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• Mechanical Monday: What Should You be Doing in the Off-Season?

  2 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  This week for Mechanical Monday, we asked some of our favorite mechanics to weigh in on what people should be doing to their cyclocross bikes during the off-season. The three wrenches who weighed in all seemed to agree that the big thing to start thinking about is how you plan on upgrading in the coming [...]

• Training Tuesday: Matt Fitzgerald Talks Off-Season Weight Loss

  6 March 12 • 5 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford It’s the off-season for most, the beginning of road season for some, and for a good chunk (pun intended) of racers, now is the time they’re choosing to think about dropping that off-season weight gain before the real work of training for cyclocross starts. After all, when you race in a skinsuit [...]

• Versluis Snowcross – Late Season, Grassroots Michigan Racing

  24 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Marc Dettman So what do Michigan cyclocrossers do when the long, cold, white fingers of winter start scratching at the frost on the window? Get the shanty out and ice fish? Sit around the stove eating mac ’n cheese, drink PBR and play euchre? Sew suede patches on the elbows of our brown corduroy [...]

• Kupfernagel on Schedule for Fast Start to the Season

  22 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  Last year, Hanka Kupfernagel took second to Marianne Vos at the World Cyclocross Championships in Tabor. Cyclocross Magazine Correspondent Christine Vardaros checks in to see how Hanka has prepared to do one better this season. by Christine Vardaros Race-ready and motivated to start, German Hanka Kupfernagel (Stevens Racing Team) is on target to enjoy a stellar cyclocross [...]

• Nys, Compton, Gould Among ’Crossers At MTB World Cup #3

  25 May 10 • 1 comment

  by Robbie Carver Getting some quality time on their mountain bikes last weekend were a host of big-name ’cross riders testing their legs at the third MTB World Cup cross country race, held in Offenburg, Germany. While the spoils of victory went to Elite MTBer’s Julien Absalon (Orbea) and Catharine Pendrel (Luna), our favorite barrier-hoppers [...]

• The Off Season – Moving At A Different Speed

  13 April 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Jamie Mack Recently I went through the part of my season about which I’m never quite sure how to feel. I cling to the ‘cross bike as long as I can, reliving the past season with each ride and trainer session. But the time comes each year when I need to move on, at [...]

• New Poll Posted!

  16 September 07 • 0 comment

  Here are the results for the last Poll: What’s your season prep? Road riding/racing (41%, 43 Votes) Trails on the cross bike (17%, 18 Votes) RTFM – running and intervals! (11%, 12 Votes) Mountain biking (10%, 11 Votes) Prep? I cross all year long! (10%, 11 Votes) A plate of nachos (7%, 7 Votes) Blindfolded [...]