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• Catching Up with World Champion Marianne Vos on Worlds, MTB and Women in Cycling

  21 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford When Marianne Vos’s name popped up on the start list at Sea Otter, you could see the ripple of excitement that went through the crowd. Vos has claimed almost every title available, from Gold medalist to multiple-time-and-discipline World Champion, and now she’s taking on mountain biking. No one was surprised when she [...]

• Sneak Peek: Issue 20′s National Champion Training Secrets

  19 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  We asked each and every Nationals medalist just how he or she does it. What’s the training like? What kind of cross training do you do? What workouts do you love to hate? How do you plan nutrition? Responses were varied, so once we narrowed down to some of our favorite answers, we asked Cycle-Smart [...]

• Katie Compton Chats About Tour of California and the Off-Season

  15 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford Last week, we checked in with the King of Scottish cyclocross, Rab Wardell. So it only seemed fitting that today we see what the Queen of American cyclocross has been up to so far in the off-season. With the Tour of California happening right now, and Compton taking part in the women’s [...]

• World Champion Sven Nys to Race CLIF® Bar CrossVegas

  13 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  LONGMONT, COLORADO – In a move that will delight cyclocross fans across the world, reigning World Champion Sven Nys of Belgium will be racing CLIF® Bar CrossVegas in 2013.  Nys captured his second World Championship title earlier this year in Louisville. CrossVegas 2013 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 18 in Las Vegas  following the first [...]

• Mechanical Monday: Post-Season Inspection

  13 May 13 • 1 comment

  

  by Chris Mayhew The season is over, but before you pack away the bike into the back of the garage until next September, there are a few things you should do to ensure than when you do pull it out, covered in dust and begging to be ridden again come cyclocross season, it’s in race-ready [...]

• A Very Jortz Interview: Getting to Know the Ladies Behind the Jean Shorts

  10 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  When we caught wind of a team of women known for racing in jean shorts and having a blast doing it, we had to find out more. The teammates sat down and answered a few of our questions, including, “how the heck do you wear jean shorts and race?!” Cyclocross Magazine: Tell me about the [...]

• An Interview with the King of Scottish ’Cross, Rab Wardell

  8 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  Our overseas corespondent John McComisky chats with the Scottish cyclocross champion about his season, what’s next, and if we’ll see him stateside anytime soon. We just wish we had a video too – talking cyclocross in a Scottish accent is something we haven’t heard yet! by John McComisky The cyclocross season may be well and [...]

• Never Tired of Tires: More from Challenge, Vittoria and Vee Rubber

  7 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Clifford Lee At Sea Otter a couple weeks ago, we learned of a few developments in the tire department from several companies regarding cyclocross. Thanks to a new licensing agreement, the Challenge Eroica will be renamed the Strada Bianca, both names referring to the race and ride around Siena in the Tuscan region of [...]

• Mechanical Monday: The Tools You Shouldn’t Be Without

  6 May 13 • 1 comment

  

  Work time will be decreased with a repair stand. With work time decreased, beer time increases, and that makes for happier cyclocross racers. Happy cyclocross racers make for a better sport. So you see, the future of our sport depends on everyone owning repair stands.

• Sea Otter 2013 Photo Round-Up

  3 May 13 • 0 comment

  

  Now that the dust has died down, we’re going through our massive memory cards full of photos of some of the goodies we spotted at Sea Otter but didn’t have time to post while we were there. Getting the lay of the land from the short track MTB course on Friday. Saturday, the cyclocross race [...]

• Asylum Cycles Turns to Crowd Supply to Create Its Meuse Carbon Disc Brake Cyclocross Bike – Updated

  30 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  PORTLAND, OREGON — Asylum Cycles has announced the crowd funding and product launch of the Meuse, a disc-brake, full-carbon cyclocross bike. With a Belgian river as its namesake, the Meuse pays homage to the early European origins of cyclocross. What’s particularly intriguing is that the Meuse is being launched on Crowd Supply, the first crowd funding site [...]

• Geoff Kabush and Lesley Paterson Take Wins at Whiskey 50 – Results, Interviews

  29 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  Yesterday, cyclocrosser Geoff Kabush took the win at the Whiskey 50 Off-Road race in Prescott, Arizona, a week after taking the win in the short track race and a second in the cross country race at Sea Otter in California. In the women’s field, Lesley Paterson, the Xterra World Champion took the win, followed by ’crosser [...]

• TRP Releases Hylex Hydraulic Drop Bar Brake System for Singlespeed Cyclocross

  29 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  When we stopped at the TRP Brakes booth at the Outdoor Demo in Vegas before Interbike 2012, we inquired about the HyWire, the innovative hydraulic disc brake levers with TRP’s own electronic shifters built into the brake lever. The company had figured out how to make shifters compatible with Shimano’s Dura-Ace 7970 10-speed Di2 derailleurs, [...]

• Sea Otter, Whiskey 50, MTB, Cyclocross and Hockey: A Chat with Geoff Kabush

  27 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  “Can you do an interview now?” “Getting ready for hockey match at SCOTT tent. Swing by.” Somehow, whether it involves renting an ice hockey rink and challenging … well, everyone … to hockey as Canada versus the World at the cyclocross World Championships, or just starting an impromptu hockey game at Sea Otter, Geoff Kabush [...]

• First Look and Ride: Zipp 303 Firecrest Disc Brake Wheels – Sea Otter 2013

  26 April 13 • 0 comment

  

  Zipp’s 303 carbon rim wheels have been a mainstay in US cyclocross races and European spring classics since they were redesigned in 2010 to be wider than the average road rim. Although the company tweaked the 45mm deep rim’s profile again two years ago to go from the toroidal shape to the new Firecrest shape [...]