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• NAHBS 2012: A Different Approach to NAHBS – Interview with Paul Sadoff of Rock Lobster Cycles

  13 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  NAHBS 2012 may have been a week ago, but we’ve got a ton of profiles of handmade cyclocross bikes and builders from NAHBS still to come. Check back often for more eye candy and new cyclocross products, and view our recent NAHBS 2012 cyclocross coverage. by Andrew Yee It would be understandable if you walked by [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Ira Ryan Cycles of Portland, Oregon

  12 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  NAHBS 2012 may have been a week ago, but we’ve got a ton of profiles of handmade cyclocross bikes and builders from NAHBS still to come. Check back often for more eye candy and new cyclocross products, and view our recent NAHBS 2012 cyclocross coverage. by Kevin White It’s no secret that Portland, Oregon, has a [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Baum Cycles of Australia and the Turanti Titanium Cyclocross Bike

  11 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  NAHBS 2012 may have been a week ago, but we’ve got a ton of profiles of handmade cyclocross bikes and builders from NAHBS still to come. Check back often for more eye candy and new cyclocross products, and view our recent NAHBS 2012 cyclocross coverage. by Kevin White This year’s eighth running of North American Handmade [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Independent Fabrication’s Titanium Factory Lightweight Cyclocross Bike and Gary Smith Interview

  9 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  Walking the showroom aisle at NAHBS 2012 in Sacramento, you might notice that titanium seems to be making a comeback, and that the lightweight, fatigue-resistant, rust-proof material may be ideally suited to the adverse conditions of cyclocross. Companies including Independent Fabrication, Moots (see their winning Pscyhlo-X RSL here), Ericksen and Mosaic all had titanium cyclocross [...]

• A Look at the Felt 65X Disc-Equipped Cyclocross Bike: Video

  8 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford While wandering the aisles at the Southeast Bike Expo, my eye was immediately drawn to the Felt tent, because unlike most of the vendors who were pushing their mountain bikes heavily (understandably, given the season), the guys at Felt had their new 65X Cyclocross bike prominently on display. With a retail price [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Moots Cycles’ Winning Titanium PsychloX RSL Cyclocross Bike

  6 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine readers are probably quite familiar with Moots’ top-of-the-line titanium PsychloX RSL cyclocross bike. We covered the Moots PsychloX RSL at Interbike 2010 and 2011, and had an in-depth review in our Issue 15 (available as a print back copy, digitally, or on the Apple Newsstand). NAHBS judges in Sacramento finally got an opportunity to appreciate [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Bruce Gordon Re-Releases Rock ‘n Road Tire, Shows off Mixed Terrain Bikes

  6 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  We’ve got a ton of NAHBS 2012 content still to come. Check back often for more eye candy and new cyclocross products, and view our published NAHBS 2012 coverage. Bruce Gordon Cycles has a long history building bikes and tires that are capable for mixed terrain riding and touring, and some consider him one of [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Paul Components Unveils New MiniMoto Mini V-Brake for Cyclocross

  5 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Clifford Lee Paul’s Components introduced a new mini-linear pull brake, the MiniMoto, at NAHBS 2012 in Sacramento.  A beautiful alternative to cantilevers for cyclocross and competing directly with the TRP CX 8.4 mini V-brake, the new MiniMoto brake has asymmetrically curved arms that are about 84 mm from the pivot to the cable anchor [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Six Eleven Bicycle Co.’s Winning Steel Cyclocross Bike

  4 March 12 • 3 comments

  

  Six Eleven Bicycle Co., from Roanoke, Virginia, has attended the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) for just three years, and in those three years, Aaron Dykstra has won three awards, beginning with the Rookie of the Year in 2010, Best Track Frame in 2011, and now in 2012 in Sacramento, Dykstra has tied for [...]

• NAHBS 2012 Custom Cyclocross Bike Gallery: Peacock Groove

  3 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  Minneapolis’ Erik Noren builds custom steel bikes under the name Peacock Groove.  He chose the name because he likes the way a Peacock struts through a field, and like a Peacock, Noren strutted his stuff with his three stunning cyclocross bikes on display at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) 2012. The three different [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Shimano Unveils New CX75 Cyclocross Mechanical Disc Brake, Cyclocross Gearing and Wheels – Updated: More Specs, Exclusive Photos

  3 March 12 • 1 comment

  

  Update: Exclusive CX75 mechanical disc brake photos and specs added, price estimates for wheels updated. As seen with the introduction of the CX70 cyclocross component group in 2011 (reviewed in Issue 16), the Japanese component giant Shimano has started to take cyclocross seriously, and today at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) in Sacramento, [...]

• NAHBS 2012: Custom Cyclocross Bike Gallery, Part 1: Zullo, Mosaic, Richard Sachs, Caletti – Updated: Photo Captions

  2 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  Nearly every builder at the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) today had at least one cyclocross bike on display, with many builders bringing two or three bikes to showcase.  It’s almost an overwhelming amount of eye candy for a cyclocross bike geek, regardless of whether you are a steel-barcon-shifting retro-grouch or a hydraulic [...]

• Clothing Review: Rapha Women’s Classic Softshell Jacket

  21 February 12 • 5 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford When I first got into cyclocross, I heard whispers of a great brand of cycling apparel. Sure, it was expensive, but it was worth it, or so I heard. It seemed like all of the “cool kids” I was meeting had one thing in common: all sported some kind of article of [...]

• Mechanical Monday: Prepping Your Tubulars for Off-Season Storage

  20 February 12 • 0 comment

  

  by John Gatch Just like good wine, your expensive cyclocross tubulars require a little care and proper storage.  “Ridden hard and put away wet” should never be how you describe your equipment at season end.  Here are a few tips to help you summer-ize your cyclocross tubulars.

• Clothing Review: Louis Garneau Compress R Long Sleeved Baselayer

  19 February 12 • 4 comments

  

  by Brian Hancock In the fourteen years I’ve been cycling, clothing options have come a long, long way. And in cold weather ’cross, I don’t know if there is any other piece of clothing that can do as much work as a good baselayer. One way to help extend the temperature range of skinsuits is [...]