by Morgan Moore The 10th Season of the Bay Area Super Prestige cyclocross series, now sponsored by Clif Bar, had a hot and dry start on Sunday at Candlestick Park, a venue near San Francisco famous for its 49er NFL football stadium. It was clear that race organizer Tom Simpson and his dedicated crew had [...]
by Tim Westmore FORT ORD – The Central Coast CycloCross Series Finale at Fort Ord went out under mostly cloudy skies and stayed dry; this ended a remarkable season without severe weather conditions on race days. The course was uneven, firm-to-bumpy, consisting mostly of single track and hiking/biking trails and one paved section. The climbs [...]
by Tim Westmore Mid-October on California’s central coast can see some of the best days of weather for the year. And so it was at the Central Coast Cyclo•Cross (CCCX) Series at Manzanita Park; beautiful sunshine and 70-80 degrees throughout the day complemented a twisting, bending coarse set up by Keith DeFiebre. The fourth event [...]
The Amgen Tour of California is at an end, and so is our cyclocross-style competition within the competition. The actual winner of the Amgen Tour of California was Chris Horner, who is definitely deserving of an honorable mention among our cyclocrossers in the Tour. Our cyclocross-style winner was Chris Jones, who finished the race in [...]
Only today’s stage is left in the Amgen Tour of California. With our dwindling group of cyclocrossers down to only six, who will be the winner in our unofficial cyclocross-style Tour of California? The 75.8 mile Stage 7 was won by Levi Leipheimer, with Chris Horner directly behind. Horner still sits in first place in [...]
As the Amgen Tour of California begins to wind down, with only a weekend of racing to go, riders are beginning to make their moves and prepare for the last stage on Sunday. Even the racer’s tweets about the Tour are getting scarce, a sure sign that the race is getting serious. Yesterday, riders had [...]
In Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California, racers covered 135 miles and climbed nearly 10,000 ft. After the long haul, Jeremy Powers tweeted that, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” Lars Boom echoed the sentiment on his Twitter as well, saying, “Really hard stage today!” Three-time world champ Oscar Freire (Rabobank) came [...]
Stage 4 of the Amgen Tour of California saw some of the first King of the Mountain climbs, and cyclocross racer Lars Boom (Rabobank) emerged as the first King of the Mountain. (Read about how Lars Boom made a cyclocross comeback in January in Lars Boom Makes a Boom in Heusden-Zolder.) Later, Jesse Anthony captured [...]
With rain and a strong headwind, Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California had perfect conditions for our cyclocross contingent to shine. Stage 4, which riders will face later today, will feature some of the Tour’s major climbs, and unfortunately for our cyclocross racers, these aren’t the kind of hills they can shoulder bikes [...]
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