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• The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo: the Good, the Bad, and the Awesome

  20 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  At Interbike on Wednesday, you see beyond the glitz and glamour of carbon fiber road wheels and fixed gear glory. You feel the grass, you smell the dirt, sweat, blood, tears … you know it’s almost time for CrossVegas. You check your watch over and over again, counting down to the moment when you can finally start heading to the event you’ve been waiting for.

• Is Joey Really OK? Joey Speaks Up and Tells His Story – Updated

  20 September 11 • 22 comments

  

  There have been a lot of questions asked and many things assumed about my “incident.” Allow me to set the record straight. My name is Joey Mullan, and I crashed on my bike. As for the intensity of the crash, wow! I have raced singlespeed cyclocross for the past three seasons, this being my fourth. I don’t consider myself a roadie, a mountain biker or a BMX kid. I do it all, but I consider myself a cyclocrosser, 100%.

• Rapha-Focus GP: Wellens and Nash Double Up in Seattle – UPDATED: PHOTO GALLERIES, Rider Reactions, Full Report

  19 September 11 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles ISSAQUAH, WA Katerina Nash (Luna) and Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) opened up gaps in their respective races, taking back-to-back wins on the weekend.  If Saturday’s StarCrossed story was the quality of North American cyclocross when tested by the world’s best, perhaps the take away from Sunday’s Rapha-Focus GP was just how good the [...]

• Nash and Wellens Solo Away from Star-Studded International Field at StarCrossed – UPDATED: Full Report, Photo Galleries

  19 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  CrossVegas winner Katerina Nash (Luna Pro Team) has doubled down and taken the win in StarCrossed, and former world champ Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) claimed his first victory on American soil by shedding the rest of the front group with three laps to go and powering the remaining distance alone.

• Interbike 2011 Cross Bike Bling: Moots Titanium PsychloX RSL

  19 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  Moots’ employees take cyclocross seriously. One just has to look at the CrossVegas Wheelers and Dealers results from the last few years to see that the employees of the Steamboat Springs-based framebuilder don’t just dabble in cyclocross, but specialize in the discipline with much success, with three racers finishing in the top 10 in the [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of September 16th, 2011

  17 September 11 • 1 comment

  The Belgians came, they saw, and, oh man, have they conquered. Well, an American did grab one win and that was a UCI race, so I guess it counts for something. The first week of the international season is under way and is there ever a bunch to talk about! First is CrossVegas, so much going on there. We can’t not talk about this weekends upcoming races in Seattle, Vermont and Maryland. Did you catch the velo bowl? Jurgen Mettepenningen is confident in Pauwels, Aernouts and Vantornout. National Champ Todd Wells will not defend his stars and stripes this January; London Olympics and Louisville 2013 are the goals. Finally, in this week’s Working Man’s Edition there were just too many of you, so instead, there’s a list of all the riders that deserve some respect!

• Interbike 2011: New and Updated Cyclocross Tires, Part 1

  17 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross tires are arguably the only cyclocross-specific components found on a ’cross bike. Cantilever brakes, drivetrain components, and cockpits are all used by other types of bikes and other types of riding. With this in mind, we pay particular attention to cyclocross tires at Interbike, and have Part 1 of our coverage of cyclocross tires from [...]

• Interbike 2011: Katheryn Curi Mattis & Ritte’s Cyclocross Bikes

  16 September 11 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles Katheryn Curi Mattis apparently has a hard time staying “retired” from competitive bike racing. Curi Mattis—who won the 2005 US road race national title and the 2008 Geelong World Cup road race, and is one of the top American roadies of the past decade—has lightened her racing load this year and transitioned [...]

• Interbike 2011: 3T Shows Off Ergoterra Bars, Luteus Fork

  16 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  At Interbike today, 3T was more than happy to show Cyclocross Magazine their new cyclocross-specific goodies for the 2012 season. Specifically, we looked at the new Ergoterra carbon handlebars and the carbon Luteus disc brake cyclocross fork.

• 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.

• Viva CrossVegas! U23 World Champ Lars van der Haar Sprints to the Win: UPDATED – Full Results, Quotes

  14 September 11 • 2 comments

  

  by Robbie Carver In what was resoundingly the deepest Elite Men’s field in the history of the event, CrossVegas did not disappoint the plethora of fans lining the course tonight. Joining the pistons of US ’cross were a slew of Europeans coming stateside to see who was ringing all those damn cowbells so loud.  Swiss [...]

• Katerina Nash Again Crowned Queen of Cross Vegas: UPDATED – Full Results, Quotes, Video

  14 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Robbie Carver The first big race of the 2011-2012 cyclocross season got underway as the Elite Women blasted off the line at Cross Vegas. Along with the usual contenders – Katerina Nash, Sue Butler, Georgia Gould, Amy Dombroski – were a fresh assortment of European racers hoping to deposit a few UCI points into their start-line [...]

• Cross Vegas Wheelers and Dealers – Craig Etheridge De-thrones Cariveau: Brief Report

  14 September 11 • 2 comments

  Kicking off the night at Cross Vegas – and for many, the ’cross season – was the Wheelers and Dealers race, where the very people responsible for the gear we ride, the races we enter, and the pros we watch lined up to show that they are more than just pencil-pushers and metal-wrenchers. Lining up [...]

• Cyclocross Magazine Presents Live, Interactive Coverage of ClifBar CrossVegas On September 14

  14 September 11 • 1 comment

  

  For those of you who won’t be making it to Cross Vegas this year, Cyclocross Magazine will be bringing Vegas to you (sans the showgirls, of course). We’ll be providing live, interactive coverage of both the Elite Men’s and Women’s races, which are both stacked with the best-ever and most international field assembled in the US.

• Cross Clash: Johnson Takes Powers in the Battle of the Titans on the Interbike Mini-Velodrome

  14 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  In the pursuit match done on a mini-velodrome with BMX bikes, cyclocross legends Tim Johnson and Jeremy Powers duked it out at high noon in a two-out-of-three match. Pre-race, the two contenders held a press conference (see picture) and weighed in: both racers were 162 pounds.