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• The Ben Popper Diary: Rockin’ at Jingle Cross

  6 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Ben Popper We were packed tighter in the car than the turkey had been stuffed the night before. It took the entire length of the drive to Iowa City before the final taste of Thanksgiving left my mouth. That was fortunate because the gut wrenching run up Mount Krumpit eight or nine times was [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary: Salsa, Bonfire, and Beer Hand-Down Powered Racing

  5 November 09 • 5 comments

  by Ben Popper A few weeks ago, I made a pilgrimage to Toronto.  We crossed the border looking for that UCI point, knowing that Saturday’s race was C1 and offered the prize to the top 15, but that with its new NACT status the race would be harder this year.  I lined up with that [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary is Back: Losing a Bar Fight and Getting Run Over

  3 October 09 • 1 comment

  by Ben Popper Have you ever had to explain to your boss why you’re coming back from Vegas with a black eye?  Because thank the Belgian gods, it’s fall again, and there’s nothing that gets me bruised in style like a good old cyclocross race. Year two of my quest for UCI points has started [...]

• Spectacross Adds Beginner’s Cyclocross Clinic

  22 June 09 • 1 comment

  Conshohocken, PA, USA – The New Jersey State Fair SpectaCross has added a novice and new-rider skills clinic prior to the season-opening Cyclocross Magazine Cyclocross Sprints.  “We’ve been contacted by so many people that are planning to compete in their first cyclocross race during the New Jersey State Fair that we thought it would be [...]

• Small Time Crash, Big Time Chasing: Louisville Day 2 – A Column by Ben Popper

  31 October 08 • 0 comment

  When you ride like I do, you’re going to crash eventually. All season I’ve dreaded the day I go down. I’m recklessly fast through the barriers, and I’ve seen that video of Nys going down, and I knew my time would come. I’m fortunate that it didn’t turn out as bad as it could have [...]

• Big Time Racing: Louisville Day 1 – A Column by Ben Popper

  26 October 08 • 3 comments

  USGP. This is big time. No more blowing up 40 minutes in, no more mechanicals or flats, no more hot weather dragging me down. It’s all about fast and fun, nothing else. I belong with these guys… well, most of them… and it’s time to put more of them behind me. I love cyclocross! Race [...]

• Rebecca Much Dominates, McLaughlin Beats Popper in Chicago

  22 October 08 • 2 comments

  McLaughlin and Much kick up the sand to victory in Chicago By Imelda March Temperatures finally hit the “crispy side” of things in Chicago and it actually felt like ‘cross weather had finally arrived. Crossers came out fresh and ready to tackle the newly redesigned Carpenter Park course. Jeff Provisor, owner of Main Street Bicycles [...]

• Ohio Day 3…Finally a C1 – A Column by Ben Popper

  17 October 08 • 1 comment

  by Ben Popper So this is it. A UCI C1 Race. We newbies tend to think that giving points 15 deep makes it easier to get them. Little did we know, what the C1 really does is attract sneaky riders who haven’t been battling it out in the heat for two days already and guys [...]

• Crashing and Popping in Ohio – A Column by Ben Popper

  13 October 08 • 1 comment

  by Ben Popper So, in my last update after Day 1 of the Cincinnati International Cyclocross Festival, I talked about how important the lineup is in my chase for one UCI point. Now I’ve realized I was too worried about my lineup and not worried enough about my start. Thus, for Saturday’s Java Johnny’s – [...]

• Being the Really Dark Horse at Darkhorse Cyclo-Stampede – A Column Ben Popper

  10 October 08 • 2 comments

  CXM Columnist Ben Popper is on a mission to achieve one goal – earning just one UCI point.. Follow Ben on this journey this season through his regular journal. His journey took him to Michigan, and then Vegas and Wisconsin, and now he tackles the Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival, starting with Friday night’s Darkhorse Cyclo-Stampede UCI [...]