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• Featured Video: Preview Trailer of Süpercross 2011 in Baden, Switzerland

  3 April 11 • 3 comments

  Baldegg in the Baden Region of  Switzerland will host the first cyclocross race of the Swiss season, the Supercross cyclocross race on September 25, 2011. To promote the event, the organizers have put together this well-done video trailer that nicely captures the excitement of cyclocross. Even though today is the day of the cobbled Belgian [...]

• Compton Shows New Colors at 2011/12 Rabo-Giant Team Launch

  2 April 11 • 0 comment

  The 2011 Rabo-Giant Offroad team had its launch at the Omnisport Velodrome in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, last week during the World Track Championships (where, coincidentally, Marianne Vos was busy adding another title to her palmares). The second-year squad has expanded to include two women: seven-time U.S. cyclocross champ Katie Compton, who also plans to race [...]

• Found Footage: 1960s British Cyclo-cross Championship Videos

  26 March 11 • 0 comment

  The British Pathe was established in 1902, and the organization produced bi-weekly newsreels and film programs for over 60 years, resulting in a film archive of 90,000 pieces and 3,500 hours. Dive into that archive, and you’ll find a handful of great samples of cyclocross videos from the late 60s.

• Video Spotlight on Ali Goulet: Da Real Ali G

  24 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  On Wednesday we showed you some videos of a real athletic supporter – Slyfox injects energy (and cash) into Utah’s UTCX race scene. Now Ali Goulet has released the latest webisode in his “The Real Ali G Show,” and the pro-snowboarder-turned-cyclocrosser brings more good energy, yucks, and of course talent to the sport. Crossthetics, Natty [...]

• Cyclocross Video Spotlight: It’s Payback Time for Utah Cyclocrossers

  22 March 11 • 1 comment

  

  You may have seen him running around at the Cyclocross National Championships in Bend, Oregon and just thought he was yet another crazy cyclocross fan, but the hairy creature affectionately named “Slyfox” is one of the biggest supporters of Utah cyclocross, especially if you’re measuring by dollar hand-ups. The Utah-based cyclocross fan doesn’t limit his [...]

• Video Interview: More on Mourey, Reflections on US Racing

  17 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  It’s St Patrick’s day, and somehow we’re focusing on a famous Frenchman – but we’ll keep rolling with it. Amy Dykema shot this in-depth interview for Cyclocross Magazine immediately after Mourey’s final race on US soil, the Sun Prairie USGP weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Really good, interesting stuff. Mourey’s impressed with American racing and courses, [...]

• Rediscovering Francis Mourey via Video

  17 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  Francis Mourey has established himself among the best on the world cyclocross stage, including taking fourth place at Worlds in St. Wendel and winning his sixth French title this year. But the American interest in the Frenchman skyrocketed when he stormed our shores and won Starcrossed, the Rad Racing GP and CrossVegas (with a crazy [...]

• Video Highlight: Rock Out with Socal Cross at Long Beach

  14 March 11 • 0 comment

  The folks at The Digital Creatives have put together an nicely-done, 1080p HD video highlighting some of the cyclocross racing in SoCal. The video features a from-the-ground look at the Long Beach race of the Southern California Prestige Series of Cyclocross. The video showcases the racers tackling almost every type of surface and obstacle, except [...]

• Video: Van der Haar’s Offseason

  10 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  Lars van der Haar is fresh off of a stunning 2010/2011 cyclocross campaign, which included winning the World and European Championships as well as the World Cup and GvA series overalls in the U23 division. Not too shabby. What’s scary is that the 20 year-old still has two more potential seasons of eligibility in the [...]

• Japan’s Cyclocross Season Still Going Strong with March Race in Tokyo

  8 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  Japan’s cyclocross scene has been growing rapidly, but most of its racing is constrained to the Kansai region of western Japan, an area that includes Osaka and Kyoto. But this past Sunday, Tokyo, considered by some to be the world’s largest city, held a new March cyclocross race in the Hachioji area. The course was [...]

• Video Highlight: An Off-season “Cyclocross Sunday”

  7 March 11 • 0 comment

  In the fall and winter, Sundays for most of us are for cyclocross. Once the racing is over, some stash the cyclocross bikes away until late summer. Others find fun mountain bike races that offer cyclocross categories. And the rest of us keep cyclocross going throughout the year with mixed terrain rides that are perfectly [...]

• Under The Barriers with JBoom

  2 March 11 • 0 comment

  From Kim Bailey comes this “spoofimentary” of Behind The Barriers, the widely popular cyclocross video series by Sam Smith that follows elite cyclocross rider Jeremy Powers, aka JPow. Under the Barriers introduces

• Versluis Snowcross – Late Season, Grassroots Michigan Racing

  24 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Marc Dettman So what do Michigan cyclocrossers do when the long, cold, white fingers of winter start scratching at the frost on the window? Get the shanty out and ice fish? Sit around the stove eating mac ’n cheese, drink PBR and play euchre? Sew suede patches on the elbows of our brown corduroy [...]

• Video Spotlight: Mo Bruno Roy’s Season and World Tour

  15 February 11 • 1 comment

  What is it like to have a season filled with 29 races, 13 flights, 30,000+ miles traveled, two continents and five podiums? Matt Roy put together a fun video recap of the 2010/2011 cyclocross season of his wife, pro cyclocrosser Mo Bruno Roy, so that the rest of us can live vicariously through Bruno Roy’s [...]

• Video: Helen Wyman Returns Us to Hoogerheide, Shows off Kona Jake

  9 February 11 • 0 comment

  As six-time British National Cyclocross Champion, and this year’s queen of the Koppenberg, Helen Wyman (Kona) has proved herself as a force to be reckoned with in the Elite ranks. Sponsor Kona brings us the following videos, in which Wyman takes us through her race at Hoogerheide and highlights her steed, the carbon Kona Major Jake. Rumor [...]