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• New Product Spotlight and Review: VCRC Team Handlebar and Stem

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Clifford Lee 2011 VCRC Team handlebar and stem MSRP $79 (bar) $59 (stem) Alloy handlebar and stems are usually not glamorous. Once set up, they simply perform as they should in most cases, and we tend to take them for granted. There is personal preference regarding reach of the stem and bar as well [...]

• New Product Spotlight and Review: Avid Shorty Ultimate Cantilever Brakes

  28 October 10 • 2 comments

  by Clifford Lee The Avid Shorty Ultimate cantilever brakes have been in development for several years, and we’ve been anxiously awaiting our chance for a review since we first learned they were coming. After prominent cyclocrossers, including US national champion Katie Compton and world champion Zdenek Stybar, relied on the Ultimate for speed-scrubbing duty last [...]

• Gut-Wrenching Mechanical Mondays: Weather-Proofing Cables and Housing

  25 October 10 • 1 comment

  Daimeon Shanks – pro mechanic and co-owner of The Service Course repair shop in Boulder, Colorado, is here to school you on keeping you shifting and braking performance friction-free. There are several option available, and Daimeon gives his impressions of some of the more worthy. Missed last week’s article on gluing tubulars? Go back and [...]

• 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 [...]

• Sneak Peek: 2011 Redline Conquest Pro SS

  20 October 10 • 0 comment

  Although the new 2011 Redline Conquest Pro SS won’t be available for mass consumption until early December, if you happen to be in Seattle this coming weekend for a certain quest for the Golden Speedo (i.e. SSCXWC 2010!), you can sneak a peak of one underneath defending women’s champ Kari Studley. According to Tim Rutledge [...]

• Product Spotlight: Clif Shot Gels

  19 October 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Kit Redwine Interbike is famous for miles of bicycle eye-candy, but it’s also infamous for a lack of affordable and palatable dining options. When your day is packed with meetings, it’s not uncommon to graze all day on gel, bar and drink samples.  That’s how our crew stayed lean and mean throughout this year’s [...]

• New Product Spotlight and Review: Rolf Prima’s SSCX Singlespeed Cyclocross Wheelset

  18 October 10 • 1 comment

  by Andrew Yee You know singlespeed cyclocross racing has become popular when your local series has two categories and field limits, there’s a “world championship” event, and a company like Rolf Prima releases a cyclocross-specific singlespeed wheelset. All for good reason, as singlespeeds are simple, light and allow you to focus more on just pedaling [...]

• Gut Wrenching Mechanical Mondays: Gluing ’Cross Tubulars

  18 October 10 • 1 comment

  Gut-Wrenching Mechanical Mondays makes its heroic return, this time under the guidance of Daimeon Shanks and Nick Legan – pro mechanics and co-owners of The Service Course repair shop in Boulder, Colorado. By now, many of you have tried other methods and experienced the dreaded rolled tubular. Here’s a method that’s ideal for holding onto [...]

• Product Spotlight: All City Nature Boy Singlespeed

  8 October 10 • 1 comment

  by Kit Redwine You might be unfamiliar with the Nature Boy from Minnesota’s All-City Cycles, but the steel singlespeed bike has already been making waves, taking victories on both coasts this past weekend. JT Fountain, current singlespeed ’cross national champion, won the opening singlespeed round of Portland’s Cross Crusade, while Stu Louder took both singlespeed [...]

• Aerodynamics in Cyclocross? Tim Johnson Seeks an Aero Edge in the Wind Tunnel

  8 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Christopher Bagg Readers of Cyclocross Magazine in print saw an advertisement in Issue 10 from Cannondale featuring a photo of Tim Johnson in the wind tunnel aboard his new SuperX. While Johnson would not comment on the testing when we asked at the USGP Planet Bike Cup in Madison, I tracked down Mike Giraud of [...]

• Interbike 2010 Shoe Show: Bont and Louis Garneau

  2 October 10 • 0 comment

  While exploring Interbike booth-to-booth, we came across some interesting new shoe options from both Louis Garneau and Bont. We also got a peak at the 2011 Louis Garneau Steeple-X, which was tucked away in a back room since it won’t be imported into the US this year. by Josh Liberles Bont Shoes Bont may have [...]

• Interbike Product Spotlight on ’Cross Wheels: Hed, Velocity, American Classic

  2 October 10 • 0 comment

  More and more wheel manufacturers are going with the “wider is better” philosophy for their cyclocross – and, for some, road – offerings. Hed has two new cyclocross-specific aluminum wheels in its lineup as well as a carbon tubular designed for cobbles that carries over well to the ’cross world. Velocity has two brand new [...]

• Interbike Product Spotlight – 2011 Raleigh Limited Edition SSCXWC and RX 1.0

  1 October 10 • 1 comment

  Raleigh’s 2011 line up has something traditional and race-worthy and something brand new and lust-worthy. The classically-styled workhorse of a bike in its alloy geared RX 1.0 will be a no-frills racer’s weapon of choice while the completely revamped singlespeed frame with a carbon frame and carbon belt drive train will add pizazz to one-geared [...]

• Interbike 2010 Power Players: Garmin, Quarq and Look/Polar

  30 September 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles Why would a cyclocrosser want to invest in a power meter? The obvious benefit is to use one during training, whether for hitting prescribed wattage marks for intervals, or for tracking progress and fitness from week to week – and, potentially over years of cycling. But more and more ’crossers are bringing [...]

• Interbike Product Spotlight: Castelli Cyclocross Skinsuits, Training Gear

  28 September 10 • 1 comment

  As cyclocross continues to grow, it’s not surprising that many brands are re-purposing existing products and branding them for cyclocross to cash in. And ’cross has a history as a hodge-podge of a sport; it started with left over, hand-me-down road and mountain bike bits given second lives in the “off-season.” Well, times have changed [...]