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• Weekend Preview: Cyclocross Los Angeles

  30 November 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Evan Schmitt This weekend, world class cyclocross racing returns to Los Angeles, California for the CXLA race weekend. The organizers were forced to change location at the last minute to Los Angeles State Historic Park.

• Southern California Prestige Series of Cyclocross presented by SPY: El Chorro Regional Park

  26 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Dave Sheek Day two of the California central coast events hit San Luis Obiso for the “SLO Town Throw Down.” The course was much more of a mixture of terrain from the previous days Dirt Club ’Cross. The course set in El Chorro park had a variety of dirt, grass, wood chips and sand [...]

• Brems and Jacques-Maynes Ride Away to Victories at CCCX

  18 October 11 • 4 comments

  

  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 [...]

• Trebon and Mani Distance their Competition at Spooky Cross UCI C2

  15 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  IRVINE, CALIFORNIA—The Cross After Dark series has been dominated by riders either based in Europe or  traveling this weekend to the first World Cup in the Czech Republic. That vacuum stands to be filled by other racers looking to take over the Cross After Dark crown at Spooky Cross, the final race of the race [...]

• Maile and Trux Score Wins against the Competition and the Wind College Cyclery Compound; Sacramento Cyclocross Series

  29 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  The cyclocross season is now well underway in Northern California. Following the CCCX season opener two weeks ago and this past week’s Folsom’s Cyclebration, two more events took place this past weekend. The CCCX series continued at Fort Ord and, at the College Cyclery Compound, the Sacramento Cyclocross Series opened its season. Temperatures held to a comfortable range at West Sacramento but the wind blew throughout the day and was particularly strong toward the end of the event. Good fortune held, however, and a repeat of last year’s dust bowl failed to occur.

• Ferguson and Myrah Duel in Sacramento

  20 December 10 • 0 comment

  Jeremy Ferguson (California Giant Berry Farms) produced a strong win in the Men’s Category A race in the Sacramento Cyclocross series, hosted by City Bicycle Works, Sacramento. The Lange Twins Winery course at Acampo was wet and treacherous in many places with deep mud at the bottom of short down hills, off-camber sections and tan-brown [...]

• Hall and Wyandt Close Out the 2010 Bay Area Super Prestige Series

  7 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Paul Guerra Changing skies and a long course at Coyote Point in San Mateo, California, welcomed racers to the fifth and final race of the Bay Area Super Prestige Series. Although promoter Tom Simpson’s declaration that the series would not continue in 2011 was still on everyone’s mind, and many of the top racers had left California for [...]

• Northern and Southern California Set to Battle Jan. 16

  23 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  The showdown to prove which region of California is the true ’cross powerhouse takes place on January 16, 2011, at Hart Park in Bakersfield, CA. Event organizer Sam Ames of  Kern Wheelmen Bicycle Club claims that the race will be, “The hardest race, and possibly the best prize list ’cross race in California.”

• Craig and Butler Repeat in Griffith Park UCI Day 2

  8 November 10 • 0 comment

  Los Angeles, CA – Race two of the Southern California UCI weekend in Griffith Park was much of the same, with brake control and cornering, according to Kona’s Ryan Trebon. The course was much faster for day two and had a lot more flow to it, but there was still a lot of loose technical [...]

• Slow and Wet Conditions Greet the Southern California Prestige Series

  13 October 10 • 0 comment

  by Dave Sheek Chino, CA – After the exciting and hot weekend of UCI racing in Southern California (SoCal), Mother Nature teased us this week with rain and lower temperatures. But by the time racers got their call-ups, the temperature was a blistering 95 degrees. This weekend was a great ride: a fast start led into [...]