As the whirlwind of Nationals, Masters Worlds and Worlds winds down, Cyclocross Magazine Issue 16 arrives in mailboxes and on store shelves around the country. Issue 16 is the most photo-heavy yet, with cyclocross stories and photo essays from around the world, from Nats to Koksijde to Japan with a stop at SSCXWC along the [...]
Japan enjoyed its second straight weekend of UCI cyclocross racing, with cyclocross racers from throughout the country and more than a handful of Americans converging in the country’s highest village, Nobeyama in Nagano, to do battle on the playgrounds of Takizawa Ranch, after a sand-filled race down in the Kansai area on the shores of [...]
This Sunday, UCI “shikurokurosu” (cyclocross) returns to Nobeyama, Japan, for the 2011 edition of the Nobeyama Cyclocross Race, presented by Rapha. The event is back after a successful 2010 edition and brings a flyover, a handmade frame expo (featuring such American builders as Hunter, DeSalvo, Retrotec and Independent Fabrication) and Japan’s Singlespeed National Championship to [...]
UCI cyclocross returned to the beach of Biwa Lake in Kansai for the first weekend of the double UCI weekend in Japan.
Can’t get enough cyclocross? If the Dirty Deeds Urban Cyclocross Series was interesting to you for the international appeal, this video of Kansai Cyclocross posted on the Cowbell Forums by pigmon_tatara will be equally intriguing.
Todd Wells cleaned house in 2010, winning every National Championship he entered and taking the stars and stripes jersey in cyclocross, cross-country and short track. Now the Specialized Factory Team rider is literally cleaning house, this time to benefit of the victims of the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. The 2010 National [...]
Japan’s cyclocross scene has been growing rapidly, but most of its racing is constrained to the Kansai region of western Japan, an area that includes Osaka and Kyoto. But this past Sunday, Tokyo, considered by some to be the world’s largest city, held a new March cyclocross race in the Hachioji area. The course was [...]
Perhaps you’ve gotten a good taste of cyclocross in Japan from Brian Vernor’s movie, The Cyclocross Meeting, where Barry Wicks and Adam McGrath battle Japan’s best on dry, sandy courses. But Japan boasts its share of muddy races, and racers and spectators embrace racing and crashing in the sloppy stuff just as much as any [...]
As Brian Vernor, director of the new film The Cyclocross Meeting, said while introducing his latest release in front of a packed house in Bend, Oregon’s Tower theater, “This sure feels different than when I brought Pure Sweet Hell to a hotel basement in Portland.” The Cyclocross Meeting‘s world premier, held in conjunction with the [...]
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