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There was a lot of racing on Tuesday, day two, of the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships. Qualifying heats and repechage rounds were held. See our video interviews, photo gallery and report from the day. We have full results of the heats below: For photos, video interviews, and report from the day’s racing, visit our report page from [...]

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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Day two of the seeding heats has come and gone for the Masters World Championships. Today’s races unfolded in a close mirror of the US National Championships, with an American taking the lead positions in each category. With tornado sirens blasting through Louisville in the pre-dawn, and deep rains soaking the course, races [...]

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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Fresh off a meet-and-greet in downtown Louisville, a relaxed Niels Albert sat down with Cyclocross Magazine to discuss his American debut and defending the World Champion’s jersey this Sunday. Albert has had an incredibly consistent season, rarely finishing off the podium and taking home the overall World Cup title. “It’s been fun,” Albert said of [...]

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Cyclocross Magazine got a chance to sit down with the elite men’s team from Belgium to get their thoughts on Louisville, Worlds in the US, travel and timezones, and their thoughts on the course thus far. Our first interviewee was Klaas Vantornout, the current reigning Belgian National Champion. He’s had one of his best seasons [...]

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by Christine Vardaros, Cyclocross Magazine’s American-turned-Belgian correspondent The Belgian vibe all week here has been a nervous one. We are all waiting on the riders to test the course, and we’ve been reading Nys’s complaints that he hasn’t been able to really see what it’s like. Once they’ve been on it then they can report [...]

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by Molly Hurford As Jeremy Powers sits in the kitchen of the Rapha-Focus team house in Louisville, sipping coffee and laughing, it’s hard to believe that he has the biggest race of the year coming up in just a few short days. But the clock is ticking down to Worlds, and while his race at [...]

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – Fuji Bikes is proud to announce that it has reached a sponsorship agreement with US National Cyclocross Champion Jonathan Page, who tallied his fourth national title in commanding fashion earlier this month in Wisconsin – notably crossing the tape without a bike sponsor. “When we learned of the opportunity, we jumped on [...]

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by Chris Mayhew The main thing to know about Louisville is that 4th St is hopping. A lot of local stuff has popped up there in recent years. It’s right next to the host hotel. Market Street has some good places to eat as well, just a bit east of the hotel. The super hip [...]

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For those of you who came early to Louisville to race in, or spectate at, the 2013 Masters World Championships, be sure to check out our updated schedule for heat, consolation, and repechage times and masters world championship races. Share this with your friends and family and fellow racers. Sticking around for the Elite races [...]

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2013 Masters World Cyclocross Championships racers are required to register their pit crew to be able to work in the pits and help with bike exchanges. Today, some pit crew members found that the cost of volunteering for a buddy was at least $50. Mechanics who went to register with their riders today for Masters [...]

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The first day of Masters Worlds, or at least, the qualifying heats, is in the books, and while today’s fields were fairly low key, the course itself didn’t allow riders (even in the smaller fields where just finishing guaranteed a starting position for the race) any real rest. The rain held off for the duration [...]

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The first day at Masters Worlds was low-key enough to allow us some time to prowl around the venue and see what was happening. And what caught our eye was the neutral bike washing and lubing available at the WD40Bike tent, arguably the most popular spot of the day for riders pre- and post-race. Manned [...]

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The Internet has been ablaze for the past week with talk of the #Louisville2013FoamParty. And while it started as a joke, the party transformed into something very real, and we called up one of the promoters to figure out how this hashtag turned into an actual party, to be held Sunday night at Prime in [...]

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  by Molly Hurford If you watch Parks and Recreation at all, you may be familiar with this scene, and the three little words that may inspire a hefty chunk of your bike and bike accessory buying: “Treat Yo Self.” You spend most of your spare time on the bike, so why not make it [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Fizik shoes, from the priciest to the most inexpensive, are handmade in Italy. They want you to know that, because to them, Italy stands for high quality and craftsmanship, and, as Adam Bookwalter, the North America Area Manager, tells me right away, “That’s really important to us.” Fizik, like companies including Sidi and Gaerne, has [...]

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If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of racing cyclocross with a PowerTap to get some solid wattage readings, then the Stages Power Meter might be a new toy to add to your wish list, especially if your PowerTap is on a clincher wheel and you’ve got a nice pair of tubular race wheels. The [...]

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“The Paru is built with the inner determination to find the limit of grip and pain, but now with braking abilities to match.” While New Zealand-based Grammo revealed their disc brake-equipped carbon cyclocross frame at Sea Otter last year, it wasn’t until this year’s show that they were able to finally say that it was [...]

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What happens when a mountain bike wheel company makes road wheels? They come out with wheels that are more designed for cyclocross than they are for a crit. This week, North Carolina-based Industry Nine is releasing their latest iteration of their i25 aluminum road wheels, and at Sea Otter this weekend, Operations Manager Jacob McGahey [...]

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