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• Nash Nips Gould, Powers Solos to Win USGP Portland Day 1 – UPDATED: Photo Galleries, Full Report, Full Results

  4 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles Teammates Katerina Nash and Georgia Gould (Luna) distanced the rest of the Elite women’s field in dominating fashion at the Portland International Raceway today, but neither could drop the other in the 40-minute affair. Nash would take the lead shortly before the final corner and hold off Gould by a couple of [...]

• A Sunny Portland USGP? PIR Race Preview

  3 December 10 • 1 comment

  by Josh Liberles The USGP series wraps up in Portland, Ore., this weekend, and rather than the mudfest we’ve come to expect in recent years, Saturday’s weather report is promising blue skies and sunshine. Sloppy course fans don’t despair: Sunday still has a 30-percent chance of rain. In these parts, that seems to translate to, [...]

• Cyclocross Support: Bob’s Red Mill, from Coast to Coast

  3 December 10 • 0 comment

  Bob’s Red Mill sponsors cyclocross events and racers from coast to coast – and it’s a company from outside the industry. No matter where you race, you’ve likely seen the name and eaten a (free!) cup of Bob’s steel cut oatmeal. Attracting businesses like Bob’s to the sport – and showing that there’s a strong [...]

• A Personal Cyclocross Battle at Kruger’s Crossing, Oregon – Laura Winberry’s Rider Diary

  2 December 10 • 0 comment

  

  CXM contributor and Elite racer Laura Winberry reflects on racing Oregon’s Kruger’s Crossing event. Dismal weather and a long season, including the State Championship the day before, meant that fields were uncharacteristically small. In fact, Winberry would be the only Elite woman to take the start, and she’d line up behind the Elite men. But, [...]

• Reflections from the Bike Lane: ’Cross Commuters vs. Roadie Commuters

  4 November 10 • 4 comments

  

  There’s a distinct change on the streets of cities lucky enough to have vibrant cyclocross scenes, and Wil Catlin’s taken note. Wil’s a self-described “40ish, skinny road drone who started bike commuting a couple of years ago as a way to save money for those calf implants I’ve always dreamed of…” by Wil Catlin Autumn [...]

• Video: PIR Cross Crusade, My Name Is Mud

  28 October 10 • 4 comments

  

  Not like the Northwest cyclocross scene needs any more exposure, but we can’t help it – there’s great stuff going on up there. Burk Webb has been releasing beautifully-shot weekly capsules of the Oregon race scene, and his latest – from last Sunday’s PIR Cross Crusade in Portland – is the best cyclocross video we’ve [...]

• Dave Queen Reflects on the SSCXWC Torch Passing to Seattle for 2010

  27 October 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Dave Queen After racing past editions of the SSCXWC in Portland, I was nervous about moving the race to Seattle in 2010. Seattle has been described as a city that is insecure, always smelling its own breath. To properly stage, or ride, the SSCXWC you must throw caution to the wind and let it [...]

• 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 [...]

• Sheppard and Pennington Weather the PIR Cross Crusade Storm

  25 October 10 • 2 comments

  by Josh Liberles Temps in the 40s, a steady flow of hard rain and thick mud would deter most outdoor enthusiasts, but it seemed the perfect recipe to attract almost 1,300 cyclocrossers to Portland International Raceway for Cross Crusade race #4. Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles) once again made mincemeat of the Elite men’s field, [...]

• 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 [...]