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• Oregon Racers Wage Muddy Battle at Barlow

  28 September 10 • 0 comment

  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 [...]

• Oregon Junior and High School Series Gear Up with Double Cross and Psycho Cross

  26 September 10 • 0 comment

  

  As the videos below show, the first two races in the Oregon Junior and High School Series featured starkly different courses, but both shared great racing. The grassroots series are a fun, non-intimidating way to get kids racing cyclocross, and are bound to ensure a stellar generation of up-and-coming ‘crossers and continued growth of our [...]

• 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 [...]

• Longer Course, TT Info & Prelim Calendar for 2010 Cyclocross Nationals

  2 September 10 • 1 comment

  

  The organizers of Cyclocross Nationals in Bend, Oregon, have released a course map for the championship races, as well as preliminary info about the preceding time trial races to determine start orders for age-based events. For the second consecutive year, the championship course is located on the grounds of the Deschutes Brewery, adjacent to the [...]

• 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 [...]

• Wrap Up of ’Crossers in the Mix at Road Nationals in Bend

  29 June 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Josh Liberles The US Road National Championships wrapped up on Sunday and, not surprisingly, some of the top cyclocrossers continued to be at the sharp end of many of the races. (See our coverage of the first half of Road Nats here.) Friday saw the marquee criterium races, with Logan Owen (Lake Washington Velo) [...]

• ’Crossers in the Mix at Road Nationals in Bend – Part One

  25 June 10 • 4 comments

  

  by Josh Liberles While we may be almost exactly a half-year away from the last – and next – Cyclocross National Championship in Bend, Oregon, many of the top American ’cross racers find themselves in that same town vying for stars-n-stripes jerseys yet again. Bend is playing host to the Road Nationals for the second [...]

• Catching Up with Carl Decker – An Interview

  11 May 10 • 3 comments

  

  There was a familiar face toeing the line of a recent, local Oregon road race – Carl Decker (Giant) had made the trip to mix it up in Eugene-Roubaix. I took advantage of the opportunity to catch up with Decker and find out how his mountain bike season has been progressing and what his upcoming [...]

• Oregon Roadies Get Spring Dirt Fix

  5 May 10 • 1 comment

  by Josh Liberles Although Oregon cyclists enjoy a vibrant road scene, its scope is nothing in comparison to their world renowned cyclocross events, led by the Cross Crusade. Apparently the skinny-tired folks here are nostalgic for dirt, as the last two races have spiced things up with nice gravel sections. First was the Cherry Blossom [...]