New Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld signee Ryan Trebon received his custom-made cantilever brake-equipped Cannondale SuperX carbon cyclocross bikes a month ago, but had his first chance to race them to glory just this Tuesday at the Raleigh Midsummer Night Cyclocross race in Deer Valley, Utah. He seized that opportunity to land his first cyclocross victory aboard [...]
by Molly Hurford With the huge response we got to our most recent Mechanical Monday topic of disc brakes, we had to reach out to the man who has helped to start the revolution. Stu Thorne, the owner of CyclocrossWorld.com, chatted with me for a bit about his thoughts on disc brakes. Last season, Thorne [...]
In the pursuit match done on a mini-velodrome with BMX bikes, cyclocross legends Tim Johnson and Jeremy Powers duked it out at high noon in a two-out-of-three match. Pre-race, the two contenders held a press conference (see picture) and weighed in: both racers were 162 pounds.
Rumors have been flying about European racers coming stateside for the 2011/12 cyclocross season, and both the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com team and Christian Heule featured prominently in those speculations. Stu Thorne made no secret about looking for someone to take the place vacated by Jeremy Powers, and Christian Heule announced a new team and a big change for the upcoming season, but hadn’t yet confirmed details. Well, now the secret’s out – Heule will ride alongside Tim Johnson, Jamey Driscoll and Kaitlin Antonneau for his final season, and he’ll mix a US-based schedule with some European swings.
by Josh Liberles Coming up this weekend is New Jersey’s Mercer Cup USGP. After both teams have successfully divided and conquered the domestic cyclocross contests for the past several weeks, finally we’ll get to see East meet West as Cannondale / CyclocrossWorld.com will square off against Kona. So far, I’d say East has been dominating [...]
by Brook Watts No one could have blamed the media for making use of carbon paper to draft their stories of the Boulder Cup race Sunday. Recycling the story from Saturday’s Blue Sky Cup could have saved time and would have been 99% accurate. Consider Katie Compton’s replay runaway victory – the only change to [...]
Ever want to be two places at once? We sure do, as this weekend the competing Ohio UCI3 Cyclocross Festival and Providence Festival of Cyclocross will split the nation’s cyclocross fans and top riders. Even the CyclocrossWorld/Cannondale team was torn, and thus decided to split its team between the two events. But on Saturday evening, [...]
Rad Racing is hosting a post-race party to benefit its youth cycling club at 6pm on Sunday at the Old Town Bicycle shop. The CyclocrossWorld.com / Cannondale cyclocross team will be there, and there will be a raffle to win a Cannondale cyclocross frame. RSVP at [email protected]
So you’ve picked up your tubular wheels and tires and are eying that first race. Perhaps our how-to for multi-step process of gluing cyclocross tires is overwhelming? You can kick back with a Belgian brew and enjoy the drawn-out process, or you can simplify the steps and speed things up a bit by going with [...]
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