belgium, the skies cleared for the Fidea Grote Prijs in Neerpelt as the European cyclocross season entered its second week. Even with the rain, the good drainage on the sandy, wooded course meant a tacky, rather than muddy, track, dominated by a series of steep, loose [...]

• MSG Opens Tennessee Cyclocross Season

  26 September 10 • 0 comment

  by Dwayne Letterman Tennessee opened the ’cross season on September 18-19 with the first two races in the eight-race Mud, Sweat and Gears (MSG) Cyclocross Series. The first weekend of full on racing was held at a new venue, the Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens in Unicoi. The racing was hot, literally and figuratively. With near [...]

• Compton and Powers Dominate First Day of USGP Planet Bike Cup – UPDATED: Gallery; Full Reports, Full Results

  26 September 10 • 1 comment

  On the heels of CrossVegas, The Planet Bike Cup presented by Greenware USGP of Cyclocross took place in Sun Prairie, just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Many of the Elite women and men riders from Wednesday’s CrossVegas joined Saturday’s field for the first race of the 2010 USGP series under sunny and mild conditions. Katie Compton [...]

• Oregon Junior and High School Series Gear Up with Double Cross and Psycho Cross

  26 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  As the videos below show, the first two races in the Oregon Junior and High School Series featured starkly different courses, but both shared great racing. The grassroots series are a fun, non-intimidating way to get kids racing cyclocross, and are bound to ensure a stellar generation of up-and-coming ‘crossers and continued growth of our [...]

• Lindine, Van Gilder Perform at Inaugural Nor’Easter Festival

  25 September 10 • 2 comments

  

  by Jeffrey Bramhall Laura van Gilder (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes) and Justin Lindine (bikereg.com-Joe’s Garage-Scott) powered their way to wins at Nor’easter ’Cross presented by Smartwool and Cycle-Smart this afternoon. This first-year UCI race at Loon Mountain in Lincoln, New Hampshire, took full advantage of the terrain by mixing two challenging climbs, several off-camber descents, two [...]

• Dieter Vanthourenhout, Van Passen Dominate in Harderwijk

  25 September 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen International Cyclocross Openingsveldrit van Harderwijk BKCP’s Dieter Vanthourenhout takes first win of the season for his team in Harderwijk, with his team captain Niels Albert sidelined for one month due to a knee injury. Tom van den Bosch and Patrick van Leeuwen complete the podium. Tijmen Eising best in U23 race. Sanne [...]

• CrossVegas 2010 Cyclocross Live Coverage Archive – Video, Text, Images

  25 September 10 • 2 comments

  The fourth CrossVegas has come and gone, but you can relive it all here, thanks to Cyclocross Magazine’s Live Coverage of the 2010 event, complete with video, photos, and results. Report and full results of the pro CrossVegas 2010 men and women’s race is here. Full Wheelers and Dealers industry race results are here.   [...]

• Albert Sidelined While Boom Announces Return

  25 September 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton While European cyclocross slowly ramped up this week, two former world champions announced late starts to the season, albeit for very different reasons. Niels Albert, who stormed undefeated through the first month of the 2009-10 season, found himself sidelined with illness and injury, while Lars Boom announced a return to the sport. [...]

• Sanne Cant – Crossing Into A New Season

  24 September 10 • 0 comment

  Earlier this year, Cyclocross Magazine reported that Belgian ’cross sensation Sanne Cant had walked away from the MTB racing that had previously been a staple of her off-season after the Belgian federation’s controversial decision regarding the national champion’s jersey last year. Though she won the overall Elite race outright, Cant was awarded the U23 national [...]

• CrossVegas 2010 Wheelers and Dealers Results

  23 September 10 • 1 comment

  We’ve got full results of the CrossVegas 2010 Wheelers and Dealers race.  The results are for all categories but broken out by men and women. Miss the play-by-play live action?  You can relive it here. Report and full results of the pro CrossVegas 2010 men and women’s race is here.

• Mourey and Nash Survive Thick Desert Breeze Fields to Win CrossVegas #4 – UPDATED: Full Report, Rider Interviews, Full Results

  23 September 10 • 4 comments

  CrossVegas returned to the thick, power-sucking grass of the Desert Breeze Soccer Complex for one final, UCI-point-laden party. At the end of the night, two diminutive Europeans – Katerina Nash (Luna) and Francis Mourey (Francaise Des Jeux) – stood atop the stacked fields to take their first victories at the nighttime race. Miss the play-by-play [...]