The holidays are a perfect time to celebrate the gift of cyclocross, and what better way to whoop it up than to share some ’cross love with others? Give a teammate a must-have tool (that you can borrow), introduce a loved one to the sport, drop a hint by leaving this list out for a [...]
The Challenge Limus cyclocross tubular tires are making their way across the country, just in time for cyclocross season. We have received a review pair (freshly made on July 02, in Thailand), and we’ve got some pre-gluing observations from our close-up look at Challenge’s new tubular cyclocross tire designed for mud. The Limus is listed [...]
In Issue 13, we take a look at some “Mud Myths” that, as racers, you’ve surely heard from coaches, old racers, mechanics and spectators. In particular, myths exist about deep carbon rims and their effectiveness when the terrain gets soggy. One of three myths lined up to be confirmed or busted in this issue was, “Does a carbon rim really track better in mud?” We wanted answers, so we took some time in the “CXM Lab” (read: muddy course) with these myths and some serious gear in mind, all for science’s sake.
Challenge Tire’s long-awaited Limus cyclocross tubular, its mud-specific tire and answer to the Dugast Rhino, is in production and recent prototypes are already here in the States. After bringing you tread photos of the Limus from Interbike 2010, Cyclocross Magazine has acquired photos of early versions of the new Challenge tubular that’s named after the Latin word for Mud.
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 [...]
by Dan Seaton Dulce et Decorum Est A few weeks ago I took a weekend off from racing to drive out to Ieper – sometimes better known by its French name, Ypres – with my wife, Mindi, and her aunt and uncle, who were visiting us here in Belgium. It was a nice break from [...]
Rainy, muddy races are tough on bodies, equipment and egos – but challenging weather is an integral part of cyclocross, right? Combine that with plenty of off-camber pitches; short, steep ups and downs that saw enough traffic to make them sketchy rides at best; and long grass that mixed with the mud to tangle around [...]
by Josh Liberles It’s two days after the Battle at Barlow race in Gresham, just outside of Portland, Oregon, and I’m still finding small bits of mud lingering under my eyelids. The first clump found my eyeball about 50 meters after the start, when the staging chute instantly funneled the initial corral of riders from [...]
Tennessee’s Mud, Sweat and Gears series finished up this past weekend. Here we have race reports for both MSG#5 in Bristol, Tennessee and MSG#6, the series finale and blowout bash. by Dwayne Letterman MSG #5 dawned cold and snowy with a couple of inches on the ground and big fat flakes falling. This weekend we [...]
by Josh Liberles The weather report for the upcoming USGP weekend in Portland, Oregon calls for dry and cold days. If that holds, this will mark the first non-soaked-edition since the USGP started coming around in 2004. While the conditions will likely be drastically different this year, the course will likely be similar to past [...]
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