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• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: ‘Frisco or Bust

  19 December 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford This past trip I made was probably one of my favorites this season. In part because it was a blast, but more because going to San Francisco from New Jersey was a pilgrimage of sorts. Back in the early 1900s, my great-great-uncle Frank Kolbe made the trek from Lambertville, New Jersey, to [...]

• The Hardest to Write: A Column by Lee Waldman

  16 December 12 • 3 comments

  Here at Cyclocross Magazine, as with everywhere else in the country, the mood has been subdued in the past two days. In this column, one of our regular writers attempts to string a few of his thoughts together, and we join him in offering our thoughts and prayers to all of those impacted by this [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of December 8th, 2012

  8 December 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Kat Statman It’s a bit of a calm weekend in Euro ’cross, but not in US ’cross (go watch GP Bend folks!). But here, we’re looking at rumors and rumblings: Sven Nys in the peloton beyond 2014? Hydraulic disc brakes on the pro’s bikes, but will the Euro’s adopt?; Jeremy Durrin makes it to [...]

• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: Making the Leap

  5 December 12 • 2 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford One of my first columns I ever wrote for Cyclocross Magazine was about fear. About being a nervous mountain biker, tentative on the descents. I talked about how I wanted to ride fearlessly, take risks, or at least, develop some level of confidence. Of course, as I wrote that, I had no [...]

• The Case for the Pit Bike

  29 November 12 • 6 comments

  

  Two months ago, we ran an editorial that made the case for pit wheels versus a pit bike. Instantly, the Internet was up in arms: whether riders and racers agreed or disagreed with Brooke Hoyer, they were certainly vocal. But until now, no one turned in a rebuttal article. Today, Chris Mayhew, a coach with [...]

• It’s Back! Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Thanksgiving Week 2012

  23 November 12 • 0 comment

  

    By Kat Statman It has been a long time since a little bit of R&R have graced these hallowed (web)pages, but, there is a time at which things calm down and the world comes back together for the triumphant return of Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings. As we all slowly get over a turkey [...]

• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: Thankful.

  22 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford It’s Thanksgiving here, which means family time. Actually, to that end, it’s been a whole week of giving thanks for my family, both biological and chosen. I’m thankful for so many things: the people who surround me, the muscles that I have that allow me to pedal my bike (albeit not always [...]

• Happy Thanksgiving: A Column by Lee Waldman

  22 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Lee Waldman Our family has grown quite large over the last four years with two married daughters and my step-daughter in a serious relationship as well. All now have extended families and coupled with that is confusion and conflict around the holidays. Where to go to keep everyone happy? Two years ago my wife [...]

• Being a Master: A Column by Lee Waldman

  13 November 12 • 4 comments

  

  by Lee Waldman Between promoting a mid-week race series, completing my (hopefully) last year as a middle school teacher, trying to train and then race on the weekends, this fall has been nothing, if not hectic.  Through it all I’ve proven once again, that maintaining balance in my life can be a major struggle. The [...]

• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: What State Am I In?

  9 November 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford I guess the title of this post can be read two ways: physical or mental state? And I think the correct answer is: both. When I decided to move to Massachusetts last spring, I thought I’d be set for the season: no travel more than two hours to get to any race [...]

• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: NYCROSS and the Best Heckle I’ve Ever Gotten

  26 October 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford Last week, I talked about my newfound love of local racing. This past weekend, that love was reaffirmed ten-fold when I went to two semi-local races for me, a nighttime practice race at Fifth Street Cross in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and NYCROSS’s Spa:CX race in Saratoga Springs, New York. The night race was [...]

• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: Racing Local, Traveling (Almost) Global

  13 October 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford For the past two years, I’ve gone where the big races were. That mainly left me in New England, with jaunts to Nationals when time and money afforded it. This weekend though, I was offered a rare opportunity and a tough choice: the behemoth that is the Gran Prix of Gloucester was [...]

• North Coast Gran Prix of Cyclocross Offers Ohio Family Fun Mixed With High-Quality Racing

  4 October 12 • 4 comments

  

  This is American Cyclocross: The Local Race by Molly Hurford and John Proppe At it’s core, cyclocross in the US is a participant-based sport. Family and friends can come out, spectate, race, learn, eat, drink and heckle to their hearts content, often paying little or nothing for the pleasure of doing so. In Europe, it’s [...]

• Facing Down Low Self Esteem: A Column By Lee Waldman

  28 September 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Lee Waldman Labor Day weekend my youngest daughter got married. Both of my sons-in-law are wonderful young men, hard workers, caring partners, and best of all, cyclists.  They are also both light-years younger than I am and so, on the occasion when they call me to ride with them I know I’m in for [...]

• The Dirtbag Chronicles: To Pit Bike, or Not To Pit Bike

  21 September 12 • 5 comments

  

  by Brooke Hoyer Gentle reader, I need to warn you that I’m a wheel whore and while I’m purporting to argue the merits (or lack thereof) of cyclocross pit bikes, it’s really a flimsy excuse to pander to my whims. So let’s get on to it. I was an early adopter of the conventional wisdom [...]