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• Pro Bike Profiles and Last-Minute Bike Builds: Bikes from Powers, Wells, Mani and Emmett

  15 September 11 • 1 comment

  Every year, there’s a mad scramble to get the cyclocross pros their new bikes for the season, but often that rush is split between happening before the first big races of the season (often UCI Nittany Lion Cross in Pennsylvania or StarCrossed in Seattle) and for some, just before CrossVegas.

• Pro Bike Profile – Gabby Day’s Raleigh RXC Pro Carbon

  9 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  With Gabby Day stateside for the start of her normally European-based season, it seemed like a perfect chance to get an up-close and personal look at her new Raleigh RXC Pro Carbon bikes with Ritchey and SRAM Red componentry. Since we’re the same size, it’s been a huge temptation for me, seeing the new carbon Raleigh frames with their stealth matte black appeal. Day is stylish on her own, and the new bikes perfectly compliment to her new team, The Chainstay and RENNER Clothing Team. Day is racing on the East Coast for the next month, from Baltimore to Vermont, and spent some time this week talking with me about her race plans, thoughts on the US, and thoughts on being a woman in racing.

• Pro Bike Profile: Kaitlin Antonneau’s Cannondale SuperX Cyclocross Bike

  3 May 11 • 0 comment

  Our latest issue of our print magazine, Issue 12, is finally a wrap, and Cyclocross Magazine print magazine subscribers will enjoy another 108-page, content-packed magazine for a well-timed off-season cyclocross fix (and a faster pace of issues in the fall). In Issue 12, our famously comprehensive bike reviews include a full review of the Cannondale [...]

• Bike Profile – Paul Curley’s Steel Spin Arts, Built by Tom Stevens

  26 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack As we look back at the 2010 Cyclocross National Champions in both print and online, it’s as good a time as any to also look at the interesting bikes that showed up at the event. Perhaps the most interesting ride out there has to be Paul Curley’s Tom Stevens-built Spin Arts cyclocross [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Amy Dombroski’s Ridley X-Fire

  18 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Amy Dombroski has charged into, through and to the top of the US ’cross scene over the last few seasons. Currently putting the finishing touches on her team for 2011, the diminutive Dombroski has established herself as a force to be reckoned with. Dombroski has changed teams and bikes several times over [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Adam Craig’s National Championship-Winning Giant Singlespeed

  9 December 10 • 8 comments

  by Jamie Mack Being focused on mountain biking, Adam Craig is perhaps not as well known in the ’cross universe as he should be, but after winning the inaugural US Singlespeed National Championship in Bend (his second National Championship after winning a U23 title), Oregon, today, that’s likely to change. While the tweets are flying [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Yannick Eckmann’s Focus Mares

  7 December 10 • 3 comments

  by Jamie Mack Looking back a few years and the mention of electronic shifting usually merited a remark about Mavic’s before-their-time components, if there was anyone there that even remembered them. Fast forward to 2010 and, while still not commonplace given the price tag, the Shimano Di2 electronic Dura Ace component group has demonstrated that [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Tina Brubaker’s Prototype Di2 Speedvagen

  21 October 10 • 4 comments

  by Josh Liberles In the wise words of Zero Mostel in the original version (of course) of The Producers, “When you’ve got it, flaunt it, baby, flaunt it!” And that’s exactly what Oregon racer Tina Brubaker and framebuilder Sacha White decided to do with the new Di2 Speedvagen prototype, a golden steel frame with custom [...]

• Pro Bike Preview – Twin Towers’ Carbon Kona Jake – UPDATED: Photos

  30 August 10 • 2 comments

  Ryan Trebon and Barry Wick have a new weapon in their race kits. While shooting the latest and greatest at the Crankworx festival in Whistler, Cyclocross Magazine contributor Joe Sales was able to catch a glimpse of the new all-carbon Kona Major Jake. The new photos provide a closer look at the updated ride that [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Joachim Parbo’s Leopard CX-1

  5 July 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Joachim Parbo has been racing with the elites since 1998, after moving on from basketball. While the initial seasons were on a mountain bike, Parbo has been focused on ‘cross the last ten years. Hindsight is 20-20, but the decision certainly seems to be a smart one now as he has seen [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Jonathan Page’s Blue Norcross Carbon

  20 June 10 • 1 comment

  As part of our off-season coverage, Cyclocross Magazine is looking back at the rides some of the top pros were using last season. This is a chance to look back and see what the best of the best were using, and see if any of those parts or technology have trickled down into your budget [...]

• Last Chance: Own Niels Albert’s Carbon Stevens Cyclocross Bike

  8 April 10 • 0 comment

  

  Update: Just a few hours left to try to win Niels Albert’s ‘cross bike from last season. And if it’s not matching your budget? There’s always this ghetto carbon bike up for auction. April 2, 2010 – One reader alerted us to this rare item up for grabs yesterday, and it’s not an April Fool’s [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Helen Wyman’s Kona Major Jake

  15 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Helen Wyman (Kona/FSA) is having a great season on her way to representing Great Britain in Tabor at the Cyclocross World Championships. There have been setbacks along the way, with the recent postponement of the UK National Championships, but through the season Wyman has pulled out victories, podiums and a top-10 at [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Troy Wells’ Salsa Chilli on Crosso

  5 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Wells is a familiar name to ‘cross fans in the US.  Older brother Todd (Specialized) has a couple of ‘cross national jerseys and placed fourth this year on his Specialized Tricross.  Younger brother Troy (Clif Bar) has also been a player in national races for the last couple of years, winning a [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Alison Dunlap’s Orbea Igorre

  30 December 09 • 2 comments

  Alison Dunlap (Team Luna Chix) returned to cyclocross racing after retiring in 2005 and quickly reestablished herself as one of the top female ‘crossers in America. Podiums and top-fives in some of the biggest US races culminated with a run at a seventh national cross title. The two-time Olympian settled for fourth in Bend but [...]