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• Wyman Defends British Jersey, Field Wins Men’s Race

  8 January 12 • 0 comment

  Helen Wyman (Horizon Fitness Racing Team) successfully defended her British national champion’s jersey Sunday in Ipswich with a win over last year’s runner-up Nikki Harris (Young Telenet-Fidea), who finished 56 seconds behind the six-time national champion. Annie Last finished another two seconds in arrears for the bronze. In the men’s race,  Ian Field (Ac Lanester [...]

• Found Footage: 1960s British Cyclo-cross Championship Videos

  26 March 11 • 0 comment

  The British Pathe was established in 1902, and the organization produced bi-weekly newsreels and film programs for over 60 years, resulting in a film archive of 90,000 pieces and 3,500 hours. Dive into that archive, and you’ll find a handful of great samples of cyclocross videos from the late 60s.

• Feast Your Eyes: 2011 Euro Championship Videos Galore!

  10 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  This past weekend was chock full of exciting racing action as most European countries hosted their national cyclocross championships. Pasted below is just a smattering of some of the best videos of both the events and the post-race interviews that we’ve come across. Catch up on some of the racing below. Belgian National Championships: The [...]

• British National Championship: Wyman Defends Title, Oldham Wins

  9 January 11 • 0 comment

  Helen Wyman (Kona), this year’s queen of the Koppenberg, repeats as the British national champion, taking her record-setting sixth title. Nikki Harris (APB Cycling Team) and Gabby Day (The ChainStay-RENNER), both of whom have had excellent seasons competing against the world’s best, finished in second and third, respectively. That lead trio showed their World Cup [...]

• Rider Diary: Gabby Day preps for British Nationals

  6 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  Racer Gabby Day (The Chainstay – RENNER) returns to CXM with her report on her Christmas racing as she gears up for the British National Championships. by Gabby Day Two top-tens in two days! I have just completed a busy Christmas racing period and I am now in the build up to the British National [...]

• Videos of British and Irish National Championships

  11 February 10 • 0 comment

  

  Crazy weather and snow-blanketed courses forced the rescheduling of both the British and Irish National Championships. Rather than their typical places on the calendar, shortly before Worlds, like the rest of Europe, both events were held this past weekend. Check out the great highlight videos with commentary of the Men’s and Women’s British events as [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro – A Big Weekend With a Stripey Jersey

  10 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Helen Wyman Having suffered from an unusually large amount of snow in January, our national championships were postponed until this weekend. In some ways it was a good thing as it was more about holding a peak from worlds rather than racing in the middle of a hard training block.  I also had the [...]

• Wyman, Bibby Bring Home British Cyclocross Championships – Report, Full Results

  7 February 10 • 0 comment

  In a strange scheduling twist, this year’s British Cyclocross Championships came after Worlds. The unusually cold weather and snow that has hit much of Europe this winter, and was responsible for the original British championship’s postponement, was gone as just about all of the competitors opted to race bare-legged. Helen Wyman (Kona-FSA Factory Team), who [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro: It’s Snow Joke

  16 January 10 • 1 comment

  2009 British Champion Helen Wyman (Kona-FSA) checks in with an update from Europe as she prepares for Roubaix and the pathway to Worlds. If you missed it, also take a peek at our profile of her Kona Major Jake cyclocross bike. by Helen Wyman Last weekend we returned to the North Pole (otherwise known as [...]

• British National Cyclocross Championships Postponed

  10 January 10 • 0 comment

  

  Postponing a cyclocross event–a fall/winter sport that’s all about inclement weather and toughing it out–is far from typical. Yet that’s exactly what happened to this weekend’s British National Championships in Sutton Park, Birmingham, UK. Winter weather has again swept through Europe, blanketing much of the northern parts of the continent in a blanket of snow [...]