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• USA Cycling Responds: Cyclocross Support and Independent Sanctioning Bodies

  16 December 11 • 44 comments

  

  Yesterday the Cyclocross Magazine website featured a report, “USA Cycling Pressures OBRA, Independent Organizations and Events,” that generated quite a bit of attention and feedback. Rumors have been surfacing about USAC no longer permitting dual-sanctioned events (where another sanctioning body runs some of the categories, as in the USGP in Bend, Oregon) as well as [...]

• USA Cycling Pressures OBRA, Independent Organizations and Events

  14 December 11 • 30 comments

  

  UPDATE: USA Cycling’s response to this report appears in a separate post: USA Cycling Responds: Cyclocross Support and Independent Sanctioning Bodies. We hope that our readers will chime in with comments below, as well as via Twitter as we continue to bring you updates. Also, be sure to check the NEW POLL on our homepage: [...]

• OBRA State Championships: Tuckerman and Babcock Duel; Butler Cruises to Victory

  27 November 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Jon Muyskens EUGENE, OREGON — Despite reports predicting a grim suffer-fest of rain, wind and certain misery, almost 350 dedicated competitors descended on Camp Harlow in Eugene last Saturday to vie for Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) State Championship honors.

• Butler Rolls in Oregon State Championship Women’s Race

  27 November 10 • 0 comment

  CXM contributor and Elite racer Laura Winberry reports on the women’s race from the Oregon State Championship held in the capital city of Salem. Winberry had a saddle’s-eye view of the action, as she was in the thick of the race. by Laura Winberry Waning sun and articulated clouds traded back and forth throughout the [...]

• Blind Date at the Dairy Series Brings Portland Midweek Cyclocross Romance

  26 October 10 • 0 comment

  I’ve always been a fan of midweek racing – events are inexpensive, it’s an easy way to get an extra hard day of riding in, and the races are somehow more casual and less stressful than most weekend competitions. Turns out that if you put one on in a cyclocross hotbed like Portland, you can [...]

• Oregon High School and Junior Cyclocross Series Launch this Weekend

  16 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  We at Cyclocross Magazine couldn’t be happier to see a well-organized series coming together specifically targeting participation among Juniors and high schoolers. If only we’d gotten our starts that young, maybe we coulda been contenders… From the Oregon Junior & High School Cyclocross Series Promoter: This Sunday, September 19th, the Oregon Junior & High School [...]

• Oregon Cyclocross Season Dusts Itself Off at Kruger’s – UPDATED: Photo Galleries

  30 August 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles This year’s Kruger’s Kermesse Farm Crit, held on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon, was not quite a cyclocross race, since there were no barriers or running sections, but it was closer to ’cross than anything else. And while the first full-on cyclocross race may still be two weeks out – at the [...]

• Oregon to Get Two Junior Series for 2010

  31 July 10 • 3 comments

  How can you tell if ’cross is here to stay? Look at how the Junior fields are treated. With that in mind, we here at Cyclocross Magazine were ecstatic to see the following press release pop up on the OBRA listserv. With two Junior-specific series, a five dollar entry fee and some serious prizes to [...]