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• Collegiate Chronicles: Advice from a Team Director

  14 June 11 • 0 comment

  

  Last week in Collegiate Chronicles, you met Rutgers University Cycling Team’s Director Mark Vareschi, and read about some of his fond memories of the team and its evolution over the years. Today, Vareschi offers some wisdom for other collegiate teams about building a cyclocross team in your collegiate conference.

• Women’s Wednesdays: Racing, Training and Women’s Roles in Cyclocross with Amy Dombroski

  8 June 11 • 0 comment

  Since she started racing in 2006, Amy Dombroski has had a remarkable rise to fame. She’s also been a great contributor to Cyclocross Magazine. Lately, she’s been prepping for the fall season, mixing it up at various road and mountain bike events, most recently the back to back World Cup races in Dalby Forest and Offenburg. Lucky for us at Cyclocross Magazine, she had a few hours in a car this weekend, giving her time to answer our questions between races.

• Tim Johnson: Cyclocross Pro, Comic Character and … Freeride Mountain Biker?

  5 June 11 • 1 comment

  

  Tim Johnson has been a seriously busy guy lately, and we don’t just mean racing. He’s been popping up everywhere, from Rapha’s video previews of the Amgen Tour of California to RedBull’s Crossroads videos to … a Frazz comic strip? Cyclocross Magazine caught up with Johnson on Sunday, while he took a break from playing with his new four-month-old puppies, though not without a break mid-interview while Johnson had to chase them down after they took off rabbit-hunting in his backyard. I did learn that he is an extremely good whistler, after listening to several attempts to call the lab pups back without stopping our interview!

• In the Saddle with Niels Albert

  1 June 11 • 1 comment

  

  Back in February, Cyclocross Magazine sat down with Albert in his mobile home before the final race of the Superprestige series in Middelkerke to put your questions to the new king of Belgian cross.

• Collegiate Chronicles: Tales from a Team Director

  31 May 11 • 1 comment

  

  Welcome to the Collegiate Chronicles, the new column that features all things collegiate (sans the keg parties, of course). Collegiate cyclocross is a fast-growing sector of the sport with little written about it, and we plan to change that. We’ll be taking a look at collegiate riders from all levels and from all over the country, race organizers, conference directors and some of the great characters that make up collegiate-level cyclocross.

• Women’s Wednesday: Checking in with the Pros

  25 May 11 • 0 comment

  

  Today marks the start of our new bi-weekly column, Women’s Wednesdays, where the focus shifts to matters specific to women in the sport. This column will be dedicated to all aspects of women’s racing, from coverage of pro women to women-specific bikes to talking frankly about how to get more women involved in cyclocross. We begin this week by hearing from a few of our favorite ladies of ‘cross, finding out what they’ve been up to in the off-season and seeing what they’re looking forward to in the Fall.

• In the Saddle with Todd Wells, Three-Time National Champion

  18 May 11 • 0 comment

  

  This marks the start of the new online “In the Saddle” feature for Cyclocross Magazine. Bi-weekly, we’ll be chasing down a new pro racer to ask them a series of questions that readers will help us decide on. Want to know why Jonathan Page became an expert at e-brake turns in the snow? Curious about [...]

• Chris Jones Talks Rapha-Focus, Powers, and the 2011 Cyclocross Season

  16 May 11 • 0 comment

  

  Rapha-Focus recently announced that this Fall, Jeremy Powers would be joining their team for cyclocross, adding to the powerful duo of Chris Jones and U23 Zach McDonald.  Jones sat down to chat with Cyclocross Magazine at the Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco about his feelings on Powers leaving the Cyclocrossworld.com-Cannondale team and joining Rapha-Focus, [...]

• A Ride and a Chat with Jeremy Powers at the Rapha Gentlemen’s Ride in San Francisco

  15 May 11 • 3 comments

  

  This past Thursday, Rapha Focus cyclocross teammates and Tour of California racers Jeremy Powers and Chris Jones led a “Gentlemen’s Ride” to celebrate the new Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco and the 2011 edition of the Amgen tour. Cyclocross Magazine’s Andrew Yee, on a muddy cyclocross bike, attempted to keep up with the two [...]

• Characters of ’Cross: Zac Daab of MFG Series and Cascade Bicycle Studio

  14 May 11 • 0 comment

  Characters of ’Cross: An ongoing series wherein Cyclocross Magazine contributor Kenton Berg badgers, begs and coerces answers and information about the life and times of the personalities who are helping to shape the world of cyclocross as we know it. This week we feature Zac Daab, co-founder of MFG Cyclocross, founder of Hup United and [...]

• Video Interview: Helen Wyman Chats About Road Racing, Crashing and Cyclocross

  9 May 11 • 0 comment

  British Cyclocross National Champion Helen Wyman talks with Sarah Connolly about her recent crash in her skinny tire adventures at the GP Elsy Jacobs race. But Wyman admits she’s primarily a cyclocrosser, and also talks about her win at the 2010 Koppenberg Cross and disappointments at  last year’s Pont Chateau Cyclocross World Cup and the [...]

• SoCalCross’ Dorothy Wong Talks NRC, Nationals, USAC Cyclocross Promoter’s Summit – Part II

  8 May 11 • 0 comment

  SoCalCross promoter Dorothy Wong has been at the forefront of Southern California’s amazing growth in the popularity of cyclocross. She attended the USA Cycling Cyclocross Promoters’ Summit last weekend, and checked in with her personal thoughts on the state of cyclocross, the event and the cyclocross NRC. Part 2 of the conversation is below. Also [...]

• Tim Johnson’s Cyclocross-Centered Season Ahead

  5 March 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Josh Liberles Tim Johnson is just embarking on the second day of his five-day Ride on Washington in support of Bikes Belong, and we brought you info on that worthy endeavor last weekend. While we chatted with Johnson to get info on that bike advocacy-supporting initiative, we also had time to squeeze in a [...]

• REMINDER: Ask The Pros: World Cup Series Winners Niels Albert and Sanne van Paassen Answer Your Questions

  1 February 11 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine is pleased to announce another round of Ask a Pro – where you, our readers, put your ’cross questions to the best in the mud. This round, we’ve gotten you access to both of the 2011 World Cup series winners. The final World Cup at Hoogerheide sealed the series for Niels Albert (BKCP-Power Plus) and Sanne [...]

• Philadelphia’s Favorite Swiss Races His Heart Out in U23 Worlds

  31 January 11 • 2 comments

  

  For the past two cyclocross seasons, Swiss U23 racer Valentin Sherz has come stateside  as part of Philadelphia Cyclocross School‘s cultural exchange program. Scherz tore up the mud in the Mid-Atlantic region, earning respect for his skills and friendships for his open and authentic personality. After an impressive race at Worlds, which saw him take seventh [...]