In Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California, racers covered 135 miles and climbed nearly 10,000 ft. After the long haul, Jeremy Powers tweeted that, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” Lars Boom echoed the sentiment on his Twitter as well, saying, “Really hard stage today!” Three-time world champ Oscar Freire (Rabobank) came [...]
Stage 4 of the Amgen Tour of California saw some of the first King of the Mountain climbs, and cyclocross racer Lars Boom (Rabobank) emerged as the first King of the Mountain. (Read about how Lars Boom made a cyclocross comeback in January in Lars Boom Makes a Boom in Heusden-Zolder.) Later, Jesse Anthony captured [...]
With rain and a strong headwind, Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California had perfect conditions for our cyclocross contingent to shine. Stage 4, which riders will face later today, will feature some of the Tour’s major climbs, and unfortunately for our cyclocross racers, these aren’t the kind of hills they can shoulder bikes [...]
On Thursday, May 12, British high-end cycling clothing company Rapha celebrated the opening of its San Francisco Cycle Club with a “Gentlemen’s Ride” with pro cyclocrossers and new teammates Chris Jones and Jeremy Powers. Cyclocross Magazine chased these two pros to talk cyclocross (see our Chris Jones and Jeremy Powers interviews) as the ride crossed [...]
Rapha-Focus recently announced that this Fall, Jeremy Powers would be joining their team for cyclocross, adding to the powerful duo of Chris Jones and U23 Zach McDonald. Jones sat down to chat with Cyclocross Magazine at the Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco about his feelings on Powers leaving the Cyclocrossworld.com-Cannondale team and joining Rapha-Focus, [...]
This past Thursday, Rapha Focus cyclocross teammates and Tour of California racers Jeremy Powers and Chris Jones led a “Gentlemen’s Ride” to celebrate the new Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco and the 2011 edition of the Amgen tour. Cyclocross Magazine’s Andrew Yee, on a muddy cyclocross bike, attempted to keep up with the two [...]
by Kat Statman The Ardennes Classics are over. The weather is getting warm. Big road races are moving away from one day 260-300 km epics to seven-plus-day stage races. The skinny climbers are coming out to play. That must mean we are getting closer and closer to ’cross season, only a four short months away. [...]
by Kat Statman Yes, it’s still the off-season. How do we know that? Well, if you look at many cycling publications the front page headlines are all concerned with the Ardennes Classics, Andy Schleck’s Trek Madone and the fact that Ivan Basso is not racing the Giro d’Italia. Even though road racing has some similarities [...]
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