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• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 29th, 2011

  29 April 11 • 0 comment

  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. [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 15th, 2011

  15 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Week in, week out, there’s racing to be had around the world where we can catch up on what ’crossers do in their spare time. So here it is this week. Marianne Vos continues to show that she is the best of the best. Lars Boom puts his stamp on Paris-Roubaix, will he [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 8th, 2011

  8 April 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman It’s the thick of classics season and all we can think about is the smell of embrocation, rain soaked fields, 32 millimeter tubulars and practicing our dismounts and remounts. But we still have a few months before we start pedaling a bit harder and really preparing for the weekly battles. Until then, [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 1st, 2011

  1 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Sometimes it’s really hard to remember that we live and die for cyclocross, especially during the spring classics season, but Greg Keller and Molly Cameron do a pretty good job of reminding us on twitter. As we all start buying up our tubulars and thinking about what bikes and wheelsets we are [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of March 18th, 2011

  18 March 11 • 5 comments

  by Kat Statman This week has been the biggest news week we’ve had yet during the off-season, especially with team transfers and strong rides from ’crossers that mix it up in the other disciplines. Kathy Sherwin’s mountain bike exploits continue as she and Jenny Smith nearly took a stage win at the Andalucia Bike Race; [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings for Week of March 11th, 2011

  13 March 11 • 1 comment

  by Kat Statman MTB Season Kickoff Many of the top ’crossers spend their “off-seasons” racing mountain bikes, while many others spend it on the road. This weekend is the kick off weekend of pro mountain bike racing in the US, and many of the top field drivers in North America will be toeing the line. [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 14th, 2011

  14 January 11 • 20 comments

  by Kat Statman The Northeast is frozen over, the Southeast is experiencing ice storms and the biggest ’cross race of the year is on the horizon. On top of everything, there is team transfer news, new sponsor news and just general good times with this week’s edition of Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings. Lars Boom [...]

• Dutch Championships: Vos Steals Van Den Brand’s Stripes, Boom Caps Off His ’Cross Season – UPDATED: FULL REPORT, LOTS More Photos

  11 January 11 • 0 comment

  Defending world champ Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) just edged out defending Dutch national champ Daphny van den Brand (ZZPR.nl) by the slimmest of margins, adding her first tricolor jersey to her palmares by a mere two seconds. Van den Brand sought out her 12th national title, but a clearly on-form Vos is tough to match. Sanne van [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 7th, 2011

  7 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Another week and another round of Rumors about pro ’crossers around the world. With this week being the National Championship week for most of the major cyclocross hotbed countries, many are looking towards the big days in Belgium and the Netherlands. But there is some non-National Championship news also. The win leaderboard [...]

• Boom Favored to Win Dutch National Championships Despite Back Injury

  6 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros After a late season start in December, 24 year-old Lars Boom (Rabobank) quickly stamped his authority with a victory at the Zolder World Cup in only his fourth race back. But less than a week later, his dreams of snagging his fifth National jersey were almost erased by a fall in the [...]