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• Pro Bike Profile: Sanne van Paassen’s Giant TCX Advanced SL

  24 September 12 • 3 comments

  

  After her commanding win at CrossVegas, Rabobank’s Sanne van Paassen has returned to the old country to see if she can continue her winning ways. Before she left, however, we borrowed her Giant TCX Advanced SL carbon cyclocross bike for a little photo-op. The Giant TCX Advanced SL was reviewed in Issue 17, but van [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Jeremy Powers’ Focus Mares – Rapha-Focus Team Bike

  22 September 12 • 0 comment

  

  As the reigning National Champion and now winner of CrossVegas 2012, Jeremy Powers of Rapha-Focus is having a strong 2012. Before he won his first CrossVegas title and headed for Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, for the first of the now-Trek-sponsored USGP series, we snagged his bikes for a quick photo shoot. The Focus Mares Powers rode [...]

• A Look at Brady Kappius’ Stevens Super Prestige Disc Brake-Equipped Cyclocross Bike: Interbike 2012

  21 September 12 • 6 comments

  

  For years, Stevens has offered some of the most recognizable bikes on the domestic and international ’cross circuits. For 2013, Stevens will be releasing their first high-end race-ready disc-equipped cyclocross bike. The Super Prestige Disc has taken a few notes from the Stevens Vapor, but still has all of the glitz and glamor of the [...]

• Eurobike 2012: Colnago’s Disc Brake Prestige Cyclocross Bike – Updated: Full Photo Gallery

  2 September 12 • 0 comment

  

  Eurobike 2012 Spotlight: Colnago’s Prestige Disc Brake Cyclocross Bike Although Europe’s cyclocross bike market isn’t quite as large as the American market, each year the giant Eurobike trade show has more cyclocross product on display. While Cyclocross Magazine is still a bit small to afford sending an editor to the big show, we have managed to [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Ryan Trebon’s Cannondale SuperX

  29 July 12 • 0 comment

  

  New Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld signee Ryan Trebon received his custom-made cantilever brake-equipped Cannondale SuperX carbon cyclocross bikes a month ago, but had his first chance to race them to glory just this Tuesday at the Raleigh Midsummer Night Cyclocross race in Deer Valley, Utah. He seized that opportunity to land his first cyclocross victory aboard [...]

• World Champion Bike Profile: Niels Albert’s Colnago Prestige Cyclocross Bike

  29 January 12 • 5 comments

  

  Today, in the sand dunes of Koksijde, Belgium, Niels Albert led a Belgian domination of the 2012 Cyclocross World Championships, but for company Colnago, the win represented a return for Italy to the top step of the Worlds podium and showed that their signing of the 2009 World Champion was a smart move and major coup. [...]

• Worlds Bike Profile: Junior Felix Drumm’s Lightweight-Equipped Giant TCX Advanced Cyclocross Bike

  29 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  We’ve captured a ton of interesting bikes at both the 2012 UCI Cyclocross World Championships as well as the 2012 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, and we’re beginning the long, slow process of unveiling these bike profiles to you now. by Jay Kwan Germany’s Feliz Drumm finished 15th in the ultra-competitive 2012 Junior World Championship [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Zdeněk Štybar’s Pink Specialized Crux Cyclocross Bike

  28 January 12 • 5 comments

  Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-Quick-Step) made the switch in 2012 from his custom-painted and self-branded Ridley X-Night carbon cyclocross bikes to the impossible to miss pink aluminum Specialized Crux cyclocross bike, something hard to fathom for a road racer mid-year, but relatively common for a cyclocross racer due to the calendar year nature of sponsor contracts [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: J.T. Fountain’s Raleigh RXC Pro Singlespeed

  2 January 12 • 5 comments

  If you’ve seen the current issue (#15) of Cyclocross Magazine, then you’ve heard of the Fountain brothers. Or maybe you’ve had the pleasure of lining up with JT or Louie Fountain in an Elite race in the Northwest only to get schooled by the singlespeed-spinning brethren. For a quick intro, check out our report on [...]

• Tim Johnson’s Prototype Disc Brake Cannondale SuperX Bike

  16 December 11 • 5 comments

  

  by Josh Liberles Tim Johnson, one of America’s top ’crossers, has had a disc-brake-equipped prototype carbon Cannondale SuperX on board the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com team truck for most of the season, but he’s only busted it out in races recently. It was aboard that rig that Johnson finally notched his first wins of the season, at the [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Christine Vardaros’s Stevens Carbon Team DA Bike

  11 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Pro cyclist and Cyclocross Magazine writer Christine Vardaros is in possession of not one, not two, but three Stevens Carbon Team DA bikes to get her through the long European season. The only difference on the bikes? The bar tapes colors, where she opted for one red, one white, and one blue. And yes, this [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Dan Chabanov’s Richard Sachs Bike

  28 September 11 • 7 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford How does it feel riding a custom Richard Sachs creation? Dan Chabanov, one of Sachs’ racers this season, tried to explain: “It’s not some magical feeling … OK, it’s kind of a magical feeling.” Within the New York cycling scene, you might know Chabanov as the guy who won the Red Hook [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Bart Wellens’ Winning Ridley X-Night Cyclocross Bike

  27 September 11 • 2 comments

  

  By any measure, Telenet-Fidea’s Bart Wellens’ first U.S. cyclocross campaign has been a success, with three victories in five races, one second place, and one late-race attack in CrossVegas that nearly netted him the victory. Wellens leaves the States with a pile of 2011 UCI points to bring home, and leaves behind a slew of [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Aaron Schooler’s Norco Threshold

  22 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  Norco is launching their new Carbon Cyclocross bike the Norco Threshold this Fall. To be in stores soon, this beast of a bike boasts an impressive resume already with a top 15 in Cross Vegas, top 10′s at Starcrossed and the Rapha Focus GP and a BC Cup Provincial Win to start off the 2011 season. Aaron Schooler of Team H&R BLOCK and powered by Sri Importing got a couple of these custom painted bad boys just in time for the beginning of the cross season and was highly impressed with the updates that Norco has made to the old Scandium CCX SL revamping it from scratch and moving to the carbon mold. The Norco Threshold is a European race bike with some North American Flare to it.

• Pro Bike Profile: Katerina Nash’s Orbea Terra TDR Carbon Cyclocross Bike

  20 September 11 • 2 comments

  

  Katerina Nash, in our feature on her Issue 13 said, “The bottom line is that cyclocross is all I want to race.”  It’s clear the Luna rider meant it, and has been anxiously waiting for this season to begin. She’s transitioned from her mountain bike schedule into this year’s cyclocross season fully motivated and fit, [...]